I looked for it for ages. And couldn’t find the place. Wasted my life

Review is about out loud a night of spoken word performance on 7 May 2019 (event)

i agree kealan. where can we buy your work?

Comment is about 'Star Scran and Honey Madness' by Kealan Coady is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

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Congratulations! Impressive, original and very personal. Where do you buy it? Really well deserved.

Jennifer

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Hi mate. Your insightful response has made me think. Perhaps there is a distinction between conscious and unconscious decisions. Eg the death camps scenario.where taking the plunge so called is a habitual obedience to a decision made long before and reinforced through fear or just a deadening of conscience. Automatism in fact or dehumanisation. Poetry has to try to precis such things. Coming c
Back to bliss. Can that be the merging of equally tuned minds as at a concert or indeed one of Hitler's speeches? As well as in solitude. Answers on a postcard please.

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I have a rare gift, Brian, of being able to offend both parties to an argument.

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You won't be making many friends or influencing people on this site John.

Love it.

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Thanks Andy, your input has been invaluable man, always appreciated ?

Comment is about 'Star Scran and Honey Madness' by Kealan Coady is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

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The torment and the agony of the condition has been captured so well by your words.. A very poignant poem..

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Pleased for you, Kealan. More please as always (:

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Thank you to everyone for your kind words, it really is appreciated ?

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Congratulations, Kealan.

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fantastic writing, worthy winner

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Blimey, what a long title will do, a cheap and nasty trick of course, but quite common. This little poem wot I wrote was done some time ago as a sort of joke. I like the uilean pipes but can do without the Scottish ones, although massed pipes and drums can be quite stirring if done well. I remember on the New years eve 1999 I worked with not one but six pipers all in one hotel.

Thanks Brian, you couldn't make that up! Imagine an Arab playing bagpipes.

Dorothy, not a closet enthusiast surely. You're not alone, don't worry.

Thanks Don, I am on safe ground then! I think humorous poetry is always most effective in rhyme form.

Trevor, I know what you mean - and also I dislike politicians droning on. Thanks.

Hi Stu, a certain inevitability there I suspect. To interest add stentorian....

Thanks Jennifer, another variation on the theme of the Highlands, aye and a fine one too, i'll be bound. The title was actually spelt that way as a colloquial trick to make it more farcical, but thanks , no problem.

With your story to add to the complexities Kevin we could write a soliloquoy of the art. That sounds like a ploy to draw fire. Horrible sound to wake up to for sure.

Wow Jason, freedom comes at a heavy price, like paradise ( post bagpipes) thanks.

David, fascinating stuff ..true Scottish humour in that comment. I'm almost seeing Billy Connolly . That's a really appropriate point about the origin of the chanters. Frankly I never before made a connection, so thank you for enlightening me. It's all part of the Balmoral effect now.

I'm most gratified to get so much reaction to this. Next week I shall mainly be featuring the cor anglais - or not.

Andy, Philip, Randy and Lisa thanks so much for reading and liking.

Ray

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Hi Jennifer and thanks. That repetition was to give the idea of climbing to a height, but you are right it could equally apply to reinforcing the idea of the action.

David, there is a salient point that we have freedom in making decisions - sometimes though Hobson's choice. It is a pretty problem, and we can appear to make our own , but are guided by what's gone before. Market forces love to push us into certain decisions by persuasion. I was thinking that actually carrying out an action is secondary to the decision to do it. Saying it is always right is a subjective point, but at the time we would never consciously make a wrong one surely. Time would reveal the truth in hindsight I suppose.

Thanks both and also to Lisa for liking.

Ray

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Well, it's certain that one thing that is not absent is talent. Really moving, you expressed that empty hurt so well. Brilliant.

J. x

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Like KJ. I have no faith - but the line -
"for peace to self and all everywhere" - is sincere and is sincerely appreciated.
Dorothy

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I always admire people with faith (even though I have none of my own)
Happy Ramadan to you too. (Hope that's appropriate coming from me)

Cheers Kevin

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Don
I have found your 'like ' button and i have pressed it and sent you a flower.
i like your defiance - sounds as if you are feeling better.

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I liked the incantatory mode-mood Kealan. After all, all action takes place in the head of the participant, or observer; with running commentary. Doesn't it?

As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods,
They kill us for their sport.

