I liked this Tom for as Keith says there's an underlying story to it.
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Keith and Frances thank you for the comments. I have always wondered if there were others out there who felt the same. A long time ago now, though.
Thank you Jon and Mika for the likes too. P.S. Frances thanks for sharing on your blog, I'll post it to mine in the next few days.
Comment is about Tourist Trap (blog)
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Thanks Victoria really pleased you liked it.
J. x
Comment is about Memento Mori (blog)
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Philipos
Wed 5th Feb 2020 18:27
Hi Keith - your comment on "Globes" got me thinking about the
Wordsworth anniversary (WOL news item) and the result has just
been uploaded.
Cheers,
MC
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Frances Macaulay Forde
Wed 5th Feb 2020 18:09
Love it, Tom.
(Hope you don't mind if I share it...)
Comment is about Tourist Trap (blog)
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Thanks Martin. Hope you're well! I agree with you there! Ulterior motives all round.
Cheers Ray
Comment is about THE MASTERPLAN AND OTHER FOLLIES (blog)
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Tom,
This poem has a special quality to it because there is an underlying story. It is not some visit to a tourist shop where customers are assailed by a nebulous variety of goods but a personal encounter which is so well brought to light and clearly described.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Tourist Trap (blog)
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Ah, what a horrible and unnecessary set-back. I'm glad you recovered your strength and took up the pen again. Don't forget to never stop! ?
Comment is about Embers (blog)
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The inspiration for this one came from another poet's poem on this site back in November. I'm really curious to see if they spot the (admittedly tangential) connection.
Comment is about Tourist Trap (blog)
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Two fish tales on the trot,what a coincidence.
Comment is about Dead Roach (blog)
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Wed 5th Feb 2020 13:23
people fear Roaches
more than Godzilla!
?
Comment is about Dead Roach (blog)
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Thank you Tom. ? I didn’t want to admit to a fragile muse, but I remember in the beginning I stopped writing for 10+ years because the “expert” in my writing group called my writing cliche! My muse has thicker skin these days, but is still guarded.
Comment is about Embers (blog)
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Momento Mori, what a brilliant life lesson you have expressed here Jason. A legacy poem for sure. Thanks for sharing your wise ad beautifully woven words.
Comment is about Memento Mori (blog)
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Brilliant writing Victoria. "all live wires that threaten to electrocute our fragile muse". Loved it from start to finish. ?
Comment is about Embers (blog)
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Thank you so much Jennifer, Martin and Cynthia, it means a lot.
J. x
Comment is about Memento Mori (blog)
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That poem by Miklos is outstanding. Thank you, John.
Comment is about The Home Front (blog)
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The more I see of some politicians the less I am convinced that they have any plan except to get into power
Nice one Ray
Comment is about THE MASTERPLAN AND OTHER FOLLIES (blog)
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Philipos
Wed 5th Feb 2020 09:21
Keith - Globes - appreciate the encouraging response. Thanks. P ?
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
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Avishek,
Thank you for your kind comment.
Keith
Comment is about Satie (blog)
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Brian - there was a comment online elsewhere from a football fan
about Lineker's BBC fee to the effect that "Match of the Day" would
be watched by him and others even if it was compered by a complete
unknown e.g. the football content was the appeal, NOT its compere.
As for the "twice" you mention, I'd pay him a media hourly rate
that a top journalist on a newspaper might expect to be paid. And I
bet that's a lot less than the BBC pay him for his backside on a
Saturday night slot and the occasional match at other times.
Comment is about BBC LICENCE FEE (blog)
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I am a firm believer in our dreams being connected.
Comment is about A Very Strange Dream (blog)
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Tue 4th Feb 2020 15:59
Mark - re Lineker, the answer then is the same as now....twice what he is worth!
Comment is about BBC LICENCE FEE (blog)
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d.k.,
I am similar in the way I arrange, not only my socks, but my entire wardrobe. I enjoy being domestically organised, if only for the ease of finding things. I attribute this to Army life.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Sorting Socks (blog)
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John,
Thank you for this. I had not heard of Radnoti Miklos but shall explore him and his poetry as his personal history is very interesting. After the war a memorial was erected in his honour, which has only recently been desecrated. The poem you cite is one which will encourage my research into him.
I recently watched a Hungarian made film by the Director Laszlo Nemes entitled "The Son of Saul". It is in Hungarian and deals with the plight of Hungarian Jews in a German Concentration Camp. As I was reading about Radnoti the film came to mind. It is freely available on You Tube with English sub titles. Beware the content is raw and explicit.
Thank you for some excellent poetry and your comments.
Keith
Comment is about The Home Front (blog)
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M.C.,
Thank you for this, an excellent quote.
Keith
Comment is about Time Heals (blog)
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d.k.,
Thanks, but I am no longer in Spain but returned to England eighteen months ago. Having said that the socks still come in handy as it is mid winter here.
Keith
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
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Here's a thought from way back:
"By the verdict of his own heart, no guilty man is acquitted".
(attributed to Juvenal)
Comment is about Time Heals (blog)
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Graphic stuff. The Russian people have had painful experience
down the years when it comes to being invaded. In this instance
they were defending their vast homeland against a proven
merciless invader. and had that ingrained determination that goes
with the threat that the invader posed. I seem to recall a film
that portayed this Russian sniper and his exploits - which starred
the excellent actor Ed Harris as a German sniper opponent. Am
I correct in assuming the filmed story is connected?
