| Marshland
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2020-11-25
This is a fine poem. It contains everything it should and nothing that it shouldn't.
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| All my Heroes Were Junkies
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2020-11-24
This is first class, Sameen. With its skilled but idiosyncratic rhymes, this poem reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe's, and I consider that to be high praise.
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| ''Life, Ne'er the Primrose Path of Dalliance...'' (1st draft)
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2020-11-24
Great final couplet!
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| Viral vocabulary
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2020-11-24
Fine writing, great thoughts.
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| If You Have to Explain What You've Written, You've Failed
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2020-11-21
I'm fine being judged against incoherent poets and people who call their yammering poetry.
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| A Riff on Dali
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2020-11-18
I see the resemblance.
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| Greetings
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2020-11-13
The BJP is disgusting. Modi's a nasty bigot, worse than Trump, if that's possible. Indians should be deeply ashamed of their government.
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| capitalism
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2020-11-13
Capitalism already works quite well. Some of us just don't like the work that it does.
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| Remembrance Day Canada Thoughts and Memories
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2020-11-06
Interesting vignettes. Nice work, Joe.
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| Reusable, Recyclable
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2020-11-06
Nice! I've got my fingers crossed and my bags ready to be reused.
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| ITGSOT
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2020-10-30
Right!
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| Heart
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2020-10-27
You're fortunate to sustain that saving light.
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| A bed of Leaves
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2020-10-26
I'm with Pony. The writing, the details, perfectly match the mood of the poem.
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| waiting
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2020-10-26
A foretaste of the long haul.
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| Fine Dining
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2020-10-25
Well said, Joe. What a rotten time to try to make a living in the hospitality field. I had two sons who were waiters at the start of the year. Neither is now.
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| Young Woman in Summer
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2020-10-23
A pageant I've witnessed, well described.
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| The Escape
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2020-10-23
What a startling story! It's nicely written.
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| Standing by You
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2020-10-20
It's a pleasant thought: get rid of Trump and everything will improve. Alas, though it is true that voting Trump out of office will rid us of a vile sociopath, not much else will change. Our government will continue to lurch toward war with China. It will continue to persecute poor, undeserving countries, like Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela. It will continue to cozy up to absolutely rotten countries, like Israel and Saudi Arabia. It will do nothing to end racism, poverty or grossly inequitable income distribution. In other words, our government will be the malevolent entity that it always has been. As one European diplomat put it, without Trump, America's policies will be the same. It just will have better table manners.
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| the sky above
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2020-10-20
A pleasant image to recall.
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| Today In All It’s Guises
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2020-10-20
Great finish.
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| Spider Man
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2020-10-20
I'm with the others. It's great to hear from you again.
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| Yashwant Rao
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2020-10-20
This is fun, biting poem. I had to look up Yashwant Rao and discovered that he was real person, an Indian emperor with whom the British signed a peace treaty because they could not defeat him on the battlefield.
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| A Near Fatal Disaster
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2020-10-18
Cats are vindictive. She did that on purpose. When I was a kid, our cat would push my stereo speaker off of the windowsill if I didn't get up in the middle of the night to let her out.
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| Heart’s Desire
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2020-10-17
I enjoyed this poem, even though happenstance and time ignore my heart's desires.
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| Fond Memories
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2020-10-17
Those were good days. It's hard to pinpoint exactly when they ended and very sad to realize that they'll never be retrieved.
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| She Is Mine By Richard Butler and The Psychedelic Furs
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2020-10-16
A fine song on an album of fine songs. It doesn't sound quite the same without Butler's "haw, haw, haw" after "You just have to laugh at it all."
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| beat to bodhi
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2020-10-16
There's probably no harm in playing along.
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| Enough
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2020-10-15
It sounds appealingly dismal. I don't think that it's rained here since sometime in 2018.
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| Autumn Dresses For All Hallows’ Eve
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2020-10-13
Well done, Joe. Our hedges haven't yet turned, and they don't collect leaves as you've described. Too bad.
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| Aged Logistics
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2020-10-06
Congratulations are in order. You have proven yourself to be the superior being.
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| Slow Poison
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2020-10-06
Absolutely the most dismal poem I've read recently, including my own, but a well-wrought work of art. Bravo!
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| [06 - 07 Oct] - Important: Scheduled maintenance | Site downtime
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2020-10-06
What can you do? My Internet service provider has been cutting out on me frequently lately. We are at the mercy of those who own, but don't always effectively manage, technology.
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| o muse!
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2020-10-04
Nope. Sometimes you can wait long periods and end up with nothing. Other times, you can't leave the room before you're called back to the keyboard.
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| Matisse and I
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2020-10-04
Artistry of any sort brings great pleasure and is worth savoring slowly.
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| autobiographical
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2020-10-04
There's no finer feeling than that which comes from having accomplished something. It makes the exhaustion worthwhile.
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| Annabel Lee
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2020-10-04
Magnificent!
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| finding west
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2020-10-03
Very elemental, I'd say. It's good to get caught up in life in the raw from time to time.
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| Morning Autumn Coffee
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2020-10-03
Very nice. You've delivered the distilled essence of this season.
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| bobbing
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2020-10-01
Well said. For some reason, we've ceased to be generous.
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| emissary
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2020-10-01
Good point.
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| Spectacle
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2020-09-30
From what I've read, you've accurately described what happened last night. I never watch candidates' "debates" because they're not at all informative. The moderators ask vapid questions, which the candidates don't answer, and excrement ends up being thrown in every direction. This country's political system is vile.
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| First Elegy
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2020-09-29
Well done. It sound truthful, too.
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| Requiescat
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2020-09-27
First class writing, Tom.
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| Prayer of Exorcism
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2020-09-27
I wish you success, but I worry.
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| a passing thought
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2020-09-25
The backdrop probably would change, but the "unease and foreboding" would not.
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| Identity and Impermanence
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2020-09-23
Nicely done!
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| Dyssomnia
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2020-09-21
A fine, if dismal, poem.
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| right to the south
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2020-09-19
People everywhere are incurably bigoted. Racism is an easy form of bigotry.
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| Track & Field
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2020-09-19
Har.
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| elemental
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2020-09-19
There are a whole lot of hideous skyscrapers around, indicating that you are mistaken
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from USA