King Lear Act 4, scene 1, 32–37

Keep write on!

J

Comment is about 'Star Scran and Honey Madness' by Kealan Coady is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

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Thank you very much Jason. I am not a very confident writer - thus I usually revise too much - but this poem just came to me, and I only knew it was about harikari when I'd completed it. Yes, it is like a chant, like the sound of water rushing over stones. I chanted it as I wrote it, in my head. Thanks for noticing Jason. John

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.” Rumi.

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Good to see that time spent healing in bed
Is producing positivity inside your head! ?

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excellent

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Can't see a like button anywhere ??

Comment is about Do you? I do (blog)

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We wives can be very dedicated - we are well used to looking after men - and it makes us feel all the closer, so take heart and keep taking out the trash.

Dorothy

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How else to get through breakfast...?

PS
I don't mean to be cryptic, Stu, but life is so surreal like this sometimes.

Rachel )

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A great testament to the diversity of poetry and personal tastes--we are fortunate not to be constrained by artificial stricture.

I'm definitely a fan and I like to think Douglas Adams and Asimov would be too...

Rachel

Comment is about 'Star Scran and Honey Madness' by Kealan Coady is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)

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I like the line

Tendrils of your essence linger

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Don

Simple and clever. Love this!!

K

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Don,

I enjoyed this very much. I love how you are not necessarily questioning yourself, but you seem to be trying to make sense of aspects of yourself. There's a difference - if that makes sense to you as it does to me. Very thoughtful words and an interesting perspective. I enjoy a poem of challenging thoughts. Thank you.

K

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I absolutely love this. It is really well written but also an absolute joy to recite. Brilliant! So glad I added you onto my favourites.

J.

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Thanks Jennifer it took a bit of working out, I wanted to get a, "Ten," in every line and to make the total amount of,"Tens," divisible by ten, (With it being called the power of ten), which is why there are 20 in total. I just found that element of it quite entertaining.

Thanks.

J. x

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Short, nice, effective and beautifyl

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Wow phenomenonal poem.

Comment is about The Fight (blog)

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No such luck...which is why I don't gamble

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Many thanks for the “likes”, Philip, Jennifer and Dorothy.

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The Godzilla was my favourite line, too. Thanks.

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"Are very good indeed!"

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Very powerful...and true

Comment is about Generations (blog)

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No, I don't have this skill. But her machine is safely kept, weekly cleaned and maintained the way she used to do.

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Don't think 'it lacks quality' at all, but is very cunningly written. Really agree with the last two verses in particular. Listening is just not 'cool' nowadays. Don't use the social networks because it seems to me a total waste of time to post venomous invective or one's daily routine.Can't stand the mania for selfies either. Great language!

Jennifer

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Glad to hear so, I like yours too! Keep up the good work.

Jennifer

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Sad Linda. But I like the poetic way you have expressed it

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Original item by Linda Young

I've had this theme in my head for weeks around the number ten (and it also helps that I hate Twitter.)

So apologies if it lacks quality, I just had to get it out, then at least I don't have this nagging internal voice vaguely saying, "Ten, ten, something to do with ten."

J. x

Comment is about The Power Of Ten (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Really touching when you really read it, but whoever, "He," is in this poem, "He's," a fool.

I heard a great quote from Benjamin Zephaniah the other day. He said, "People don't care about poetry, when poetry doesn't care about people."

This is a great example of poetry caring about people.

J. x

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Yep, brilliant!

J. x

Comment is about Generations (blog)

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FREEDOMMMMmmmmmmmm!?

J.

Comment is about A JOCULAR AND DERISIVE POEM WHAT I WROTE WITH A SUITABLY LONG TITLE TO GET EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION - CLEVER EH? (blog)

Original item by ray pool

This is so strong - well done.
It was not untill I reached the last line that i realizes that I had not breathed throughout.

Dorothy

Comment is about Generations (blog)

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There used to be an old pipe major who played in the town centre in Doncaster. You'd often see him playing outside people's houses at death-o'clock in the morning. I assumed he'd been sent there out of malice.

He was one of the town's characters, and I miss seeing him now

Cheers Kevin

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thanks for reading my poem
do YOU have a sewing machine?

Comment is about Binte Afroz (poet profile)

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save your sox
do not wash
keep in box
and do not toss.

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