| Let Our Song Shatter Their Chains
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2025-07-04
This stirring poem portrays the rise of empathy and unity as a force against hatred and destruction. It calls for connection with nature, collective memory, and the deep truths within ourselves to ignite change. Through love and harmony, it envisions a new world rebuilt on truth, balance, and compassion.🕊🙏🏻
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| Walking
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2025-07-04
A verse that evokes a sense of mystery and fluid movement, weaving imagery of shadowy uncertainty and quiet introspection. The "question mark sky" and "ghost branches" conjure an otherworldly atmosphere, where the natural elements blur and intertwine with the intangible: memories, time, and unspoken thoughts. Its cyclical imagery of retreating waves parallels the themes of unanswered questions and eternal searching, portraying a journey that feels ethereal yet profoundly human. A beautifully enigmatic exploration of walking through the unseen.
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| Personal Symphony
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2025-07-04
A warmly heartfelt poem celebrating a parent's profound joy and pride in witnessing their daughter’s musical journey. From her first hesitant notes to the harmonious blending of voice and instrument, her music becomes a personal symphony, reflecting her growth, passion, and individuality. The parent's love and attentive presence underscore its emotional depth, leaving a lasting resonance of cherished memories and an enduring beauty of shared creative moments.🕊🙏🏻
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| OH THE HEAT! (Addid Lines)
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2025-07-04
This lively poem captures the intense heat of the day and the narrator's enduring journey up a steep street, marked by moments of fatigue, unexpected kindness, and meaningful encounters. It celebrates the beauty of human connection, creativity, and community, as the narrator exchanges stories and shares poetry with fellow artists outside a café. The poem radiates warmth, charm, and gratitude for small but impactful experiences.🕊🙏🏻
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| Ragged
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2025-07-04
A poetic outpouring carrying a haunting, poignant tone, weaving threads of existence that feel both fragmented and connected. The imagery: dust and moonlight, cracked sidewalks, and ghosts of flesh and blood; evokes a vivid sense of loneliness and longing. Its rhythm mirrors the ebb and flow of time, with moments fleeting yet enduring, fast yet slow, as if caught in a liminal space of yearning. The refrain of “wandering in the ragged shadows” perfectly encapsulates the restless search for meaning and belonging, even amidst rejection or unfamiliarity. It’s a deeply stirring piece that speaks to the human condition: raw, reflective, and profound.🕊🙏🏻
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| SIGNED A WORRIED MAN
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2025-07-03
Though the "worried man" speaks of fading bridges, there is dignity in the truths he still clings to—the awareness of a bride, the thread of faith, and the courage to voice his plea. These words stand as a testament to the strength of the soul that persists, even when memory falters. To this voice, I offer admiration for its courage in sharing, and respect for the depth of humanity it so beautifully expresses.
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| THE BAY OF BISCAY
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2025-07-03
Most enjoyable, Alan 😃
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| WHY DO I CRY
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2025-06-19
These bridges you have thus built
and those you keep on building
are the ones we can always cross
from which pebbles we can toss
and watch their ripples downstream
crossing over into our once upon dream
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| MIXED UP OVER DEMENTIA
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2025-02-18
Your words, Alan, are a reflection of the journey,
A journey marked by resilience and unwavering spirit.
In the midst of challenges, your voice remains strong,
Expressing truths that many hesitate to acknowledge.
You navigate through the haze with a mind still free,
Find comfort in the power of your own expression.
Dementia may cast its shadow, but you continue to shine,
A warrior in the face of life's relentless trials.
There's no denying the frustrations, the moments of loss,
Yet you rise above, embracing each day with courage.
Your poetry is a legacy to the strength within,
Reminding us all of the worth that never fades.
Keep sharing your story, keep fighting the good fight,
Your voice is a light, guiding others through the storm.
And know that in this journey, you are never alone,
We stand with you, inspired by your enduring resolve.
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| Clouds Have Fallen
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2025-01-20
“Marge…. Marge, the rains are here!” Or “the sky is falling!” (Asterix) Good one Dave, glad you brought this out to air!
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| Feeling down
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2025-01-19
There is connection still to be had. It may be a bit more obvious the more we age but it does happen at every age grouping. It’s quite a challenge to be invisible.
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| LIVEING SPASE (Relavant Additans)
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2025-01-18
Meanwhile, in the great outdoors… in a country whose land is not ours… legalised squatters.
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| HAPPY FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MYSELF BY ANN WOOD
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2025-01-16
Happy birthday Ann! 🥳 birthday 🎂 🎉 🎁
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| Obligations
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2025-01-11
In different cultures and subcultures there are varying views and constructions of what is obligatory.
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| Our mortal limitations
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2025-01-11
That is a beautiful expression Christian, I needed to hear that and sure others do as well, even if you might’ve meant this for someone else specifically. Not in a very good place right now but your timing is awesome 🤩
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| FROM A VANTEGE POINT VIEW
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2025-01-11
Truest of friendships right there Ken!
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| Why Acting?
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2025-01-10
Top billed performances make A-rated entertainment!
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| Sonnet in Silence
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2025-01-10
Happens to me quite often, really!
