Thanks, Stephen

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I admire your activism and dedication to the cause, Uilleam.

Comment is about Handala, Speed with our Love on the Wing! (blog)

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A superb, rather moving poem, RBK.

Comment is about letter from a quieter version of me (blog)

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Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner & Hugh. 👍

Comment is about Killer Smile (blog)

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Thank you, Red Brick Keshner

Comment is about Waves (blog)

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You need longer nails, Uilleam.

Comment is about ALFIE (blog)

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I can pick my friends, I can pick my nose, but I can't pick my friend's nose.

Comment is about ALFIE (blog)

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Thanks, David.

Write your words David, and may the mealy-mouthed cowards be damned for their complicity in war-crimes.

Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

A piece of poetry for yours...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6abcH1L_I&pp=ygUibGVuZGVycyBpbiB0aGUgdGVtcGxlIGNvbm9yIG9iZXJzdA

🌷

Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)

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Truth to tell, Graham, he is a little twat. And thanks for the Likes, Redbrick and Holden.

Comment is about ALFIE (blog)

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Thank you @Graham Sherwood 🌷🕊🙏🏻As always, your feedback is much valued and greatly appreciated. RBK

Comment is about an orchard’s lament (blog)

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Ah! the soft underbelly of the JC. I knew there was one somewhere!

Comment is about ALFIE (blog)

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Candy racks? Never heard of them Graham.
I was brought up with the traditional British “Ye Olde Toffee Shop”.

14th July, 2025: Visited 2 different supermarkets, each 5 minutes’ walk apart.

1st one. A floor area “just happened” to be positioned immediately after the check outs, and oustside the toilets. It was approximately 5’ wide x 5’ high x 15’ long, and was piled high with chocolate bars, boxes of sweets, you name it. Not a magazine in sight.

2nd one. There were about 6 till conveyor belts, every single one of them deep in a mountain of mints, chocolate bars and packs of chocolate biscuits; might as well have been bags of sugar! Not a magazine in sight.

Social policies determining low incomes, poor education, and coupled with inevitably poor nutritional food choices form a vicious circle, leading directly to poor health.

Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)

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Thanks for extra likes Uilleam, Nigel Astell & Marla Joy. 👍

Comment is about Everyday Is Pain (blog)

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Your best yet in my opinion. Lines 2 and 6 I wish I had written! Bravo!

Comment is about an orchard’s lament (blog)

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I think your piece is extremely fine writing David. The right to determine own's own status is of course laudable unless others are hurt by such determination. Tolerance is paramount and in very short supply.

Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)

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It's been a while since reading one of your poems, Hugh.

Yes, it's Kevin, pseudonymed, so my family&relatives are a little less stressed out about geopolitics!

If you wanna know more about me, Chef's Table episode with Jamie Oliver is now on Netflix! No, I'm not in it. But I was part of Fifteen Amsterdam in 2011-2012.

You're still a magnificently good poet.

Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)

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All I would say is that Patinkin is right in his anger.

I would qualify that Israel does have the right to exist (as he states) however, not in its present configuration....that must not be permitted to continue.

David RL Moore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgpT5rEKIU&list=RDU7gbFMWZWlo&index=6

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Thanks for all the likes on this one.

Thankyou to Uilleam for the comment, it is indeed tainted with a sadness.

A sadness that some things never change and a sadness of the generational repetition of trauma.

David RL Moore

"Bellum Aeternum"

Comment is about Waiting (blog)

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Thanks, Stephen

Comment is about Claustrophobia (blog)

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That is such a movingly awesome image @Uilleam! The emotional appeal skyrocketed with this thought, thank you 🌷🕊🙏🏻
RBK

Comment is about sunbeam records (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Thank you for reading and the lovely comment.

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Original item by Mike Bartram

Thanks for all your likes
Red Brick Keshner
Holden
Yanma
Stephen G
Aisha
Tom
Hugh
and
Manish.

Comment is about A Poetry Pint with a Unique Taste of Evening Entertainment (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Far Beyond The Comfort Zone

Anxious dancers
Move closer
Towards unavoidable
Cosmic edge.

Comment is about July 2025 Collage Poem: Dancing on the Edge (blog)

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Thanks for your positive comments guys. Sadly it's too easy to pour concrete over the world, mostly in the pursuit of profit.

