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I have edited, Caleb to meet with your observations.

Thanks, Caleb, good critique. I may adjust, runs away vs hops away. I can't see her hopping though. Lunatic is a lunatic is a lunatic, I'm not into woke. I may suffer for that. I agree on the weak line 'alas not to be' Who is it line, I did have a photograph of her sculpture of a huge black beast wi...

The world can be changed by force, obviously. Caleb's poem is trying to show that even though his strength is fading as N grows older yet he retains certain aspects and still has the ability in some way to change events for the better. Bob has reminded me with his post, I should have welcomed you he...

I will trim it, Bog. It is wordy.

I get it.
We are forever young despite somethings not working
as they should. Words can influence more in the aged
that a super fit body and athlete's pace.

I know the feeling.

Is the oxymoron intentional in L1, Bob? possibly for effect. Maybe: Tom's ardour had cooled like the dying embers of a furnace Emma moved to sleep in the attic bed Cold up there but acceptable pure like winter snow Good to see you still posting Bob when most seem to have drifted away. I invite peopl...

Yes, I was overweight, It took about two years

Sad poem about a sad situation.
I lost four stone recently just be giving up sugar.

I guess I'll never be a regular poet Bob.
I'll try to apply what you teach me all the time.
Thanks old buddy.

I’ve been watching YouTube videos of shaper machines, and fallen in love with them all over again. It’s hard to write a poem about a shaper When one knows most don’t know what it is It is of course a big cast iron object weighing up to a ton on occasions, but there are little ones too. It can be des...

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I was taken by how brilliant the layout and the fonts Bob, I really think it enhances the poems.

Well done Bob, great honour. It is a well designed website.
I am in with the January 2024 edition, not December 2023.

Well done, Bob.

Thanks Bob. I didn't mean to post this, Bob.
It's can old one. But when I saw it again and read it I said
What the heck. I do enjoy reading it myself.

It's too obtuse for me. I didn't get it until Bob explained in his post. Does poetry have to be an enigma. Bukowski came out and just said it straight too in-your-face straight and crude with it, filthy crude, not that I'm advocating crude poetry. He has a large following now he's passed over, or as...

The photo shows all eight of us. All dead except me and Ron.

I've put it out Bob. Fingers crossed.

Edited, I tried to put a photo on as it gives a sense to the poem but failed.
I'd spelled jeans as genes.

Well, I thought I was agreeing with you. I mean so many people think old people should be put down let alone have sex. I think it is hot, sex is hot. Sex is healing and age doesn't come into it when two people love each other. Maybe I said it all wrong. I actually enjoyed the poem. Going off to find...

Cats maybe, cuddly but they spoil the lawn and torment birds.

Done, thanks Bob.

Touchy topic. :) But if you love a woman then putting the line on or off doesn't matter. We are attracted like opposite poles of a magnet to each other. The need overpoweringly strong as witness by octogenarian billionaires marrying again and again ad infinitum . Brave new world writing to touch suc...