| cold clear night
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2025-12-05
Evocative of a place that you'd have to be there to convey as well as this.
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| For Isabelle
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2025-12-05
This could not be improved upon.
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| Something wicked this way comes
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2025-12-04
'And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?' Behold! It has three heads - one American, one Russian, and one Chinese.
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| Spiral Into Silence
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2025-12-04
This poem spoke to me. My wife previously suffered a controlling marriage in which she and her children were in a 'hostage situation' as I put it.
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| The Minutes Crawl Past
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2025-12-03
And I like it too Lawrence!
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| ABRUPTLY AWOKEN
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2025-12-03
Just what I'm going through at the moment Alan.
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| The Things We Hold
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2025-12-02
"Does anyone get it all right?" No, I don't think so, we are all fallible human beings 'strangers in a strange land'. I thought you captured well the angst of being the child, then finding your parent as yourself.
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| A Misanthrope on Trial
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2025-12-02
I could easily empathise with the persona here, I find myself tolerating others, and could wish for solitude, but then I'd be stuck with myself.
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| BLING (AKA reviewing)
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2025-12-02
How did you get inside my head Allen?
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| NOVEMBER'S GARDEN
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2025-12-02
You've evoked for me the closing down of the year into late Autumn. The poem takes me there with its meditative quality.
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| THE ACT
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2025-12-02
How well put, and a reminder of what life is, I so liked this.
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| Words
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2025-12-01
As a wise man once said: "The trouble with words is that you don't know whose mouth they just been in"; or words to that effect!
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| Black Friday
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2025-12-01
A good one Lawrence. To my shame I bought a toaster on Black Friday, and it don't work so well!
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| The Only Growth Industry Left in Latin America
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2025-12-01
And if he's desperate enough to take his stuff across to Miami, good old Pete will have him murdered at sea; shame, as all those coke sniffers will may have to pay more!
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| Another Pindaric Ode, This One More Metrically Strong
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2025-12-01
I like it, as before; the first statement with the reply, then the summing up; Overall I thought it well balanced - say's he! Who wouldn't dare attempt the same!
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| A Pindaric Ode
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2025-12-01
I was just able to follow the strophe into the antistrophe as you've made it subtle; and I thought the epode balanced it all. A very good poem anyway, thanks for this.
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| Lesson 55
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2025-12-01
Rage against the machine!
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| Ramblings 695
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2025-12-01
Sometimes standing beside, if not fully understanding, can still convey our shared humanity. I can only admire your honesty.
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| about time
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2025-12-01
I liked the way you convey the act of inspiration translated into composition; it sums up so well how we can feel about it.
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| 11/27/25
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2025-12-01
Such good poetry, your own Jim interspersed with other poets; as I said before it takes courage and skill to use this and you bring it off sublimely.
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| Ramblings 687
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2025-11-23
I can only salute your honesty in sharing this; and may you be blessed by whatever means the good.
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| the tangent of a tan gent
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2025-11-13
What a delight! A dance with words Bravo arquious
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| Artificial poetry
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2025-11-13
But is it self-aware?
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| AN ' ARTIST '
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2025-11-13
Head held in hands moment on this mornings BBC 4 spot on ken.
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| 'Nother fine mornin'
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2025-11-13
Uhtceare, that time before dawn when our thoughts invade our rest - very apt mickeko
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| TRANSMUTATION
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2025-11-13
The wonder of an image captured for all time, and I do wonder if they could ever move again - maybe. As always Allen - sublime.
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| it's hard to conceive
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2025-11-13
Nice one; and I think I was conceived despite the immaculate contraception.
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| So You’re Depressed
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2025-11-13
Good advice Sameen, and as Mickeko reflects it is not always going to work as a solution without the cause; I'm a recurring depressive myself - the Black Dog, at present watching me from a corner.
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| Three for the Mouse
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2025-11-13
A bit late jim, but so glad to have caught up with you on this one. It takes courage to follow two masters such as Clare and Roethke with you own poem, but by golly by gum it fits so well and continues the theme brilliantly.
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| IT'S THE WAY SHE TELLS THEM
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2025-08-07
And where her eyes should be are only black pits leading to the nihilism of modern art. Excellent poem Allen.
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| THANK YOU
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2025-07-31
And there is only this moment, constantly repeating, in which we create our conceit of a continuous self.
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| INFINITESIMAL ME
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2025-07-31
I enjoyed this Allen; whimsical but not lacking for that, the body that carries us about in all it's wonder.
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| TIME TO REFLECT
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2025-07-31
I loved the rhyme sequence here, and the sentiment is perfectly put. Ah! Nostalgia - it isn't what it used to be.
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| WORDS
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2025-07-31
I don't think I could put it better than how William has.
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| A MOMENT WITH MY CAT
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2025-07-31
so beautifully put Allen. And the more we become attuned to our fellow creatures the more we understand that what brings us closer is far more than what separates us.
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| A MOMENT WITH MY CAT
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2025-07-31
Sorry - duplicated
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| SO BE IT
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2025-07-03
This reminds me of my old Buddhist teacher, who said: "Yesterday is past, tomorrow is unknown, now is the knowing", or words to that effect. Another thoughtful poem Allen.
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| APOGEE, IF YOU WILL
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2025-07-03
I liked the image of the point of equilibrium, the moment of stasis when the swing can go forward or back, but as we know it cannot remain still, though we may wish it so. So, for me a profound meditation on our transience. Thanks Allen.
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| INBETWEEN
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2025-06-24
As always Allen a poem that gives me so much to ponder, the subtle emphasis on our existential dilemma, thanks for this.
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| NOW THEIR'S ALONE
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2025-05-25
You have such a gift in the use of metaphors Allen, and here it all come together.
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| CONVERSATION ON A STRING
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2025-05-25
"A half eaten apple Rocks uncertain on my table of life." A brilliant metaphor Allen, and a poem that makes one think. And glad to see it in the light.
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| Don't look up
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2025-05-04
A revision on the last stanza.
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| SEA OF LIFE
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2025-04-28
The early hours, when we are awake with our demons; very well put Alan.
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| Feels Like it's All That's Left
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2025-04-28
How hard to express how much I feel for your suffering; I just hope that there will be some light at the end.
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| Windy day
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2025-04-24
I liked 'Clouds run in the sky' and other nice metaphors.
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| five year old me
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2025-04-24
.....a child maybe? Good poem.
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| THE IVY LEAGAGUE UNIVERSIES - TRUMP
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2025-04-24
Reminds me of the poem by Martin Neimoller -"then they came for me"; and of course, we haven't seen the worse yet!
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| Viv in the Coffee Shop
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2025-04-24
The photographs left behind, as a metaphor for all the rest she'd left - a brilliant poem Jim; and as someone now married to someone who did this, let's hope she found her freedom.
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| Patting the Horse's Nose
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2025-04-24
This was a pleasure to read Jim, how you've captured a moment in time, with such feeling for the life and the land of the cowboy; and it must be a hard life, but with such moments of epiphany.
I can only say...Bravo!
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2025-04-24
I enjoyed this Allen; the way you lead the reader to the conclusion in a good rhyme scheme, and we can say _ The Pope is dead - Long Live the Pope!
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