Hear, hear. I did Paris on foot in the 1970s and I still know parts of it better than I have any right to.
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Thanks, M.C. Glad you enjoyed it.
Comment is about The wisdom of age (blog)
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Wonderful stuff! What a great read.
Comment is about To Ride Jock's Bloody Bull (blog)
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Thank you enjoyed, would love to hear it read out.
Comment is about To Ride Jock's Bloody Bull (blog)
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Takes me back to the monologues of Stanley Holloway - and I
can't say fairer than that!
Comment is about To Ride Jock's Bloody Bull (blog)
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I think it was Frank Norman who coined the phrase "Nostalgia
ain't what it used to be."
But, on this evidence, I'd say: It IS...it IS!!
A delightful wander that takes us down "Quality Street"!
Comment is about The Changing Breeze (blog)
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Thanks for the likes Greg, KJ and Stephen A.
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Thanks to Steve, Stephen G, and Greg for the lovely comments. Hope you're all well.
And thanks, Julie, nice to see your still posting & hope you're enjoying your travels. This is the only thing I've wrote since I last posted! So, could be just a fleeting visit. But thanks for your continued support.
And thanks for the Likes, Jordyn, Aisha & Holden, appreciated as always & hope you're also well! ??
Comment is about The Changing Breeze (blog)
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Thank you for the likes Holden, Nigel, Aisha and Stephen G. Thanks also for the comment.
Comment is about #Visibleandsafe (blog)
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Kevin,
I take my hat off to you. Another poem rich in humour and so well crafted even down to the use of a north country accent to embellish the poem itself.
Thanks for this
Keith
Comment is about To Ride Jock's Bloody Bull (blog)
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I love this poem, so many people need to read and understand the passion within it. And stop making all these damn interpretations to fit your situations.
Comment is about Change The Narrow Thinking (blog)
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Thank you for liking my Demon Poem! ?
Comment is about Holden Moncrieff (poet profile)
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Got it, Ray. Thanks for the explanation. I'm sure the neighbours know what they're doing! Best wishes to the Baroness.
Comment is about BARONESS BROWNING (blog)
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Lovely, evocative poem. The last verse really caps it.
Comment is about The Changing Breeze (blog)
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Thank you Stephen A and Holden for the likes.
Comment is about Yorkshire Day (blog)
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Got that Greg - I love the Kinks stuff so full of moodliness(?) and nostalgia. Thanks
Thank you Brenda, nice to hear that.
Thanks Mark. I'm sure the streets were full of intrigue for you too. I can't resist anything from that period or earlier. My favourites include sights of London trams (Lavender Hill Mob eg). which I just remember.
Stephen, cheers for joining in and just to say the southern "edge" was no match for the likes of Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney but I found this close to Up the Junction in style and leeriness. The East End was greatly affected of course, but I remember the city equally devastated as my dad worked there.
Thank you for your like Holden.
Glad to have garnered interest in this!
Ray
Comment is about THIS IS MY STREET (blog)
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Thanks Stephen for chasing this up. I wanted to convey that next doors' neighbours were de- liceing a bantam chicken on its back with powder. It's name (?) was Baroness Browning believe it or not. I thought the name alone would make for a bit of bathos.
I hope that clears it up (not the lice) for you!
Ray
Comment is about BARONESS BROWNING (blog)
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Nothing stays the same. Nice work.
Comment is about The Changing Breeze (blog)
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Wonderful and worth the wait. I have missed reading your work. I hope all is good with you and there many more writes to come. Thank you
Comment is about The Changing Breeze (blog)
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Terrific work, Stephen. Poignant and moving.
Comment is about The Changing Breeze (blog)
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Thank you for your comment Stephen. I didn't know that you lived in Belgium but then of course, I didn't ask!
I'm sorry to hear about the floods in Belgium. Thinking of you and all of Belgium-people, animals and land. Keeping you all in my thoughts and prayers.
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Thank you for the likes folks and the lovely comment Rasa. I follow Dr Amir Khan on Twitter as he posts some lovely videos and photos. I have his permission to use these as inspiration for some of my writes along with the photo. I think this forest is somewhere in Yorkshire, England.
