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AVISHEK GHOSH

Sun 5th Jul 2020 11:12

Its great to hear your inspiring words.Thanks Moon.girl.But how have you read this before?

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Anna

Sun 5th Jul 2020 11:03

Don't blow kisses also. This virus is a sneaky one

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Anna

Sun 5th Jul 2020 10:56

Thanks once again!

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Anna

Sun 5th Jul 2020 10:55

Very true.

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Anna

Sun 5th Jul 2020 10:54

Thanks Steve!

You look like that cool guy Hunter S Thompson. I hope you don't mind my being so personal.

A

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julie callaghan

Sun 5th Jul 2020 10:20

? Brilliant, wish I could like it twice as my husband loved it too.

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Sun 5th Jul 2020 10:14

I've read this before Avi.

Anyways....once again beautifully written

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AVISHEK GHOSH

Sun 5th Jul 2020 08:50

Thanks Leon and Philipos

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Nicola Beckett

Sun 5th Jul 2020 04:17

Love this, Tulips, reminds me of the flower markets in Camden and Amsterdam x

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Sun 5th Jul 2020 03:35

Long live Leonard! His poetic music serenades my soul. I was overjoyed when his son released his post humous album. Welcome to WOL Clive. I am enjoying your poetry already. I love your quote, “Words express, poetry liberates.” Write on! ~V

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d.knape

Sun 5th Jul 2020 02:47

I tried using Make-up.
It didn't help!
?

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john short

Sun 5th Jul 2020 01:33

Hi Abdul,

I read your poem and we seem to be in complete agreement. Take care! Best wishes.

John S

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David Blake

Sun 5th Jul 2020 00:32

Loving it.

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David Blake

Sat 4th Jul 2020 23:46

Awesome stuff!!

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John Coopey

Sat 4th Jul 2020 21:50

Thankyou for your thoughts, MC. At least a designation like “WASP” was specific to a certain group. BAME Is a catch-all meaning “anyone not white”, ironically racist.

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<Deleted User> (17847)

Sat 4th Jul 2020 20:22

Nice to see you back on again Avishek.

Lovely poem.


L.S,

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Philipos

Sat 4th Jul 2020 19:40

Awww.

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Anmolpreet Kaur

Sat 4th Jul 2020 19:30

Thanks Po
I am glad i could leave an impression.

Ak

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Anmolpreet Kaur

Sat 4th Jul 2020 19:23

Thank you Abdul for the rose.

Ak

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Hasmukh Amathalal

Sat 4th Jul 2020 17:46

Let the beauty glow
Friday,26th June 2020

Look from the distance
and take no chance
to touch and spoil the beauty
I represent the message from an almighty

always praise
and not chase
the people of beautiful nature
let them mushroom in garden here

what sort of color you want?
why my appeal can't?
persuade you to commit destruction
it is clear instruction for the Lord

the fragrance is within
it can be clearly seen
I smell the humanity
the powerful arm of an almighty

let the fragrance blow
let the river waters flow
let birds fly in high sky
but you observe and never try

just smell and remain spellbound
the eternal joy shall be found
you go round and make the beautiful environment
to remain happy and feel the proudest moment

Hasmukh Mehta
Courtesy : Tulsi Shreshtha

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DR. MUKUND BHANDARI

Sat 4th Jul 2020 17:41

Well judged!

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julie callaghan

Sat 4th Jul 2020 17:15

Thanks for the comment and like.

So easy to forget and that is without a glass of wine or two.
Best that I stay home I obviously can't be trusted.

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Abdul Ahmad

Sat 4th Jul 2020 16:56

Hello Stephen

Your recent comments on my poem "Well planned return" inspired me to wtite "Monkeys filled the vacuum".

I hope you don't mind me including ideas from your comments.

Abdul

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Abdul Ahmad

Sat 4th Jul 2020 16:38

John

Enjoyed reading your profile and your extensive list of past and future appearances.

You have lead an interesting life; and, are well read and well travelled.

Your recent comments inspired me to write "The Monkeys filled the vacuum". I hope you don't mind me including some lines from your comments in the poem.

Abdul

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Anna

Sat 4th Jul 2020 16:35

Thank you Julie!

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 4th Jul 2020 16:16

Class! Thanks for the words and the reminder of a great popular song (Kern/Fields?).

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 4th Jul 2020 16:02

It seems based in how and why
You use a way to identify
Those who appear here by and by
Not easy however hard you try.
Racism is the mantra nowadays
Interpreted in all sorts of ways
We are who we are perception says
However awkwardly that plays.
WASP was a term I remember too -
Another to describe a collective "who".
And there are others that's for sure,
In time no doubt there'll be more.
...................................................................

