Thank you, Stu. I wonder if the pressure not to cause offence, day after day in a place which isn't home, isn't close to unbearable...
cheers
Steve
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Lynn Hamilton
Tue 22nd Dec 2015 08:40
The chosen ones, unfortunately, don't get a choice.
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Thanks, Tommy. I wanted to convey the relentless paring away – of so many of the things we take for granted – which takes place when you find you have to abandon your home. I'm glad it worked for you.
cheers
Steve
Comment is about How to get everything you ever wanted (blog)
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Coming home from Anfield in the old days I used to stand at the crest of Netherfield road and gaze at the broad blanket of dense coal-fire fog under which the city before me was buried.
At least the gas-fire and car-exhaust fumes which are (cough, cough) killing me today are invisible.
One of the falsely securitised.
Comment is about ON THE LAST DEEP COAL MINE CLOSING (blog)
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great last verse. the capitalisation give it a picket line, signs in the air chanting nature.
CHEFS OF ENTERPRISE
im assuming this is suppose to be chiefs? i'm all for a bit of festive pedantry...
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this is great. it has real momentum (sadly quite cyclical) and number 7. showed me something i had never really thought about before but that must be very difficult.
Comment is about How to get everything you ever wanted (blog)
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...and so it goes. An almost wearisome feel to this. Worthy of the time you took Steve.
Comment is about How to get everything you ever wanted (blog)
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Thanks, Daniel. (not sure why I only just found your comment, but I'm glad you liked the poem). All the best for the festive season!
Comment is about steve pottinger (poet profile)
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Have a cracking Xmas yourself, Julian. Thanks to you and your team for all your hard work!
Comment is about Looking back and looking forward: wishing you all a fulfilling and creative new year (article)
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Garden! Let's indoors and partake in a hot cuppa. :-)
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Title:STAND FOR YOURSELF OR BECOME UNEMPLOYED TILL DEATH People defile you. They say you are of no use They never stop vilfying you. They say you are much me a burden. You do good, They never appreciate. You do good , They take you as a fool. You try not to be a burden They harden it. Are they vacuous? I fondly ask, hell no!the answer came to my mind. Only the power of greed rule their life. Their gratuity don't allow them to share with you.oh...no...not only because they want more. But because they see potential, They see much of a success in you. And seeing your success -will remind them of their laziness. Stand for yourself because they are not happy for your success written by:jan lehutjo date of birth:1998-04-19
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Thanks Shirley - yes, I think the same. Astonishingly great!
Comment is about Love is a Battlefield: Louise Fazackerley, Nymphs & Thugs (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Well done - and a great poem that :)
Comment is about Poetry student Shirley-Anne Kennedy gets off to flying start (article)
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Ha Ray - thank you :) And yeh, it has been a bit too warm hasn't it?
Hehe Harry :D
Comment is about Nativity ‘73 (a re-post) (blog)
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Cheers Martin re 'Radstock road', spot on. Tommy
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nicole dalene
Sun 20th Dec 2015 19:23
Such truth, trumps hope at times...
Comment is about All good things must come to an end (blog)
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...are you asking me to dance Cynthia? :-)
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Got it in one Harry- hidden something has been found you rascal ;-) Tommy
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Got it in one Harry- hidden something has been found you rascal ;-) Tommy
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Daniel Wardak
Sun 20th Dec 2015 06:54
Thanks both of you. Its lovely to finally get some comments coming in. A good place I would reccommend going to is an open mic poetry night, where people have open minds and accept all kinds of creativity. It builds a HUGE amount of confidence from the get go, especially if you bring a few friends along and make a night out of it. Keep writing Jill, I'm eager to see more from you.
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<Deleted User> (14820)
Sun 20th Dec 2015 06:41
I would love to be brave enough to perform and have my voice heard. Like you, I find writing cathartic as bottling up emotions is always a bad move. Maybe one day I will perform. Your poetry has the strength of sincerity and passion. I enjoyed reading your profile.
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A very fine rendition of the human condition Martin. I recall that photograph, full of frozen motion and horror.
Unfortunately, there is a curiosity in the nature of humans that says - thank God it was not me. I think that is the gut reaction - then to try to civilize the reaction . That is the true horror as I see it. More than that I can't honestly say.
Ray
Comment is about Napalm death (blog)
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Beautifully descriptive Martin. A love affair of a poem. I like the way the poem is not forced, but just flows with its sensitive story.
