Oh Hugh! don't say I've got to give Pot-noodles up? BOO!! 😂

nice one squire! 👍

Leon

Comment is about Go green NOW and stay alive !! (blog)

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Thank you so much-Red-Tom-Hugh-Stephen G.-Stephen W. A. Aisha-Holden,

Leon

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Thanks, Uilleam. Think yourself lucky.

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Hi there,

thanks to Graham, Landi, and Uilleam for the generous comments, gifts and advise.

My apologies for delayed response.

Thanks also to those who thoughtfully sent flowers, always appreciated.

David RL Moore

Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)

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Grandmothers seem to have what they believe this earthy kind of wisdom. Some of which is right. Mine were always on about fibre qand not eating too much new bread.

Comment is about Go green NOW and stay alive !! (blog)

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Thanks, Aisha and Nigel

Comment is about Waves (blog)

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Thanks for likes: Nigel Astell, Red Brick Keshner, Marla Joy, Manish, Aisha & John Coopey. 🙂

Comment is about Brand New Heart ❤️ (blog)

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Hi Tim: Thanks for feedback. It's a true story and I survived lol. 🤣

Comment is about Killer Smile (blog)

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Thankyou, Stephen. And for the Likes, Redbrick, Tom and Aisha.

Comment is about THE GREEN MILE (blog)

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Tremendous stuff, John. The rhyming couplets seem to bounce off the page.

Comment is about THE GREEN MILE (blog)

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Thankyou Uilleam.

Comment is about THE GREEN MILE (blog)

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Just checking WOL’s T&C’s to see if terrorists are allowed?

Comment is about Handala, Speed with our Love on the Wing! (blog)

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An extremely moving poem, John, thank you...as is the film. Sadly, there are those who trivialise the kind of bigotry which leads to such injustices.

Comment is about THE GREEN MILE (blog)

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I think it only fair to warn you, Stephen.
You have just expressed admiration for someone who, in UK law, is now designated as a “terrorist”.
........................................................I am not joking!................................................

Comment is about Handala, Speed with our Love on the Wing! (blog)

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Thank you @Stephen Gospage 🌷🙏🏻🕊your kind comments help in my journey of poetic expression. You are much appreciated 😊👍🏻

Comment is about letter from a quieter version of me (blog)

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lol

Comment is about Killer Smile (blog)

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Thanks, Hugh

Comment is about Waves (blog)

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Thank you so much to everyone who liked this poem.

Comment is about The Public Mood (blog)

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The pathetic fallacy grips the neck of the bottle of rum and squeezes! My dad loved dark rum, a hangover from his navy days, spending his 21st birthday in the nick in Capetown just after the introduction of apartheid. . Gripped by a bevvy of Ditchmen he said.

Comment is about so, i’m not yer cuppa tea (blog)

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Thanks for the disappearing comment @MaryBarron 💨

Comment is about so, i’m not yer cuppa tea (blog)

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Thanks, Stephen

Comment is about Waves (blog)

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I admire your activism and dedication to the cause, Uilleam.

Comment is about Handala, Speed with our Love on the Wing! (blog)

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A superb, rather moving poem, RBK.

Comment is about letter from a quieter version of me (blog)

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Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner & Hugh. 👍

Comment is about Killer Smile (blog)

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Thank you, Red Brick Keshner

Comment is about Waves (blog)

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You need longer nails, Uilleam.

Comment is about ALFIE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I can pick my friends, I can pick my nose, but I can't pick my friend's nose.

Comment is about ALFIE (blog)

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Thanks, David.

Write your words David, and may the mealy-mouthed cowards be damned for their complicity in war-crimes.

Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)

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A piece of poetry for yours...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6abcH1L_I&pp=ygUibGVuZGVycyBpbiB0aGUgdGVtcGxlIGNvbm9yIG9iZXJzdA

🌷

Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)

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Truth to tell, Graham, he is a little twat. And thanks for the Likes, Redbrick and Holden.

Comment is about ALFIE (blog)

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Thank you @Graham Sherwood 🌷🕊🙏🏻As always, your feedback is much valued and greatly appreciated. RBK

Comment is about an orchard’s lament (blog)

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Ah! the soft underbelly of the JC. I knew there was one somewhere!

