| Silences
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2026-02-06
Good poem, well observed.
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| What Lies Within
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2026-02-06
Enjoyed the reflection. a life without stars - nice phrase.
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| Back Seat
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2026-02-06
Thanks Allen
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| Aroyo
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2026-02-04
Enjoyed the read. I found the punctuation in the last stanza confusing. Seems like there should be something stronger than a comma after "saint" and no need for a comma after "tree".
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| Back Foot Defensive
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2026-02-04
Thanks both.
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| Demand Response
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2026-02-03
The data centers are waiting. - that says it all.
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| Centennial
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2026-02-03
Enjoyed. His poetry I can take or leave, but I love Under Milk Wood.
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| When Spring Comes
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2026-01-26
Enjoyed the read. Here's hoping.
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| Undo IT
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2026-01-26
Very good. A helpless apathy is most certainly the derired end.
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| Whatever Is Excellent
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2026-01-25
Enjoyed the read. Are you referring to Moynihan, former ambassador to the UN?
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| When Loneliness Becomes my Home
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2026-01-25
Enjoyed the read. Making room for hurt - that's well put.
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| At The Winter Gardens
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2026-01-25
Thanks Jim.
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| the morning after
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2026-01-24
That's a great closing line.
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| Help, Ho!
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2026-01-24
Very entertaining, though I'm not sure of the soon to be departed's identity. I think you want "pining for the fjords", not fields.
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| At A Window
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2026-01-24
Thanks Jim.
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| The Venue Is Here
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2026-01-23
Enjoyed the read. A live audience can be intimidating. I used to do Spoken Word nights until I heard a recording of myself and found that I didn't like the sound of my own voice.
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| Ashes
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2026-01-23
Thanks all.
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| Ready or Not
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2026-01-22
Enjoyed the read. Hot Hands are hand warmers?
What if I freeze to death - offline? - the great anxiety of the age, I suppose.
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| taps
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2026-01-22
Good poem. I know the feeling. Maybe i should become we.
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| I Smoked Away My Brain
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2026-01-22
Nice rhymes.
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| As It Is
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2026-01-21
Thanks Allen. It's meant to be ironic. Some years ago I tried reading the Bhagavad Gita, gave up after about 30 pages, deciding that it, like The Bible, was pretty much to do with turf wars - our guys are no better or worse than theirs.
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| Four Seasons
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2026-01-21
It's an interesting read, though I don't get any sense of the title's four seasons.
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| A GURU OF GREAT POETRY
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2026-01-21
Enjoyed the read. I suppose these kind of relationships, between people who've never met, didn't exist before the Internet. I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. It makes me wonder if they supplant other relationships.
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| Bourbon and Beer
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2026-01-21
Enjoyed the read and the semtiments. The last stanza lets the rest down a bit, perhaps, seems like just a reiteration.
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| As Far As I’d Like
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2026-01-21
Thanks both. It's about old age, but there's also a lot of sexual innuendo which only minds as dirty as mine would notice.
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| Salutations to the Gifted
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2026-01-20
Enjoyed the poem.
It is the way you carry the weight
of knowing what others do not yet see.
Nice lines.
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| Mad World
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2026-01-20
Good luck with that, I reckon you'll need it. Maybe "steal our time"? And "souls so easily bought"?
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| Apprehension
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2025-11-24
Thankyou.
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| Apprehension
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2025-11-23
Thanks, you sum it up well.
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| Appeal
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2025-11-21
Thanks, Albert
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| Tenderness
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2025-11-21
I like the 4th stanza very much. It could almost stand alone. You probably mean vaporizes.
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| Appeal
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2025-11-21
Thanks, Alan.
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| Autumnal Dirge
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2025-11-20
The poem could do with a stronger ending, but these lines are excellent-
bled white by the lamprey fog,
Downcast to see the cast down leaves,
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| Appeal
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2025-11-20
Thankyou.
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| No Rest for the Weary
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2025-11-20
I fear this is coming to all our countries. I don't understand why the officials are sleeping on the floor.
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| pen of words
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2025-11-20
Very good, I especially like the poet rooting in syllables.
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| Either Way
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2025-03-19
It seemed to go on and on
or was it short and sweet?
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| March
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2025-03-19
Lovely poem.
he likes to hear her dance
like skittles across his heart - great lines.
rises to her eyrie in the sky - do you need "in the sky"?
If tattoo's is a verb then you wouldn't need the apostrophe. But maybe it isn't.
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| Loose Fit
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2025-03-10
Very good, I know the feeling.
I'm not so sure about anything anymore;
of that I'm certain
Love that.
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| A New Place A New Time
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2025-03-10
Enjoyed the read, I think the first three stanzas are very good.
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| That Moment With Him
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2025-03-10
I think he's right. There's always a few people who need no provocation, but the rest of us are spurred on by religion, nationalism, idealism. Do you mean posed or poised demeanour?
A posed demeanour would be less convincing, perhaps.
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| Alternative Medicine
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2025-03-10
Thanks, Allen.
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| Unconscious Resolve
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2025-03-07
Yeah, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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| boreas
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2025-03-07
i mean prowl - not sure what that's about, but the rest I found entertaining.
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| Unconscious Resolve
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2025-03-07
Interesting read, but I think it goes on far too long. For my taste I'd end it on "hard kitchen floors".
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| Against The Spread
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2025-03-07
Thanks Allen. Your take is not that wide of the mark. I remember it was written during Covid, some kind of diatribe against the pursuit of private profit versus the needs of public health. But to be honest, I don't understand all of it myself.
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| WHOSE WILL BE DONE?
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2025-03-06
Good poem. I don't quite get the relation of the protagonists to yourself, sister and her lover? Anyway, it reminded me of certain passages by Dickens or George Eliot.
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| Afterlife
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2025-03-05
Thanks, Allen.
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| Afterlife
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2025-03-04
Thanks all.
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| artificiAlly intellIgent
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2025-03-03
Interesting poem, though it kind of embodies my feelings about AI in general - a lot of How, but not much Why. Information but not enlightenment.
I navigate through a realm where - do you need "through"?
I find presence in every device, - I am present?
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