Thanks for looking in Stephen. Yes, it did seem as though everyone was shooting someone back in the 60s, come to think of it, not too different from today
Comment is about The Day Bobby Kennedy Died (blog)
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Thanks, Holden, for the lovely comment and Clare for the like 😊
Comment is about Tetris (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Tue 1st Feb 2022 03:45
You've explored a unique analogy in which the words and ideas definitely do "coalesce poetically", John! 😊
Comment is about Tetris (blog)
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<Deleted User> (32907)
Tue 1st Feb 2022 02:41
Wonderful poem, Marc. You have a special talent. Beautiful compelling piece of writing. Gripping from beginning to end. Great work.👍
Comment is about MOTHER OF A COLUMBINE MURDERER (blog)
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<Deleted User> (32907)
Tue 1st Feb 2022 00:28
Wonderful observance and understanding of another person's life and what goes on in their head. I agree with Keith, well crafted poem, with great insight. Lovely.
Comment is about LADY WALKING (blog)
Original item by Marc Hawkins
You and me
hold trust to
He who takes
no heed of
those other people.
Comment is about 104. Poem (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Thanks for all your likes
Holden
Stephen G
Moonlight
Aisha
Your Royal Poetess
Jordyn
and
Patricia & Stefan.
Comment is about Only Champions Combat Here (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
I turned on to watch the final and saw two giants of tennis play a match that never wanted a loser.
Thanks Stephen
Comment is about Only Champions Combat Here (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Thank you Stephen. I am loving all of your writing too. Wishing you a lovely day. 😃
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about The Tide Is Changing (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
This poetic playground provides joyous ride to all ..... Enjoy Nigel💕
Comment is about 99. Poem (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Moonstruck ....... A nice title to my next poem. Thank you Nigel💕
Comment is about 100. Poem (blog)
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Shine on Nigel. Thank you for all your lovely comments💕
Comment is about 103. Poem (blog)
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Thank you, as always, Stephen, for commenting & encouraging
Comment is about Siren (blog)
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Julie, you're right. Female ducks have a subtly beautiful colouring.
Comment is about Mandarin Ducks (blog)
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Amen to that, Nigel. What a match.
Comment is about Only Champions Combat Here (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
I am of your vintage,, Steve, and I also remember seeing the assassination on TV. At that time I thought everyone in America was shooting each other -perhaps not far wrong- as I had a clear memory a few years before of Jack Ruby shooting Oswald. Your poem brings it all vividly to life.
Comment is about The Day Bobby Kennedy Died (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
Mon 31st Jan 2022 11:52
My wife came down with Covid.
so far I have not gotten it.
Have you?
Here it is almost universal.
Everyone has it.
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you Keith Jeffries. Unfortunately the Lady is no longer with us. Her son, however, who hadn't been seen for years, suddenly manifested...just long enough to sell her house then disappear again.
Comment is about LADY WALKING (blog)
Original item by Marc Hawkins
An intriguing poem rich in its observation of another individual which provokes speculation. She seems to have developed an obsessive nature which is probably a means of sublimating the emotions of her past. A poem well crafted, readable and one to ponder over. I can see her now as she stops and glances back.
Thank you. I enjoyed this
Keith
Comment is about LADY WALKING (blog)
Original item by Marc Hawkins
Tommy,
There seems a finality to this poem but one which I feel many will be able to relate to. The last six lines are poignant and seem to indicate an act of no return. It would appear that a climax had been reached in the relationship.
Well put together with an appropriate illustration.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Wheeled luggage (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
You are very welcome Ghazala. 'Feelings' is a very fine poem 😊
Comment is about Ghazala lari (poet profile)
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These words mirror the solace I experience when downcast or besieged by life. There comes that presence with comfort to reassure and strengthen us; a heavenly companion on earth.
Thank you these meaningful and helpful words.
Keith
Comment is about Heaven in hell (blog)
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Comment is about Katy Megan (poet profile)
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Thank you for your compliment on my poem feelings.
Comment is about John Botterill (poet profile)
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Mon 31st Jan 2022 01:22
A very powerful and moving poem, written with great sensitivity! 🌷
Comment is about CUTS (blog)
Original item by Marc Hawkins
Thank you Kevin. You are a man after my own heart.
