This is an atmospheric piece John. I think the canine network/nokia reference is very clever and the thought of fending them off with a guitar case inspired. Well worth POTW.
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Cheers Brian.
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Couldn't agree more! Have been inspired to start writing Hughkus!! Keep uo the good work!
Jennifer
Comment is about Keep feeling young singing a song. (blog)
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Lovely! Je desire beaucoup the meme thing| Merci!
Jennifer
Comment is about A Cup Of Franglais (blog)
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You know, I hadn't thought of that at all! Thank You guys! Even though that wasn't quite what I had in mind I think it deserves to go in the title!?
Comment is about The Sunday Blues (blog)
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Mon 5th Nov 2018 09:47
Congratulations John
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John,
Having visited the city many years ago your poem took me straight back there. I found it difficult to understand that a place so historically rich in culture, the arts and commerce could have fallen into a morass of humanity whose past it was difficult to find.
Well done on POTW. Well deserved and thank you for such an excellent contribution.
Keith
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<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 5th Nov 2018 08:43
A tragic story beautifully told.
Hannah
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<Deleted User> (18118)
Mon 5th Nov 2018 08:38
Incredibly creative.
All the elements of horror are there but in a poetic setting.
Hannah
Comment is about THE HOUSE OF USHER (blog)
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Mon 5th Nov 2018 08:36
The terrible things people do to one another instead of living in peace and cooperation.
Very well stated Ray.
Hannah
Comment is about DREAMS AND LIES (blog)
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Mon 5th Nov 2018 08:30
Jon, Taylor, MC., Martin and Hannah,
Thank you all indeed for your kind and constructive comments. As always they are much appreciated. Martin, you are right in that I am on a roll. More are in the pipe line. I think it must be the time of year.
Keith
Comment is about Dispossessed (blog)
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Big Sal, Taylor and Jon,
Thank you all for your kind and helpful comments. They are always much appreciated.
Keith
Comment is about Can the Vice be Broken (blog)
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This event, this obscure, this oddity
Which fell before your eye
To end up in your poem here's
Now in my poetri ?
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Big Sal
Sun 4th Nov 2018 22:53
Funny stuff.?
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Big Sal
Sun 4th Nov 2018 22:45
I find your poetry has a solemn yet subliminal sense of an artist's humility, as well as the voice of a teacher and a student.
Keep that voice going strong, it can carry the best of us when wings couldn't. This poem has that same aura around it, and it shines brightly.
Well done on this, and your style in general. It is infectious, in a good way.?
Comment is about Can the Vice be Broken (blog)
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Big Sal
Sun 4th Nov 2018 22:40
Keith and Garfield are right, Mae, Mondays do suck.?
I always like when a rhyme can be carried each line, and not just two out of four, so nicely done.?
Comment is about The Sunday Blues (blog)
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Mae,
Do I detect the Monday morning blues?
Keith
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Thanks for looking in, Martin; I'm glad you got the flavour.
Ray
Comment is about THE HOUSE OF USHER (blog)
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...in pursuance of the long conversation with William Carlos Williams
Comment is about untitled (blog)
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Rightly observed Mark - a comedy classic. Cheers.
Comment is about THE HOLY GHOST (blog)
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Sun 4th Nov 2018 21:17
This is my day job - the jam is blueberry, it matters!
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Shopping centres, or as we call them now, malls, are my nemesis
Comment is about Sensory Intensity (blog)
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Thank you so much everyone. Hope you can all find some peace. I myself am a mass of contradictions as you may know if you’ve come across my music ?
And I think it’s probably true that a lot of writers are highly sensitive. That’s our super power I think.
Raypool thank you that’s an awesome compliment.
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Some very difficult questions. For all the progress made we have not travelled very far on the road to peace.
Great poem..?
Comment is about Can the Vice be Broken (blog)
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Great questions. I really wonder how things will go. I try to stay positive.
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Sun 4th Nov 2018 19:58
Love this poem.
The season of parties and tantrums and gathering in together.
Hannah
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Sun 4th Nov 2018 19:53
Learning more about WW1, the statistics are beyond belief. So many thousands died.
When summer ends we look inwards and look back.
Stunning poem.
Hannah
Comment is about Not in our Name (blog)
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Sun 4th Nov 2018 19:50
Very powerful poem Keith.
Written with great skill.
There to make us think about what's going on.
Hannah
Comment is about Dispossessed (blog)
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Wow, awesome poem! Still reading it over and over.
I especially liked the lines
Far away, beyond altitude.
And
Fast past the sun's rays.
Comment is about Can You Hear My Cry (blog)
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excellent piece of writing.
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Big Sal
Sun 4th Nov 2018 17:53
Beautiful message and way to end the poem.?
Comment is about Embrace (blog)
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Ray,
The final stanza says it all. Thank you
Keith
Comment is about DREAMS AND LIES (blog)
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Great!! Wonderful, powerful words.
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Sun 4th Nov 2018 16:30
I've been that sullen man once or twice Jon.
Comment is about Embrace (blog)
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Apparently there is an experimental manmade cave which is designed to remove any noise at all, in which people have claimed to hear inner body sounds. Can you imagine? No need to go that far, but up a mountain is a good place, where a sense of holiness can survive. This is a rip roaring poem in desperation. Nicely expressed.
You're right about super lighting, pretty horrendous. Martin has it right too about sensitives.
Ray
Comment is about Sensory Intensity (blog)
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The causes of the commencement of warfare rarely change.
Greed, envy, religious differences, a need to dominate and
fear of various things, such as losing control and influence.
These will see a response, depending on their perceived
threat, short or long term and are common throughout
the world. Every generation must deal with them if global
history is any guide, up to and including the present. It may be a source of condemnation and regret but it remains
a worldwide reality without irrevocable resolution. That is
its true tragedy and the cross humanity has to bear for some unexplained "blueprint" reason in our genetic make-up.
Comment is about Not in our Name (blog)
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The need to "clean up our act" should always be recognised
and worth a reminder now and then....like this poem!
There is, however, the corresponding fact
That we have the insight to know and act
To meet the dangers and see them gone
As Mankind and Progress marches on.
Comment is about Humans: the race that plagues the Earth (blog)
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The concentration of common phrases to describe a "loose cannon" (as distinct from the religious spelling!) is to be
admired. Prince Charles for one would surely enjoy this!
Comment is about One sandwich short (blog)
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Sun 4th Nov 2018 15:17
This is really impressive.
So many words and sayings to put a person down.
Yet he is human and worthy too.
Hannah
Comment is about One sandwich short (blog)
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beautifully described as ever Ray
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Big Sal
Mon 5th Nov 2018 14:45
I could tell by reading the title that this was gonna be one of your best ones.
I was right.
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