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Lisa C Bassignani

Sat 8th Jun 2019 22:01

The ennuied and patient will win in the end

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Mae Foreman

Sat 8th Jun 2019 20:50

I like the way you think dear Jon! Fuck it indeed!
You take care too my friend ?
Mae

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Jon Stainsby

Sat 8th Jun 2019 20:44

I know how you feel. Is it all pointless? In some ways yes, but it's all we've got so fuck it. Just do it.

Take care,

Jon ?

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Mae Foreman

Sat 8th Jun 2019 20:24

I've written quite a few pieces lately and I could have posted another half dozen more. I had them ready to be posted but I didn't go through with it because it all felt pointless. I confess myself bored and frustrated...So I guess that's my issue. That right there... Thank you dear Jon ?
Mae

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Jon Stainsby

Sat 8th Jun 2019 20:18

Yes!!

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Sat 8th Jun 2019 18:05

Far away places with strange sounding names. It's all become a bit one-upmanship as folk are vying to out-do each other. When they get there they lie around the pool as it's not safe to go outside the complex. Sounds like a hollow victory...still if that's what turns them on.

Comment is about TRAVEL (blog)

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afishamongmany

Sat 8th Jun 2019 16:33

Sort of George McDonald meets Wilbur Smith?

Comment is about The Princess and the Frog (blog)

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afishamongmany

Sat 8th Jun 2019 15:36

Hello Trevor - Thanks for your encouragement. ><>

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 8th Jun 2019 15:31

Glad you posted this recall of a "transience towards delight". It held
my attention to the very last - easily! Well done you - then and now!!

Comment is about I Hope There Is A Heaven For That Pretty Pink Dress (blog)

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 8th Jun 2019 15:15

I like this - both style and content.
On the subject of the ageing process the moral is clear -
If your "get up and go" got up and went,
Relax - and consider the cost well spent.

Comment is about Letting Things Go (blog)

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mona s

Sat 8th Jun 2019 15:05

Loved this.. ?

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Martin Peacock

Sat 8th Jun 2019 14:55

This is a good poem, Josie. There's a maturity to it which belies your tyro status. Nicely.

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Lisa C Bassignani

Sat 8th Jun 2019 13:08

So do I

Comment is about what you do (blog)

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sat 8th Jun 2019 13:00

This is what it is, and had to be written. Whether it had to be shared is another thing altogether.

Thank you to anyone who actually reads through the whole thing. There have been long poems by other writers too; I'm not the only one. I know I'm taking a huge risk sharing on this site. Times have changed, and long poems are not in style anymore.

Comment is about I Hope There Is A Heaven For That Pretty Pink Dress (blog)

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Chris Armstrong

Sat 8th Jun 2019 12:39

Hi 'Fish'
Mariamne was the much loved daughter of the family who died in her 20s - her father had a statue commissioned in the church but a subsequent fire damaged it badly. She was a keen botanist and there is a garden in the Hafod Uchtryd estate which used to be called Mariamne's Garden, but the web site now has it as Mrs Johnnes' Garden. Hafod means 'summer place'. Thanks for your comment.
C

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Don Matthews

Sat 8th Jun 2019 11:11

I'm geared up to type me a poem
When you come along say go rest bones
Sittin' and thinkin' is better ?
This won't produce my poetry tome

What else do you advise for an oldie?
Let's see, I go limp?, deteriorate?
My energy's spent, my ambition's all went
I'll lie on my couch, wait my fate

(With glass of wine and winter woolie sox....) ?

Seriously, I thought your last two lines were good. Forgive my plaigarism.


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d.knape

Sat 8th Jun 2019 10:31

really written by O.L. Buzzerd
fellow artist & poet.

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Mae Foreman

Sat 8th Jun 2019 10:24

Dear Jason, you have a brilliant mind! Insight too! Everything you said is exactly what I felt when I wrote that piece.
Thank you my friend ?
Mae

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Don Matthews

Sat 8th Jun 2019 08:13

I thought this would be
About sweet Princess
Then looked at the bottom
Oh what bloody mess...?

Comment is about The Princess and the Frog (blog)

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<Deleted User> (21818)

Sat 8th Jun 2019 01:47

Make each day count! Well said Don?

Comment is about The Poet's Grave (blog)

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John Marks

Sat 8th Jun 2019 01:01

Makes more sense doesn't it Brian? Especially if you were in London in the 60s. Even in Portobello sprouts beat lemons hands down. But I don't know if it's possible to make a mistake in a poem. 'Appen tis, 'appen t'aint. Anyroadup, thanks for noticing. J

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Don Matthews

Sat 8th Jun 2019 00:25

Men we thought were good men
Were slavers through and through
They lived on slaving money
They thought they were good too

Comment is about Sir Frances Drake (blog)

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Don Matthews

Sat 8th Jun 2019 00:17

Oh so good Samantha

Comment is about Clarity (blog)

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Jason Bayliss

Fri 7th Jun 2019 23:42

Beautifully and skillfully written.

J. x

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Jason Bayliss

Fri 7th Jun 2019 23:36

It's almost a question asked of the mirror.

If someone performed it on a stage I'd have them with their back to the audience but talking to themself in a full length mirror.
So the audience watched them talk to themself while their mirror image talked to the audience in the dark.

