penny
And today, we in Scotland are celebrating the birth of Robbie Burns... we must never forget those who have lived and who leave behind an extraordinary and memorable legacy of their unique lives, their...
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I think you have put into words a characteristic I saw but never defined. Marvelous.
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I was at Dumfries yesterday for the start of the Homecoming celebrations (see Wicker Tam!!). There are so many memorable people who have left behind incredible legacies, many of whom are not well...
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tjmjr
This is the most I have seen in a long time wrappeed into one poem. Few of us have had to face the clear-cut choice between "survival" and the "alternative." A bold expression of this concept.
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rameshta
A wonderful tribute to a gentleman who has escaped from the great holocaust of World War II unleashed by Hitler! It's a miracle!
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a true survivor and a wonderful tribute to him! i like the image of gentle eyes. with all he endured, his eyes should have been filled with anger and hate, but he chose the alternative and his life is...
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Thanks, always good to have your comments. I feel my generation is so lucky, we just missed the second World War and all its atrocities.
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I read that the Nazis killed over 95 percent of all Jews. How close those monsters actually came is scary. Im sure the would would be so much richer with more men like this, had they and all of the...
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A fitting tribute for a generation that had more than its fair share of sorrow. I wondered about the large print though is that symbolic.
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Maisie
Thanks Ann, the large print is a leftover from when I posted this a long time ago but felt it sort of fitted so left it! We can only imagine things that people went through and then that still would...
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Thanks PP, being born a couple of years after the war I realise what a lucky generation mine have been.
View ArticleJRNightingale
A moving poem. Good use of colour and tone. I must of already given this karma in the past otherwise I would give it now.
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This one I felt, the title of warrior is just deserved and even more. Very beautiful words and a fitting tribute
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Thanks John, I read about this man a few years ago and saw his picture - such gentle eyes for someone who has been through things so unimaginable to most of us.
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Ailill
thanks for providing us readers with the memories that this poem alludes to.. it gives the piece extra power.. I like the versing of this powerful story.. thanks for the read..
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Thanks for your comments Ailill, much appreciated, in many ways generations since those involved in WW2 have been very lucky.
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Poor Phraser
You baby boomers may have been the luckiest generation in history. Growing up in the 60s with all that great music, house prices rising in the 80s, advances in science, and all those years of...
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Maisie
We have indeed - but as for Coronation Street - it's my daughter that watches it - I was made to watch it when staying with my gran - never watched it since!!!!!!
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