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| Do automatons have a cybernetic soul
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2025-01-09
Oh nice! What a fun read 😊
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| THE PIXIE PIPER. by a unknown poet (5)
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2025-01-08
Nice one! Good choice there Alan. And also sparing a thought for "unknown" poets today and emerging who are not as read or given so much as the time of a smoko; who go through the turmoils of daily life and still bring their offering of poetry... they to are to be thanked. (visuals of Van Gogh, et al... in situ)
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| My two dimensional mind
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2025-01-05
I am hoping that Don Quixote doesn’t come onto the scene. Hope you had a good holiday as well. 🙏🏻👍🏻🕊
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2025-01-05
Reminds me of Roman Holiday!
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| ALMIGHTY DREGS
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2025-01-04
There is prophecy of last days grand delusion… and there are much signs arising around us.
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| SHORT TURM
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2025-01-04
Sad truth there Ken. We’re all too in a hurry, and for what, really?
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| Inala
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2025-01-03
At Inala place
aromatic bowl of phô
Saigon Plaza fills
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| Stationary
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2025-01-03
Been there… still climbing out of that pit.
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| 2025
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2025-01-01
Deep and brooding here, Sona . Blessings for the year that is still new 🙏🏻🕊
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| HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR
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2025-01-01
Happy New Year Ken!🥳🎉🕊👍🏻
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| J'ay perdu ma Tourterelle
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2024-12-31
Oh, Thomas, you need to post that villanelle on your page!
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| Another Year
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2024-12-31
That is a standing hope we can together stand by!
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| Get a grip (part two)
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2024-12-31
There is wisdom in these words...
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| The spirit of Heart
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2024-12-30
Quite taken by the idea that knowing in 'nowing.'
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| TIMES PAST TIMES NOW TIMES TO COME
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2024-12-27
Learning from history, hardest thing. Everyone held back in the school of life for unlearned lessons.
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| Poem's
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2024-12-26
The thoughtful ones are quite the best… in my humbled opinion! Hope you’re having a cozy and comfortable Christmas 🎄
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| Love
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2024-12-26
Good portion there and I suspect so much more that the Earth could not contain all the books written about it! Merry Christmas 🎄
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| unraveling
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2024-12-25
Loving this poem but that last line was the surprise favourite since experiencing giving in to the temptation of making an expedition of finding out how much unraveling that stray thread’s got!
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| SEESANS GREETINGS
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2024-12-24
All the best Kenny D!
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| Open Mic
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2024-12-23
Sublime! And also on the flip side, conjure the image of the poet with stage fright, social anxiety, a fear of crowds, and a speech defect; quite a volatile cocktail, so they shy into the shadows of online poetry instead. But the last stanza is the silver lining of every poet, that shining moment of poetry’s consummation. 👍🏻
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| THE SPACES THAT ARE LEFT
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2024-12-23
I’m kind of conjuring a metaphor based on the tailor (poet/persona) sifting through coats that could symbolise connections past and that’s where it began to lead me to realising fewer and fewer people surrounding me with each passing year. But that’s just me. It may be about something totally different.
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| Five Letter Word
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2024-12-21
Has given me much to ponder on. Perhaps even to the point of spouting verse!
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| JUST BEING NICE AND POLITE (ADDITANS)
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2024-12-21
Ah, so it seems the world over. I always wondered what the reaction/response would be should I walk up to someone with to takeaway cups of coffee and invited them for a bit of a sit down. But then again wonder if I would be game to even attempt such a gesture. lol.
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| DUPLICITOUS CHILD
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2024-12-21
I was just the same and had an Aunt just like that! We would visit all the known relatives within a 50-mile radius over the holidays and 'us' kids would get some small present, usually, a 'lazy gift' of crisp legal tender (to us was magic)!
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| Happy Christmas everyone
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2024-12-19
We are all of us right here at the bay, Alan. 🙂
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| Like a moth to a black hole
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2024-12-18
Gets deeper at each return. and of the "smoke to carry you to the heavens," that thought in itself is superb stuff of rumination.
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| OMNIPOTENT MAN
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2024-12-18
Apt to be mistaken, that is very much clear. And procreation, a construct when in actuality "miscreates," as in miscreant. lol Oh the thoughts that hover about!
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| Bad poetry
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2024-12-18
Quite as good as bad medicine!
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| NO LONGER A PLEASURE
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2024-12-18
It would seem that every large chain hosts its version of this escapade! There’s the burgeoning of entitlement and the demise of charity and sense of community, courtliness and courtesy. An exquisite depiction of the “kettling process” and “cash-taking abattoir” all sorts of “evangelistic members” and not to miss out on those chips on varied shoulders! A lamentable scene that won’t escape Cyrano’s sensibilities.
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| A History of Me
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2024-12-18
Very interesting. Just need to get the head around why the company owners have a need to monetise my memories. Else, it’s all splendid.
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| Dreams of Fire and Night
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2024-12-18
“Shells of light” now there’s an image to behold! (Mesmerised)
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| Almost Diamonds
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2024-12-16
Takes this reader on an introspective journey. Nice to know that good and light can be had from dark and shadows.
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