| 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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| THE DAWN HAS BROKEN
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2025-02-13
Conjure the sun Ken.
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| FERRETERIA
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2025-02-13
You blindsided me here Ken; I had to look up Ferreteria, and then I got it!
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| 10-01-2025
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2025-02-13
I liked this, a good haiku with the traditional nature context.
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| meanwhile…
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2025-02-13
Enigmatic; and I made my own interpretation. BTW, I lived once in Crows Nest.
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| new day
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2025-02-13
What a haiku should be, a nut with an inner kernel. And who but the Japanese would have made kintsugi?
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| Staying Home
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2025-02-13
This reminded me of then; nicely thought out and I liked the homage to Banjo Paterson.
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| FALLING LIGHT
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2025-02-13
Well, what can I add to after Lawrence; just such a good lyrical poem that demands repeated reading - Bravo Allen!
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| [in his own write]
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2025-01-23
Nice one Thomas. My older brothers claim to fame is that he had a mate who had a mate who was once on the phone to Ringo.
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| THE POETICVERSE
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2025-01-23
Yes, a good poem Alan, well balanced with a message we can all applaud.
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| KNIFE CRIME
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2025-01-23
Also, if the knife carriers, mostly young kids, could get their hands on firearms, there would be even more deaths.
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| MIXED UP OVER DEMENTIA
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2025-01-23
Keep writing Alan, and face the bastard down.
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| Pearls of wisdom
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2025-01-23
You never cease to cheer me Alan with your delightful wit.
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| What Is This Moment?
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2025-01-23
A good coherent poem with a nice rhyme sequence; nice one Jambso
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