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keith jeffries

Tue 4th Aug 2020 13:12

d.k.,

A lament to growing old which so many of us will join with you. Your symptoms are universal but you describe them well. Have you reached the walking stick stage yet.

Good poem

Keith

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Abdul Ahmad

Tue 4th Aug 2020 10:05

A lovely phrase "just slipped round the corner into the rest of his life".

A beautiful and nostalgic peep into the past.

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keith jeffries

Tue 4th Aug 2020 10:05

Shifa, Amatul and Paul,

Thank you for your comments.

Keith

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keith jeffries

Tue 4th Aug 2020 10:03

Paul, Emeka and Leon,

Thank you for your comments as they are much appreciated.

Keith

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keith jeffries

Tue 4th Aug 2020 10:01

Jennifer, Emeka, Paul, Leon, Shifa and Abdul,

Thank you all for your appreciation of this poem and also for your comments.

Keith

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Abdul Ahmad

Tue 4th Aug 2020 09:51

Shaifa thank you for your usual well thought out remarks. Always a pleasure to read your comments.

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Abdul Ahmad

Tue 4th Aug 2020 09:49

Paul

If you meant me as yourself it may be true.
It definately wasn't me as myself.
Then it could be anyone.
Thank you my friend for hitting the like.

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Emeka Collins

Tue 4th Aug 2020 09:47

Thank you so much Shifa. It was actually written to a lady that later said no.

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Shifa Maqba

Tue 4th Aug 2020 09:37

Some thoughts are best left ambiguous, shrouded in mystery, and your poem does complete justice to that. Contemplative and mystical!

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Shifa Maqba

Tue 4th Aug 2020 09:34

This is a tender love letter disguised as poetry. Lovely read!

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Emeka Collins

Tue 4th Aug 2020 08:52

Methinks, love should get better with age unless its root weren't well planted or even now well nourished.

Good piece.

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Emeka Collins

Tue 4th Aug 2020 08:50

The poem reminds me a lot about the past years of war in Nigeria. The people of Biafra were lockdown with death and hunger.
It is a story my tribe, Ibo, can't turn away from.

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Emeka Collins

Tue 4th Aug 2020 08:47

Thank you Keith.
Your comments always invigorate me.

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Greg Freeman

Tue 4th Aug 2020 08:25

“We have crushed the British to the ground, they are on their knees and they will not rise for a very long time.” Aleksandr Yakovenko, summing up Russian achievements during his tenure as UK ambassador, 2011-19. That period includes the Brexit vote, of course. And the project is working, with a Russian oligarch in the House of Lords!

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jennifer Malden

Tue 4th Aug 2020 07:17

Thanks also to Shifa and Philipos for the likes and comments. Evidently we can all find something in this list! Not all, at least, reality, but also from other people's experience, and I have always had a cynical streak! Thanks again, Jennifer

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Shifa Maqba

Tue 4th Aug 2020 07:00

Thank you, Abdul! Sylvia Plath's legacy deserves nothing less than the best.

Thank you, Jennifer! It's really generous of you to leave that red rose.

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Shifa Maqba

Tue 4th Aug 2020 06:59

Thank you, D.W. Hamilton!

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D.W. Hamilton

Tue 4th Aug 2020 06:32

"Even those who embody their masquerades." So everybody then! Well done!

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Shifa Maqba

Tue 4th Aug 2020 05:36

Beautifully crafted! The pain, the longing, the vulnerability, everything hits hard.

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Tue 4th Aug 2020 04:30

Beautifully crafted!!?

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Tue 4th Aug 2020 03:10

Feeling it more and more each day! Great poem!

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keith jeffries

Tue 4th Aug 2020 00:44

Emeka,
You are to some extent right. Those who are aware would rather look the other way. They are afraid to confront issues. They live in comfort zones. The time is fast approaching when we shall need the courage to stand up for what we know to be right. If not we regress into repeating past horrors and mistakes. It certainly feels like an asylum.
Thanks for your comment. It is much appreciated.
Keith

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Emeka Collins

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:56

This conversation, I have it daily with my self. The words differ but the meaning same.