Comment is about A Sufi Saint contemplates his imminent dissolution (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
There are no limits
rising to the stars above
to shine forever in your love.
Comment is about 103. Poem (blog)
Original item by Sunshine
Thanks Stephen G. A lovely comment, as ever 😊
Comment is about In the eye of the storm. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thanks, Stephen. I must admit, I have no idea how to pronounce 'de Pfeffel'. And thanks for the Like, Stephen A.
Comment is about The land of total rhubarb (blog)
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Thanks both to MC and Greg for commenting. The RFK shooting was the first major news event I remember. I was very shocked and somehow became convinced he would survive making it all the more shocking when he did succumb to his injuries. I must have been about 11 at the time.
Comment is about The Day Bobby Kennedy Died (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
<Deleted User> (32907)
Sun 30th Jan 2022 18:27
I could feel the pain in this, as I read it. Very well done, and very sad. Great empathy for something that is hard for others to understand. Thank you for sharing. Superb piece.🎈
Comment is about CUTS (blog)
Original item by Marc Hawkins
Heart-warming, John, in the most positive way. A real treat.
Comment is about In the eye of the storm. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
I enjoyed the different layers of this, Rasa. Very thought-provoking and intelligent.
Comment is about The Tide Is Changing (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
I enjoyed this one, Greg, particularly the coupling of piffle and de Pfeffel. I recently saw a performance of the Stephen Sondheim song 'I'm still here'. In this case the question is 'How?'.
Comment is about The land of total rhubarb (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Dear Rasa
Thankyou for your kind comments on 'The Pavements of Europe'. I wrote this poem in the New European newspaper to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2019.
Here is a short piece that I wrote to accompany it at the time.
Good to hear from you and all the best for your poetry and life.
'The context
2019 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the fall
of the Berlin Wall. This led to the collapse of the one-party states of Eastern Europe and to fundamental changes to the lives of millions of people who are now EU citizens and are firmly embedded into the European family. The transition process inevitably had its shortcomings. European integration is imperfect and sometimes seems to stall. And yet, would anyone want to go back to the chilling realities of the pre-1989 system?
The poem
The start of the poem is based on recollections of a visit to Prague, in the former Czechoslovakia, in the mid-1980s. The cold, damp weather only added to the sense of darkness and oppression, which seemed to find expression in the regimented stamping of workers' boots and the belching exhaust fumes of the buses. The second and third verses recall trips to Budapest and Warsaw in 1993 and 1994; things were changing, life was becoming freer and more colourful and new businesses were thriving. However, rampant (though perhaps inevitable) inequality had been created. The disparity between the glitzier parts of cities and the urban and rural poor was extraordinary at the time, although sadly it has been increasingly emulated in certain parts of the Western World in the 21st century. This disparity was even more apparent during several visits to Ukraine in the late 1990s; the sight of impoverished yet irrepressibly optimistic women trying to sell a loaf of bread on a busy street in the centre of Kiev remains an abiding memory.
Comment is about Rasa Kabaila (poet profile)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
A wonderfully poignant piece of writing and the last stanza rounds it up fantastically. Excellent 🌈
Comment is about CUTS (blog)
Original item by Marc Hawkins
Thanks Stephen and Clare (for the like). It means a lot 😊
Comment is about In the eye of the storm. (blog)
Original item by John Botterill
Thank you so much, Clare. Very much appreciated 😊
Comment is about CUTS (blog)
Original item by Marc Hawkins
Yes - I'm one of those OCs. The participation of his convicted
killer Sirhan Sirhan has never been convincingly explained.
The echoes of JFKs' own murder resonate in sinister fashion..
Comment is about The Day Bobby Kennedy Died (blog)
Original item by Steve Higgins
Graham Sherwood
Tue 1st Feb 2022 13:05
Welcome back Alexandra!
One look at the tags associated with this piece is a massive clue as to the difference, the change in mindset that you have undergone. Still the stream of consciousness style/machine gun/ knotted rope style that we have come to recognise as your own.
Well done as always, wish you were here more often.
Comment is about Metamorphous (blog)
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