J. x

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d.knape

Fri 7th Jun 2019 23:10

What is s stew
but just some mush
throw in the towel
and other stuff
quite frankly It's
a sloppy bust
I'll stick to steak
in steak I trust!

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Martin Peacock

Fri 7th Jun 2019 22:49

That just about sums it up, Don,
you've said in rhyme what I'm thinking;
the world's fucked, for what's not sinking
is burning, and will soon be gone

to hell in a tumbril, or worse.
If you have kids, apologise -
tell them what we did wasn't wise,
or generous, tell them the curse

of their short lives was our damned fault.
Tell them 'sorry' isn't enough,
that their survival will be tough,
that it's too late all this to halt.

Comment is about Leave Or Remain, It's All The Same (blog)

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chris stevenson

Fri 7th Jun 2019 21:40

Hello , thanks for the comment ... watery feel to your bio' .. were
you at sea ? ...

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Stu Buck

Fri 7th Jun 2019 21:23

thanks everyone. glad you liked it.

Comment is about perfect grass poem (blog)

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Fri 7th Jun 2019 20:25

Don
Hospital has made you very serious - -

Dorothy

Comment is about The Poet's Grave (blog)

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Mae Foreman

Fri 7th Jun 2019 19:59

This is poetry. Exactly this.?
Thank you Stu?
Mar

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raypool

Fri 7th Jun 2019 19:30

uniquely meaningful Stu. A glorious twister of thoughts like a Dahli painting.

Ray

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<Deleted User> (18980)

Fri 7th Jun 2019 16:56

Eve...that Drake can't decide whether he's male or female!

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Deb McFarlane

Fri 7th Jun 2019 13:52

Read this poem in the book called QUILT by Cindy Lee Loucks.
A very raw, honest book that follows her first book called SICK.
Would strongly recommend both books.
A true crime must for reading buffs!!!!

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afishamongmany

Fri 7th Jun 2019 11:43

Beautifully done Ian; Thanks ><>

Comment is about Old Men's Tears (blog)

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Don Matthews

Fri 7th Jun 2019 10:23

Clever Lisa

Comment is about What Do You Know? (blog)

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Don Matthews

Fri 7th Jun 2019 10:21

I like this

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Don Matthews

Fri 7th Jun 2019 10:18

Richie it's come down to I want
And bugger you all, and you earth
I don't give a hoot what I'm leaving
The children, the shit that it's worth

So sad....

Comment is about Leave Or Remain, It's All The Same (blog)

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Don Matthews

Fri 7th Jun 2019 10:10

But hey? dk, this is called progress
We're not meant to look at the view
We're now meant to speed along A, straight to B
And not dawdle, cause traffic stew ?

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elPintor

Fri 7th Jun 2019 09:29

thanks, all, for your responses.

The song included with the post is a good part of what inspired it. As for the better part of it, I still can't speak the words--it has little to nothing to do with physics...

To someone who has a knack for making me laugh but who'll probably never read this, you never seemed to fail at putting the over-adulated in their place, "..it's not rocket science, Einstein"--another one of those things I wish I would've said ;

A good coming week to all,

Rachel

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Graham Sherwood

Fri 7th Jun 2019 08:52

The last two lines as often are the killer words.

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Jason Bayliss

Fri 7th Jun 2019 07:08

Thanks Martin, it's much appreciated. It's one of those subjects that I think we'll all be talking about before long, because we'll be trying to live through it.

J.?

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Don Matthews

Fri 7th Jun 2019 00:44

Thankyou to all you commenters and likers. There's always the battle between writing for myself on the one hand and wanting accolades from others. I have to convince myself if others like it fine, if not, still fine. Not easy. The need for praise is inborn.

Jason. I think exactly like you. Write for yourself. It's inborn. It keeps poets going.

Comment is about Nothing Deep and Thoughtful Here (blog)

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raypool

Thu 6th Jun 2019 23:21

An impressive take on the motivation of the poetic leaps of faith that seem to exclude romanticism - scouring the streets and the urban legends that reveal the underbelly of our times. Very powerful and clever poem Trevor I must say.
The gritty rhyming style punches away and has some wonderful twists and turns ending in a climactic last verse.
I hope you are proud of this - I would be.

Ray

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Jason Bayliss

Thu 6th Jun 2019 21:52

And never ever be forgotten. Brilliant.

J.

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Jason Bayliss

Thu 6th Jun 2019 21:44

Always best to write for yourself, I do. If people like it that's a really nice thing, but I always think, "I need to like it first."

J.

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Martin Elder

Thu 6th Jun 2019 21:42

Those invisible bars can seem so real at the time. But worth breaking out of.
Nice one

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Martin Elder

Thu 6th Jun 2019 21:39

Beautifully put Jennifer

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Martin Elder

Thu 6th Jun 2019 21:35

This almost sounds like a piece of scripture in its own right if no other reason for the way it has been so beautifully written.
Thanks for posting Keith

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Jason Bayliss

Thu 6th Jun 2019 21:35

"Critical mass fast burn to mars
this heavy fuel burns fast too fast
to get me back up to the stars."

I really like this and love the rhythm of it, especially this on a perfect 8 beat.

J. x

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