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raypool

Tue 22nd Dec 2020 11:51

I'm sure we all echo those thoughts Jennifer. Happy safe Xmas for you and yours. Thanks for looking in all through the year - such as makes us glad one and all!

Ray

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Tom Doolan

Tue 22nd Dec 2020 11:48

Hi J.D. - One of the best soul records ever. It definitely lifts your festive spirits. I will have to get the sax music and give it a try.

Merry (Soul) Christmas. Tom ?

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J.D. Bardo

Tue 22nd Dec 2020 11:22

This has me in a celebrating mood, So good I do not know what to say. I love the music that you set this to, (Move on up, Curtis Mayfield). that song is on my playlist, I listen to it several times a day. Great horns, can you play along with it on your horn Tom?

Merry (soul) Christmas, JD.

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Jason Bayliss

Tue 22nd Dec 2020 09:49

Thanks Martin I'm really glad you liked it. Sorry mate, struggling to concentrate on reply, I'm afraid we've all come down with Covid for Christmas and it's wiped me out a bit.

J. x

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d.knape

Tue 22nd Dec 2020 04:16

great response!
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Kay Channon

Tue 22nd Dec 2020 02:21

Thank you so much for this. I felt like you read some of my thoughts when creating this poem. The generalisations, stigma, and the questions people really need to contemplate before opening their months.

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Xoanxo

Tue 22nd Dec 2020 00:20

Thank you Vautaw, Paul and Martin for your kind comments! ?

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Stephen Atkinson

Mon 21st Dec 2020 22:55

Thank you all for the Likes & continued support, Julie, John, J.D., Phillipos & Stephen & a Merry Christmas to you all! ( If that's possible!) ?=?

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John Marks

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:56

Thank you kindly marchant a. john. You don't just look, you see.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:36

you always mange to convey so much with so few words Nigel and this is no exception. Fab mate

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:35

very eloquently and colourfully put. A beautiful poem

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:33

Truly lovely poetry Adam.
Love it

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:32

There are some beautiful lines here. Not least

Everyday the scaffolding falls away

to reveal more of who I am

wonderful poem Keith
Thank you for posting

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:29

What a fabulous poem Jason. You had caught me from the opening line. It has a wonderful rhythm and pace.

Nice one

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:27

Lovely poem Ruth. trouble the dreams that i would rather forget hang around and those that I want to remember don't.

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:26

This poem manages to convey so well this tale of a certain part of life in a certain time full of colour.
Nice one

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:17

yes I agree with Vautaw. You have taken the whole experience to a new level. A fabulous piece of art. I look forward to more

Nice one

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:13

Love everything about this from the title to the very last word.

Nice one

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:11

This sounds like the lyrics to an old jazz standard. Perhaps from the swing era.
Nice one Ray

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Martin Elder

Mon 21st Dec 2020 21:09

very well stated here M.C.

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Candice Reineke

Mon 21st Dec 2020 20:43

Thanks, Stephen! Lately, I’ve been savoring a Macallan 15. ?

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John Coopey

Mon 21st Dec 2020 20:38

(You really wouldn’t want to watch one of my dreams, Ruth, let alone appear in one!)

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John Coopey

Mon 21st Dec 2020 20:31

Oo-er, MC. Fittingly worrying. I take a perverse pleasure that those who seem most guilty of adopting a casual attitude to protecting themselves and others will be paying off Rishi Sunak’s loan from the future long after you and I are no more.

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Stephen Atkinson

Mon 21st Dec 2020 20:20

Thank you Julie, wonder if we can persuade Aled to do us a song!?

John, chiaroscuro, my new favourite word! And, yes, it, possibly, is...
Thanks for your, always appreciated, wisdom & comment

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Stephen Atkinson

Mon 21st Dec 2020 20:10

Mines a John Smith's ? Very cool poem, placed me back upon a barstool (soon to be a thing of the past)

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Nigel Astell

Mon 21st Dec 2020 19:58

Thanks for your likes
Ghazala
Stephen
deanfraserofficial
Martin and
Your Royal Poetess.

