| Not One of the Cool Kids, I Guess
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2024-07-26
So witty! And what was the problem anyway - great song and I always thought Genesis was so much less without him.
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| Lesson 6
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2024-07-26
How do you do it! Composing poems of such rewarding reading; whatever - keep them coming Sameen!
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| DEEP IN THOUGHT
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2024-07-26
A deeply personal and reflective poem on your personal condition; It left me just wishing you well Alan.
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| To live is to die.
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2024-07-23
A good 'old fashioned' poem, that has a good rhyme - I liked it a lot
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| When Trump is Gone and Fanon Reappears
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2024-07-22
Eloquent rage - keep fighting Lawrence.
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| Lesson 2
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2024-07-22
A perfect poignant evocation of a love now ended; as I know having been there myself.
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| Lesson 1
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2024-07-22
Aha! I've missed your poems, and this is a classic - the widening Gyre - Yeatsian, as I borrowed as well from the same poem. I liked the heart escaping the hand simile.
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| Holding Up
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2024-07-21
My doctor friend recounts how a dead person becomes more heavy - as when something light has left - hence 'dead weight'
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| midnight
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2024-07-21
A damn good Haiku.
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| Making sense
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2024-07-20
We only live in the moment, all else is either memory or expectation. A very good poem Sona.
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| Like Ms. Angelou, I Rise
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2024-07-20
Better to be a Prince in ones house, than a King in Walmart......Methinks? I loved this one, not least for the irony, or was that the ironing?
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| REVENIR
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2024-07-19
This is a considerable piece Allen, deserving of repeat reading, I salute you for it.
B & L Dougie
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| WHAT IS LEFT?
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2024-07-16
How this resonates with me; that my life is filled with things that I can neither take with me, nor what anyone would want after I die.
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| FELONY
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2024-07-16
Can I too sign up to the club of time wasting, I too let time slip through my fingers when I should be rendering it into poetry.
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| GAPS PERVADING
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2024-07-16
I love your reflective quality, and how the image of the silver thrupences evokes the years falling away; and glad to say, you're still here my friend.
Blessings........Dougie
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| image
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2024-07-16
I agree one of your best - the image of the lover, tender and immediate, not a word wasted.
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| For the Waters Are Come In, Even Unto My Soul
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2024-07-16
Yea! Whilst thou dost call unto the clean waters thy litany doth fall upon the stony ground, wherein thy call for succour upon the peanut butter omits the fruit of the berry in compote form - verily the jam, known amongst the heathen colonials as jelly. As penance I command thee to prepare such as between two slices of bread.
Anyway, as always a corker - nice one Thomas.
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| The Well-Read Possum
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2024-07-16
Pure Genius Jim, spare and quirky and witty it brought with it a smile.
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| Maintenance-
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2024-07-16
I liked this, how you've used the idea of the lubricant to stand for the one who maintains the family - or so it seemed to me.
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| TRUMP!
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2024-07-16
Roosevelt was saved by his own words; whereas Trump only lent his ear.
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| Media
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2024-07-16
Amen to that!
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| After a rainfall
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2024-07-16
I liked how you have used the rain as a metaphor for the relationship between two people
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| Where is the Time?
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2024-07-16
The best form of love in another, that encourages us to be better
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| How the Democrats Suck
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2024-07-16
We're sure as hell up shit creek without a paddle.
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| Fourteen More Lines on Whisky
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2024-07-16
Nice one Jim. Whisky or Whiskey? The first the scotch the second the bourbon, I don't drink either now as my wife says it makes me snore!
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| The president as a figure of speech
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2024-07-16
Yes, a good one, as the President may stand (or fall) for the country.
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| Caretaker
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2024-07-16
A good poem Lawrence, one that I felt has more than one meaning.
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| MERLIN
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2024-05-26
The sad thing is that we often outlive our pets, but that's the deal. Nice one Allen.
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| DEAD LINES
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2024-05-25
Sweet lines Alan, and it is love the survives us.
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| BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
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2024-05-21
A blast from the past - and it had to be cooked in Lard.
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| My 1970s
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2024-05-21
Nostalgia's not what it use to be; good poem Thomas, a lot to remind me; though, not sure about the Swiss reference why would it be such a red rag to the Germans - do they hate the Swiss that much?
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| LITTLE SPIDERS
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2024-05-21
This reminds me of my father in law - who had the heeby jeebies from drink; he liked talking to his imaginary phantoms - not that the same is the same for you Alan.
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| Truth of the Matter
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2024-05-21
Any despair itself forms the compost of creativity - just like this f.i.n.e poem.
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| Procrastination
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2024-05-21
In a nutshell: there is no end to procrastination, nice poem.
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| Irritable
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2024-05-21
The pearl is made from the irritation of sand; a good poem Sona.
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| A Good Day Indeed
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2024-05-21
Well, I think I've got Bauhaus, Redgrave sisters, maybe Dame Helen (BC?) but I haven't yet cracked Tas-bloody- manian.
Anyway, nice one Thomas
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| midnight
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2024-05-11
A perfect piece - words that can't be remembered or read?
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| ONE DAY TIME WILL END
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2024-05-11
You've expressed perfectly the contradiction of human existence; that we can imagine not being alive, and all that follows from that. Bravo Allen
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| ONE APRIL MORNING
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2024-05-11
I liked the rhyme sequence, and how you've rounded the poem off with the last lines reminder of life's continuance; nice one Allen.
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| UNBELIEVABLE LOSS
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2024-05-11
Thanks Allen, for reminding us of what the Holocaust was all about - the extinction of innocence and decency. And have we learnt any better?
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| REPEATS LIKE THE BEATS OF MY HEART
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2024-05-11
I liked this piece; it has an archaic feel to it, and it conjures a rustic setting on a balmy summers day, with the erotic intertwined with the bucolic. A good one Allen!
Dougie
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| birds of a different feather
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2024-04-04
The point was not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers, at least not with its point, so he lost his point!
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| aside to marketa
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2024-04-04
I like your short poems - the skill is in the less
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| on hwy 1
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2024-04-04
A condensed story, elegantly told, and I liked how you used the highway as a motif.
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| summit
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2024-04-04
Yes, the variation is intriguing - a novel and refreshing form I quite like.
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| UNIVERSAL RIGHT!
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2024-04-04
We've been exchanging 'blessings and love' for quite a few years Allen, and I believe it makes me a better person.
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| THANKS TO READING
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2024-03-27
Don't pay the ferryman Alan; good poem though.
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| Airplanes, Wind
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2024-03-27
I see scudding clouds causing the rag tag stars.
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| Mirror of Patience
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2024-03-27
A poem as much to oneself - nice one Thomas.
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| YOUR CHOICE
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2024-03-27
Good one Allen; to make anyone consider what is true - to oneself or to any system that takes away choice.
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