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Hasmukh Mehta

Fri 2nd Nov 2018 01:36

David Chukwudi NjokuDavid and 47 others are consistently creating meaningful discussions with their posts. Great piece dear friend
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d.knape

Thu 1st Nov 2018 23:05

this is so good.

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d.knape

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:57

funny.
no phone
no future
give me 2 cans
and a string.

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:44

More inventive (Fagin-orientated) fun from this source.
I remember pubs back in my working life where you could
find someone like "John The Hat"(nudge..nudge/wink..wink)
- now overtaken by what can be found cheaply on the 'net.

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keith jeffries

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:35

MC.,

Thank you for this. War is no more than a series of catastrophies which result in a victory. Such sacrifice. Such loss. Yet we fail to learn from the tragic message left on this piece of parchment. My God grant them eternal peace in a far better place.

Lest we forget.

Thank you for this.
Keith

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:35

The words, redolent of resisting the enemy, seen or unseen,
remind me of the Community Song Books of my youth:
a touch of the "Onward Christian (substitute 'Chemical')
Soldiers..." perhaps.

Comment is about Chemotherapy (blog)

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Big Sal

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:30

Always something theatrical going on in poetry news.

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raypool

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:14

Big Sal, I appreciate your interest in my stuff, so different from your own. Vive la variety.

Cheers Jon, thanks for reading.

and Anya, for the tick.


Ray

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Candice Reineke

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:10

Raw truth. Really good, Sarah.

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raypool

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:09

Hi Mark, I doth tremble at the prospect! Thanks for reading.

Glad it worked for you Taylor , thanks!

Thanks Hannah, appreciate your comment.

Brian, you have the answer there, unless of course God is invisible as claimed. Of course invisible doesn't necessarily mean non - existent, except in an existentialist sense. Know wha' I mean?

Cheers David. Glad you enjoyed this. The word ineffable just seemed to fit the essence, and now I have looked it up I see what you mean. There are many grandiloquent words attached to the mysteries, how would it be otherwise. I loved the clip - so right. Barbed and brimming with truth.

Tom, Big Sal, Jon and Anya, I'm grateful as always for your interest.
Thanks folks all. Ray

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Don Matthews

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:07

In the waiting room I sits
Magazines give me the shits
Why? Cos they are out of date
12 months old way way too late

As for the telly what is on?
Footy, while you're waiting Don
Shit! again, no interest
Footy is to me a pest

Phone's antique, no screen, 3G
Not for watching life you see
So in the waiting room I sits
Watching all, 5G get it ?

Really liked this dk. We've let phones control us. That's why I have an antique one

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Candice Reineke

Thu 1st Nov 2018 22:02

Cynthia, I’m rooting for those chemo soldiers! I’m rooting for you. Thanks for sharing. ? #cancersucks

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Taylor Crowshaw

Thu 1st Nov 2018 21:01

Absolutely accurate and eloquently stated..?

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Jon Stainsby

Thu 1st Nov 2018 20:27

Really great, Keith. So true.

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Jon Stainsby

Thu 1st Nov 2018 20:25

Beautifully melancholy.

Comment is about It Was Almost Love (blog)

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Big Sal

Thu 1st Nov 2018 19:51

Like meditating beside a pond with nothing but nostalgia and the wind in the trees to keep company.

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keith jeffries

Thu 1st Nov 2018 19:41

Taylor, Don and MC.,

Thank you for your comments. Every word is true and as MC says I am smitten.

Keith

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keith jeffries

Thu 1st Nov 2018 19:39

Hannah, Rose and MC.,

Thank you for your comments as they are always much appreciated.

Keith

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keith jeffries

Thu 1st Nov 2018 18:04

Cyntha,

An interesting subject for a poem but as for who is singing I can only make a few assumptions. You are in the Battlefield and the soldiers are being exhorted to march to war. Are you the lead singer? With a cohort in support as a vocal group.

Thank you for this conundrum

Keith

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Julian (Admin)

Thu 1st Nov 2018 17:43

Weronika Lewandowska (bottom left), Bohdan Piasecki (bottom right), Mark Pajak (centre), Paweł Łyżwiński (top left) and Michał Sobol (top right) pictured at the opening of Radość Pisania Polish Poetry Festival, Manchester 30th and 31st October, 2018. Photo Julian Jordon. See review: https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=83543.

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Taylor Crowshaw

Thu 1st Nov 2018 17:41

Love it Becky

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Taylor Crowshaw

Thu 1st Nov 2018 17:39

Gave me a laugh thank you for that Don..?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Thu 1st Nov 2018 17:34

Here I am tip tapping my comment......on my phone...?

