RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS

Sappho (Elke) wrote a new post

• 7 months ago

Souls Speak

Uncategorized

February 7, 2026

11

Aticus Abbey has conducted ssveral interviews with Starsrite poets and poetesses, and this way introduced them to our community, allowing us to learn more about the people we share the same passion for writing with. This was a valuable...

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- Atticus Abbey
  7 months ago
  
  Thank you, Elke. It’s not often that I speak of my privacy and I couldn’t care less how some perceive me. I am what I am, hitched to a higher being.
  - Sappho (Elke)
    7 months ago
    
    It was an honor. Your writings reveal a subtle person with a great sense of humor and mastership of metaphors and imagery. In this interview you add your integrity and principled side. Again, thank you very much!
- Tim
  7 months ago
  
  I have two books by David McCullough I’m reading now so I’m glad to see he said that. I’ve been a musician for over fifty years and started when I was very young. If I couldn’t write (which for the most part I can’t anyway lol) I’d be hitting a drum or playing guitar.
  
  You did a good interview here, Elke. Nice job.
  - Sappho (Elke)
    7 months ago
    
    Thank you very much for reading and commenting, Tim! Your musical career sounds very interesting, especially because my own experience in music is pretty poor, besides torturing the violin for some years. Watch out! Maybe you’re the next one i’ll torment with questions…
- Styxian
  7 months ago
  
  It’s interesting to get a glimpse of the authors behind their words. And, perhaps we find a few things in common that we didn’t predict prior, like their personal beliefs, even.
  After all, we are not generic souls hashing out the same results. Diversity is strength, even when the tastes are not always agreeable.
  Good job, Sappho!
  - Sappho (Elke)
    7 months ago
    
    Thank you so much, dear Styx, i agree to you absolutely. It’s always enriching to get to know other people and their opinions and beliefs. Open mindedness and tolerance are values we can cultivate by experience.
- Damian DeadLove
  7 months ago
  
  Amazing interview, Elke. Adagio is a great writer it was interesting to learn more about him. Appreciate you both.
  
  Damian
  - Sappho (Elke)
    7 months ago
    
    Thousands of thanks for your kind words, dear Damian! You are my role model with your spotlight!
- Fia Naturie
  7 months ago
  
  I like that he was being interviewed instead of the other way around. Good job
  - Sappho (Elke)
    7 months ago
    
    Thanks a lot for reading and commenting, Fia!
- Duhsjaak
  7 months ago
  
  Hoi hoi chère S., and chèr A.,
  This is the 4th time I came back to the scene of the Rhyme, to be submerged in this ocean of beauty.
  I’m no hero with alcohol, so I Raise my glass of chilled freshly squeezed orange juice.
  
  Cheers to the interviewer; cheers to the interviewee!
  
  This one is a solid proof of what Roger McGough said:
  Keep it simple
  Let’s not take ourselves too seriously
  And (this one I love the best):
  All this talent is fine, but bring your empathy
  
  Alive and gigging – as far as I know he still performs – 88 years old.
  
  This interview floored me with a deeply felt (or feld) human touch questioning. As well as simple but bulls eye answers.
  Raise the flag and sound the trumpet.
  I wave extra warmly to Sappho and to Atticus
Light💕 wrote a new post

• 7 months ago

Celebration

Romance, Spirituality

February 7, 2026

5

Celebration.~ you see that snow over the majestic mountainfar from my eyes,out of my hands, yet, captured in my heart. fifteen I waswhen you whispered to me;"be my soul guard"fifteen I was when you became a mountainand I became the snowfifteen I was when...

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5 Comments
- Styxian
  7 months ago
  
  Very nice write. Reaffirming of what is good within us all.
  Well done.
  - Light💕
    7 months ago
    
    I do like your thought here my friend, Thank You so much for taking the time to read and leave your kind words and input, most appropriated🌸
    - Styxian
      6 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      I like to see inspiring poetry/prose, moreso than what seems typical for too many, We need more joy in this world. So yes, you brought some to here.
- Damian DeadLove
  7 months ago
  
  Beautifully penned, Light. Excellent write my friend. Always dig the positive vibes in your work. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
  - Light💕
    7 months ago
    
    Good Day my friend 🌺
    
    Thank You for this kind visit and wonderful words, Appreciate You too 🙏🏻
Tim wrote a new post

• 7 months ago

Flies in the Ointment.

Poetry

February 6, 2026

12

A politician's promise is comparable to dirt.Put your trust in shady snakes and you'll wind up without your shirt.What's written in their bio is a shadow of what seems. Their policies are counterparts to bait and switching schemes.The flag...