Comment is about A New Day (blog)
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Brings to mind the tale of "The tortoise and the hare". Craft and
guile can outwit youthful prowess occasionally.
Comment is about The wisdom of age (blog)
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Many thanks for the like, Holden.
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A beautiful, atmospheric poem, Brenda.
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Thank you, Rasa. This is so relevant to the situation in Belgium, where we have had terrible flood damage and loss of life and yet people have not lost hope and so many have rallied round to support the victims.
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Hi Ray. I enjoyed this but must confess to being slightly bewildered. However, I 'm prepared to go with it.
Comment is about BARONESS BROWNING (blog)
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Thanks, Ray. Very enjoyable. It's a pretty good film, although without some of the grit of the New Wave Northern classics. I used to be taken back to the East End of London as a boy to visit relatives and I do remember how much was still bomb damaged, as you mention.
Comment is about THIS IS MY STREET (blog)
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Ha-ha. A humorous but suspiciously realistic view of a certain
breed of workman.
The ending here is rather neat
Revenge is often very sweet!
Comment is about PLAs TuRd (blog)
Original item by Edbreathe
An enjoyable saunter through the yesteryears that a number of us
can recall. The inclusion of those names towards the end adds to
the verisimilitude and encourages images of others to appear in
the mind's flickering projection booth.
Comment is about THIS IS MY STREET (blog)
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Fact is we don't always catch attention, but it's always a challenge trying! Thanks for the wordplay Leon....
Ray
Comment is about BARONESS BROWNING (blog)
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Great atmosphere, real sense of place. Thanks
Comment is about THIS IS MY STREET (blog)
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This is beautiful Julie. It reminds me of 'A Midsummer Night's
Dream'. I imagine you are writing about somewhere beautiful in Europe where it rains a lot? Or am I wrong?
Thank you for sharing your poem.
Keep writing.
Best wishes,
Rasa
Comment is about A New Day (blog)
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Summertime sea says
to the breeze
beyond the tree
I found this poem.
Comment is about Across the Land (blog)
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Thanks for your likes
Holden
Your Royal Poetess
Stephen G
and
Aisha.
Comment is about Sinister Lurks (blog)
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Stephen I spend one week cutting it all back then within days my jungle returns.
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Keith
I used to have one that lived under my shed five years ago.
Watching the night wind create shapes I thought I heard something and I did - - -
Comment is about Sinister Lurks (blog)
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Enjoyed this, Ray. Reminds me of the Kinks song Dead End Street
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<Deleted User> (30611)
Fri 30th Jul 2021 19:23
Surprised to be the only liker!
I'm guessing this is based on fact but with a big dollop of poetic LICEnce (groan)
Comment is about BARONESS BROWNING (blog)
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The paradox of freedom stays with us. The question remains:
To what extent does your version of freedom impinge on my own
understanding of the word?
Comment is about "L’homme est condamné à être libre" (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Fri 30th Jul 2021 00:42
Thank you, Stephen ?. You draw an apt parallel!
Comment is about "L’homme est condamné à être libre" (blog)
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An intriguing story, beautifully told.
Comment is about pyramids of salt (blog)
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Nigel,
Your'e lucky we have a family of three at the bottom of the garden.
Keith
Comment is about Sinister Lurks (blog)
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Fascinating poem. A rather abstract notion of absolute liberty still plays a big part in French and European thinking, as seen in recent demos against vaccine passports.
Comment is about "L’homme est condamné à être libre" (blog)
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Impressive and disturbing, Adam.
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I have experienced something like this, Nigel, and the poem really brings it home. 'Garden overgrown' has a worryingly familiar ring to it!
Comment is about Sinister Lurks (blog)
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kJ Walker
Mon 2nd Aug 2021 17:16
Thank you for the likes, and kind comments.
A few people have compared my stuff to Stanley Holloway monologues, praise indeed.
This one is actually a true story, and I am still good friends with Sando, all these years later.
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