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Read MoreRevelers in ElysiumLast Mardi Gras before KatrinaPope in a wheel chairblessed me in Jackson SquareCops hung around grinning and chattingWhile a couple posed painted blue as KrishnaIn an ancient Vedic artworkBut theirs was a duality of man and womanOn...
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Thank you so much my friend and reading and really feeling my poem. New Orleans has made an amazing comeback. I haven’t been back to Mardi Gras since Katrina. But I have visited the city several times since. I miss the city. I love that city I once called home.
John
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New Orleans is where jazz and funk music got there start. Where second-line drumming and parades flourish, and where jazz funerals are carried out. I was sad to see what Katrina did to the french quarter. I’m sure a place like that will always come back from whatever tragedy affects it.
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Thank you so much Tim for understanding and expressing your great empathy for the tragedy that happened to my city when Katrina came. I lived in New Orleans as a child and remember those cultural events you spoke of. New Orleans has indeed come back. Fortunately the French Quarter didn’t flood as bad as the rest of the city. It was spared the worst. I miss that city. I live seventy miles from New Orleans now. It was a diverse and culturally rich place for me to grow up.
John
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Read MoreOne of the first times Iwent to jail, it was inPolk County forpublic intox.Drunk in public.I was homeless for years,where else was I supposedto get drunk?They took me to thestation booked me, and gaveme my phonecall.I called the bail...
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You write this story with such clarity and weave it into an engaging scene that reaches out and rivets my attention. Great poem.
John
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Thank you, John.
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Powerfully penned, Thomas. Excellent storytelling my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Appreciate it Damian
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You have expressed a real life tale with honesty and clarity.
I have been there. Got locked up for being drunk in public myself once.
I think I said to a police officer “Your a C…U…N…T. I didn’t say it i just spelt it out.
He didn’t understand. When he realised what I was saying I was thrown in the van.
I they took my clothes and gave me some grey prison scrubs. When I sobered up I started singing prison songs.
“He’s in the jailhouse now.” and Locked up by Akon. Some counties in England are stricker on booze than others. I have been out of my mind all over England, but Yorkshire was the place they locked me up. Don’t do it in Yorkshire.Thanks for sharing this poem. I am glad to know I am not the only one.
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Thank you. Much appreciated.
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This sounds like such a Midwest thing. Great telling of the night!
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lol. Thanks
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Thank you so much.
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Read MoreWhen heat rises off your body and it's not from Passion When you struggle to find the words any words because you lost your voice When tiny beads of sweat escape not from pores, indicating it's time The Great Wall of Fia...
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hello beautiful Fia I’m sorry you’re feeling icky I hope yu feel better soon drink some green tea with a little tumeric it should help 💕great write
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Thank you, crimsin. add the turmeric to the tea?
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make it like an english tea a little creamer, green tea, a half teaspoon of turmeric in the hot tea you will feel better the tumeric helps with body aches and you don’t tasted it in the tea…I know it sounds weird but it’s good…
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Thank you, Ravens:)
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Get well…..words need to be written.
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Thank you, Peter. Appreciate that
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Get well, Fia. Even when you’re sick, you write incredibly. Get so me rest my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Thank you, Damian
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Fia very sorry for your ailment. But you sure wrote a fantastic poem about it. Digs deep and you really made it an engaging read. Hope this comment finds you feeling better.
John
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Thank you, goldenmist
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Sickness is sometimes like love. You don’t know if your coming or going.
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Thank you, Casket. I sure did not know what was going on.
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Read MoreWhen you used to gaze into my eyes that was so beautiful... Then I could gaze back into those emerald gems... It wasn't the cute light of your soul, rather the beauty of your darkness... Since we broke up, my eyes still chase you through light...
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hello dearest Daniel this would make a great song…I’m sad I understand your darkness I have it myself I gave up long ago that the beings of light would except me… though in part I burn with the light… great write…💕
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Thanks as always, Brenda! Im still in the shadows gazing at her light… pretty lonely place…
Daniel
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I understand Daniel we are very different as you know… we can dream but never see her light better than yourself this is great beauty in the dark 💕
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Beautifully penned, Daniel. Love the depth of this write my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Read MoreA scream of lightning and crash of thunder,illuminates the dark path ahead,and then I know the stormhad resuscitated my heart! But this storm ahead!Never have I seen suchgrey horizons for myself!Where the sun is faintin this fog of uncertainty. With trepidation...
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That is wonderful. I am totally here for it.
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Thanks, Fia. Im breezing through this new book. While juggling others haha. Soon I’ll be posting the first drafts…
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That is great.
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hello dearest Daniel beautifully dark I love a gothic atmosphere did you listen to my song grey day?💕
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No I have not. But I am going to definitely today. Can’t wait! I need to do audio on here too.
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Powerfully penned, Daniel. Another incredible write my friend, I believe you will succeed. Appreciate you.
Damian
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hello dearest John it is very sad New Orleans is doing it’s best to recover you were fortunate to have enjoyed your time there before the storms beautiful write and your insight are not lost on me 💕