Ray
Comment is about Church of stone (blog)
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This has such a lovely flow to the words that it's like being in the present of the trees themselves Martin. I had to make a lifestyle choice of who to be with once, and I sat under a big oak to help me make that decision. I believe it was the right one - so thanks again.
Comment is about Trees (blog)
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MC Hammer - keep it real innit, m'man.
Comment is about CHRISTMAS WRAP (blog)
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There was nowhere to run for people suffering the growing pains of our western civilization.
Assad might not quite be the ideal man for the job but with help could be more successful in keeping those reactionary Genies in their bottle till even they see sense?
Casualties in present conflicts are insignificant compared to the millions slaughtered building today's western society. A time when there were no alternative safe havens, let alone cherry picked choices
Humanity will have it's period like all the dominant species, and will inevitably be destroyed by the consequences of mans greed, coupled with the inability to agree about anything at all.
Comment is about QUESTION (blog)
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Cynthia you made my day with your appreciation - a study of warmth and cold basically. Cold hands, warm heart. Thanks so much
Have a good Xmas too!
Comment is about ANTARCTIC CHRISTMAS (blog)
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Now the rivers are flowing once again and the only way to stop the flood is leave the common market perhaps.
Comment is about Hats off to the 60s (blog)
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Thanks John enjoyed last night
I think he was gathering information to use for his speech!
If you can make it Wednesday are we doing the play?
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Safety. And hope. And perhaps a job too.
What would *you* want, MC, if it happened to you?
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Well written Ray well said Brandon. Tommy
Comment is about ON THE LAST DEEP COAL MINE CLOSING (blog)
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Words used to decorate the memory in the best way.
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What mother would not be delighted to receive these
words from the heart?
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What fun...almost worth framing.
If you despair of trying to please those who print, go for self-publication. It costs, but you have the reward of
knowing you have your own conviction of purpose to fall
back on - as well as the product itself waving two fingers
as it were to an unkind and unappreciative publishing world.
Happy Christmas!
Comment is about the anxious poet opens his rejections (blog)
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Reliable as always to give us that most welcome of gifts -
at ANY time - a good laugh, allied to admiration of the
skill this contributor inevitably displays.
Thanks - and a pre-Rap "Cool Yule" to you, JC!
Comment is about CHRISTMAS WRAP (blog)
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This piece was great. Thanks for truth in rhyme. They(wealthy few)are going to need another sleeping pill tonight with your words in the air.
Comment is about ON THE LAST DEEP COAL MINE CLOSING (blog)
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A welcome "paean" of praise to one of nature's great
creations, standing guard over life itself. I agree with
every line of this affirmation of our worldly dependence
on their existence.
Comment is about Trees (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
The passion and presentation deserve the accolades.
For myself, I am intrigued about the "romancing" of an
occupation that has close connections with burying
oneself beyond the light. Surely no man would have
willingly chosen to mine the earth had there been other
means of obtaining a living? Men were not designed to
burrow like moles.
Comment is about Black Christmas (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
If simple safety is the aim
Why play the "Choose Your Country" game?
Comment is about QUESTION (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
That is a great poem in its own right.
Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech was made in 1968, not the 70s:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Rivers-of-Blood-speech.html
Interesting that Powell spent two years in India as a young man yet never saw any contradiction between this and his own political position.
Comment is about Hats off to the 60s (blog)
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I agree with what has already been said regarding this poem . I love the rhythm and flow of it especially with lines like. A bond of men,tighter than brothers,thicker than blood,darker than midnight.
Fabulous stuff Ian
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Yes poetry is a creative art.I was trying my hands on the physical appearance of the poetry.Thank you for the comment!
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Excellent review Laura.
I saw Louise perform 'Love is a Battlefield' earlier this year and was spellbound throughout. I think it is a poetry masterpiece which will become a classic.
Comment is about Love is a Battlefield: Louise Fazackerley, Nymphs & Thugs (article)
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Aww... Thanks Ken :)
See you in 2016 x
Comment is about Poetry student Shirley-Anne Kennedy gets off to flying start (article)
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Delightful, just delightful - the unusual concept, the clear imagery, the soft feeling within the heart upon the final lines with their old-fashioned diction and structure.
Season's Greetings!
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steve pottinger
Tue 22nd Dec 2015 08:48
Thanks, David. I'm glad the poem worked for you. You're right, of course (imho), that we shouldn't forget those who stay to fight. It's not an 'either-or' situation: we can support both those who do, and those who flee.
Should we expect someone who's been a baker or an office worker all their life to 'grow a spine' when faced with a level of violence and destruction most of us can barely imagine? I wish it was that easy.
cheers
Steve
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