Comment is about ALFIE (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Candy racks? Never heard of them Graham.
I was brought up with the traditional British “Ye Olde Toffee Shop”.

14th July, 2025: Visited 2 different supermarkets, each 5 minutes’ walk apart.

1st one. A floor area “just happened” to be positioned immediately after the check outs, and oustside the toilets. It was approximately 5’ wide x 5’ high x 15’ long, and was piled high with chocolate bars, boxes of sweets, you name it. Not a magazine in sight.

2nd one. There were about 6 till conveyor belts, every single one of them deep in a mountain of mints, chocolate bars and packs of chocolate biscuits; might as well have been bags of sugar! Not a magazine in sight.

Social policies determining low incomes, poor education, and coupled with inevitably poor nutritional food choices form a vicious circle, leading directly to poor health.

Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)

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Thanks for extra likes Uilleam, Nigel Astell & Marla Joy. 👍

Comment is about Everyday Is Pain (blog)

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Your best yet in my opinion. Lines 2 and 6 I wish I had written! Bravo!

Comment is about an orchard’s lament (blog)

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I think your piece is extremely fine writing David. The right to determine own's own status is of course laudable unless others are hurt by such determination. Tolerance is paramount and in very short supply.

Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)

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It's been a while since reading one of your poems, Hugh.

Yes, it's Kevin, pseudonymed, so my family&relatives are a little less stressed out about geopolitics!

If you wanna know more about me, Chef's Table episode with Jamie Oliver is now on Netflix! No, I'm not in it. But I was part of Fifteen Amsterdam in 2011-2012.

You're still a magnificently good poet.

Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)

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All I would say is that Patinkin is right in his anger.

I would qualify that Israel does have the right to exist (as he states) however, not in its present configuration....that must not be permitted to continue.

David RL Moore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgpT5rEKIU&list=RDU7gbFMWZWlo&index=6

Comment is about What of Courage? (blog)

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Thanks for all the likes on this one.

Thankyou to Uilleam for the comment, it is indeed tainted with a sadness.

A sadness that some things never change and a sadness of the generational repetition of trauma.

David RL Moore

"Bellum Aeternum"

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Thanks, Stephen

Comment is about Claustrophobia (blog)

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That is such a movingly awesome image @Uilleam! The emotional appeal skyrocketed with this thought, thank you 🌷🕊🙏🏻
RBK

Comment is about sunbeam records (blog)

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Thank you for reading and the lovely comment.

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Thanks for all your likes
Red Brick Keshner
Holden
Yanma
Stephen G
Aisha
Tom
Hugh
and
Manish.

Comment is about A Poetry Pint with a Unique Taste of Evening Entertainment (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Far Beyond The Comfort Zone

Anxious dancers
Move closer
Towards unavoidable
Cosmic edge.

Comment is about July 2025 Collage Poem: Dancing on the Edge (blog)

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Thanks for your positive comments guys. Sadly it's too easy to pour concrete over the world, mostly in the pursuit of profit.

Comment is about ARRIVAL OF CONCRETE (blog)

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Uilleam they were called ‘candy racks’ at the tills and were replaced with magazines in my day!

Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)

Original item by hugh

Quite right Hugh.
I seem to remember some years ago, that amid fears for childrens' health, plans were proposed to prevent supermarkets from pandering to "pester power" at checkouts.
Unfortunately, as with most aspects of UK society, the prevailing norm is "Profit before People".

Comment is about Sugar !!! (blog)

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One look at the sky outside tells me you describe it to a tee, Trevor. The kind of weather I just hate - not so much a calm as a breathless, suffocating blanket of grey.

Comment is about Meh! (blog)

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Thanks, RBK.
That sunbeam travelled at one hundred and eighty-six-thousand miles per second, just to say hello to the cats....the very thought makes me want to slow down and rest!

Comment is about sunbeam records (blog)

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Thanks for likes: Red Brick Keshner, hugh, Stephen W, Aisha & LEON STOLGARD. 👍

Comment is about Everyday Is Pain (blog)

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