Seattle huh?
home of Antifa mobs & homeless.

by the way, are those sharks behind you
in that photo?

Comment is about Adam Rabinowitz (poet profile)

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so you're the one
who did it!

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Hi Don, thanks so much for the comment on We Were Beautiful. I totally agree with yourself and Jason too. Cheers, Tom

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Hi Jason, thanks for the comment on We Were Beautiful. I absolutely agree; we may age but the beauty doesn't evaporate it just mutates. For me it was the beauty of the moment in time I was really looking back on - and that beauty can be frustratingly fleeting ?, Cheers Tom.

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thanks Raypool. ?

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Try as i might
I try my best
in this Rest Home
there is no rest
so i break out
state of undress
my pajamas on
I'm headin' West!

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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why? have you been put in a Home?

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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Ruth, re: 'Schizophrenia', the 'first/real' me has always loved ice cream and still does. It was the 'secondary me' who had the aversion. I was very fortunate that I did not get totally 'freaked' about the 'second personality'. Perhaps it was a kind of innate arrogance to refuse 'her' credibility/access. I had blindly heard of such situations, but had no experience with such 'manifestations' whatsoever. None.It was a very scary time.

I so 'feel' for anyone afflicted in this way. It must be awful. Both for the victim, and the people associated, whoever they might be. But the whole experience made me a far more sympathetic person, and open to people's experiences that often seem to be 'bizarre'. Who can presume 'to know'!

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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Peter - Woodbines and thank you so much for your comments - especially as I thought this one would slip through the net. Blessings. P.

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Hi Philipos - You spin a good yarn, as they say. Saw your mud and blood piece on G Studdard.Kennedy. Don't usually like too much of that blood n' guts' stuff but that's a quality poem.
Go well
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❤ I have now been on this site a whole week and have written either a poem or 2 each day, from scratch. Glad I set myself that challenge amongst like- minded poetry lovers. Big Thank you to all who took time to read or comment on what I have written I really do appreciate it ❤

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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Opting out. Well done MC on what you do with the funeral plan offers. We have to make our stand.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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Welcome Conner! What a wonderful first poem. I’m looking forward to reading more!

Comment is about Connor Cawthorn (poet profile)

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How kind of you to 'scope' some poems from a while back. And then to comment. Thanks!

I live in Sale, Greater Manchester. After being so ill for months, when I finally took a tram ride into the city this late spring, I couldn't believe the alterations in the skyline - the construction of high rises! I felt as though I were in a Star Wars movie set! I really was shocked. Almost intimidated.Are you also aware like this? Or is it just me?

'To be a writer' is fab. I do appreciate 'short' as well as 'long'. Although you well might wonder.

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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take two asprin
call me in the morning.

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Thank you for coming back to me on Tramp Ships - great to get good feed back. Will watch out for your poetic pearls. Blessings. P.

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I thank you for commenting on my work Raj.

Comment is about Chakraj (poet profile)

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I thank you Don for commenting on my work.

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Re 'Broken Hearts' the fear of rejection is a powerful 'motivation' not to do things. Even posting poems. Won't do it because others might not like it. Rejection at work...

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What a lovely photo, full of life, radiating good will.

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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Be they fredisms or stories your short-line short-stanza style is most appealing. To me....

Comment is about Fred Nicholson (poet profile)

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thanks Don for reading "Broken Hearts".
was yours?

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Hallo Peter, just heard your audio "thoughts of autumn", pleasant voice, pleasant words, got something of it. Will have to hear download as native german "up and down" again for better understanding and improvement of.......Regards from the continent, Ingo (claudia's brother)

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Don - Lines - glad you liked. Have enjoyed reading some of the Australian poets too - of which of course there are quite a few. Blessings. P?

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Peter - Lines - thank you so much responding - will seek out your missives in due course. Blessings. P.

Comment is about Peter Taylor (poet profile)

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Thanks, I wrote that after meeting a woman from Galway at a poetry reading in London.

Comment is about Kevin Vose (poet profile)

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Galway smile is better than Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl! My Grandad was called Will O'Reilly and he was from Cork. Thank You for reading my poems.

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You are so right Ruth
those cheeky leprechauns dance more and more while I am under the spell of magical ale!

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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Well bugger me, recession's fake?
But I read it on Twitter
You tellin' me Don's got it sorted?
That coiffed-up golfing shitter?

Well I'll be.....

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So many trees
so many plead
oh don't forsake
in saving me
We are your balm
your company
so don't destroy
our canopy.

Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

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so ...
are you still painting?

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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good response.

?

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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no recession
fake news
Trump is making America great again!

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Adam, thank you for commenting on my poems. I particularly enjoyed Olympic Mountains as it had that impressionist flavour, a genre of poetry I am very drawn to. Keep writing Adam as your work has a special quality, which over time, will achieve your own personal brand of poetry. I look forward to observing your progress.
Keith

Comment is about Adam Rabinowitz (poet profile)

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I like your poetry. What was the name of your grandad who wrote plays in Ireland?

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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Thanks Alexandra (Albatross) Time moves on a pace from modern experiences - what once was a not so unusual everyday experience in the wider scheme of things (deaths at sea) - now forms a rather different kind of scenario indeed, especially as there is no merchant service as once was so familiar to us. Like the Smithsonian Institute in the USA discovered - our past history and artefacts of times past - help us look back and see anew what it was that everyday folk did for a living - in that looking back the events seem more golden in the re-telling. I was there and still see the faces from earlier days loom up at me from time to time - the good bits and the less good. If any of that makes any sense at all. Bestest. P.

Comment is about Alexandra K. Parapadakis (poet profile)

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Welcome Danny! You have talent. Let’s see more of your work.

Keith

Comment is about Danny Giesbrecht (poet profile)

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Thanks Ruth for your two likes on - - -

A Pot of Gold and The Waiting Game

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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nebulous and other poems
by Andy Millican

Once turning
first page
each poem
holds you
before moving
onto next.

Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)

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Good to see you on here Ruth.

I'll tell Amanda in a moment (We are both on here) and will be checking out your work later..

Comment is about Ruth O'Reilly (poet profile)

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Thank you for a warm welcome Cynthia.?

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Don, a froggy would a wooing go - need I say more! Nudge nudge, wink, wink - gosh those frog ponds pen and ink. ?

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Thanks, Ray, for your kind words on 'Man on a Wire'. David

Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)

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computer screwed up this morning.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

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Great poem on wildflowers!

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Graham - our young WOLer dk seems to have taken a liking to you....

Comment is about Graham Sherwood (poet profile)

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Thank you John. Lily pads. Glad you liked. P

Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)

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thanks for reading my poem
"kids on a Beach"
I hope it did not hurt too much
like sunburn, it will go away after awhile.

Comment is about Chakraj (poet profile)

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Truely Ray
"The grindstone that wears a man into a polished version of himself."
Is most beautifully put.

"Waiting..."
and
"school holidays..."
quality.

(is that an Alan Benett...voice?)

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Poetry
that's too obtuse
will leave you
even more confused
before your hurting head
comes loose
give it a boost
read Dr. Seuss.

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