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Thu 12th Sep 2019 17:34

Thank you for sharing this bittersweet and breathtakingly beautiful piece of art, Jon. It will be placed lovingly among my collection of favorites.

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Jason Bayliss

Thu 12th Sep 2019 17:30

I carry my charm with me at all times, it's called disbelief.?

J. x

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keith jeffries

Thu 12th Sep 2019 17:11

Avishek, your poetry has real potential. I look forward to reading more of your work. By reading the poetry of others and reading in general will improve your own poetic skills.
Thank you
Keith

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Ruth O'Reilly

Thu 12th Sep 2019 16:41

Don you'll have to take your case up with Stevie Wonder by the way, he was the one who brought it all up!?

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Ruth O'Reilly

Thu 12th Sep 2019 16:38

Don a little black cat tells me you didn't carry the right Lucky charms! No pulleys are too practical for leprechauns ?

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Nigel Astell

Thu 12th Sep 2019 16:37

Penny for your thoughts on that one Don!

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Don Matthews

Thu 12th Sep 2019 16:32

Do Leprechauns use special pulley systems?

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Ruth O'Reilly

Thu 12th Sep 2019 16:29

Tut, tut Nigel Good Job you're mates with the Leprechauns getting people out of wells is their specialty, you don't get your penny back though!

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Don Matthews

Thu 12th Sep 2019 16:17

Sheesh Nigel!

See Ruth, all mumbo jumbo. Nigel falls in a well and I fall off a ladder.

If you're not careful you could be sued for false mumbo jumbo-ing.

Lucky you don't live in America. You'd have lawyers all over you by now....... Nigel and I are nice well-fall-inners and ladda-fall-offers. We like you too much....?

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Don Matthews

Thu 12th Sep 2019 15:47

We also recycle plastic into school benches. A great idea for dealing with soft plastics

We also invented the term 'selfie'. Which has nothing to do with recycling plastics....

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Thu 12th Sep 2019 15:38

when I say I love simplistic poems like this one I don't mean it disrespectfully, I mean it in an applauding way of how guys like you can write brill poems like this using only the simplest of words. ?

Bravo Mike!





Rose ?

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Nigel Astell

Thu 12th Sep 2019 15:32

Throwing a penny
into the wishing well
to make sure
all hocus pocus fails
but sadly did
not come true
as I bent over
down I fell.

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Thu 12th Sep 2019 15:12

hear hear dude! and!-another Amazon tree felling defeating idea I came across while holiday sea-fronting, is the public benches are now being made of guess what?

recycled plazzy! hurrah!






Rose ?

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Jon Stainsby

Thu 12th Sep 2019 14:22

Yes, beautiful Eiren.

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Jason Bayliss

Thu 12th Sep 2019 14:06

Beautifully written, succinct and so on point that it could outpoint the point of a pointy thing. The bridge is fragile, the waters are murky and flame flickers ever present.

J. x

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keith jeffries

Thu 12th Sep 2019 14:01

d.k.,

A really good poem, the sentiments which I wholly agree with.
Thanks
Keith

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Ruth O'Reilly

Thu 12th Sep 2019 13:39

Tom Thanks so much for your kind comment

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Ruth O'Reilly

Thu 12th Sep 2019 13:38

Good Hugh...Hmm...Was this in the M.E.N last year?

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d.knape

Thu 12th Sep 2019 13:31

Flying off the handle on Flying.?

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Hugh

Thu 12th Sep 2019 13:27

Read yours and was inspired to write one myself."Friday the 13th,female integration."

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Mae Foreman

Thu 12th Sep 2019 13:17

Thank you dear Jason! I hope you are right! If you are I must take after my mother. Being this way she has always managed to maintain balance in all aspects of her life without being uninvolved and distant. Thank you Jason?
Mae

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Jason Bayliss

Thu 12th Sep 2019 13:12

Beautiful Mae, a defiant affirmation of self.
It seems to me that it's only once you've drawn the line that you can warn the rest of the world not to cross it.

J. x

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Jason Bayliss

Thu 12th Sep 2019 12:01

Aha, yes ? you know it!!

"Beware the moon lads!" ?

J. x

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Mae Foreman

Thu 12th Sep 2019 12:00

Thank you dear Don! I'm glad you think it works. "Soul/all" and "not/ought" don't sound entirely identical but the outcome pleases me and I will try to refrain from being caught in editing frenzy and risk losing that. Thank you Don!?
Mae

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Don Matthews

Thu 12th Sep 2019 11:56

Very good, as usual, Mae.

I liked the 1st and last line repeat. Each stanza different but begun with 'I refuse' to tie it all together. 2nd and 3rd line end-rhymes also good....

