Philipos, I hear you loud and clear.
My heart bleeds for the peoples, not aware of how unacknowledged past wrongs still affect them negatively, generations later.
As long as we remain ignorant about the connectivity of all life,
change will remain in the sphere of duality and superficial relating.
Philipos, thank you for commenting on 'imagine".
Comment is about imagine (blog)
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Slowly rising sensual, yes yes yes, blessings abound.
Comment is about He Plays Guitar (blog)
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Lisa, this is a beautiful work. I see this as a universal truth. Drink is only one escape many of us use, to obscure clarity. Clarity may mean standing alone against worldly hypnotism.
Indeed, a beautiful work.
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Comment is about The Thinker and The Drinker (blog)
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Sheesh Bran! You could both do with a sesh at pet-owner training school. You both might learn something of value...
Nice wordplay....
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Comment is about Wanda And Rhonda (blog)
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Philipos
Sun 27th Oct 2019 19:54
Too easy to say it is man's inhumanity to their fellow man but your poem has connotations with that recent immigrant event in NI and I can't seem shake that horrible thought out of my mind because it is so distressing. I never knew them, but I do sense their tragic circumstances and the rippling effect on their families. P.
Comment is about imagine (blog)
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Hi Jennifer, the picture builds as always when you come on. That's a book i'm not familiar with - i'll get clicking thanks. The story is a new one on me - I believe today the ravens are prevented from leaving the Tower by clipping or some such method. There's a history in everything. Also check out swan upping - maybe a poem to follow?
Ray
Comment is about TOWER RAVEN (blog)
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Hauntingly beautiful Desmond. ❤
Comment is about One for Halloween (blog)
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Wow! Touching, raw, bittersweet, as always... those fleeting moments filled with electricity. Embrace the storm.
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Philipos
Sun 27th Oct 2019 17:12
So sad if true - have worked with so many who fitted this category - perhaps it was their wit that distorted their personalities. You put this very well indeed. ?
Comment is about The Thinker and The Drinker (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Is it crunch time for Bojo? Here's my thought about his position..
Like a pantomime scene, I shout "Mind you
beware of that figure behind you"!
Does Number Ten have a door headed "Exit"
That waits if you don't deliver Brexit? ?
Comment is about MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi Brian B. - always good to have your comments. We certainly live
in interesting times...on both sides of the pond.
Brian M. - thanks for the accurate London-centric observation.
Maybe at the next mayoral election we'll see SK doing The Lambeth
Walk out of office.
Comment is about IT CAN BE RIGHT IF YOU'RE LEFT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks Graham. I did enjoy levering all that rhyme into place in the last verse. She's the master - oops mistress!
Brian, thanks. I wrote this before their marriage - does it stand the test of time? i'll fall back on the use of rhyme.
Thanks Jennifer, glad you liked this. Clackmannan is just a funny cranky word (unless you're Scottish of course).
Thanks for the likes, afishamongmany and Don
Ray
Comment is about ROYAL VISIT (blog)
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Brian Blanchard
Sun 27th Oct 2019 14:29
Well said, and certainly akin to events here where the heavy populated (and liberal) east and west U.S. coasts carry so much political weight.
Comment is about IT CAN BE RIGHT IF YOU'RE LEFT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Having been born on December 25, my parents always made sure that birthdays were special and separate from the holiday. At the end of the day it was all about me, with a cake, presents and cards. The only thing I didn't get was a party with my friends as my spring and summer born siblings did.
Everyone's life should be celebrated. Sometimes the holidays make the festivities all the better.
Here's to all those with such birthdays!
Comment is about Forgotten Child (blog)
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Thanks Lisa. This is a general over view of what will actually be happening in November in a way that could affect each sign. Scorpio and Capricorn is a bit of a sticky situation in much the same way as mud because it's earth and water. 2020 is very transformative for Capricorn's relationships though.
Comment is about November Horoscope (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Hi John. I've altered that line - you were spot on. i've altered it to Typical Jack instead. Thanks.
Cheers Don.
Ray
Comment is about JACKO (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Come on Wales you can do it.Cymru am byth.Join England in the World Cup Rugby Final.
Comment is about A random act of kindness in Manchester (blog)
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kJ - Maybe they haven't updated home page yet ? Weekend and all that....
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Comment is about Don't Let Thoughts Go (Poof!) Fly 'Way (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
'when all else fails you can always count on your digits'
Nice line......
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Comment is about Pick a Part (blog)
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Philipos
Sat 26th Oct 2019 20:34
Ah Jennifer - nobly put - but t'was ever thus I'm afraid - and a good unpacking though of the Lord's prayer - let's hope he has a listening ear these days. Blessings. P. ?
