| Haiku for Holocaust Day
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2021-01-27
Christopher, I’ve been to Majdanic, a death camp, many times when I lived in Poland. Your poem touches me with the essence of how I felt when visiting there. Most days, when there, I was alone. The camp gets few visitors. There are spirits there both good and evil. Fine work.
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| Strip Mall Epiphany
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2021-01-27
This is very much a parable. However the characters are both iconic and factual.
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| A Rouse for Roethke
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2021-01-27
That’s quite the riff on Roethke! I love your use of rolling rollicking rhymes and rhythm. A joy to read. I read his “Rouse” and see why you like him so much. He’s a barroom poet entertainer extraordinaire.
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| Not Yet a Poet
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2021-01-27
Brilliant!
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| THE BRITISH NAVY 'K' CLASS SUBMARINE
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2021-01-26
Canada bought three of your used diesel electric subs about ten years ago. They spend most of their time in repair dockyards.
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| The Drive
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2021-01-26
This is great stuff! Love it! Just the ticket for a dull back side of winter during and endless pandemic.
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| Snow by Ann Wood
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2021-01-26
Well painted Ann.
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| Dance
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2021-01-26
YES! Dance, dance dance as if no one is watching. It give voice to your soul! I so much enjoyed this. Thanks!
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| Divine
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2021-01-26
As a lifelong sailor who has spent many a night watch alone, I can immerse my self in this completely. Well written!
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| DEATH SENTENCE
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2021-01-26
Well and compactly written. I especially like the line “ Don't have no tears, to cry my why.”
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| A Capitalist Paradise
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2021-01-25
A very succinct and sadly factual epilogue for the Midwest rust belt. I can recall it’s hay day in the 60s when it was American Utopia.
Well written with a searing indictment, Larry.
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| THE BIGERLY LIE
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2021-01-25
Seems that all dictators from Stalin to Hitler and on down the line used the Big Lie to their great effect
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| Sophomore English (Revised & Expanded)
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2021-01-25
You paint a vivid character, Thomas. You very deftly describe a product of his time and place.
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| FLOWERS
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2021-01-25
Very well expressed and structured,Afrodite. Bravo.
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| The freedom of the Heart
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2021-01-25
Lovely
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| Keep Wondering...
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2021-01-24
At least we have each other here, virtually! A safe harbour in the midst of this awful storm
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| IT IS NOT SO MUCH TRUMP
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2021-01-24
So easy to prance and lie before those who have no self awareness and are in search of miracle workers to save them from their own ineptitude.
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| Above the clouds the sky is clear
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2021-01-24
Thanks, Nils. This centering.
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| A Temporal Contradiction
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2021-01-24
This one is marvellous in its perceptions. Beautifully written and bang on! Bravo!
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| our family, of sorts
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2021-01-23
Monasticism is truly a challenge. You’ve described it well. We all miss the fabric of our lives; our friends. Zoom and Skype are poor two dimensional cutouts. The road trip will be therapeutic.
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| There Was an Election. Who Cares?
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2021-01-23
Regrettably the optics seem to never change. Government’s bottom level bureaucrats are still more interested in their own futures than those they serve. Additionally, that level is loaded with new hires that were attracted and vetted by the charming dictates of the previous administration.
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| No Need to Advertise
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2021-01-23
Brilliant. A greeting card if I’ve ever read one!
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| Simpatico
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2021-01-23
Thomas, you never fail to move me when I read your work. This one very positively. Best regards,
Joe
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| u. s. grant (with explanation)
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2021-01-21
You’re adding some very rich and exciting context to your saga.
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| The light that breaks the night
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2021-01-21
Nils, your sense of peace and mindfulness is so very soothing. Thank you.
Joe
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| Ash Wednesday
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2021-01-21
Clergy come in all shapes and sizes. She’s very special. Would that they were all as compassionate available and innovative.
You’ve captured her nicely in compact clear phrases.
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| All The Rage
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2021-01-20
Love it! Had my laughing!
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| razizm: dead calling
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2021-01-19
Beautifully articulated is a few bright surgical words. Bravo!
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| samuel
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2021-01-19
I thoroughly enjoy your storytelling and your writing. You paint wonderful pictures
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| ''A Monologue on Free Will and Choice'' Remolded
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2021-01-18
The rhyming is superlative and the theme very well done. BRAVO!
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| The boundless treasure
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2021-01-18
Thanks, Nils
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| At Sunset
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2021-01-18
A pessimist’s acknowledgment of beauty. Well written as always.
Sounds a bit like it might be a comment from Christopher Robbins’ friend Eeyore
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| Platter
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2021-01-18
Thi was fun to read! Very lighthearted in a rather dismal time. Thanks, Jenks!
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| SOLITUDE
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2021-01-17
Careful attention to rhyme and an interesting theme. Nicely done!
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| Alone
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2021-01-17
Monologues to self... challenging!
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| Kind
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2021-01-17
Beautifully written, Jenks!
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| Starlight
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2021-01-17
Beautifully described. She must have been something special. Thomas
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| GUN OWNERSHIP IN THE U S A (Additans)
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2021-01-16
Gun ownership in the US is the second pandemic. People own guns there simply because of fear. They can’t even explain the fea. It’s nameless fear, dread.
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| ''Fragment II'' Rewrit; or, ''Poetic Augmentation''
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2021-01-16
Very nice rhythm and rhyme! Like the context also! Bravo!
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| EDUCAITED TO BE DUMMYS?
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2021-01-16
Yep! Unfortunately they’re with us forever
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| ''Fragment I'' Jacked Up
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2021-01-16
Nicely written, Ngoc. Sounds like a comment on Burns
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| Geo-politics
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2021-01-16
A very curious understanding of the aftermath or lack of from your own demise. Well written.
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| TOWARDS - A FASCIST STATE
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2021-01-15
My concern is that they’ll go underground and turn guerrilla hunting in small packs rather than be out in the open.
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| Chloe's Father
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2021-01-15
You’ve described many that I once called friend. I knew them when the veneer of respectability and “niceness” was still fresh of their personas. They were held in cheque by the expectation of a just society that they at least keep their views to themselves. Trump and his minions peeled away that thin skin and gave them an environment or platform to expose themselves in all their rage.
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| Write about ...
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2021-01-15
Think you were having fun writing this one Thomas.
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| MORE REASON FOR ' TRUPOTON ' TO BOAST
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2021-01-15
Yep! He set a whole new bar for crazy!
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| sun and cloud
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2021-01-15
This feels like a riff on Joni Mitchell’s “Both Side Now” I like it and enjoyed the reading of it, Jim.
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| Passing Time
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2021-01-14
Your few words paint curiously intriguing pictures!
Nicely done.
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| Nobody knows it better
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2021-01-14
In his mind it just adds to his uniqueness!
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| Keepsake
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2021-01-14
I found this very attracting; it drew me in as I read holding me close to your thoughts. Very well written.
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from Canada