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Malice Aforethought

By luigi_pagano on Sat, 13 Jul 2024

The elixir of (eternal) life.

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Orange Is Not the Only Colour

By luigi_pagano on Wed, 10 Jul 2024

In 1993, Holland thwarted the English football team in their bid to qualify for the final. In 2024 the situation has been reversed.

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Here is the News

By luigi_pagano on Sun, 07 Jul 2024

Good for some, bad for others.

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A Matter of Regret

By luigi_pagano on Sat, 29 Jun 2024

The wrong choice.

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I agree, these brilliant

Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2020

I agree, these brilliant lines makes the poem:
'But forget to grab my heart
Leaving it in the living room
Where it fibrillates weakly'

Well done, Kevin,
Luigi

Posted in Unpicking knots

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Prose poems are not easy to

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020

Prose poems are not easy to do but this is top notch, Nicky.

Cheers, Luigi x

Posted in This year's walk...(08)

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Hi Kevin, now that you have

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020

Hi Kevin, now that you have refreshed my memory I do remember that period very well as I was a bit older than you at the time. They were indeed interesting times. You have recreated that scene with a personal recollection. Thoroughly enjoyable,...

Posted in Filling in time

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I have the solution that

Posted on Thu, 28 May 2020

I have the solution that works for me, Rachel. I have locked that drawer and thrown away the key.
Peace man. As we used to say in my younger days.

Luigi x

Posted in Anger

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When depressed or under the

Posted on Sat, 23 May 2020

When depressed or under the weather it is easy to emphasise the negative side of life. We feel that there is no way out. Yet it's no use bottling things up, better to let it out, as you have done. I am very laid back and take everything in my...

Posted in How To Be Authentic

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A subtle and refined poem

Posted on Thu, 21 May 2020

A subtle and refined poem rich with elegant phraseology recalling and yearning for the realisation of an old promise (perhaps forgotten) "in renewed anticipation, suspended in the aspic of recollection."
Altogether enjoyable.

Luigi x

Posted in The Promise of Sunlight

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A seed growing in a congenial

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2020

A seed growing in a congenial environment will germinate and multiply if care is taken not to let it be smothered by weeds. Similarly, good words and good deeds will flourish and spread if not strangled by selfishness. A sound, uplifting message...

Posted in A seed that multiplied

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Hi Rachel, catching up with

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2020

Hi Rachel, catching up with reading after vainly trying to come up with something worthwhile to post and failing. Even Jessica seems to have lost her appeal.
Interesting how people's interpretations of your poetry differ. I have stopped...

Posted in In My Pocket

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Yet another poem that shows

Posted on Sat, 09 May 2020

Yet another poem that shows your knowledge and love of words, Rachel. The topic reminded me of the melodious cavatina in the film The Deer Hunter.

Luigi x

Posted in The Exhaustion of the Hunt

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I have to come clean, Rachel,

Posted on Tue, 05 May 2020

I have to come clean, Rachel, and reveal that it was something you said in one of your comments that gave me the idea for this circumlocutory piece . I am not only like a squirrel but also as a thieving magpie: I tend to borrow or steal from...