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Tom

Thu 12th Sep 2019 11:08

Love this Ruth, so few words say it all! Really great work.

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Don Matthews

Thu 12th Sep 2019 11:06

Golly gosh there Ruthy
You've got me really worried
Been reading all that fluffy stuff?
Yes girl, you've got me flurried

Forget lucky charms.
Had them in me pocket and
fell off a ladder
6 weeks in hospital
Poof! all mumbo jumbo....?

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Lisa C Bassignani

Thu 12th Sep 2019 11:00

Nice Hugh. I agree with Don on that last line.

Don...Edgar is my idol..!

Jason...one of the BEST movies EVER!

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Ruth O'Reilly

Thu 12th Sep 2019 10:29

Thanks for reading Don & Avishek!

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keith jeffries

Thu 12th Sep 2019 09:30

John,

This poem caught my mood this morning as for some days I have felt a sense of desolation about the world. It may seem strange but the words of Boenhoffer came to mind "then they came for the socialists, then the gypsies and now for the monks". We are engaged in a constant battle of spiritual warfare where the divine script is torn into shreds by the tyranny of man. This poem helped me to see a comparison between what we can strive for yet at the same time what we are up against.

A precious and superb piece of writing for which I thank you.

Keith

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AVISHEK GHOSH

Thu 12th Sep 2019 09:23

Good write

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AVISHEK GHOSH

Thu 12th Sep 2019 09:22

Just spell bound Keith.Its a pleasure to read you.Reading again and again.Wonderful

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Lynn Hamilton

Thu 12th Sep 2019 07:34

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Thu 12th Sep 2019 07:32

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Don Matthews

Thu 12th Sep 2019 05:29

You often can't tell who people are writing about.

I have a mental condition and am always saying talk about it. Raising awareness and education is the way forward.

I'm OK here too. Maybe a little 'off key' but hey? I'm happy. Which is why I post a lot of humour. Gotta have this to stay afloat hey?

R I OK? Yep....onna roll

Heaven help us.....?

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John McDonough

Thu 12th Sep 2019 05:13

All good here Don, ? Thank you for asking, and thank you for your commentary. I write from personal experience, been, done and T-shirt. The poem was written to raise awareness not as a cry for help.

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Don Matthews

Thu 12th Sep 2019 04:37

By the links you included at the bottom I detect this could be about your own personal situation John. I could be wrong.

I like the way you have told the story. You pull no punches. I like the rhyme technique.

Robin Williams put on a fake smile to say hey I'm fine. No-one knew he was aching inside. Suicide was his way out.

Stephen Fry on QI would smile at the camera while inside say 'I want to die'

Mental illness needs bringing out into the open for discussion and education. You have done well to include the links John.

R U OK?

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Devon Brock

Wed 11th Sep 2019 23:59

Thank you Ray. I appreciate your work, particularly this one, as it strikes a chord.

Bryan, I have not off loaded any back catalogue here. That stuff is all packed up and unread by me or any other. Everything that I posted was "on the hoof", as you say.

With that, and with a nod to Ray,

I'll take my coat.

D

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Don Matthews

Wed 11th Sep 2019 23:39

Brian

Argh!...so that's the problem. Wondered why I wasn't getting anywhere....

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Don Matthews

Wed 11th Sep 2019 23:29

So good Mike. I would like a little attic room like that. Plain? yes Grand? yes

' in the attic night.'. That phrase is different. And very good.....

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Don Matthews

Wed 11th Sep 2019 23:25

Clever....

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Don Matthews

Wed 11th Sep 2019 23:22

Clever, Avishek....

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Don Matthews

Wed 11th Sep 2019 23:06

Jason

It would have pleased you greatly writing this. As you imply, it simply fell out by itself. I get pleasure writing and reading my rhyming work.

I got great pleasure reading yours. There are so many good lines here:

"Physically I'll stand alone, but digitally have 10,000 friends."

Gosh, every line is good.....

As a rhymer, I feel you have excelled your self here. Well done.

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Wed 11th Sep 2019 23:03

Ray - apologies to go off at a tangent but as you mentioned Devon I would like to say something about him and about contributors in general. I could be wrong, but it appears in retrospect that Devon was here to download his back catalogue as many have done before him, and having done so he has gone taking his work with him. It's a pity he didn't stay as he is very talented and I am sure he is able to write poems 'on the hoof' so to speak as many of us do.

I also note that el Pintor has gone.

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Ruth O'Reilly

Wed 11th Sep 2019 22:54

Don Maybe you can read Manchester Evening News online instead be up North in spirit with us

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