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Ch.19 Campaigns : Part 3 The Arts and Vidnet (Marta and Gallanol In The Modern Age)
24/2/99 In group meetings ideas were proposed for the encouragement of the arts and reading. Writers had suffered in the last century or so, and...
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Mudbath! (The Ultimate Day Trip Of All Possible Day Trips!) by Alfred N. Muggins (from his recent holiday in Marmaris, Turkey!) Part 5 : At The Mudbath at Dalyan!
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May 2022 Written 17/5/22 (11/7/22) As always Alfred could not just go straight into the mudbath, as many of the boat passenger tourists were doing...
Mudbath! (The Ultimate Day Trip Of All Possible Day Trips!) by Alfred N. Muggins (from his recent holiday in Marmaris, Turkey!) Part 4b : (Journey Upriver To The Tombs From Turtle Beach)
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Alfred was disappointed there was to be no attempt to climb up to the Tombs to inspect them. Perhaps the ghosts of the Carians, Persians, or others...
Mudbath! (The Ultimate Day Trip Of All Possible Day Trips!) by Alfred N. Muggins (from his recent holiday in Marmaris, Turkey!) Part 4 : (Journey Upriver To The Tombs From Turtle Beach)
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May 2022 (Written 31/10/22) The tourists of the multinational human species were only accorded one hour to relax and share the beach with the, hidden...
The Turkish Turtles of Turtle Beach by A.N.Muggins
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(Based on events during the Mudbath excursion near Marmaris in Turkey of May 2022) Written 18/7/22 The Turkish Turtles of Turtle Beach, in the...
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Wow! This is very good Di
Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022
Wow! This is very good Di Hard. An allegory which shows the current conflict in Ukraine and the world, in a very intelligent way. I am pretty sure I know who the Clever King is, very topical, but there are a few candidates for who the Richest Man...
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I enjoyed your poem. It seems
Posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2022
I enjoyed your poem. It seems very appropriate to us writers at abctales, all searching for some degree of recognition or an audience!
Read full commentPosted in Daisy Chain
I enjoyed your poem. Its a
Posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2022
I enjoyed your poem. Its a great idea, looking at your life backwards through a prism, and you certainly do that very effectively. Well chosen words!
I would be interested now to see what your earlier version of this poem was, before you...
Read full commentPosted in Life Through a Prism
In the early stages of this
Posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2022
In the early stages of this invasion I wondered whether the Russians would have avoided invasion if they had been offered to keep their 2014 conquests with the neutrality of Ukraine, or might even then make a quick deal. But really the invasion...
Read full commentPosted in I Woke Up One Morning To Find The World Had Changed! By Alfred N.Muggins
Thanks for commenting Insert,
Posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2022
Thanks for commenting Insert, and for the cherries, which I am very pleased with. I did this piece from the perspective of our lazy, indolent, comfortable western/modern lifestyle, shocked into fear and uncertainty by this rogue invasion of a...
Read full commentPosted in I Woke Up One Morning To Find The World Had Changed! By Alfred N.Muggins
I think this is a very clever
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
I think this is a very clever and well written piece! In the current circumstances I think many of us are hoping, but as writers I suppose we are not going to be much good at getting it done! I like the way Putin appears to be in full control...
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I like your poem Di Hard. It
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
I like your poem Di Hard. It perfectly captures the contrast between the victims in Mariupol, on the front line, while reporters and politicians debate the legal definitions of war crimes, while being unable or unwilling to risk themselves for...
Read full commentPosted in Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...
Some great words in this
Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022
Some great words in this balanced and wise poem. I haven't entirely taken it all in yet, but I do think this is a very hopeful and strong poem. Russia deserves better than this tinpot reactionary, and I am sure a nation of such beautiful music,...
Read full commentPosted in Het Bonhe
I have enjoyed reading your
Posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2022
I have enjoyed reading your piece Grace. After getting myself all wound up by watching the news over and over again at the moment, I am finding your reminder that wars and powerful rulers all must pass very comforting. Because you are right....
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It could so easily be any of
Posted on Fri, 11 Mar 2022
It could so easily be any of us, and we don't know where the whole war will end up for all of us. our fragile modern peace has been shattered. Your poem expresses what so many of us are feeling and what we need to feel, so that we can all...
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