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Tom

Sun 23rd Aug 2020 12:40

Loved this Trevor, Tempus does indeed Fugit. The last two lines are particularly brilliant.

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Mike Bartram

Sun 23rd Aug 2020 12:29

Thanks for the likes and nice comments, this is my take on lost innocence and lost friendship, based on a song I loved as a child. The original Dragon was called Custard by the way!

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kJ Walker

Sun 23rd Aug 2020 11:28

Alem
I think that it's brilliant, an brave to write and post poetry in a second language.
WOL should be a safe place to post such works. Positive feedback is always appreciated.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
I think that for someone to pick up on a simple typo, and mock is unfair. As you say, we couldn't write a single word in your first language.
Thanks for posting

Cheers Kevin

Ps I think it should read " hell knows no fury" (no apostrophe in hell and only one r in fury)

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raypool

Sun 23rd Aug 2020 10:48

Thanks for showing up Stephen !

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Alem Hailu G/Kristos

Sun 23rd Aug 2020 10:25

Hell-knows-not fury.
I wanted to use compound adjective instead of the expression hell knows no fury. It was deliberate as per poetic license.

Be specific in your comment.
Literary competence is required to give a comment. Simply knowing language doesn't suffice.

I did get a positive feedback from readers who got the gist in other blogs like allpoetry.
"Rhymin Pearl - A well written poem indeed I enjoyed the reading of it ?. Keep going and thanks for sharing"

I write poems in the language to be acquired.Hence I outsmart you as you could not write a single poem in my language even if allowed to toil the rest of your life.
Why is that your profile picture shows a loose mouth?

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Greg Freeman

Sun 23rd Aug 2020 10:07

And one or two of the lines are inspired by Jack Kerouac! A fine starting point ...

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Juan Orlando

Sun 23rd Aug 2020 09:44

Te agradezco bastante tu comentario y sobre todo tu tiempo, el silencio es un gran regalo

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Sun 23rd Aug 2020 09:25

El silencio es realmente hermoso! un hermoso poema en verdad.

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Sun 23rd Aug 2020 09:14

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Sun 23rd Aug 2020 09:10

Lol!

Nothing can escape your vigilant eyes....hehehe....even I saw that tag.

I just google translated the page and copy pasted it. It's not making much sense when you read. Translation always spoils the beauty n gives another meaning all in itself....absurd at times n funny most of the times. I guess here as well something similar has happened.

These days I'm much drawn to japanese music, find it very soothing...I'll share a link....you'll enjoy it too. While exercising I play shaolin, or japanese exercise music, very energizing n relaxing....they have a strong blend of both in their music. Yin yang so completely blended.

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Sun 23rd Aug 2020 08:33

She came by putting on a yellow suit

We had taken care of the heart

Eyes still slipping but

She was looking at her youth

Today we saw mango Surrey mango!



Lips are jammed by him

He has a sweet message in talk

Kiss me, that lip; So much exercise

Just kept kissing me so much

May I achieve my place!

Today we saw mango Surrey mango!



A dagger in his eyes, kills him

See, I fill her eyes as much as eyes

If we get closer, fire and water rust

For the past few days, his shirt looks tight

She is not getting any color

Today we saw mango Surrey mango!



Made me young so that my heart goes out

Even if I close my eyes, my face comes out

Let the water get wet, then the innocent angel has

Kohinoor will fade, his youth will be like this

I salute his beautiful youth!

Today we saw mango Surrey mango!



Someone seems to have told a few days before that

Why are you hiding

Walks when she eats the serpent's force

Sometimes one night my house will be inhabited

The whole night will do its beauty

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Sun 23rd Aug 2020 02:49

Love this one Eric, especially the first stanza. Shine on! ?

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Sat 22nd Aug 2020 23:17

My dad died of pancreatic cancer when he was 49, fifty years ago. He was a smoker so it could be argued that he'd caused it, or at least contributed to it. The ones I feel sorry for are those who have lead a completely blameless life and still get it.

Hardly knew my dad but still miss him

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John Marks

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 22:47

Thank you very much Keith, Paul, Stephen, Cathy, Trevor, Shifa, Julie.

Keith Douglas, a tank commander and poet, who fought the Nazis in north Africa, died in 1944 aged 24. He instructed us to:

"Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead."

And I suppose that is all history is: a simplification of the myriad and contradictory forces that go to make up the lived reality of the past.





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Wandering Biku

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 22:31

A great insight. Though the grass always looks greener, it so rarely is and envy can cause such suffering. Love it and thanks

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Sat 22nd Aug 2020 22:28

The message is great, but I find the repetition grates. Sorry.

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Tim Ellis

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 19:22

Sounds like it went well, so well done Mark & Gill, you’re always ahead of the pack! I wanted to see Oz & Hannah & Pam but had a hard day at work. Maybe next month...

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Alem Hailu G/Kristos

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 19:20

Thx u r right!

