| 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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| Final Day
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2025-04-28
I had to google etoufee, and crawdads seem very close to what we call yabbies in Oz; all sound delicious!
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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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| Advice to a Turtle
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2025-04-24
This one got me Lawrence, the way you've used the metaphors of turtles and turtle doves to illustrate the girl at risk, a mighty piece of whimsy!
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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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| INDISPUTABLE
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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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| LIFE... IS A BOX OF BITS
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2025-04-24
I liked the use of metaphor - the box of bits, all fitting together until completed - then the end; it works well and leaves me with a sense of a proper resolution.
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| ONLY
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2025-04-24
This evokes in me an archaic feeling, so beautifully conveyed, and the skill in composing these lines is so understated - one of your best Allen.....Bravo!
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| A PLACE OF TRIAGE
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2025-04-23
A poem that gives contemplation, I appreciated the metaphor of the morning light entering and breaking up the dark; subtle and profound - a good one Allen
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| The Moon Spoke to Her
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2025-03-09
The moon, such a perfect evocation! And how she is so important to poets - reflecting light into our art.
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| WHOSE WILL BE DONE?
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2025-03-06
A good poem Allen, and it took me a second reading to understand what was being deposited there.
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| TROLLS AND WARMONGERS SHOULD NEVER WIN
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2025-03-06
Thanks Alan; all you say I agree with, but I wouldn't be much use with a gun! I'd be a liability; but we can still express our opinions, and that is what we couldn't do in Russia.
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| Afterlife
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2025-03-03
Excellent Ray; not just how it flows, but the denouement on the last line; as for me if a bird, maybe a Rook.
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| Lesson 64
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2025-02-27
Good poem Sameen; and maybe all that's left of us is love.
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| wonder of wonders
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2025-02-27
A pleasure to read, so well balanced and with a fine ending; masterful Jim.
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| A Thorough Cat
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2025-02-27
'a snowdrift that’s forgotten to melt'. a great metaphor in a damned good poem, I enjoyed reading it.
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| feasibility of lifelong friendships
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2025-02-27
A good poem, evocative of our longing for connections. I've made and lost many friendships, and it is still a mystery to me how any endure, maybe it's a gift?
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| SO ××××××× xxxx THINKS I'M A MORAN
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2025-02-27
I've only just come to this one Alan; am I right that you've received a negative comment? When I was a moderator on another site we classified them as trolls, and treated them accordingly.
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| ZELENSKY A DICTATOR ACCORDING TO TRUMP
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2025-02-27
Good one Alan. And as for the Orange Manbaby, he's just the latest in a long line of megalomaniacs, who have got their hands on power, but hopefully will go the same way as the rest; meanwhile , strap in for a bumpy ride!
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| Short Work
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2025-02-25
I enjoyed the poems with the poem Jim, and the devilish haiku! A trap for the unwary!
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| The Devil Walked Out
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2025-02-25
Thanks Ray, but that won't work, line ten rhymes with line nine, with line eleven having a half rhyme between religiose and organise; and to get another rhyme would require an extra line, to no useful purpose. Having said that I did dash it off last night over my second scotch!
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| Kim Kardashian’s Arse
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2025-02-25
Excellent Kim, a timely tirade against our corrupt system.
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| BAGSY
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2025-02-25
He knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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| A Day Unresolved
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2025-02-23
The first stanza immediately hooked me; a poem that skilfully evokes a sleepless night.
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| WILLY-NILLY
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2025-02-23
Simple really, Trump wants to be Putin, while Putin wants Trump to want to be him. Manipulation.
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| GORGOIZE
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2025-02-23
Pismire! I loved that - well done Ken
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| IN THE END GOD WAS KIND TO HER
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2025-02-22
Cathartic no less, and there is much underlying pain and regret, a powerful piece indeed Allen.
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| WILLOW
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2025-02-22
Your poems just get better Allen. I liked this for its lyrical quality.
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| carousel ride
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2025-02-16
I enjoyed this, the metaphor of the carousel works so well.
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| BROUHAHAHA
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2025-02-16
Best place is on the loo Ken 😄
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| Spark of Magnesium
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2025-02-13
Sometimes we need a little helper, to come back to ourselves. a thoughtful poem - well done!
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| [winter night-walks]
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2025-02-13
This to me evokes Ted Kooser, that most observational poet, and neglected on this side of the pond. A good one Thomas
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| [self-portrait, for what it's worth]
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2025-02-13
My wife makes the perfect cappuccino, all done by hand; and my day starts after one.
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| [lunar accolade]
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2025-02-13
Ah, but she can be a harsh mistress.
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| [during meditation]
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2025-02-13
This reminded me of a similar experience, when meditating, when the mind becomes peaceful and we see with different eyes.
Nice one Thomas
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| Hey handsome
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2025-02-13
No Jambsbo - I'm Spartacus! But seriously the last stanza just flew like a released bird.
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| Weather in love
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2025-02-13
Yes, and often others love us more than we love ourselves; a lovely poem.
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| My Mortal Archive
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2025-02-13
Such vivid imagery, then all hanging on the hook of the last line; another gem Sameen.
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| Lesson 35
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2025-02-13
'The salmon braves gravity itself' - what an opening line! But is the narrator being too pessimistic in the last two?
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| feburary
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2025-02-13
Spare and eloquent, what I enjoy from your poetry.
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| Broken people 😞
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2025-02-13
We complain (here in the UK) about our NHS, but we just have to travel to see how lucky we still are; this is a very poignant reflection.
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| peanut seller
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2025-02-13
I like how you condense the narrative into sharp observation.
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| Let the pigeons fly
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2025-02-13
Yes, very affecting, it works and maybe it was composed that way?
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| CONATION - TO DO - OR NOT TO DO
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2025-02-13
The great illusion, that we live in a free world.
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| MAN IT'S SO COLD OUT THERE!
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2025-02-13
Now I can live just about anywhere, but English weather in February......It just gets me down; and up there is the friggin sun!
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| PERFUNCTORY
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2025-02-13
Perfunctory - a classic onomatopoeia, you sort of have to spit it out to get it's meaning; nice one Ken.
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