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Taylor Crowshaw

Thu 1st Nov 2018 17:33

Beautiful..Thank you for sharing..x

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Taylor Crowshaw

Thu 1st Nov 2018 17:32

Definitely those chemo soldiers....

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Taylor Crowshaw

Thu 1st Nov 2018 17:26

Wonderful Avishek..x

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 1st Nov 2018 16:19

Becky - seen, thank you. I'm one who remembers European
travel when the EU in this current political format was still
a well-kept secret. As for Ireland- still going its own way
and impeding ours!

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 1st Nov 2018 16:02

Those of us of a certain vintage well remember learning these hand signals - and, indeed, can still put them to use when the electronics break down. The "slowing down"
hand signal still has a use when the brake lights give up! Also - there is no
electronic substitute for the "wave on"
to those behind when your car breaks down without warning.

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 1st Nov 2018 15:49

Thanks for the link that you put on the "Royal Mint" blog.
It seems to me personally a case of "IF the spirit is willing..." for a successful outcome.
MC

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Thu 1st Nov 2018 13:08

Knapey...managed to read this on my phone when I had a down moment (hoist by your own petard!)

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d.knape

Thu 1st Nov 2018 13:03

A Phone Of Our Own.

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Big Sal

Thu 1st Nov 2018 11:35

If finding the correct rhyme is like hunting something - then call me Simo Hayha. . .?

This piece reminded me of one of Diogenes's quotes. A smart ass man at a time when I'm sure sarcasm was in meager supply. You'll have to look him up if you get a chance. He once had a legendary encounter with the almost-mythical Alexander the Great, and is one of my many olden influences.?

"Safe when we burrow in the field in the autumn,

Straight as an arrow with the steel at the bottom."

_____
You have a good day, Becky, and keep making Diogenes proud.

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Big Sal

Thu 1st Nov 2018 11:22

Raw emotion + film-like quality of expression = Taylor's poem.

"and cough to hide it" - so relatable that it carries humility like a torch. Well done.

I feel you though, Taylor, from first-hand experience and even on a bad day the sun shines brightly.?

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John Coopey

Thu 1st Nov 2018 10:57

Thanks, Brian. He’s more Arthur Daly than Al Capone.

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Don Matthews

Thu 1st Nov 2018 10:30

Well done Taylor ?

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Thu 1st Nov 2018 10:18

Good stuff John. On reading I imagined an Indian or Geordie accent, but your audio helped as you say.

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Hugh

Thu 1st Nov 2018 09:53

Thanks Don that video signalled a laugh.

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Randy Horton

Thu 1st Nov 2018 09:52

Thanks for the kind words. Penumbral is a wonderful word that I most assuredly use too often.

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Hugh

Thu 1st Nov 2018 09:46

A great poem re the worry of a loving mother re the walk of innocence on the dangerous path of a young loved one's life.Well done .

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Thu 1st Nov 2018 09:01

Don, don't get yourself in a flap about it!

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Don Matthews

Thu 1st Nov 2018 08:54

Like it Becky.

In the gymnasium of language, access to nearly all is free
And we can drink at the fount of others for nowt or minimal fee

Clever ?

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Jon Stainsby

Thu 1st Nov 2018 08:20

Magical, Taylor.

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Don Matthews

Thu 1st Nov 2018 08:05

Brian says he also waved to motorists
Who put their arms out when turning round
He says he just he wanted to make people happy
Which to me this idea sounds quite sound

Although drivers no longer hang their arms out
Our Brian can be seen still waving madly
At blinkers which go left and go right all the time
(He says he's still makin' people happy......) ?

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Jon Stainsby

Thu 1st Nov 2018 07:32

Still like this ?

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Becky Who

Thu 1st Nov 2018 07:16

Hi Brian, thanks for the tip, will do! Should I then delete this version, or leave it? What do you mean "archived" - is it an end-of-month thing? Is there a "good" time to post? (I know I have a tendancy to post late at night, at least my time. I've fallen foul of Facebook like that too).

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Jon Stainsby

Thu 1st Nov 2018 06:48

I really enjoyed this, Steve.

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Jon Stainsby

Thu 1st Nov 2018 06:42

Love this, Becky.

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Jon Stainsby

Thu 1st Nov 2018 06:38

Great, Ray

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Novae Litterature

Thu 1st Nov 2018 06:21

I agree with the first observation. Thank you. Poppy flowers are associated with the cemeteries of soldiers fallen in wars. After a millennium, mankind did not understand anything and people talk through bullets.

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Novae Litterature

Thu 1st Nov 2018 06:06

Thanks a lot for reading and appreciation. We must leave a degree of freedom to the reader

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