Thanks Jeff. Glad you like the piece. I'll have to watch a bit of Grace then to see if Kemptown is how I remember it.

Thanks also to Nicola for the like (:

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Nice little story mate, I'm too old for some of the references, but remember Bagpuss! I see Kemp town was on the TV last week in the 'Grace' thriller, read the book and others, Tracy read em all ?

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Enjoyed this, Jeff. And you're in good company. Ted Hughes was a very keen fisherman, wasn't he?

Comment is about The Angler (blog)

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I am with you all the way.
A poem which speaks the truth
Thank you for this

Keith

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Happy poetry day to you too.

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Thanks Nigel for the like and great comment. Thanks also to black rose and Branwell for the likes to my silly write.

Comment is about Jabbercocky (blog)

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Luck can help
make the change
to make you right.

Comment is about Praise The Dreamers (blog)

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They call you Jabbercocky
soon to be mask free
then taking flight for
a long awaited holiday.

Comment is about Jabbercocky (blog)

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Thank you Nigel for your comment, I agree ?

Comment is about Strong Enough (blog)

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Thank you Keith for commenting, I get far too many things wrong to ever think of myself as wise, but I suppose that doesn't rule out that one or two of the things I think, by some sort of luck, might be right. Please don't ask me which thoughts of mine got that lucky, I won't know.

Thanks also to everyone who clicked 'Like' for this poem. ?

It is the last of the meditations (so far, but I'm bound to write some more eventually).

Comment is about Praise The Dreamers (blog)

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Phew, thats some going Nick. Well done buddy. As above with what Janey says, sorry to read of your bereavement also.

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Poetry as wisdom. I like this
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Praise The Dreamers (blog)

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Thank you for the likes Aviva and Nigel

Comment is about Murmuration of Starlings (blog)

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Thank you for the likes, Nazi, Holden and Nigel

Comment is about Lunevalley Textiles (blog)

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Thank you for the like and comment Nigel

Comment is about Tangerine Dream (blog)

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we will be wearing masks
or another 10 years.
A measure of control
for the Great Reset!

Comment is about Trevor Alexander (poet profile)

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In your
tangerine skyline
I drift.

Comment is about Tangerine Dream (blog)

Original item by julie callaghan

Strength comes from within
belief is the ladder
you have to climb
from the lowest low.

Comment is about Strong Enough (blog)

Original item by Aviva Rifka Bhandari

John,
A powerful poem borne out of Lent when reflection of life comes to the surface and we ponder our mortality. There is no grey area when it comes to God, or so I believe. We submit to him and trust or we enter an incomprehensible void. I love the line "Of a wise man who never catches up with me". The story of my life, I'm afraid.

Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about Song of the Harp (blog)

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It was a really nice surprise to see that this was so popular.

An extra thank you for everyone who has clicked 'Like', now that it has reached TWO FLOWERS ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Comment is about The Only Words I Know (blog)

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Thank you to Michael Kwack and Holden Moncrieff for the likes.

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Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem ?

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Thank you Nicola, the feeling is mutual xx

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Thanks for likes and comments. Very kind ?

Comment is about She was a Phoenix and He was a Vampire (blog)

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Or bad poetry or boffin poetry that has too many long words in it that makes my brain hurt lol x

Comment is about STAY SAFE (blog)

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Are you saying my tats make me an idiot? I want another food fight with you. I challenge you to a food fight where I can throw cake at you lol ?

Comment is about TESTING (blog)

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Annie and Erika

You are both most welcome. It's great that there is so much poetry to enjoy!

Steve

Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)

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A big thankyou to everyone who liked this poem. I wrote it some time ago but I now find it very topical, since it implies that if you repeat something often enough people will start to believe it, and all you have to do is to tell someone that something happened, not provide any evidence. This is a tactic which has been followed recently with fraud claims in the US election.

Also, there is a time shift aspect. When I say:

'Come back tomorrow and

I will tell you

That last night

I did it again.'

I mean that tonight I did it again. But, of course, by tomorrow tonight will be last night. So nothing lasts forever, or at all.

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And I for one am glad you are still here xx

Comment is about Strong Enough (blog)

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Thank you Nigel for your comment, they did.

Words fly
on to and off of the pages,
travelling all around the world.

Comment is about The Only Words I Know (blog)

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Thank you for the likes Holden and Stephen A.

Comment is about The Day I Met Tony Curtis (blog)

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Thank you so much, Stephen! So glad you enjoyed it. ??

Poetry is part of us and sometimes it gets overwhelming but it’s always there when you need it.

Comment is about drowning in poetry (blog)

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Love your "add verse" reactions.

I've always been very "verse-a-tile"!

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Comment is about Aviva Rifka Bhandari (poet profile)

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Wings of poetry
fly these words
onto pages of
write out loud.

Comment is about The Only Words I Know (blog)

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Thank you very much, Keith, I'm glad you enjoyed it ?

Comment is about Argonaut (blog)

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Artwork by: Denny OW ?

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Thanks for likes - Stephen & Holden ☘??

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Thank you Stephen G and Dean.

I posted it yesterday in its raw form. When I read it over I wanted to change bits. I removed the last verse that said I had written in in quick time, because in the end I didn't?

Comment is about The Day I Met Tony Curtis (blog)

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I love this poem. No one can argue with the last line!

Comment is about drowning in poetry (blog)

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I rely on Our Gert, MC. She is every bit as sadistic as the Turkish barber.
Thanks for the Likes, Stephen G and Stephen A.

Comment is about LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM HADDLESEY (blog)

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Ther first time I've seen it, Julie. A nice story and so glad that everything worked out well in the end.

Comment is about The Day I Met Tony Curtis (blog)

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Nice work, Simon. You paint a cracking picture of Tony.

Comment is about A Parting (blog)

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I remember well Classical literature at school and all those fantastic voyages and stories. Thank you for a poem which brings to light these journeys and exploits.
A poem which stimulates the imagination.
Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about Argonaut (blog)

Original item by Holden Moncrieff

Marvellous!

Comment is about She was a Phoenix and He was a Vampire (blog)

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Maybe he was so caught up in rhyme he couldn't find a reason?

Comment is about Bill the Bard (blog)

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Hey - this grows on you. I've often wondered why men of a certain
vintage don't seem to have heard of scissors. Do they enjoy the
sight of the uncontrolled sprouting of grey gap-filling grouting when
looking into the mirror? ?

Comment is about LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM HADDLESEY (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

A sad but involving tale - "hair today and gone tomorrow"?
Tony is captured so well - an amalgam of all those barbers of another day with their big leather chairs that could be pumped up and
down with a foot pedal and were the inviting rest places for many a
male backside.

Comment is about A Parting (blog)

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Thanks to those who clicked like and commented on the previous post, I messed around with it and decided to repost. I checked the date and it must have been 19 March 1994.

Comment is about The Day I Met Tony Curtis (blog)

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Quite right, we don't want any more 'add verse' reactions!

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