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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 18, 2025, 09:21:49 AM »

Pretending to be ‘happily holiday-making’,
We swim together in calm, cooling seas,
(&) lie on bead-gravel(led) beaches, kissing;
Share(ing) lives, a towel, iced teas/teaZe(d).

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 18, 2025, 09:13:49 AM »

Ah ‘LOVE’, let us be true, now, at last,
We were, from the start, part of each other’s past ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 18, 2025, 09:10:00 AM »

Heritage ire/is-land.
Under the blood-red Aegean Sun,
Ripples lap shingle(s)
- once WAVES ATE ROCK(s)!
(So long/many?!)

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 18, 2025, 09:01:33 AM »

Longinus: ... Homer in the Odyssey is like the “Setting Sun/Son($0ng)” ... the ‘Grandeur’ (o’th’Illiad) remains, but not the ‘INTENSITY’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 18, 2025, 08:46:31 AM »

(Hope-less & Hap-less does ‘A.G.an’ wend ...
But to ‘pro-crastinate’ his/her ‘life’-less ‘end’.)

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 18, 2025, 08:41:39 AM »

Dying reputation prompts ‘applause’:
Reports of long-spent(out) passion(s)
Keep the watchers/listeners/readers ‘en-thralled’ ...
(‘ ... what a “falling/f’ng” off there was! ...)

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 18, 2025, 08:34:58 AM »

(A.): strong (‘volcanic’) part!
But played by an ag(e)ing actor,
Who can no longer bellow ‘lava lines’,
Or ‘shake souls’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 18, 2025, 08:27:12 AM »

A ‘turbulent’ Ire/isLand,
‘Volcanic’, ‘U.N.stable(iZing)’: no ‘scene-sweller’,
It is cast(e) ‘mid-stage’ - watch/listen/read ‘care’-fully,
It might do ‘any-thing’ next ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 17, 2025, 03:05:01 PM »

Turbulent island,
Volcanic, unstable,
No scene-swelled/dweller,
It is cast(e)mid-stage ...

Watch care-fully ...
It might ‘do’ anything
Next ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 17, 2025, 02:56:15 PM »

Turbulent Ire/is/ LAND ...,
Volcanic, unstable:
No scene-sweller!
It/She is cast(e) mid-stage ...

Watch carefully ...
She/ it might do anything next ...
 ’?!