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Neville wrote a new post
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Passionately penned, Neville. Amazing imagery and dig your wordplay my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Sometimes brevity is just as strong, like a passing kiss. Your short poem here is very strong in its imagery and how it effects the reader.
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Lust at its Best! a very alluring and strongly passionate picture you’ve worded here. You know how to write in few yet powetful lines, the last two lines brought the unquenched desire, the helplessness, the sigh that comes with the complete surrender… Love this❤️
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RomaJ wrote a new post
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Hoi hoi
What a write!
And the longer I read, the thinner the glass will become.
Can you see who is giving the thumb up?
I’ve tried, but I can’t give you more than one!unsure which side of the glass
I belong to
The cherry on the cake!
Keep them coming please.Kind regards, Gus
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We humans are complex and complicated at the same time. Is there glass or any kind of barrier that separates our complexity?? I’m not sure there is. I think the complication comes in when we do not understand these complexities, understand that we are capable of anything and everything. That we humans, because we learn and are conscious, can change the world and ourselves, become neither beauty nor monster, just human(e). These are the thoughts I had as I read your poem RomaJ. I liked how the glass disappears and leave you wondering, “who am I” and perhaps also “who do I want to be”.
Amazing writing RomaJ.
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Thank you so much, Curt. I really appreciate the depth of your reflection. You’re absolutely right. Our complexities can both connect and divide us, and maybe the glass isn’t a barrier at all but a mirror of our own awareness.
I love how you phrased that. Becoming neither beauty nor monster, just human(e). That’s exactly the kind of questioning I hoped the poem would evoke.
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Powerfully penned, Roma. Excellent wordplay and the imagery made me feel like a passenger. Outstanding work. Appreciate you.
Damian
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What a great idea to write about. Some writers “see”. You do. The way you led the reader along the corridor of scrutiny(?)
and put them almost as a prisoner forced to watch it play out. Transfixed.
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Thank you so much, Styxian. I’m really glad the poem resonated with you, and I appreciate your generous words about the writing. I love that you described feeling “transfixed” –that sense of uneasy observation was exactly what I hoped to evoke.
The idea for Plexiglass Train came from thinking about the screens and devices we all look through every day– we’re all passengers in our own glass compartments, watching the world and each other through layers of reflection.
And sometimes, as we gaze through our own glass screens, we almost catch a glimpse of our own reflection.
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There is something of magic realism inherent in your verses. A dripping ambiguity & multi-layered which leaves the reader curious. Glass is such a useful metaphor and you give full justice to the word.
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This in a way reminds me of a traveling circus. How we go see the bearded woman or the unusually tall man.
Different walks of life being set out to the public to entertain each night. They’re not monsters but maybe spectacles – and still we the public go seek them out because we are drawn to the unusual. Then we go home and they leave to a different town.Maybe a few stay tired of the circus life and maybe a few decide to join the circus looking for something unusual.
How we are all interchangeable depending on the view.Sorry if I’m rambling!
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The imagery and story telling here are done to perfection. The passengers view the abject poverty outside from their comfortable train. Perhaps to them it just looks like more tv. Like seeing the hungry people of the world on their tv without ever having to interact or see them in person. But maybe the glass grows thinner when the reality brings stronger emotions even empathy. Truly a great poem you have penned here. You have mastered your craft. And I read in awe of your gift. I too had such an experience on a train long ago. I was on the Crescent City train headed from New Orleans to Boston. As we passed through the shacks in the slums of Birmingham, Alabama I heard a two man talking and one said, “You know America really is a dilapidated country” or something like that. It was an eye opener for me.
John
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RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS posted in the group ”BACK TO POETRY BASICS”
On our group “BACK TO POETIC BASICS” we’lll soon be covering anything poetry anyone wants to address.
We will meet here once a week each Wednesday beginning October 22nd, 2025. Our first session will begin with the Sonnet.
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You gotta be talking about James Dean. Taken way too early.
It was a preventable tragedy. Getting too comfortable in a fast car isn’t good!
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Beautiful tribute to James Dean. He loved speed, freedom, and the open road… his passion became both his muse and his undoing. He adored his Little Bastard, and though he burned bright and brief, his legend never slowed down. I like to imagine he’s still racing somewhere in eternity.
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