| 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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| Let go
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2024-03-13
The art of letting go
is not so hard to do
we should try it
and grow to like it.
A good poem Sona, you show the way!
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| Rehearse
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2024-03-13
A nice evocation of a still cold month.
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| Jen
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2024-03-13
The skill is in the brevity - damn good!
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| ten of three
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2024-03-12
I'm with Allen on this one; a masterclass in poetic brevity with elegance that lingers in the mind.
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| DEAR DIARY
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2024-03-12
They said, cheer up, things could be worse, so I cheered up, and sure enough - things got worse - nice one Alan.
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| OUT OF A CLEAR BLUE SKY
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2024-03-11
Brilliant ending, I didn't see it coming, then re-reading it makes it so understandable. And I liked that 'she' is not someone we need to avoid, quite the contrary - she could be taking us on to the next place.
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| Hills
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2024-03-10
A poem to conjure attention; thereby lies its inner meaning. or so it strikes me. Just damn good poetry.
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| Deposition
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2024-03-10
A painting brought to life, so perfectly.
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| When Songs of Joy Are Sung, Deep and Full-Throated
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2024-03-10
I've missed your poems. So a joy to read this one.
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| THE GUNSLINGING PREACHER
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2024-03-08
A good old narrative poem, hard to beat.
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| for you
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2024-03-08
The beauty is in its brevity - Bravo one trick!
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| Aaaargh
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2024-03-05
Thanks for this Alan. I salute your courage, just even in sharing this.
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| ONCE MORE
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2024-03-05
I applaud this poem; as it tells its story, unfolding slowly but with great lyricism, and at some point it dawns on the reader that this is about love carrying on into anew life; Bravo Allen!
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| FORGIVE ME (a personal view)
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2024-03-02
This poem hit me hard, and it must be written from your heart Alan. With Alzheimer's my wife and I watching close friends going through the same. Stay Strong!
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| The shamelessness of truth
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2024-03-02
Without truth we are nothing, it is what people are prepared to suffer and die for - as with Navalny. A great poem Christian.
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2024-03-01
A good Haiku
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| HOSPITAL DAYS - 10
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2024-03-01
Well, how did I miss this one!! A classic Griffoner poem, subtly subversive, of our secular temples of health. After all, that's all we have left, until the last dying breath! Bravo Allen!
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| Ill-Fitting Jacket
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2024-02-23
Sure is - spare and terse - my king of poem.
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| Side effect
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2024-02-23
Looking in, as I do nowadays, I'm only commenting on what inspires me, and this one of your does it big! Bravo R.W.S.
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| Who, dear heart
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2024-02-18
A lovely lyrical poem; and it had echo's of Walt Whitman in the best possible way
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| SHE'S ALZHEIMER'S NOW
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2024-02-18
This really struck a chord inside me Allen, and you'll know why; and such a moving poem, which brings to the reader the sadness of her condition.
B & L....Dougie
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| Literary History
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2024-02-17
Shades of William Carlos Williams, and done so wittily! Nice one Thomas.
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| suspensive clauses
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2024-02-11
Wow, I've just read Lawrence's comment. Ahem......? Haven't you not noticed that we have a murderous bastard in the Kremlin obsessed with recreating the Russian empire?? I'm just glad we still have NATO - sans Trumps America.
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| Today
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2024-02-11
Well, my dear R.W.S. you have encapsulated the frustration and humour of advancing age, and so spot on!
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| Your body is electric
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2024-02-11
I'm with Lawrence and Allen, this poem 'zings', and your use of metaphor is superb, as is that final stanza - Bravo Thomas!!
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| Death of a Friendship
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2024-02-09
'The death of a friendship looks a lot like a funeral you aren't allowed to attend'
It is this kind of reflection that can lift a poem beyond the mundane, and you've maintained the same throughout this poem. And I can also appreciate the length of time it took to get it right. Congratulations!
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| Fix you
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2024-02-09
I liked this, a short poem that conveys more than some longer ones, keep going!
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| REFLECTION
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2024-02-08
Well! This is good poetry, a pleasure to read, the description of the outdoor winter scene giving the mood for reflection - nice one Allen!
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| Unfettered thoughts
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2024-02-03
No way Allen, for then where would be without your poems!
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| IN VASTLY DIFFERENT WAYS
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2024-02-01
I liked this poem Allen; the way you juxtaposed the two women - wife and mother, and how you reconciled your emotions to both; apart from that it is elegantly composed with a subtle rhyme sequence - Bravo!
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| Unsettled thoughts
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2024-01-28
I like how you do irony Alan - humour with a twist in this case pain - and what I also share with you.
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| Remedial Measures
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2024-01-28
'getting out of the gawldang apartment,' I love words that are fresh and so aptly convey a meaning; great poem too Thomas
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| HEAVEN UNKNOWN
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2024-01-25
Ah! You just need to slip a brown envelope to St Peter, after all that is how it used to be.
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| The Deep Place
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2024-01-25
You can't put it more true that this.
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| Sally Brin (pt1)
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2024-01-20
I enjoyed this Alan, a poem that beguiles and makes me think of other realities.
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| Fr Branigan's Rhyme
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2024-01-20
This has an archaic feel to it, a gentle lilt that enchants; as always Thomas a poem to enjoy.
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| WHY DO I LOVE YOU SO (repost)
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2024-01-18
Love is blind Alan; either that, or you have interesting tastes!
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| Imaginary conversation with Lewis Carroll
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2024-01-17
Ayup Alan. Did C S Lewis mention Lewis Carroll?
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| Looking forward thinking back
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2024-01-10
As one old fart to another - keep going Brother!
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| GRATEFUL AND MYSTIFIED
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2024-01-10
I'm appreciating lately the reflective mood of you poems Allen, and this exemplifies that.
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| THE DAY AHEAD
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2024-01-07
Locked in January gloom, better times can seem far away; and here Alan you offer a whimsical reflection that can cheer us up.
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