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Kevin T.S. Tan

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 18:04

Thank you for responding on my profile. I think every nation has something unique to offer. Learning to appreciate that.

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 16:23

KJ - thank you for your comment.

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 14:31

Lesroy returns to the "200 years ago" theme.
Of course, he will know that values given to human life were
considerably different then. Here in England, a child could be
hanged (or transported for life) for stealing a loaf of bread.
Men could be kidnapped off the street without any recourse for
service in His Majesty's navy by the "Press Gangs". Ordinary
people endured a short diseased hand-to-mouth existence with no vote or other legal way of challenging the situation then. Life was,
indeed, very different. During these wretched times the practice
of slavery existed until its abolition by Parliament and the latter's
enforcement on the high seas by the Navy, while other nations
continued with it: on record in North Africa even very recently.
For some, old habits seem hard to break but the world moves
on, despite such egregious aberrations. .

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Sat 22nd Aug 2020 12:52

So Lesroy are you going to riot and tear down our town square, or not?

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Marsha

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 10:47

I guess that must be pet hell then.

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kJ Walker

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 07:41

I liked this one, and as Faith said "so true"

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Shehariah

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 03:27

Eric and PH, thank you for the likes.

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Shehariah

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 03:27

Paul, Part 1 is about my own hypocrisy and Part 2 is about the hypocrisy of others. I was someone I despised, but am now becoming someone new, rather, that someone without a mask that I have always been and am meant to be.

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Lesroy Mardenborough

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 02:32

Penultimate= next to last or second to last
(Nice!)?.. literal/figurative.. depends

Someone who says that all color lives matter... obviously does not get it..., because all lives matter, obviously.. thats the point!?
Was true 200 years ago just as it is true now.

Thank you Jennifer.. but we (including you) do not have to be ,,, very mild,, and ordinary.. I won't even comment on the last few words you wrote.

Thanks everyone for taking out your time to read my poetry, (basically rhyming?), and thanks for your comments.

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 01:52

Write on! ?

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 01:51

Such an uplifting poem. Thanks for sharing!

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Jordyn Elizabeth

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 01:27

Wow, this is beautiful. Written more like a prayer than a poem. Well done.

-J

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Lesroy Mardenborough

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 01:20

?????

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Shehariah

Sat 22nd Aug 2020 00:28

Paul, there is a lot of hurt in those words, both for me and my wife.

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kimberly

Fri 21st Aug 2020 23:24

Thank you for reading and your feedback. ??

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Greg Freeman

Fri 21st Aug 2020 23:07

Epic poem this, David. Transmits power, the force of nature.

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Wandering Biku

Fri 21st Aug 2020 22:33

It is only by experiencing their absence that I can know that they don't exist. I must be able to not find them before my wanderings can cease. Until then, I'll have to busy myself with poetry and thought. ?

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Abdul Ahmad

Fri 21st Aug 2020 20:12

Thank you for your historic references regarding Pilgrimages in days of yore.
Your gift of the red rose is appreciated Keith.

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Fri 21st Aug 2020 19:49

Good one Trevor! "More teeth are in a jar than in my mouth" made me laugh. Thanks for the smile. ?

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Fri 21st Aug 2020 18:26

Ooh, that was subtle. I didn't notice that jacket before. Beautiful poem my friend. Thank YOU for being an angel of light and love. ?

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Fri 21st Aug 2020 17:54

Thank you Paul. I think in the moments we feel broken, we forget how resilient we are. I am grateful for poems and songs that remind us of our inner strength.

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Nisha Nair

Fri 21st Aug 2020 17:46

It really moved me, thank you!

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 21st Aug 2020 17:03

An interesting analogy with enough similarities to get us thinking - always a good thing!

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Nisha Nair

Fri 21st Aug 2020 16:59

I really liked your line "makes a cameo during Winter". Winter is never really Winter anymore .We are already seeing effects of global warming/climate change/fake news and still refusing to change.

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 21st Aug 2020 16:56

Ha-ha...takes me back to the late lamented Benny Hill. ?

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Fri 21st Aug 2020 16:52

Love the word folderol.

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 21st Aug 2020 16:43

Take comfort if you do not see the daisies from"the perspective of
the roots". You seem unlikely to be pushing up the daisies any time soon then!! ?

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 21st Aug 2020 16:35

Really good.

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 21st Aug 2020 16:24

Marvellous and moving, from John and Keith. A reminder that today's peaceful, cooperative Europe, however imperfect, is preferable to this madness.

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keith jeffries

Fri 21st Aug 2020 16:04

Abdul,

A meaningful description of a pilgrimage and its importance. Centuries ago pilgrimages were regarded as journeys both physical and spiritual to a holy place, carried out to gain benefits for the soul. This poem does them great credit.

Thank you for this

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julie callaghan

Fri 21st Aug 2020 15:51

Thank you for your kind commend John

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julie callaghan

Fri 21st Aug 2020 15:13

Thanks for the comment and like John.

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