Jeff, Do what you love and it will bring you joy. Nice poem.
Marla
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an apocalyptic vision
a reminder that time is moving swiftly on--waste not the day...
Comment is about With the Certainty of the Day (blog)
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Love this one Tom! You really get the flow going w/ your poem/songs. I enjoy them alot.
Comment is about Get A Life (blog)
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To all those mentioned - thank you very much for your appreciation. It's very uplifting in times of gloom. Thanks to: Tom, Yanma, Flyntland, Holden, Aisha, Stephen and hugh!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Regards,
Rolph
Comment is about Beneath the Noise (blog)
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Thank you to Tom, Aisha and Flyntland for the likes on this one.
David RL Moore
Comment is about With the Certainty of the Day (blog)
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Thank you, Trevor.
The dehumanising of the Irish people under colonial rule explains their empathy with the suffering of the Palestinians, leading them to expel the Israeli ambassador. If only the UK would follow suit.
Saoirse don Phalaistín is ea saoirse domsa!
Palestine's freedom is my freedom!
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Many thanks Tom for your positive comment. I will contact you when I go global lol. 🙂
Thanks for likes: Yanma Hidayah, Manish, Stephen G, hugh, & K. Lynn
Comment is about Get A Life (blog)
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Great piece Tom. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your song writing. Remember me when you become rich and famous
I'm brilliant at backing vocals and grovelling! 😅
Tom
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Bob Hall
Thu 27th Feb 2025 22:29
Hilary and I are thrilled that our performance should have inspired this poem. Thank you very much😀
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Thanks for the likes.
Homelessness use to be only in the big cities. Now it is commonplace even in town where I live.
Sometimes I feel like I am on the curb, just watching. Other times I say I could do something about it... if only...
Would welcome your thoughts on the subject.
Comment is about If Only (blog)
Original item by Marla Joy
Thank you. The words are mine - the illustration is by Cherie Liu
Comment is about From The Art (blog)
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It seems that the machines have caught up with everyday, middling intelligence, RA. Dare I say that they couldn't write a poem like this though?
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Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner, hugh, K. Lynn, Manish, Marla Joy, Naomi & Hélène. 👍
Comment is about Give Me A Sign (blog)
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Thank you Polly for sharing your powerful art with a hurting world. This poem gave me comfort, courage, hope. Thank you!
Comment is about From The Art (blog)
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Sounds like Les Dawson is still alive and well. 😁😂
Comment is about Worse Things Happen at Sea (blog)
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Little would you have guessed that I had planned for your question being included in your reply Robert
forklift hire in case there happened to be any excessively portly ladies needing to be hoisted out of the way so the tide could come in 😅
my sneaky way of getting a well hammered joke in
aythankyor!
Comment is about Worse Things Happen at Sea (blog)
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Many thanks Tom - what would I use the forklift for exactly? 😕
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😅😅😅😅 so cleverly comical Rob 😅😅😅😅
hiring a forklift isn't that expensive you know R.M. 😅
your earlier WOL talents have come to the fore once more!
cheers matey 👍
Comment is about Worse Things Happen at Sea (blog)
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Thanks David.
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman
Comment is about Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) (blog)
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Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner, Holden, Marla Joy & Naomi. 👍
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That's a really insightful observation Ray. It makes me think about how these themes of labor and exhaustion are so deeply rooted in human experience even reaching back to those ancient stories
Comment is about FLESH AND STONE (blog)
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@Ray Miller yes that's correct..got it in one
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Enjoyed the read and I can empathise to a degree. You need a spellchecker, though.
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Interesting perspective. Not quite sure why but it reminds me of Samson and his labours.
Comment is about FLESH AND STONE (blog)
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I needed this poem, John. Laughter really is the best medicine.
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Very nice. Reminded me of the John Cooper Clarke poem, I Married A Monster From Outer Space.
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A poem full of ponderous thoughts. Sadness, anger, loss, intertwined with daily life. Well done, Lee.
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I wondered what Eden Rock was. I disovered it's a place in the Caribbean. So the dishes are the local culinary fare? Just curious. Enjoyed the poem.
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Your poems pep me up, Aisha. A good way to start the day. Thanks!
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Cheers Holden re ' Impatiently etc '
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Great poem John,
One of the great victories in war is to retain your compassion, some even discover theirs.
It seems Keith Douglas never lost his.
David
Comment is about Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thankyou Graham and Holden for your kind comments.
David RL Moore
Comment is about Paradoxical Voyage (blog)
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Tue 25th Feb 2025 23:42
A truly powerful poem from beginning to end, David, with a beautifully haunting essence to it! I especially loved the last stanza🌷
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Cheers Rob re Dismantling stress
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Cheers Tom re Dismantling stress
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Cheers Red re Dismantling stress
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Thank you so much, John
Comment is about Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) (blog)
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Thank you, Graham. What they are doing with Ukraine - voting with Russia in the UN, for example - is downright criminal.
And my thanks to all of you who liked this poem.
Comment is about Spare Change (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you Stephen. This (below) is Captain Douglas's original poem. His humanity during a time of war.
Vergissmeinnicht
By Keith Douglas
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone
returning over the nightmare ground
we found the place again, and found
the soldier sprawling in the sun.
The frowning barrel of his gun
overshadowing. As we came on
that day, he hit my tank with one
like the entry of a demon.
Look. Here in the gunpit spoil
the dishonoured picture of his girl
who has put: Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht.
in a copybook gothic script.
We see him almost with content,
abased, and seeming to have paid
and mocked at by his own equipment
that’s hard and good when he’s decayed.
But she would weep to see today
how on his skin the swart flies move;
the dust upon the paper eye
and the burst stomach like a cave.
For here the lover and killer are mingled
who had one body and one heart.
And death who had the soldier singled
has done the lover mortal hurt.
[vergissmeinnicht = forget me not]
Comment is about Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) (blog)
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Me and my little iron horse 👍
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I thank everyone for their "like": Tom, Naomi, Reggie's Ghost, Aisha, Trevor and Red B. Keshner.
Comment is about Unyielding Heroes (blog)
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Thank you Stephen for your compliment and your like.
Regards,
Rolph
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Marla Joy
Fri 28th Feb 2025 17:57
Hélène, I like the range of subjects of which you tackle. Nicely written. Marla
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