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Philipos

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:46

Jennifer am quite moved by this poem as it bespeaks of much lingering hurt, if it is in fact reality, as I suspect it might be.

Platitudes would seem inappropriate - not becoming a repeat victim might be if you know somebody in that position.

My blessings to whoever it is, and thank you for sharing this poem.

Love can be very painful for some, emotionally and/or physically.

P. ?

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Emeka Collins

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:40

Poets as I was told are prophetic in nature. I just hope we don't do this again.

Great poem. You have a way of speaking to the core fabrics of our existence as humans.

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jennifer Malden

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:37

Thanks Brian and Emeka for the likes and comments.

Jennifer

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Emeka Collins

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:36

Keith, the world is really an asylum now ...it gets madder each day. The masses like you said are unaware.

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Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:32

Don't blame it on the moonlight

(M.Jackson)

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Emeka Collins

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:30

Jennifer Malden, you did great work here.

It is heartbreaking to find out that love proclamation are sugar-coated lies.

Love is truly beyond words but can't do without it.

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Emeka Collins

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:18

Thanks you so much Keith.

Loving someone is like learning how to cook soup, we always want to cook it better when next we try again.

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jennifer Malden

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:05

So well expressed! Great poem.

Jennifer

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keith jeffries

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:04

Emeka,

This is a beautifully crafted poem one which reminds me of the Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda, who was famous for his love poems.

Very well written and with feeling.
Keith

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jennifer Malden

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 23:01


Liked the spirit of this one! The kneebenders, if their knees are anything like mine, Brian, are more likely to be split!!! Great work for the orthopaedic surgeons, anyway.

Jennifer


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jennifer Malden

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 22:57

Help! Terrifying because so much of it is true, but beautifully writtten without a superfluous word, every one counts.

Jennifer

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John Marks

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 22:50

Yes You hit the right note Cathy - the physicality of music, rocks you, the spirituality of music, rocks you. Classical, Jazz, Rock, Country, Indie, Folk. All genres and styles.

Charlie Mingus, jazz composer and bassist, said: "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple — that's creativity."

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Abdul Ahmad

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 22:37

Philipos thank you for your continued support and sending a like.

Emeka thank you for striking the like.

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Philipos

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 22:01

Cliff hanger waiting to unfold. P.

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DESMOND CHILDS

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 19:57

Thank you Shifa and Chinwendu for your comments, much appreciated.


All the best des

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Mon 3rd Aug 2020 19:51

I'm hoping it will fade away in time...but baby showers and Haloween haven't so maybe it will be another thing to divide us a la Brexit. We'll be split between knee benders and non-knee benders.

Knee pad manufacturers - ramp up production!

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 16:07

I understand that his concern was the increase in postal voting - a
system that has been abused and which needs the strongest
supervision to ensure that is not likely to happen there later this
year. As a politician he is, I suspect, making a point to score points.

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Ken Evans

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 15:06

Great idea, happy to be with it!

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deanfraserofficial@yahoo.com

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 13:09

Great Central Railway, Greg. Although I believe it is currently being refurbished once again.

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keith jeffries

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 11:23

Zhar,

A poem which expresses the power of optimism and positive thought.
Thank you for this

Keith

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Greg Freeman

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 10:52

Always glad to hear of a salvaged steam locomotive, Dean. Like a true trainspotter I am thirsty for facts - where is it running now, please?

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Abdul Ahmad

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 09:29

Shifa
This is simply amongst the best.

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Chinwendu C.E Rays

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 09:18

Gracious varieties will always adapt in the nature of beast!
If only there is tendeny to conquer the grave!

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julie callaghan

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 07:54

Thank you Shifa.

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Shifa Maqba

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 07:17

D.W. Hamilton & Aj, your roses are deeply cherished!

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Shifa Maqba

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 07:14

There's so much tenderness and grace in this poem. Love it!

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Shifa Maqba

Mon 3rd Aug 2020 07:10

Intriguing imagery! The entire poem, in fact, exudes mystique. This is what art should look like.

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