cheers Sal - and thanks for the great review - I genuinely do write everything as poems first - and then take a big pile of paper into the studio and think 'what the fuck am I going to do with this'
Ian
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<Deleted User> (9882)
Sun 14th Oct 2018 10:52
not only am I a sharer Don but chuffed to fuck that I am!
keep chilled dude.
Rose ?
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
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<Deleted User> (9882)
Sun 14th Oct 2018 10:49
wowsers Keith! top shelf material man!
Rose ?
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
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Thank you all for your interesting and thought provoking comments. What I write in this poem has everyone´s agreement but also that we offer no solutions. It is indeed a dilema. The present situation is exacerbated by a society, yea a world where the gap between the wealthy and the poor widens by the day. Power, the ability to challenge this can only come from a moral impetus which affects the lives of all. Poets such as we, can be voices of dissent, prophecy and to enlighten but it must be a ground swell movement to bring about real change.
The one guiding moral force was the Church but this institution has discredited itself in so many ways as to become a part of the problem. Common humanity through education is the only hope for us to redeem ourselves before the knell of doom strikes.
Thank you all again,
Keith
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As wordsmiths our work is lifelong. A true labour of love. T ?
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
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Try not to regret. You are who you are, and that is wonderful.
Look after yourself,
Jon
Comment is about red sun (blog)
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Sun 14th Oct 2018 09:05
Guess the man who did look in this mirror
To claim he was old and was fat
Did well to perceive it was a mirror
That his eyesight, not wife, told him that ?
Comment is about A visual boost (blog)
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I haven't thought about this comment, but only to ask the question who doesn't share my problem? Poets who aren't serious? Wannabe poets? Those who have the ability to filter and limit what they write about? Those who choose one topic and fine-tune it over time to poet laureate standard?
All I know is I'm driven to write. One could call it an obsession. I call it an addiction. Better this than ice.... ?
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
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Beautiful poem Peter as the wind has been scattering leaves here for a few days now, very apt..Taylor ?
Comment is about THOUGHTS OF AUTUMN (audio version) (blog)
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Excellent poem Don..I share your problem..?
Comment is about Do You Share My Problem ? (blog)
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Good morning from the Emerald Isles Don thanks for the comments on We..have a great day..Taylor ?
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Big Sal
Sun 14th Oct 2018 04:30
Memories make quite a first impression.?
Comment is about Golden Days Gone-By (blog)
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Big Sal
Sun 14th Oct 2018 04:28
If the butterfly effect is anything to go by, even the smallest speck of pollen can cause a massive change of events or effects.
You may not see yourself as up-to-par in your writings, but they are nothing to doubt. Especially in an age of so much uncertainty, infantile aggression, and micromanaged art forms - believe in yourself and your writings.
You write extremely well, and it is a pleasure to be able to see up close the way your writing and progress unfolds. Oblivion take us, but by God never fear the dark.
Take care.?
Comment is about red sun (blog)
Original item by nunya
Thanks Anya and Sal!
Big Sal, I echo your thoughts of being aloud about taboos and stigmas, using whatever “peaceful” medium. All we can do to help prevent such unfortunate happening is spread awareness, though I am afraid that might not be enough.
Thanks again,
Taps
Comment is about Woman incomplete (blog)
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elPintor
Sun 14th Oct 2018 02:42
I know I may regret this later...
I fully realize that the quality of my postings are not always, as they say, "up to par". And, I'll admit that my will to post at all flags according to my confidence in what I write. However, ultimately, I choose to see this forum as a means of becoming not-so-disappeared in a world that would otherwise have us all remain anonymous to function as faceless cogs.
My place is infinitesimally small in the scheme of things, but (at least for now) I choose to magnify and reach out in this meager manner--it is as much as I can do to move however slightly against the forces that bind us.
Fighting oblivion (if only for a while),
Rachel
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I echo Big Sal's comment Becky. Your brutal honesty was appreciated. So well put together and presented ?
Comment is about My Wedding Day (blog)
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I've finally worked it out Taylor. The shape is you and lover drunk on wine, entwined. Very clever. ?
Comment is about We (blog)
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I'm with Ray on this Keith. As much as we don't like the way things are going it will take mass people movements to have any effect. Society has become too greedy and lacking in empathy. We can write poems (which fellow poets will appreciate, yes) till the cows come home but it won't make a scrap of difference. Sadly.
On the other hand, poetry provides an individuals way of 'getting it out' and expressing themselves. Even if we end up being voices in the wilderness.....
I feel the same way as you Keith. Your poem expresses it well ?
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Has all the ingredients of a clever, well-thought-out fun haiku..?
