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2024-12-12
Older years still admiring youth, without dishonourable associations - apart from the wife's implications; a sad sweet tale well told.
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| BULLDOZED AND GROUND TO DUST
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2024-12-12
It is strange, how we populate our dreams and the sleepless hours, with memories often not of our liking or choosing; I thought you captured this well Allen.
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| GETTING OUT
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2024-12-12
I know what you mean Allen. They said to me -"cheer up, things could be worse". So, I cheered up, and then they got worse.
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| ginkgo
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2024-10-15
As with: 'Dancing dapples of recollection,' altogether a poem that delights.
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| Glaucoma laser treatment (the attacks were very painful)
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2024-10-15
Well, I said I'd give this a read Alan, and as usual you bring your wry humour to what 'in my eyes' would be a most uncomfortable procedure - but glad it i's all done now!
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| THE DAY HAS COME (Part 3 - Finale)
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2024-10-15
I can only add my own admiration for this poetic sequence. You create for the reader the beginning of the day in evocative poetry, with powerful imagery. You are at the peak of your talent here Allen - congratulations!
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| THE POTENTIALITY
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2024-10-15
As always Allen, a thoughtful poem done with skill and feeling. I particularly like the two similes: 'dream's fragments like shards' and 'like walking through glass...'
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| A REALLY GOOD FEELING
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2024-08-31
We have our own peaceful rural community, so I can so relate to this; and isn't it only what all peoples want: to live in peace. But hark! I hear the sound of the armoured bulldozers!
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| ENDLESSLY
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2024-08-31
An interesting poem, summing up in its way human relationships.
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| IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
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2024-08-31
What a lovely poem Allen; I liked the juxtaposing of the stanzas with the prose, but they blend so well...Bravo!
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| PIXELS IN THE MIST
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2024-08-05
How haunting this is; conjuring up for me the ghost in the image; great poem Allen.
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| A Horrible Thing to Suspect But...
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2024-08-05
Expressing your doubts is good, and it may be the way to reconcile your own relationship; and if its any help I know of a similar incident, where out of spite a another was injured.
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| Haiku 1
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2024-08-05
Good one Alan; but being a pedantic old fart I noticed and extra syllable on the last line.
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| An echo as
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2024-08-05
'water drips and green years glisten'. I liked this poem, it captures a brooding mood.
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| ratsapopulos
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2024-08-05
I thought the last two lines said it all - good one alarian.
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| Homeless Emotion
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2024-08-05
I'm with Ken; all three poems are excellent, and it is no mean skill to be able to say so much with so little - welcome aboard.
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| Lesson 8
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2024-07-30
The heart will have it's own way,
as these beautiful lines convey.
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| Lesson 7
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2024-07-30
I love the way you can transfuse another poets work into your own; and here it has an elegiac quality. Quite brilliant Sameen.
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| Never Thought It'd Ever Be Possible
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2024-07-30
I'm late with compliments on this poem. What I appreciated most about it was the honesty that comes through in the language; I felt privileged to have read it. Keep strong IBM.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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