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12 Comments
- Damian DeadLove
  7 months ago
  
  Powerfully penned, Tim. Excellent write my friend, spitting some facts as well. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
  - Tim
    7 months ago
    
    Thank you, Damian.
- Backdeckbenny (Peter)
  7 months ago
  
  Tim….there isn’t much anyone can do to get democracy back to its original intention.Still, if we don’t keep writing about it,as you have here,then who will?
  The old adage, ‘you get the government you deserve’ seems to playing out across all western democracies but especially so in USA where only money matters.
  It’s taken a long time for the dollars and the bastards to get absolute power…they will never surrender it.
  I’m still smiling and won’t let them grind me down.
  Cheers mate.
  - Tim
    7 months ago
    
    Thank you, Peter. When it comes to greed and corruption, some are professionals at it.
- Sappho (Elke)
  7 months ago
  
  Thank you for speaking true and honest words in a world attacking the foundations of democracy more than ever before, Tim¡
  - Tim
    7 months ago
    
    Hey Elke. Thanks so much for the comment. I keep getting this feeling like Trump is not going to finish his term. We’ll see.
- Styxian
  7 months ago
  
  Pretty much whatever they say to get elected is bullshit. All are guilty, too. There is no good politician in the higher echelons. I guess they can’t really be anymore. Too much chaos in all parties and at all desks. And yes, money is the controller.
  We can hope for improvement all we want. There will never be, again. Just less bad, if we are lucky.
  
  Well delivered message, Tim.
  - Tim
    6 months, 1 week ago
    
    Thanks so much Styx. Sorry for the late reply, I’ll be by your way soon. 🙂
- Thomas W. Case
  7 months ago
  
  Sharp teeth in a suit, and still the poem doesn’t flinch—love how you chew the rot of politics without losing your voice.
  The grit of truth bites, but you carry it kindly, like a warning whispered in a smoky bar.
  - Tim
    6 months, 1 week ago
    
    Thank you, Thomas. Sorry for the late reply, I’ll be by your way soon. 🙂
- goldenmyst
  5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Tim, you wrote the reality of the rot that is infecting America and much of the world with penetrating clarity and articulated poetically the shroud we are enveloped in. Truly a great poem about our dark time.
  
  John
  - Tim
    5 months, 1 week ago
    
    Thanks for reading this, john.
Drieks wrote a new post

• 7 months ago

Hate to Love

Audio & Video, Poetry

February 6, 2026

12

Numerically correctNew miracles are set to seem improbableVicariously intactThe same old mysteries at hand remain unsolvableI’m incomparableLike a tether to a WiFi wearable in pairing modeHighly programmableWritten to a T-prompt Yet riddled with debunked error codesStopped to a halt...

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12 Comments
- Atticus Abbey
  7 months ago
  
  Beautiful, Drieks! Keep on, keeping on.
  - Drieks
    7 months ago
    
    Thanks so much Atticus!
- Duhsjaak
  7 months ago
  
  Chère D.,
  Hope this finds you well?!
  
  What a poem!!!
  
  I’d hate to love you
  as much as I loved to hate myself
  
  Als dit niet geniaal is, vreet ik mijn hoed op!
  Zei de loco plaatsvervangend substituut vooraitter van de Amsterdamse fanclub.
  
  Please keep the stamina ens keep them coming!
  Warm regards, Gus
  - Drieks
    7 months ago
    
    Hey Gus!
    Thank you! Bedankt voor je mooie woorden!
    
    Groetjes!
- Damian DeadLove
  7 months ago
  
  Powerfully penned, Drieks. Excellent lyrics my friend with a stellar accompaniment that compliments your amazing words. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
  - Drieks
    7 months ago
    
    Thank you Damian! 🙏 Appreciate it.
- Sappho (Elke)
  7 months ago
  
  Your poem reaches out to my soul, dear Drieks. The power that it holds is perfectly transformed into music. Excellent work!
  - Tim
    7 months ago
    
    I must be missing something. I don’t see the song anywhere?
    - Drieks
      7 months ago
      
      There should be an audio upload right below the poem. If not, maybe the device you’re on doesn’t support it correctly 🤔
  - Drieks
    7 months ago
    
    Thank you for your kind words Elke!
- Adelphina
  6 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Oh I love this. You killed it!
  I was nodding my head while listening to the song.
  Keep pushing forward:)
  Just freaking awesome!
  - Drieks
    6 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    Thank you so much Adelphina! 🙏🏻
Fia Naturie posted in the group Music is Art

• 7 months, 1 week ago

Another Hawaiian singer

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