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Ego Trip

What it says ... Image author's own, made at canva.com from PD elements
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These Are The Lines

Not THE lines maybe ... some of them. The (mis)use of the homonym is deliberate.
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A Night Out on Castle Street

What it says ...
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17 Syllable Portrait

Rearrange these words into a well known phrase: It,fits,wear,if,cap,the ... Image made at canva.com using pd elements and no-AI
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Sodality

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403 of my comments have received 446 Great Feedback votes

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Sun, 02 Oct 2022

A slice of history, almost 40 years ago. I was in uniform then, Air Force blue, but admired those at Faslane and Greenham. Futile in the end, but what days of innocence and belief.
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Posted in A Break in the Clouds - my Memories of living at Faslane Peace Camp back in August 1983

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Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022

Succinct and vivid, this poem takes you there, and that's why it's our Pick of the Day.

Congratulations!

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Posted in Bed and Board by The Silk Road

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Love this so far,

Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Jack.
I do have one quibble. Ugly Puggly's last two bits of dialogue are a bit didactic. Whilst the sentiment behind the words is true, it comes over as a little authorial, even though the words come out of UP's mouth. This:

"we can'...

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Posted in Ugly Puggly 7

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Posted on Mon, 14 Mar 2022

A splendid depiction of ourselves as a parasitic blight on Gaia itself. Skilfully done and with possibly the first use of 'Agrestal' I've ever seen in a poem.
Please share and or retweet this splendid poem if you can.

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Posted in This Cannot Be Our Home

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One of the hard truths

Posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2022

is that our armed forces are not up to contributing to a coalition force at the same level as that which went to Iraq. Or indeed to Afghanistan. This is fine. Limiting defence spending to sufficient to defend the realm is sensible. Just don't...

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Posted in Listening to the News 2/3/22

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Strange and evocative

Posted on Thu, 18 Nov 2021

There is great beauty in your work. Looking forward to your collection. 

E x

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Posted in The Solitude of Sleep

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021

What if, indeed. This great piece from a returning contributor is the story of the lucky escape we get most times we buy a ticket and how we overthink things.

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Posted in Being Careful What You Wish For

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Ah yes,

Posted on Mon, 06 Sep 2021

what a double-edged sword that big win might be!
You have a typo in the penultimate stanza "op-des" vice "op-eds".
Really splendid writing, Ed.

E x

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Posted in Being Careful What You Wish For

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Excellent.

Posted on Wed, 17 Mar 2021

Very fine. Whimsical, I agree.

You have a missing apostrophe at line 5 in "Willows favourite".

Always best to keep the fantastic rooted in the everyday. You do that well here.

Well done.

 

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Posted in "Willow's Tail"

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I am

Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020

speechless. Or at least written-wordless. This bears many more than several readings.

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Posted in At The East Lake Where I'm Often Drunk, Thoroughly

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