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John Coopey

Sat 4th Jul 2020 15:00

Thankyou, Jennifer. The Jonathan Pie link in my first comment below says it all for me and far better than my thing.

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Anmolpreet Kaur

Sat 4th Jul 2020 14:57

It's true many a times we search things at wrong place without realizing how close we were to it and turned a blind eye.
Surely there is a lot to explore inside

Ak

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Anmolpreet Kaur

Sat 4th Jul 2020 14:53

Hey Abdul I would like if you could pay a visit to "First Impression "
Will be waiting for your answer

Ak

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Anmolpreet Kaur

Sat 4th Jul 2020 14:44

" in my mind
I know who I am
And what i look like"
That's the confidence d.
Don't loose it

Ak

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jennifer Malden

Sat 4th Jul 2020 14:34

Can't stand the term! Might just as well add an L to the word.

Jennifer

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jennifer Malden

Sat 4th Jul 2020 14:26

Nice one Don! Short and to the back pockets!!!
Jennifer

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jennifer Malden

Sat 4th Jul 2020 14:16

Really amusing DK, albeit with an authentic twinge of regret.It's strange but exactly the same thing happens to me, especially when taken unawares, I catch a glimpse of this strange person in a shop window. I think 'who on earth is that old bag'?, then suddenly the awful truth hits me!!!! One of my golden rules to cope with ageing is- never to look in mirrors unless indispensable- i.e. slapping on makeup to give one at least a healthy look!.

Jennifer

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sat 4th Jul 2020 14:09

I really do wonder.

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Ian Whiteley

Sat 4th Jul 2020 14:00

thanks for your kind comments and 'likes' I appreciate you taking the time to comment and am pleased you liked the poem ?
Ian

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sat 4th Jul 2020 14:00

Leon, I have no idea where Nicola is coming from. Thank you for your lovely comment. No one has ever called me a 'heroine' before.

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julie callaghan

Sat 4th Jul 2020 13:36

This week?

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Don Matthews

Sat 4th Jul 2020 13:34

Couldn't bear the thought of depriving you comments Brian....

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RoseMary

Sat 4th Jul 2020 13:06

Very bitchy poem....?

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RoseMary

Sat 4th Jul 2020 13:04

Yes Nicola, accept this new world, new lifestyle,once you will accept it, the pain will subside.
There are beautiful days ahead...they will come very soon but not tomorrow...keep praying your pain away.
It's in your hand to feel or not to feel the pain.

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Sat 4th Jul 2020 12:31

Welcome back...it's lonely out there isn't it Don?

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John Coopey

Sat 4th Jul 2020 11:36

Thankyou, Po. Personally, I do not shop there. Although these days I am as rich as Croesus old habits die hard and I still shop at Scope and Age Concern.
And Thankyou for the Like, RoseMary.

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Kevin T.S. Tan

Sat 4th Jul 2020 10:48

you're welcome. It's important that people stand up against injustice and oppression

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Kevin T.S. Tan

Sat 4th Jul 2020 10:37

I used to feel the same. Then I opened up about it. People then told me that they really appreciate my company. Some called me the quiet force, the one who's supportive by listening. And I made friends by cooking, organising events, sporting together etc. Yes, sometimes I failed. Got disappointed a lot. But it's the only way to learn!

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Abdul Ahmad

Sat 4th Jul 2020 10:09

Kevin, Ghazala, Anmolpreet Kaur and Brian

Thank you all for spending time to read this poem and leaving such thought provoking comments.

Kevin, Ghazala and Anmolpreet Kaur appreciate the encouraging like.

I agree with recent pearls of wisdom given to me by regular bloggers Stephen Gospage and John Short on a different poem but their comments are relevant to this work, too.

Stephen Gospage; "The present government with its daft mixed messages doesn't care.."

John Short; "A few months back the British public were given a chance to vote for sanity and common decency but they decided to go with incompetence, lies and corruption".

Brian Maryon your tongue in cheek question is addressed somewhere in this reply.

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John Coopey

Sat 4th Jul 2020 08:54

What the L, Brian!

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Sat 4th Jul 2020 08:45

The BAME game eh?

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John Coopey

Sat 4th Jul 2020 08:44

Thankyou, moongirl. It does seem to me that we have come full circle form those apartheid notices for "Whites" and "Non-Whites". Did you check out the link to Jonathan Pie in my comment. Any credit is entirely his. "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" as they say.

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Sat 4th Jul 2020 08:38

John you have just won hearts writing this piece. There're no whites and blacks....rather there're only humans. Humanity in any shouldn't die an ugly death with the dagger of racism.

I agree with your piece, have it published.

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