thank you ever so much for your kind words!!!! ☺️☺️🩷

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Graham,

I really appreciate the like on my poem. Your work is intimidatingly good. Again, thank you

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Yes, it's an insurmountable task. Rarely accomplished. Friend or foe, we never know.

Thanks Graham.

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Thank you so much for the message! I am sure my problem will be solved. I have so many good friends here.
Regards,
Larisa

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Thanks Graham. Lebo here. South Africa represent. Looking for to the plenty awesome reads😀

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Totally agree with you. Thank you.

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Thank you Graham.

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Hi Graham Thanks for commenting on my Joni poem. Yes, Amelia is a grterat track on Hejira, a magnificent album.

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Hi Graham

Thanks for saying hello! Yes i do need to get writing again. Or even finishing off half written poems might be a start. Will do my best to make time for that because I do love the interaction on here. X

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Hi Graham,

Thanks for the welcome. It looks a lively place in here.

I don't need a lot of encouragement, so once I work out what to do, I'll start posting properly etc.

John

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I am incredibly late in posting this since I just figured out how things work on here, BUT, thank you so much for your comment on ‘One year, daddy’ 😇

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Hi Graham,
Thanks for welcoming me to Wol. Appreciate it.

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Just came back to comment on your recent poem - but it's vanished... It was touching, anyway.

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Thank you Graham for your comment on "I saw you standing there" 🙂
Tommy

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thank you for your lovely words on my poem Graham!! its so encouraging!! 😊

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Thanks Graham re "A turning look"
🙂

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Our cops have become targets
shot and killed every day
it's become routine-
the breakdown of our country
our civilization.
😯

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IF you wish to post a comment
you must first dig a hole
then plant the Post and fill in with cement.
After it dries, the Post will be there for a good 30 years.
haha

(My habit is writing. The only good habit I have.)

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I assume you are a "Leftie"
handed...
not political!
?

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Graham,

I live not far from Warmington, which is the setting for this poem. I live in a larger town only a few miles away. A delightful county second only to one of its neighbours.

Keith

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Thank you Graham for your Thanksgiving Greeting.
It's not everyday you get a word of encouragement, much less from so far away.
It's a shame you don't have real turkey. It is delicious.
You should get one to raise. They are easy to keep
but quite dumb. I think you could keep one in your spare
bedroom or in the hallway of your "Flat", if that's what you
have. Don't all Englishmen have Flats?
I will think of you as I eat my Turkey today along with dressing
and cranberry sauce. But, I won't think of you too long,
I'm going for seconds and have to be fast! hahaha

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with 3 kids
I imagine
there was no Change left.
?
A new ink blot test?

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No apologies necessary.
I have successfully duped you
into thinking I write
poetry.
Something is further from the truth.
We just don't know what it is.
?

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ouch!
by the way, love your new photo on your blog.

wink.

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Hi Graham,

I admit I am late in responding, but life is always made of so many things, its often hard to come back to everything all at once.
I hope to connect and communicate with your group.
I am from India and unlike all of you maybe from a developing nation, trying to do what I love doing.

Looking forward to today's session.?

Thank you
Snehashree

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Thank you Graham for your kind words,
and by the way,
how's your forest?

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The forgotten man.

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I was occupied with years of other things. I'm back here now to play.?

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thank you Graham-
(reduced now to a Roschart Blot.)

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how do you change the sillohuette
on my poem home page?
That outline looks stupid in my estimation.
I don't know where it came from
or how to change it.
thx.

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Well, if a poem is not "understandable"
what's the point?
Should we just write Riddles?
hahaha
?

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got ya beat.
I have been a member of WOL
since 1875.
long in tooth
but not of poems.

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Greetings Graham.
Thank you for your comment for the piece, "Hands of Ankh".
There is no translation, as the poem was inspired through a dream, in a language I do not know. Sorry.
Since that time, there is someone I know who believes it it Swahili!?
Wow, and translated a few lines, but didn't have time to translate it entirely.
Thank you for your support.
Love & Light.
OL. Eli

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I love your page and poems ? I new here trying to reach out to others. ?

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read "Fifteen"
excellent!
very poignant
how often men remember
the first girl that caught their eye
so young so innocent
so lasting in the heart.

I see one person said it was good to have you back
even if you did not post anything.
Maybe that's the secret for us all.
The less we post the more we are admired.
wink.

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how are things in the forest?

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Welcome back Graham. Without even posting anything you have increased Wol's quality. jeez

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Hi Graham, not at all - and thank you. Be great if it gets some traction, I do find it so interesting. Let's see what happens. Maybe you could kick us off ?

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Graham you got in touch when there was a problem on one of the sites.
I wonder if you could send some more advice or put me in touch with someone because I have lost my like button on last two new blogs sent.

Thanks Nigel

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Appreciate the comment, Graham

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Graham - our young WOLer dk seems to have taken a liking to you....

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My poetry is
the silent killer.

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That was one excellent piece! Deep and steeped with symbolism, impeccable on so many levels! Loved it?
Mae

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see this morning's poem.

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"words are but pictures of our thoughts"
a great line...was it yours?

please increase font so old guys like myself can read it.
I had to squint real hard.

"some of my thoughts
should Not be put into words"---Po Wit

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is it YOU who writes the intros for poem of the week?
if so, I would like to say they are outstanding.
some of the best writing is in those reviews.

If you are not writing them,
shame on you!

?

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can't believe the great Graham Sherwood would read my poem.
thank you so much. I consider it an honor.

by the way, wasn't there a forest named after you?

wink.

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Graham,

Thank you for such constructive criticism which I appreciate enormously. I make no distinction between people of faith and no faith. My problem, for the want of a better word, is not with God, but with the Institution of the Church which is manifestly corrupt and not worthy to represent Christ for whom it should be his representative on earth. For this reason I no longer attend church, yet thankfully this impasse has not damaged my personal faith.

I wrote this poem as someone who has lived for many years abroad. On my return I could make a clear comparison between the country I left to the one I now find. People are being knifed nightly on our city streets, which is an example of violence. Second the appearance of hampers in Supermarkets inviting customers to donate food to the local food bank. This was unheard of. Yet the Government proudly declare that we are the sixth strongest economy on the planet. My last example, as an ex serviceman, is to see fellow ex service men living rough on the street, sleeping in shop door ways with mental health issues. Something is seriously wrong here.

My perspective is therefore somewhat different to most people who have witnessed these gradual changes.

I don´t write out of a sense of judgement but out of indignation, not as a Christian but as a fellow human being. The Church can go and hang. Recently my local parish church put out an appeal for 10,000 quid for the restoration of its bell tower, but what about Private James Bladdon down the road sleeping rough with a bottle of vodka concealed in a brown paper bag.?

My poetry often focuses on social and moral issues. I endeavour not to offend rather to highlight the plight of the less fortunate.

Thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my article. This I do appreciate.

Kindest of Regards
Keith

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Graham, what's happened to all of your poems mate?


we're glad to see you back on!

cheers!


P&S XX

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Welcome back Graham. Without even posting anything you have increased Wol's quality.

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