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  • supratik

    From supratik on Life is as sweet as the cake

    Indeed indeed… It is incomplete without factory. You are impossible with your wits Goth!
    Yes she is rebellious in her own way. She challenged a proverb ‘a friend in need is a friend indeed’ when she was 10 saying we have no reason to be judgemental about friendship, she wrote her first article on this.
    No I didn’t bake it. This was the third cake in her office. The fourth cake was baked by her mom. Thank you for the wishes, shall pass it on.
    Thank you for stopping by. But I can’t stop laughing at the factory thing.
    Best.
    Supratik

    Yes I saw what Alison is going through. Thank you for the information.

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    2019/08/02 at 12:15 pm
  • Guaj

    From Guaj on Pandora's Box

    how about this, now you have changed the rhyming to A D?

    Willing this heart of mine to set them free and reap
    rewards of their beauty and your smile this way

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    2019/08/02 at 10:56 am
  • Guaj

    From Guaj on sleeping with penguins

    Very rosy side of life we all yearned for at some point or another. Also sleeping with penguins is much better than sleeping with the fishes.
    Nostalgia will grab your audience with this is you perform it, but it would also be good in you upcoming book.

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    2019/08/02 at 9:27 am
    • coolhermit

      From coolhermit on sleeping with penguins

      This may go in next year’s book – doubt it will work well as a performance piece – will trot it out and see 🙂

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      2019/08/02 at 12:47 pm
  • From Alfie_Shoyger on Pandora's Box

    I liked the first verse. Was disappointed that the second one didn’t rhyme.

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    2019/08/02 at 9:01 am
    • Guaj

      From Guaj on Pandora's Box

      took me a while to get this, especially the second verse, but eventually I did figure out a rhyme if you emphasise the endings of incessantly and free.
      There does seem an imbalance though, perhaps another line at the beginning of the second verse (or should I say stanza?) Seems a little lacking in punctuation too, with just one comma. Better to leave it off or punctuate the whole thing.

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      2019/08/02 at 9:50 am
      • From Alfie_Shoyger on Pandora's Box

        No, “incessantly” cannot rhyme with “free”, nobody talks like that.

        OK, so you’ve made the second verse rhyme now, so it matches the first. The first verse still scans better though. It flows much more smoothly. The last line of the second verse, for example, is too long.

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        2019/08/02 at 10:05 am
  • supratik

    From supratik on Life is as sweet as the cake

    Pray delete option be introduced here.

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    2019/08/01 at 6:26 pm
  • supratik

    From supratik on Belief system

    Thank you Trevor for reading and commenting so positively. It really means a lot to me.
    My style can be easily understood in the anglophone regions, as it is, sometimes with concessions, at other times being considered as translation, in your parts of the world… this is one advantage, if at all.
    This was first pointed out by David, a very good friend I met in this space. Yes I agree the content needs to appear again and again, no matter what.
    I am really glad you liked it.
    Best.
    Supratik

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    2019/07/31 at 4:31 am
    • supratik

      From supratik on Belief system

      Yes!! But now it’s looking good. Thank you.

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      2019/07/31 at 9:32 am
      • supratik

        From supratik on Belief system

        Now see! You have your hands full it seems.

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        2019/07/31 at 12:50 pm
        • supratik

          From supratik on Belief system

          Tell Alison I said, Hi

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          2019/08/02 at 2:13 am
          • supratik

            From supratik on Belief system

            What was the announcement? God be with her. Always. No wonder I don’t see her posts. Yes she’s certainly missed here.

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            2019/08/02 at 7:32 am
        • supratik

          From supratik on Belief system

          It so does make a difference. A new technique I learned. Thank you a myriad times. Yes fresh air is crucial I know… are you still enjoying India in England or have the temperatures come down a little?

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          2019/07/31 at 3:26 pm
          • supratik

            From supratik on Belief system

            Oh I thought you were based out of England. Now I know why you translated the micro poem in Swedish. Yes the entire Europe has been hit by global warming this time around. Good to know it is pleasant now. I am in a place called Kolkata. City life, with malls and high rises. Kolkata was the capital of India for a long time. Now it is the capital of West Bengal.

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            2019/07/31 at 4:21 pm
          • supratik

            From supratik on Belief system

            Thank you for looking it up. It is very very noisy and sultry. But now it’s pleasant… the late comer monsoon has finally come.

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            2019/07/31 at 4:48 pm
  • pronto

    From pronto on No One's Prize

    Thank you for your kind comments Goth. Your work as a therapist sounds emotionally draining. I couldn’t do it for the life of me. My respects to you for even trying.
    I came across a post on Facebook where an author asked if anyone had written something that made them cry. That set me thinking. I thought I’d see if I could write a tear-jerker, noot something I’ve done before. It didn’t make me cry, but then, I can’t remember the last time I did.
    I was not expecting many comments for this, but that’s not what I write for. I write, selfishly, for me if no one likes it it’s “Ah, well, move on.” If I do get comments, good or bad, it tells me I’ve made some sort of impact. That, in itself, is sufficient
    Big smiles to you.

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    2019/07/30 at 5:01 pm
    • pronto

      From pronto on No One's Prize

      Thanks, Goth, I’ll look out for your story. We ex-soldiers have seen a few nasty things, I suppose one gets beyond crying. If, however, one of my tenants did run off without paying, that might do the trick. 🙂

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      2019/07/31 at 5:51 pm
  • Guaj

    From Guaj on rhapsodising on the GWR

    Nicely done. I like the fresh irony in this story which can be repeated over and over again. Perhaps ‘get over it’ is a good idea 🙂 This should bring a familiar tear or two to your audience if you present this.
    Stylish piece.

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    2019/07/27 at 2:10 pm
    • coolhermit

      From coolhermit on rhapsodising on the GWR

      I reckon this would work better as a paper read rather than a spoken piece – will kick it around a coupla times and see if it works 🙂

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      2019/07/27 at 5:14 pm
  • Guaj

    From Guaj on grand so

    A lot of truth in this. I wonder how much. Some excellent observations of the effect of diagnosis on the mind. Good stuff this: hard but too true.

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    2019/07/27 at 2:07 pm
    • coolhermit

      From coolhermit on grand so

      Well I’ve a stack of letters at my front door – tv license threats – beyond that ?? 🙂

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      2019/07/27 at 5:12 pm
  • supratik

    From supratik on Hello dear CEO

    I found this joke which is doing the rounds in WhatsApp. Think it could make the atmosphere light.

    Argument between a British and an Indian.
    British: we spoiled your motherland for 200 years.

    India:- “hahaha”
    we r spoiling your mom tongue daily

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    2019/07/24 at 8:20 am
    • supratik

      From supratik on Hello dear CEO

      You bet! I wish I could say ‘Correct me if I am Welsh’, sounds sexy, but I cannot say even that, you know why… because I am from Bengal and in our part of the world the sound /w/ is /b/, reason why a bong ice cream seller cannot sell walls ice cream, cannot say Wall Street properly.

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      2019/07/24 at 9:59 am