A poem which poses an important question concerning our real selves and those forces which try to sublimate our very own identity. A poem to ponder on.
Thank you for this

Keith

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Artwork by: Tony Sandoval ?

Comment is about Untitled (blog)

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Reminds me of the Coldplay song „Everything’s not lost” . One of my favourites.

Thanks for the injection of positivity.

AG

Comment is about Everything Will Be Alright (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

It can’t be that bad !

Comment is about Of All People (blog)

Original item by d.knape

How about a director.

Comment is about If My Life Was A Movie (blog)

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Julie,
Thank you for this poem of optimism which is sorely needed at this time as we all long for better days and a return to normality.
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Everything Will Be Alright (blog)

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Stephen A & Stephen G, thank you for your comments. Binte, Julie, Aviva, Holden, Scattered Sun and Your Royal Princess thank you all for liking this poem. I appreciative that you all took the time to read this poem and express your comments.
Thank you one and all.

Keith

Comment is about Day Dreaming (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

A wonderfully speculative poem. I enjoyed this.
Thank you
Keith

Comment is about If My Life Was A Movie (blog)

Original item by Scattered Sun

So beautiful, Erika. Thank you ?

Comment is about SWEET PLUMS (blog)

Original item by Erika Montoya

I think there is a saying "It's curtains for you kid"

Comment is about Spring Cleaning (blog)

Original item by Emer Ní Chorra

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Comment is about Undecided (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

WOW! Just read your poems, and they are amazing!

Comment is about Stephen W Atkinson (poet profile)

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This made me smile.?

Comment is about How many minutes to midnight? (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

"metaphysico-theologo-cosmologo-noodleology." LOL

Comment is about Undecided (blog)

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Thank you so very much for expressing your appreciation for a number of my poems. It is both kind of you and encouraging for me personally
Keith

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Jennifer,
Thank you for your very kind comments recently posted. I appreciate your words which are for me personally very encouraging.

Keith

Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)

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by now there should be a long list of my poems.
I post everyday....good, bad or indifferent.
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Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

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You touched a place within me Erika I thought was long forgotten. Very real.

Thank you.

AG

Comment is about SWEET PLUMS (blog)

Original item by Erika Montoya

Lovely details in this, Erika. Your poems contain melancholy and have real strength, too. Thank you for sharing them here

Comment is about MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE (blog)

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Hope writing helps.

Comment is about PTSD (blog)

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Hi Hugh,

You are funny for sure!

Comment is about A bill shock at the dentist (blog)

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Hello Nazia,

I am intrigued by the statement included in your biography.

AG

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Comment is about PTSD (blog)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

Keith, thank you for your thoughtful comment. Fortunately, I was adopted together with my brother by a Canadian couple who had applied for American citizenship and succeeded. They were loving parents who did a good job. I don't blame my first parents for their choices because their was a much bigger scheme. Of course, I couldn't see that at the time.

I will include you and your siblings in my thought and prayers.

Comment is about He Ain't Heavy (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

Thank you for reading and commenting Kristian Deidre, Nigel Astell, and M.C. Newberry. In different ways you are each tuning into and commenting about thoughts of posterity and there's a few more meditative poems coming soon about that theme, I hope you will enjoy them.

Nigel I have a poem specifically about poetic posterity which your poem reminds me of too but it might take longer before I post it since I am focussing on meditations first.

Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem.

Comment is about I'm A Believer (blog)

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Thank you, Ray. That really is something to live up to! (Enjoying the book, by the way).

And many thanks to everyone who liked the poem. I appreciate all your interest and support.

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Comment is about Amazed (blog)

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Intense?

Comment is about PTSD (blog)

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Humorous ?

Comment is about Of All People (blog)

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The new normal is social distancing. Returning to old normal will take time. Introspective ?

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I haven't responded to comments on profile before, so here's a shout out to all of you. Thanks to Mark O, Hope Ray, Colin Pulmano, d.knape, Nicola Beckett, Philipos, Tommy Carroll, and Your Royal Poetess. ? ? ?

d.knape has to get the most frequent commenter award ?

Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

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Artwork by: Julietta Stone ?

Comment is about 愛 (blog)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

Tighten me up
before I get too loose.

Comment is about Of All People (blog)

Original item by d.knape

A very sound reminder of doing the best we can while we're here on
this Earth of ours. Think of our presence as a qualification for an
onward move beyond mortality. The body may be weak but the
spirit lives on - defined by our efforts in life and their legacy to others.
Poets of whatever origin and aim can leave something for others
who follow - and so it goes down the years.

Comment is about I'm A Believer (blog)

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Yes, I was referring to
the comment below.
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Artwork by: Mario Sanchez Nevado ?

Comment is about PTSD (blog)

Original item by Your Royal Poetess

When death comes
to the poet
the poems left
will live on.

Comment is about I'm A Believer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Thanks for this lovely poem. Well done for remembering, I forgot again.?

Comment is about 'White Rabbit' (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Brian,
A powerful poem of deep personal tragedy. I too suffered a miserable childhood for reasons other than the ones you describe. I often wonder if parents ever realise the damage that can be inflicted on a child during their formative years, damage which can last for a lifetime. I ran away in the end leaving a younger brother and sister to continue and live in a hell hole. My brother who is younger than I by five years is still traumatised by those awful years.

Thank you for this poem. From reading many of your poems you have developed into a writer who is highly observant and sensitive, one who can well describe life as it is and affects us all. Well done Brian

Keith

Comment is about He Ain't Heavy (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

lovely

Comment is about When My Heart Starts Dancing (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

What an horrendous childhood experience for you to undergo, but great you have at least one family member that you are very close to.

Words sometimes are not enough to assuage these problems but you at least got it out there in the open.

You are not alone in the battle of childhood grief as I am sure many on WOL will agree.

Blessings.

P

Comment is about He Ain't Heavy (blog)

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Thank You, Aviva. ?

Comment is about You Are a Masterpiece (blog)

Original item by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.

were you talking about your comments
on finding my blog?
is that what you are referring to?

Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

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Aviva, your words are beautiful!!
I especially loved the emphasis on considering not what we will take with us, but on what we will leave behind ?
Thank you for sharing!

Comment is about I'm A Believer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

interesting thought
but it does not seem to effect dogs
who sniff anything that moves
or not.
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Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

A dog will sniff
anything that moves
the gist is that
it so behooves!
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Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)

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Thank you for your comments they cheer me up everytime ?????

Comment is about Your Royal Poetess (poet profile)

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I'm a believer, but my beliefs are uniquely crafted. Just because my beliefs centre in my own understanding of life and the world as I know it doesn't mean that I don't have beliefs.

Comment is about I'm A Believer (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

So much emotion
in so few lines.

Comment is about I Don't Belong (blog)

Original item by Deb

Thanks for your royal comment

Free to live
free to party
for now we can still do this
in our poetry.

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