All countries hold the right to determine who enters their boundaries
and to act accordingly, a reality that is exacerbated by invasive conflict.
Comment is about i.m. Vasily Zaystev (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Tue 4th Feb 2020 13:31
Thanks Keith.
How are things in Sunny Spain?
I hear you are having storms.
Take heart-
take warm socks
as you seek shelter from the storm
of life.
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
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Tue 4th Feb 2020 13:28
Michael,
You write with great sensitivity which is apparent in this poem and several of your previous poems also. You write in such a way as to express inner feelings and in so doing others will readily identify with you. This is a gift. This particular poem resonates with me in its intensity as I have been in such a place and am able to empathise with you.
You write from the heart which has a purity about it. Please write more. I am sure many readers will appreciate the depth of your work.
Thank you for this,
Keith
Comment is about Broken bonds (blog)
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Thanks, Don, for the reminder. I'll try to keep it toned down from now on.
Tom, I'm glad you enjoyed this one. ?
Comment is about Awaiting the Day (blog)
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Mika as you know by now
Frisky comments I don't do
Now our friend Tom wants frisky stuff
Frisky stuff from me and you
We gonna have to watch out Mika. Moderators can't cope with too frisky a stuff. This is a serious poetry site remember.......
?
Comment is about Awaiting the Day (blog)
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I was telling my daughter about this dream, and she blanched, and handed me a small gift wrapped in tissue paper, something she had found in a charity shop and that she thought I would love - a small agate FISH! It was VERY WEIRD!
Comment is about A Very Strange Dream (blog)
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Mika, I love the passion that flows through your work - I am all for some more frisky writing on WoL. ?
Comment is about Awaiting the Day (blog)
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Thanks to Tom and Emer for liking
Thank you very much for commenting Cynthia . I am glad you liked it. This came out of observing a young woman serving in a pub recently.
As you say the notion of being off her feet is universal
cheers
Martin
Comment is about Close enounters of the third kind (blog)
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Thanks Tom, Brian and Alex for reading and your support.
Comment is about Mementos (blog)
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Thanks, Don. Sometimes it better to leave it to the reader for interpretation but looks like this one needed help. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Comment is about Can You See The Ships at Sea (blog)
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John,
This is raw with gloves off stuff. You pose two very interesting questions. The statistics are incredible but true. We seem to lack moral fibre these days sitting in our comfort zones afraid to confront the difficult issues of life. Have we become enslaved by inertia and false values? It would seem so. Yet there are, I believe, sinister forces afoot, who, aided by modern technology, can pull the strings of our puppet like beings without our knowing it. We are fed lies and rubbish, but lap it up. Integrity can be found scrounging for food in a council tip. Are people no longer capable of original thought. Does no one study history anymore? Your poem has the ability to light the blue touch paper, but maybe the bystanders will think it is just another source of entertainment to placate their base needs for gratification.
What a poem. Heroism and self sacrifice and then drive forward in time 75 years and see what they fought for. The road of perdition awaits this generation.
Thank you for this excellent poem
Keith
Comment is about i.m. Vasily Zaystev (blog)
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Keith
I am so sorry that you feel that way but, I must confess, I am only a few years behind you and I often feel the same way. I return to a place that I knew well when I was young (for instance, north-west London, metroland) and find it utterly changed (the buildings, the people, the ambiance). I am a stranger in a strange land, where the sacrifices of, for example, all the young pilots and aircrew who died defending us in the early summer of 1940 mean nothing at all.
How it felt at the time is indicated in the poem FOAMY SKY by the Jewish-Hungarian poet Radnóti Miklós (1909-1944)
The moon sways on a foamy sky,
I am amazed that I live.
An overzealous death searches this age
and those it discovers are all so very pale.
At times the year looks around and shrieks,
looks around and then fades away.
What an autumn cowers behind me again
and what a winter, made dull by pain.
The forest bled and in the spinning
time blood flowed from every hour.
Large and looming numbers were
scribbled by the wind onto the snow.
I lived to see that and this,
the air feels heavy to me.
A war sound-filled silence hugs me
as before my nativity.
I stop here at the foot of a tree,
its crown swaying angrily.
A branch reaches down -- to grab my neck?
I'm not a coward, nor am I weak,
just tired. I listen. And the frightened
branch explores my hair.
To forget would be best, but I have
never forgotten anything yet.
Radnóti Miklós, 8th June, 1940.
Comment is about The Home Front (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
John,
A comment on your comment. At the age of 72 I walk about this country feeling detached, as if it is somewhere which I have found and do not want to be.
Keith
Comment is about The Home Front (blog)
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Thankyou for explaining this Mika. I didn't have a clue what was going on..
Like Graham I also am drawn into short poems.
Comment is about Can You See The Ships at Sea (blog)
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Binte,
This heartbreaking sight tears at my soul. I cannot grasp why this should happen save for the ambitions of dictators and man's callous disregard for human life. Ghandi, whilst a lawyer in South Africa exhorted black and coloured people to burn their passes which entitled them to move freely about the country. As he was being arrested by the Police he said, "I think you'll find there is enough room for us all". This was in response to a racist remark telling him and fellow Indians to leave the country. The fact of the matter is that there is enough room for us all.
A poem of classic proportions yet so tragic.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about Humanity Washed Ashore (blog)
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Martin,
Thank you as ever for your kind comment which means a great deal to me.
Keith
Comment is about Time Heals (blog)
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Don Matthews
Wed 5th Feb 2020 22:12
True......
Comment is about What is next? (blog)
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