Comment is about ARRIVAL OF CONCRETE (blog)

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Uilleam they were called ‘candy racks’ at the tills and were replaced with magazines in my day!

Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)

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Quite right Hugh.
I seem to remember some years ago, that amid fears for childrens' health, plans were proposed to prevent supermarkets from pandering to "pester power" at checkouts.
Unfortunately, as with most aspects of UK society, the prevailing norm is "Profit before People".

Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)

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One look at the sky outside tells me you describe it to a tee, Trevor. The kind of weather I just hate - not so much a calm as a breathless, suffocating blanket of grey.

Comment is about Meh! (blog)

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Thanks, RBK.
That sunbeam travelled at one hundred and eighty-six-thousand miles per second, just to say hello to the cats....the very thought makes me want to slow down and rest!

Comment is about sunbeam records (blog)

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Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner, hugh, Stephen W, Aisha & LEON STOLGARD. 👍

Comment is about Everyday Is Pain (blog)

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Graham, I appreciate your ever sincere words and it was.

Difficult to share as well, but I feel a responsibility to express dark and twisty creativity as well. Not sure why, but it feels important. Something having to do with Carl Jung’s collective unconsciousness perhaps.

Thank you again, hope all is well.

Comment is about "Journal entry #3: feel those big feelings so you can get on with your day" (blog)

Original item by Laura Bray

Fortunately for many, John, we do not. I appreciate you taking the time to read my work.

Poems are likened to mirrors for some; windows for others. What do you think?

Comment is about "Journal entry #3: feel those big feelings so you can get on with your day" (blog)

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Many thanks for your thoughts, Uilleam.

Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)

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Thank you Mr Keshner. ( A more appropriate title preferred )

Comment is about Tarnishment (blog)

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On reflection, I ought to replace "Banana Republics" with "so - called civilised Countries", bearing in mind the civil rights struggles in the UK, USA, the European continent and the rest of the world!

Comment is about I am Palestine Action (blog)

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😁👍....too right Uilleam! thank you and thanks to Yanma-Holden-Hugh-Red for condoning my mad half hour!

Leon

Comment is about My tasty belief in the Ceylon hillside plantation leaf (blog)

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Forgot to say, John, I agree with Stephen G.

Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)

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An inside job, I reckon, Ray. Not quite Brinks Mat, but there could be TV series for Hugh Bonneville.

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Very impressive poem, John. Something here about memories and the passing of time, whether we like it or not.

Comment is about ARRIVAL OF CONCRETE (blog)

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A river does not shout its course,
Yet carves the stone with patient force,

Yes, the insistent power of water is immense.

Comment is about The Quiet Path (blog)

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I don't mind admitting, Nick, that brought a tear to my eyes.

Comment is about A memoir (blog)

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I sense an all-pervading sadness in this, David.

Comment is about Waiting (blog)

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Thanks, JC, I'll stick to Guinness.

Comment is about "AS SURE AS GOD'S IN GLOUCESTER..." (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you for this reflection, @Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh. It’s true! Especially when it comes to humanitarian issues, we often overlook the fact that the word humanity begins with human.
We’re all human, but somehow… not every human feels that humanity stands for them.
Perhaps the hardest truth is… some no longer recognize the word humanity in their vocabulary.
💗

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Thanks for the like, Tom.
There was a time when such stories might have concerned only dictatorships in "Banana Republics".

Now in the UK 2025, an 83 year old priest is arrested for protesting against genocide! I await the Plod's knock on the door for this poem-I kid you not!

Comment is about I am Palestine Action (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

"peace is more than photo shows,
Or handshakes staged in choreographed rows."
Well put, Rolph.

It really wouldn't surprise me in the least were Trump to be awarded it; perversion of the truth and Alice in Wonderland lunacy is now the norm worldwide...
now, where's my Ketamine!😆😆😆😆😆

Comment is about A Prize Miscast: A Warning to Oslo (blog)

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Many thanks Uilleam for your reminiscent feedback. 🙂
Thanks for extra likes: LEON STOLGARD 👍

Comment is about Here Today Gone Tomorrow (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

Same here William - cheers!

Comment is about An Excellent View (blog)

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I never knew those delights, Ray.

Comment is about Watching Glastonbury On The TV (blog)

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Respect for our fellow creatures is always a healthy attitude, Hugh; we're all connected in one way or another.

Comment is about An act of kindness leads to a divine reward (blog)

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