Comment is about Our Father (blog)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
I hope that's not my horoscope Ruth! November is tough. As a Capricorn I never did get on well with Scorpios.
Comment is about November Horoscope (blog)
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Indeed, it happens to me all the time
Comment is about Thought Shot (blog)
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Beautiful - lovely to find someone who cares so much about family in this day and age. Wonderfully expressed without any mawkishness.
Jennifer
Comment is about Anything Less Wouldn't Do (blog)
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I made a slight change.
Thanks to all.
Been out of it for a while, good to be back.
Comment is about He Plays Guitar (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Really brings back Old London. Have you ever read The Maul and the Pear Tree by PD James? It's a report of a grisly murder at London Docks. I had a relation who lived up in Sutherland, and when a raven died at The Tower they used to find another and send it down to London! Cross me heart etc. etc. Great atmosphere.
Jennifer
Comment is about TOWER RAVEN (blog)
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Liked this one Ray - agreed with GS about finding a rhyme for Clackmannan!
Jennifer
Comment is about ROYAL VISIT (blog)
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Really liked this - in death a dominance - had they sought to fly - how they have fallen.
Jennifer
Comment is about Leaves (blog)
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Beautiful evoquative piece John and wow Roy Harper that name took me a long way back to my Birmingham days. Didn't realise that he had 'made it' and had a long career after those eary days.
Thanks
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Comment is about Another day (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Music, poetry, love, sex - how do we disentangle them? Do we need to?
"Music and silence, point and counterpoint; the rhythm and metre of sound brought to measure
Infuses speech, enlivens poetry."
Comment is about He Plays Guitar (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Hi Don - this elecro-magnetic communication comes to you from the outer reaches of my cosmic brain box. How did it get there? Ah, it was sent, it came and now it done gone went.
The theory of The Force fails of course for force is only horse power and too impersonal a rational to rely on, to fly on, thinking to escape the fate that awaits, thinking to solve the human situation.
All power, from horse to electro-magnetic, kinetic, frenetic, torque, talk, comes from A Person. The One who came as a son and got the job done. In Him we are made one and the angels do hum the song that saves, the poem of the brave that will run and run into and through the new age to come.
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Comment is about My Second Adventure Into New-Age Poetry (blog)
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Beautiful. If it wasn't for the title I wouldn't have known what it was about. ?
Comment is about He Plays Guitar (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 26th Oct 2019 16:45
Isn'tlington elite!!!
Comment is about IT CAN BE RIGHT IF YOU'RE LEFT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Sorry to tell you this Don, but you're still asleep. It's all a dream.
Comment is about Don't Let Thoughts Go (Poof!) Fly 'Way (blog)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Sat 26th Oct 2019 16:40
Enjoyed all the rhyming Ray, wonderfully contrived. A good time piece with no mention of Harry and Wills' spat, mental health issues, press intrusion etc.
Comment is about ROYAL VISIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Respect for getting Clackmannan into a verse! Watch out Pam Ayres!
Comment is about ROYAL VISIT (blog)
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'No great mind ever existed without a touch of madness.' said Aristotle.
Perhaps I can add some of us are more madder than others?......
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Comment is about Untitled (misfits) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Sat 26th Oct 2019 15:03
I would agree with you - I think he was just very creative. Although, I'm a firm believer that all of us creatives are just a little mad, anyway.
Comment is about Untitled (misfits) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
Sat 26th Oct 2019 15:02
Thank you! Yes, I can see where you are coming from though. We do look at the same ocean ? Hawaii is very beautiful. Your friend is very lucky!
Comment is about Untitled (cold water) (blog)
Original item by Emilia Callahan
JC - I always enjoy the sparring and the good humour that still manages to prevail. Thanks for enlivening this precious often
precocious (and occasionally perplexing?) site.?
Comment is about REMOANERS (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
She's rolling her eyes again.....
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Comment is about November Horoscope (blog)
Original item by Ruth O'Reilly
Hi Brian - What a barking good idea lol. T?
Comment is about A Dog Named Doolan (blog)
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Hi Ian - Long time no hear. Hope you are well. I am still working at GA from time to time . T ?
Comment is about A Dog Named Doolan (blog)
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Thank you for reading my work, Robert.
Comment is about A darker shade of grey (blog)
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I love this poem so much John. I feel the same way about music. It indeed enlivens poetry. Your words create a sweet symphony. ?
Comment is about The speech of angels (blog)
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victoriavautaw@gmail.com
Mon 28th Oct 2019 03:29
Writing will empower you Masen. It will open your heart and mind to the beauty in life and help you make sense of the tragedies. Write on young poet. Your future is bright!
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