Comment is about Joy of Aging (blog)
Original item by Jezer Ureña
Thank you Keith and thank you Jacob. I am fascinated by the fourth dimension, time; man is not made to live in the continuous present but past, present and future mingle always to catch him unawares, in a different time and place. This is illustrated most poignantly, for me, in the Cornish poet Charles Causley's haunting poem 'Eden Rock':
They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock:
My father, twenty-five, in the same suit
Of Genuine Irish Tweed, his terrier Jack
Still two years old and trembling at his feet.
My mother, twenty-three, in a sprigged dress
Drawn at the waist, ribbon in her straw hat,
Has spread the stiff white cloth over the grass.
Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light.
She pours tea from a Thermos, the milk straight
From an old H.P. sauce-bottle, a screw
Of paper for a cork; slowly sets out
The same three plates, the tin cups painted blue.
The sky whitens as if lit by three suns.
My mother shades her eyes and looks my way
Over the drifted stream. My father spins
A stone along the water. Leisurely,
They beckon to me from the other bank.
I hear them call, ‘See where the stream-path is!
Crossing is not as hard as you might think.’
I had not thought that it would be like this.
Comment is about Poem for an anonymous Moorish Poet on the defeat at Seville November 1248 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Sadly Keith all we can really do is our own thing whatever that may be, and that's all anyone really does in truth. If we want to be saviours of the world we need to have a guiding light. Some have that, like yourself, many don't. There is fire and brimstone in your poem, and is a genuine plea, well done.
I feel perdition is an old testament kind of word and not really helpful in normal parlance, but it adds weight to the poem undoubtedly.
Ray with respect.
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
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Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 22:06
Looks like a great book.
Comment is about The Other Guernica: Derek Sellen, Cultured Llama (article)
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Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 22:01
You have to love yourself before you can love others correctly. Good piece.?
Comment is about Me Not Me (blog)
Original item by Joanna Halliday
The instant I read this I was overcome with sadness.
Good poem
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Star crossed (blog)
Original item by Rosie Priest
Sat 13th Oct 2018 21:28
we have and still, have the same audacious kind of visitor in
our house. In fact, he has been here for so long we have given him or her? the adopting name of Freddy. But since I'm not up about fly gender and it is a she, we may have to use the name Freda haha. Thank you. Jemima.
Comment is about The Fly Who Came In From The Cold (blog)
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Sat 13th Oct 2018 21:19
and while we tarry time is passing. A great poem Keith. Thank you. Jemima.
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
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Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 19:58
Good to see you going strong with the music, and keeping up the vibe!
I always thought that was great how you transitioned the poems over to song format.
Comment is about Ian Whiteley (poet profile)
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A very clever and well written poem which begs the unanswerable.
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about "WE" and.. (blog)
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Superb.Read again and again. Thanks for sharing.
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
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Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 17:24
Great piece Keith, and the last three lines end it well.?
Comment is about Too Late (blog)
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Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 17:21
What about the flies that don't fly at all, you know, the ones that walk carefree across the surface of the table like their wings don't work?
What's up with that??
Comment is about The Fly Who Came In From The Cold (blog)
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Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 17:08
Very well done with the topic. You carried it well, and the brutal honesty must be appreciated.
Great pic by the way, you two look like the happiest of couples.???
(I had to copy Anya's style of comment a bit for this)
Comment is about My Wedding Day (blog)
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Big Sal
Sat 13th Oct 2018 16:46
❤
Taboos need to be written about more often to help in removing the surrounding stigma associated with them. Whether returning soldier, struggling mother, or homeless beggar - the problems are often not known by a huge portion of the population as the problems are often glamorized or downplayed.
Great piece filled with excellent emotion, and a familiar story of suicide I'm sure for too many. ?
Comment is about Woman incomplete (blog)
Original item by TROY
An entertaining piece but a bloody irritant when one arrives uninvited.
Thanks for this
Keith
Comment is about The Fly Who Came In From The Cold (blog)
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Emotionally charged take care Damon..?
Comment is about The Starry Night (blog)
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Thanks guys.
Don't know if I can stand up to pun-ishment like that Rose!
Comment is about Where’s The Chuffin’ Cheese (blog)
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Having the sane problem her D.K. excellent...?
Comment is about The Fly Who Came In From The Cold (blog)
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Thank you for reading We Hugh..always appreciated...Taylor ?
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Thank you for commenting on We Avishek....?
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Thank you for commenting on We Trevor much appreciated.. Taylor ?
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d.knape
Sun 14th Oct 2018 11:38
Flies
with personality
end up dead
eventually!
wink.
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