You've posted some poignant & powerful posts today I.N.P. I guess only those who have been through it can truly understand the extent war has on the mind & body. And you're definitely a poet! ?
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Interesting words of a revelatory nature. I find this poem intriguing.
Thank you for this
Keith
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Thanks for your comment Stephen.
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This was written many years ago. The inspiration to polish and finish it came from listening to Michael Tippett's great, late work 'The Rose Lake'.
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Great. Who could argue with this advice?
Inspires me every time I read it.
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Good stuff, but has he really gone?
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Thanks for your comment Stephen, for better or worse actually... it certainly feels very much all about practicing on pancake day, and just practicing for a better pancake..
but, back to that idea about rehearsing, they've said that all the world's a stage, but perhaps its less intimidating to think that all the world is actually just a rehearsal room. ?
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This is a fine poem which captures a bad dream or a horrible reality. The feeling of helplessness is real.
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Yes, a haunting piece, John.
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A moving and atmospheric poem, Keith. I love it.
In a similar vein, I remember that my grandmother lost contact with her sister for forty years (I still don't know how). The reunion was less demonstrative than yours but I remember them, sitting facing each other in deck chairs at the end of my parents' garden, quietly filling in the gaps.
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Interesting thought and nice poem, Julie.
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This is a really enjoyable poem with a lovely rhythm. Thanks, Aviva.
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I suppose that we are all rehearsing for a better life. And why not?
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A fine poem, Mike. Vital and poignant.
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Thanks for your comment Nigel. So it is said, but practice makes perfect might be a myth, as indeed might the concept of perfection be. However, practice does definitely make Arctic PE and Rice Pact ?
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Artwork by: Christian Schole
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Practice makes perfect.
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In my late-ish 70s, I see bodily insistence on making its owner aware
of its presence is, in its own way, a reminder that life is still going on!
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Tue 16th Feb 2021 08:40
Thanks M.C.
our power only lasted 30 minutes.
The rest of the day we were out.
Then at 7:30pm it came back on,
only to go out again 30 minutes later.
Now at 2am, it came back on again.
so I rush to type this to you
This is the worst storm I have ever seen.
It is now 6 degrees Farenheit.
cold cold cold.
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Really quite perfect Keith.
.........you may wish to address the typo in line 15.
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Thanks, Ray and to Greg, Branwell, Stephen and Aviva for the Likes.
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Even now, in the heart of a great city, I keep candles just in case of
a power failure. Pity there's no fireplace and logs in today's "power supplied" so-called civilisation. Maybe I should invest in another camping stove too but there's always an alternative when it comes
to eating: one advantage of big city life. Your word picture reminds
me of the country living of my youth when we were so much closer to elemental living from day to day.
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Thank you to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem. ?
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Thanks for looking in Tom and Stephen.
Never miss one Graham - I dare not....
This is the one I sent this year:
You are my rhyme and reason
a must for every season,
this card reminds us what we've got
a reason to love
which means a lot. (Not the cynical one I posted)!!
Ray
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A strangely affecting piece John. I can hear the drone of pipes maybe on a reading of it. Like an elegy.
Ray
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Wonderfully touching Keith. Can it get any more poignant than this?
Ray
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Thank you for the likes Keith, Hugh, Aviva, Vautaw and Scattered Sun
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Audio recording of this poem now available here: https://soundcloud.com/kimray_poet/the-gentle-birdsong-calling-of-spring
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Thank you. Yes it does seem so!
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Just what I needed today. Love it!
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Thanks for sharing your own experiences Keith and Mark. That throwing technique was like a regular for me too. The sad thing is nobody really deserved it; just a release for frustration coupled with a sneaky sadism, I reckon. An interesting word: insubordinate. It smacks of a pecking order inherent in any old hoary institution.
Of course there were liberties - we were much too cowed to try much on.
Graham, sports for me another terror laden experience. I had a medicine ball thrown at the back of my head once. Hence the poetry probably. Blackout material shorts and unforgiving football boots , cold showers. What's not to like?
Thanks too for your interest Stephen, Aisha and Holden !
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Thanks for that Aviva. It sounded like a dialect to me, but I wasn't sure.
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Thank you Julie for your comment, and basically I created a whole new construct with 'they some' and I don't think it has ever been used that way before, but my muse told me to do it...
For those that don't want extra info, please stop reading this comment at this point (you have been warned! ?)
It is intended to be like an imaginary dialect/vernacular as a grammatically incorrect contraction for 'They are some of them'
The poem arose from those thoughts we have about what other people we see around us might truly be experiencing, at that time I would feel as if everyone must surely be somehow happier and luckier than me, but I wanted to think differently, or rather remember a more accurate perspective. So, the 'They' are the group of people that pass by (in the original inspiration for the construction of this poem) In a looser sense from the original intention I came to see that the group of 'They' doesn't have to be restricted to just those people that pass by.
It is automatic for me when I read this poem for me to consider where I am right now on the rankings of each verse and the poem also in that layer of meaning acts to remind that there is more than one way to be,
There is an alternative or dual interpretation for the phrasing which takes 'They some' to be 'They are sometimes'. In that way it represents that things change and our lives are full of a rich past and we are unlikely to have always been or always be at any level.
The title 'Passing Through' connects to both meanings.
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I like this one Aviva. I am not familiar with the term "they some" so I read each line without the "They" and started with "Some", which worked for me.
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Danny,
This poem is raw and brutally honest as you address the inner self and question your deepest feelings. It is also clearly of a spiritually led nature which draws a canopy of hope over all that you have written.
Communication is everything no matter how sinister the truth
And each lie that we told has taken years off our youth.
I was particularly drawn to these two lines.
It is a poem of introspection with a strong underlying spiritual content.
Thank you for this
Keith
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an old soul like my self us old souls need to lead this planet into an age of compassion love and forgiveness and when u use these weapons we will lead by example for eternity.
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Thank you, that's a very intriguing comment Nigel. It makes me wonder what else words are like. I came up with this...
Words are like wool,
they can be knitted to make
something comforting
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I get your card every year
you never sign your name
but I know who it's from
love from Hooray Hooray x
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Words are like people
they travel everywhere
in poetry they often do.
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Thanks for the likes Tom, Dean and Adam.
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Quite likely. I think its ever the first invention. Human interaction and before that a personal interaction of mind and soul.
Thank you for reading the poem.
On quests of lingering soul.
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Thank you for the likes and comments!
I admire your work.
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Imaginative and fun. Star-crossed still, it seems. ?
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A pause for applause
In a very good cause.
But watch out for the chap
With a less welcome sort of clap! ?
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julie callaghan
Tue 16th Feb 2021 19:05
Thanks Nigel and Stephen G.
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