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Hi y'all
(Does anyone read the comments after this long has gone by? I dunno.) Thanks for your supportive comments. I risk alienating people from time to time, but I think no-one should compromise their honest views or style to please others - not unless there's money in it, of course! if they were paying me millions to write something I didn't enjoy myself, I'd probably - no, definitely - agree to do it!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 10, 2006 at 12:45 PM
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Hi Tony
Hope you and yours are well. Truth as been nailed to the walls of your readers minds, with this well crafted natural flow of verse, from a free and honest heart. I agree and enjoyed your poem, powerful. Well wrote sir. Mike
posted by
lionladroar
on October 10, 2006 at 12:01 PM
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TonyZ
A lovely satirical sonnet, this? Caricature of politicians and countries as well? Beautifully done,truly enjoyable.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on October 10, 2006 at 5:25 AM
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Good points, Tony
and I wish it weren't so late over here so I had enough energy to make a sensible comment. You do have a say in the leader, you simply accept that the party you vote for has a certain (charismatic or otherwise) leader. If you lived in Oz (as I'm sure everyone knows by now) you would be fined and possibly jailed for not voting. Some democracy. Apart from the odd grumble, I tend to stay clear of politics, perhaps it is shame on me but my life is complicated enough.
posted by
mneme
on October 10, 2006 at 5:08 AM
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Little bit of politics, eh? (As Ben Elton was wont to say.)
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 10, 2006 at 4:36 AM
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Great work
posted by
_Symphony_
on October 10, 2006 at 3:27 AM
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Well-said, Tonyz...
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on October 9, 2006 at 11:38 PM
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Tonyzonit, This sonnet reminds me more of a compilation of signs being carried by protestors.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 9, 2006 at 10:18 PM
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Tony, you are a brave man...
If you are in any danger, come hide around here...(I tend to be with you on this one, but I don't have all the clever words and knowledge to back up my arguments.) The French don't want a bar of Bush's policy not that the French are blameless of course. I think they go about things in a more subtle and perhaps devious way. Who knows? They have nuked our little corner of paradise, and I had to duck the snipy comments when the Rainbow Warrior affair erupted in 84, I kept apologizing for something I did not do...It is a free country or so they say. Let us see if Americans live up to their word, they are great at wanting to free the world so let us test their tolerance level... Watch this space. Luckily it is just a website, so no need to worry right?
posted by
marieclaire66
on October 9, 2006 at 2:41 PM
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Upsetting Your Audience
Looks like you've gone off message Tony. Some don't like uncomfortable truths. For me? Just the ticket.
Cheers Neil
posted by
Mavro
on October 9, 2006 at 2:34 PM
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Hi Najwa
Don't worry. I talk about so many different things, one day it's about having no milk, the next about politics! Who knows what it'll be about tomorrow? I'll be winging my way over to your site after I've made a hot drink!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 9, 2006 at 2:08 PM
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Well I haven't insulted him personally...
...That I'm saving for the future!! I'm really lamenting the terrible money-driven foreign policy disasters of USA and UK. So it's not anti-American either - unless I'm also being anti-British... Anyway, popular or not, these observations have sometimes gotta be made... Right, at last I am free to browse. Here goes...
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 9, 2006 at 2:05 PM
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I AM REALY I DO NOT KNOW ANY OF THE ABOVE IN YOUR POEM SORRY TONY....
.....najwa
posted by
NAJWA
on October 9, 2006 at 2:05 PM
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no comment.
nicely said, but ...I know very little about politics...don't like Bush much...(I am going to hide now, just in case!).
posted by
marieclaire66
on October 9, 2006 at 1:34 PM
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