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Nigel Astell

Mon 21st Dec 2020 19:56

Universal night time sky
wishes travel far and wide
if mine comes true
we will have another Christmas.

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julie callaghan

Mon 21st Dec 2020 19:28

Thanks for the comment Paul, hope you are enjoying your travels. Hopefully there will be more cheerful writes in the very near future.

Thanks for the like Stephen G.

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marchant a. john

Mon 21st Dec 2020 19:24

I loved this!!!
I imagined " I walk along the cliff:
Sheer drop upon the windward side," as like, the colon being the end of the line and then a sheer drop!

The ending was beautiful, too. ?

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John Coopey

Mon 21st Dec 2020 19:02

This is delightfully puzzling. Is it dark or light. Perhaps both. Chiaroscuro on a moving Christmas card.

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John Coopey

Mon 21st Dec 2020 18:55

Thanks Stephen. It’s not a word I’ve used much in my great works.

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Stephen Gospage

Mon 21st Dec 2020 18:01

Yes, what a performer.

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Stephen Gospage

Mon 21st Dec 2020 17:56

Perhaps Saturnalia would be a good rebranding name for some public-private entity (Post Office, London Assembly cafeteria?) It would cheer everyone up.
Good poem, John. I do remember Black Eye Friday, though not personally.

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Mon 21st Dec 2020 17:38

Thank you both, Adam and Nigel, for your comments.
Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like'.

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Stephen Gospage

Mon 21st Dec 2020 17:37

Well said and well rhymed

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Mon 21st Dec 2020 17:34

Thank you Paul for your response and support of this poem. Much appreciated.
Thanks also to everyone who has clicked the 'Like' button, I'm happy that you each liked the poem enough to do so..

(Sadly Paul's comment is no longer viewable since he left the site)

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Stephen Gospage

Mon 21st Dec 2020 17:33

Brilliantly dull

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Mon 21st Dec 2020 17:22

@Suspended.
The suspense is killing me
And it seems to be killing you

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julie callaghan

Mon 21st Dec 2020 17:12

This one is a cartoon, in my mind, like the snowman. A wonderful Winter tale.

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Mon 21st Dec 2020 15:27

Is that you Don? Jumped into Ray's skin.

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julie callaghan

Mon 21st Dec 2020 15:01

Thanks for the likes JD, Paul and Hugh, thanks also for the kind comment Hugh and not sure what you had to say Paul?.

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Hugh

Mon 21st Dec 2020 14:38

A brilliant covid countdown.The double line rhyme is effective'. Well done !

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John Coopey

Mon 21st Dec 2020 14:34

In truth, Trevor and Julie, they were never like that when I was working. It doesn’t have the same Saturnalian attraction these days when Our Gert and I pop out to the Garden Centre for the OAP’s Christmas treat.

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deanfraserofficial@yahoo.com

Mon 21st Dec 2020 14:03

Thank you for the like JD and Julie ?

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Graham Sherwood

Mon 21st Dec 2020 13:30

Good to see you've begun the festivities early Ray!

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raypool

Mon 21st Dec 2020 12:39

Thanks you for liking this Tony, Kevin Stephen and Stephen.

That was quite disconcerting and spectacular Graham. The nearest I got to that was learning to swim at 28 and then diving from a top board. Luckily there was water in the pool, or rather pool in the water. I'm glad you described the poem in that way!

Ray

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Ruth O'Reilly

Mon 21st Dec 2020 12:03

John I'll try to see if I can manage to meet you in a Lucid dream and if I do you might even see me too!

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Ruth O'Reilly

Mon 21st Dec 2020 12:01

Ha,ha Paul who needs Wonder Woman when you could have Willow Woman, wow that's a whole new supernatural superhero we've got there!?

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julie callaghan

Mon 21st Dec 2020 11:49

This is one night out I am glad to have missed?

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Trevor Alexander

Mon 21st Dec 2020 11:36

Ah, if only we could have those parties....?

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