| the form kills me
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2025-11-03
I've also noticed that.
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| All Hallows Eve
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2025-10-31
A suitably creepy poem. Good to have you back, Dougie.
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| Ramblings 684
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2025-10-29
The existence you describe is so hellish that anything I could say would sound, and be, pointless.
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| Love’s Five Fingered Kiss
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2025-10-29
There's some first-class imagery here, the "five-fingered kiss," being clay that is molded into a utensil.
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| Help Needed to Keep PoetBay Running (Update)
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2025-10-27
And Isabelle, of course, for all you've done under difficult circumstances.
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| Help Needed to Keep PoetBay Running (Update)
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2025-10-27
Wonderful news. Thank you Sameen and Allen.
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| WHAT THE HELL!
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2025-10-25
The older you get, the faster the clock runs.
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| Sports
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2025-10-22
When played very ably, there is a gracefulness to sports. Is it a kind of poetry? Probably not, but it's similar to the gracefulness of language that one finds in ably written poetry.
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| in the waning light
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2025-10-22
Well done.
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| Household Mutiny
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2025-10-21
Nicely done!
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| What I Think About When I Think About Crowds
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2025-10-20
When I lived in a city far from Nebraska, I enjoyed being an anonymous part of a crowd. Being alone didn't bother me. Here in Nebraska, people are so ridiculously friendly that you can't be anonymous for long, even if you'd like to be.
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| Holding On
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2025-10-20
A little bit of good news.
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| Daedalus
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2025-10-19
Excellent.
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| Insidious
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2025-10-19
A much more horrifying tale than any Halloween story.
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| An Unexpected Moment
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2025-10-16
Touche!
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| Practice Poem
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2025-10-13
Promising material.
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| Perhaps a China Berry Tree
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2025-10-12
Well done.
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| FIVE SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS #4
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2025-10-06
Very bittersweet. "It was nice, but not enough offset what had happened."
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| How to Write Poems Using AI
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2025-10-05
Having AI compose a poem for you isn't writing.
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| MIXED DEMENTIA A PERSONAL NOTE
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2025-10-03
A very sad story.
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| Among the Remains
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2025-10-01
I too lush. III, IV, V too sparse. II just right.
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| A FEW MOLECULES OF MY LOVE
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2025-09-30
Nicely done, great examples. I have the feeling that you could have gone on forever.
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| letters to be sent
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2025-09-26
A splendid, disciplined poem, one that is a pleasure to read.
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| In Long Voids; Intermittences
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2025-09-25
I like the spaciousness of the first version.
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| DESTINY
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2025-09-24
Maybe so. It's too bad that no one comes back to tell us what to expect.
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| Ozymandias
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2025-09-22
Excellent.
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| What’s Past is Past
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2025-09-19
Sic transit gloria mundi.
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| FIVE SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS #3
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2025-09-19
I read up on Preludin, which I'd not heard of before and no longer is being sold. I think that you're right to believe that it changed her for the worse.
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| When The Chaos Stops
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2025-09-19
A fair summation, I say.
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| Virgil
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2025-09-17
Dante? I haven't had the pleasure.
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| Something Has To Give
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2025-09-17
Something is giving. Many of us are giving as decency, equity, diversity are being pushed aside. With the forces of intolerance and oppression on the offensive, all others must give.
By the way, don't place too much faith in the Constitution. It may as well be a blank sheet of paper, as what it says is determined by six grotesquely corrupt political hacks in black robes.
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| FIVE SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS
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2025-09-13
Nicely done. Do you plan to write about the other four?
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| Three for the Mouse
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2025-08-31
Applause from Nebraska, where the heat has broken. Three fine poems.
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| hesitation
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2025-08-27
Things change in unexpected ways when one is absent. Sometimes, those changes are jarring, hard to deal with. Let's hope that this isn't the case with the vineyard and those living there.
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| IMPONDERABLE CHOICES
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2025-08-23
An interesting meditation. I especially liked the idea that a door could lead to another hall of doors.
For me, the doors all are open, and I don't notice that I've gone through one until I realize that I I won't be going back.
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| Loco's Children's Rhymes Trilogy
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2025-08-16
These all are most heartwarming (wink, wink).
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| SICK OF IT!
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2025-08-12
A few continue to be outraged. Others shrug. They've come to consider it business as usual.
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| Thursday
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2025-08-06
Very nice card.
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| IT'S THE WAY SHE TELLS THEM
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2025-08-05
A nicely drawn portrait of a femme female.
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| ACHIEVEMENT
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2025-08-01
In the end, the one you must work hardest to satisfy is yourself.
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| A MEDITATION IN MEDICATION
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2025-08-01
Agreed. The heart news is, well, "heartening.". The little invaders will be repulsed eventually.
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| What the US Soldier Witnessed In Gaza
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2025-07-31
This is what we've all witnessed. There's no other word for it except evil.
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| What’s the use?
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2025-07-27
You know that you are a poet, and you write poetry. Youve established a fairly satisfactory life. Imagine how much worse off you'd be if you knew you were a poet, but you devoted your life to accountancy or logistics.
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| TIME TO REFLECT
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2025-07-23
If I work at it, I can remember some of my childhood pleasures. It would be nice to (be able to) revisit them. I also have memories of childhood miseries. I don't have to revisit them. They've remained close at hand.
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| Reflections XII
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2025-07-20
Yes, do. What can be done to change this?
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| Women who Smoke
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2025-07-20
Very matter of fact. I like it.
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| WORDS
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2025-07-15
A considered, sincere response always is appreciated. One which seems mostly intended to draw attention to the commenter isn't.
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| APOGEE, IF YOU WILL
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2025-06-27
An interesting notion, a consideration of mortality, too?
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| P R O P O S A L....
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2025-06-25
Possibly also a proposition.
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| To his coy mistress
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2025-06-16
Excellent!
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from USA