Feels like we are playing a game with many more snakes than ladders at the moment. Good one, 🙏

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Thank you for the kind comments and likes and for the get well messages. Stephen A, hoping I won’t be isolating that long. Although last night I noticed my website blog had reached 666 posts, maybe there’s something in that!! I could combine them all into a Covid Book Of Nonsense😁

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Original item by julie callaghan

You've had your lot, if you go there!
Nice one 👍

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Original item by d.knape

A superb poem, Clyde. I must say that 'inability to take the blame for his actions' makes Don Quixote sound very contemporary!

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Original item by Clyde McCulley

Thank you John, Clare, & John B ( I do like a good shiver down the spine 😉)
Glad you liked it!
And for the likes Nigel, Emer, Julie, Rudyard, Holden & Stephen 🌷🌈

Comment is about The Witches Glee (blog)

Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

This is so wonderfully original. Exhilerating in its vocabulary.
Thanks so much, JR.

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Original item by J R Harris

Julie, just write something like Homer's Odyssey or Dante's inferno, but with a regional slant...I'll wait.
☺️ Hope you're ok, & whatever you write will be as superb as always! 🌈

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The cast from the original production of Letters to Lucia, with the authors Richard Rose and James Vollmar.
Left to right: Richard Rose., Fraser Haines (Frank Budgen)., Gerry Molumby (James Joyce)., Bernadette Hart (Kathleen Neel)., Deirdre O'Byrne (Nora Joyce)., Andy Smith (Samuel Beckett), and James Vollmar

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Original item by Richard Rose

May he rest in the peace, John. Pets bring us so much joy and it is always heartbreaking when they go.

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Original item by John E Marks

Well said, John. This is a time for cool heads and it is good to see that negotiation channels are being developed.

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Original item by John Coopey

Take care, Julie. I'm sure we can look forward to more good stuff.

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Original item by julie callaghan

Julie,
This is a poem to inspire all poets.
Keith

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Original item by julie callaghan

I prefer to go up in smoke, if green friendly.
Keith

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Original item by d.knape

Sorry to hear, Julie. If you feel you can't write, read some poetry, and inspiration may come your way!

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Original item by julie callaghan

Thanks Greg and MC. The art of brinkmanship negotiation is to give each other an "out". I seem to recollect that the out for the crisis was America's quid pro quo with US missiles in Turkey, presented in the US as pre-planned but in the USSR as a climb-down.
And thanks for the Likes, Holden and Moonlight.

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Original item by John Coopey

Get well soon julie
poetry is the very best medicine
to get you through.

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Original item by julie callaghan

Each poem in itself
has a story to unfold
fireside warmth is felt
by each word understood.

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The positive side is that the Russian foreign minister is a wily old bird of considerable experience. As was the case with his
equivalent in the USA during the Cuban missile crisis. It's
called "brinkmanship".

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Original item by John Coopey

For those of us with time but no cash
We cordially suggest that you hire us
To put a poetical dash
Into the theme of the virus! 😋

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Original item by julie callaghan

Somehow, I have grave concerns about this offer!

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Original item by d.knape

yes this concept is a long standing one with plenty of opinions on it. Its interesting as the writer to hear others interpretation on love as it is the base I write a lot of my poems on. My poem "if soul mates do exist" might be of interest to you.
Kimberley.

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A lot of truth is spoken in this poem. Even more to ponder on. A poem which came from an interesting source of inspiration as does all poetry which involves the created order.
Thank you for this
Keith

Comment is about thE 200,000 (blog)

Original item by Edbreathe

Just found 'This wanting look' Tommy. A phenomenal poem, bitter-sweet nostalgic loss. Awesome!

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Scary and entrancing, Stephen. Sent a shiver down my spine!

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Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Fascinating, Holden. Wonderfully intricate like a spider's Web, which pepays each re-reading 😊

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Original item by Holden Moncrieff

My earliest memory of awareness of the national news is the BBC starting with a map of Cuba, night after night.

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Original item by John Coopey

we will designate a new Breed then.
"Hairless Poets".
Require lots of love
but no grooming necessary.
😃

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Original item by keith jeffries

Thank you dear Keith and Pete. My Charlie allowed me to be his friend for the whole of his too short life. He was very kind indeed to me. I miss him greatly, everyday.

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Thank you Kevin. Your exciting words created a little mystery. Must've done it, but what isn't a clarity. Shrouded in poetic mystery.
Thank you kevin🌷

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Peace and tranquility are priceless gifts. Thank you Nigel.🌷

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Good advice. Thank you Nigel.🌷

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You know they have to go, and it always breaks your heart into a million pieces

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Original item by John E Marks

You conjure winter in the pared back dictionn and direct imagery
Lawn are slivers
Of spiked grass
I really enjoyed this Brenda.

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Original item by Brenda Wells

Really delightful Julie. Nature as art as poetry. A neat trick beautifully accomplished. I enjoyed this a lot! 😊

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Original item by julie callaghan

John,
the loss of a pet is a time of deep sorrow. I know only too well. My heart goes out to you.
Keith

Comment is about Charlie (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Dark and absorbing, Stephen.

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Original item by Stephen W Atkinson

Thank you so much man, that means a lot.

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Original item by gravelbar

A clever composition, with some beautiful imagery. One of your best for me 🌈

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Yes, sorry about the shameless plug, Graham. Very good and kind of you to absolve me. And thanks to you, Stephen. "Ghost of a steam train echoes down my track," as Paul Weller said in Town Called Malice.

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Original item by Greg Freeman

Good poem, Greg. I still find myself fascinated by vanishing stations on the London to Southend line. East Horndon, for instance.

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thanks for the likes.

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Original item by julie callaghan

'Railway enthusiasts out there might consider delving into my 2015 poetry pamphlet Trainspotters, still available from Amazon'

A shameless plug!!!....................but why not it's a bloody great read! (especially P21 and P32)

G

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dk.,
Your poetry is passing through a very interesting and thoughtful period. This poem has much to commend it. I regard with some humour your categorisation of poets as I cannot find a place for myself, possibly 'short haired' as I am completely bald. It is in the final stanza in which you address the real poet and one which I believe many poets will be able to relate to, including myself.
Thank you for this
Keith

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Original item by d.knape

Place names in the north are often suffixed with -by, -Thorpe. Thwaite, -keld, -toft, -Kirk. All “Viking” words. When Alfred negotiated the division of England (as it became) along a line roughly from London to Chester it established Dane law in the north and east. Hence the influence on the language of place names there.

Comment is about The end of the line (blog)

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Tell me more, John! Do you mean Cleckheaton, and Heckmondwike, and the like?

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And all unsullied by the linguistic consequences of the Danelaw, Greg.

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Fabulous stuff, JR. And so much more welcome than the dispiriting navel-gazing which so many seem to think passes for poetry.

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Original item by J R Harris

Oh yes, John. I know I've said it before, but the stations on that axed East Devon line - Tipton St Johns, Newton Poppleford, Ottery St Mary, East Budleigh (change for Otterton and Ladram Bay), and Budleigh Salterton, were like a Betjeman poem.

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Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks for your thoughts, MC, and for mentioning Marples as well, the other villain in this episode. It should be added that the closures were mostly implemented by the subsequent Wilson Labour government. Railway enthusiasts out there might consider delving into my 2015 poetry pamphlet Trainspotters, still available from Amazon, or from me https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trainspotters-Greg-Freeman/dp/1909357642. And Marples Must Go! is the title poem in my current collection https://www.dempseyandwindle.com/gregfreeman.html

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Original item by Greg Freeman

“Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester le Street” incomparably poetic.
Even Selby gets a mention,

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