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a silly token to try fix what’s not broken in fact unspoken ‘til the mirror has spoken have you only just woken

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Date: 10/12/2024 12:18:00 PM
Hi David, I'm wide awake now having just read your poem.
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/12/2024 1:45:00 PM
Thanks John, we need to be on our toes around here, stay frosty and all will be good, cheers David
Date: 10/11/2024 1:10:00 PM
Interesting one David, some try and fix it before it gets broken and end up breaking it, stare in a mirror for 15 minutes and you'll see the devil, I've not seen him yet lol Tom
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Date: 10/11/2024 2:06:00 PM
Very well put Tom, there’s another name for that, I’ll not mention it here, I think anyone that stares in the mirror for 15 minutes probably is the devil, lol! Thanks for stopping by with wise words, Cheers David
Date: 10/11/2024 10:17:00 AM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/rotate_consciousness_1498583 This one I looked up, wow great poetry, David and so many in the community agreed! Potd. Milton, bless his soul one of the first to comment as usual. That woman too, who had us all fooled. Forgiveness works when remorse is present, obviously there isn't much of it going on. Lol hope i'm not interfering as it may leave a bad taste, but something is really broken David you're doing your best to fix it. Cheers to that! Great entry !
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Date: 10/11/2024 11:19:00 AM
Thanks Anaya, The great man himself Milton is on many of my past comments, yes there was another person there I thought I knew, but it’s ok now I know that real person, remorse was expressed and all is good with us, no you’re not interfering and always welcome to comment on my page, a lot of people have woken up to the existential threat of AI on this site, I’ll never be able to fix it, but the soup community can choke off users of AI, see Dilly’s new blog it has a real common sense approach to dealing with the problem, cheers David
Date: 10/10/2024 3:00:00 PM
Interesting. For the record there's no sideshow David. From the very beginning I have not been for AI poetry. Not once. What I have been against is innocent people getting hurt. I know that flies over some heads but there you have it. Oh, regarding your poem, I believe there's not a human being alive that doesn't need at least some things "fixed." I recently posted a poem on peace. For what it's worth ..
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/11/2024 6:23:00 AM
Tommy we have had many arguments over the years even in a previous incarnation of yours, and they all ended the same way with you deleting the whole comment thread, as for blocking and unblocking me at least 4 times in the past, I am not a commodity or device that will be arbitrarily switched on and off when it suits you, by the way some of the comments you made on those blogs have hurt a lot of sponsors on this site, thanks for the nod I had no idea!
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Tom Woody
Date: 10/11/2024 4:59:00 AM
You folks and your delusion about why I delete occasionally. I deleted because you said my comments and my soupmail meant nothing to you. So I figured why bother. Anyway, I'm not interested in arguing. You and yours can continue making hurtful comments about me if that's what gets you off. I have plenty of caring supporters. PS. I actually gave a nod to you in my latest, in comments. I can be generous
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/11/2024 1:31:00 AM
This one went down rather well in the community Tommy! https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/rotate_consciousness_1498583
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/11/2024 12:59:00 AM
And therein lies the truth Tommy, how can I have faith in a person who has had me blocked and unblocked several times since you came back, I have never blocked you once, even when you came to my page and labelled me a zealot, (Did you care) if I was hurt, which I wasn’t, but someone else with a thinner skin may well have been and may have left PS because of same, then you deleted the whole thread to make it look like nothing happened, it’s very suspicious behaviour, I’m all for writing about peace Tom, but with no underlying agendas!
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Tom Woody
Date: 10/10/2024 6:25:00 PM
You're not blocked. I have nobody blocked as of Sunday I think.
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/10/2024 3:43:00 PM
Damn! I was just off to bed it’s near midnight over here, so I’m not staying up late debating what constitutes a sideshow Tommy, The site is about poetry first and foremost, but all sorts of CrAzY stuff was going on on the blog page turning it into a sideshow, with regards to your peace poem you have me blocked, if it was potd I could have commented, I do agree with you that there’s not a human being alive that doesn’t need at least some things fixed, it won’t happen on the blog page!
Date: 10/10/2024 10:29:00 AM
I'd like to offer you a small token of my appreciation on such a perceptive critique on our nature. We project on others that which we refuse to see in the mirror. We have met the enemy and he is us. BTW, heard of Mark Gober? "The End To Upside Down Cosmos" do we really occupy no special place in the cosmos, while living out random and fundamentally meaningless existences?
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Date: 10/10/2024 1:24:00 PM
MG: We seem to exist within a multispecies, multidimensional battle between Good and Evil, and our future as a civilization is at stake. Buckle up for a wild—and paradigm-shifting—ride. (I am still researching him) ha
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/10/2024 12:43:00 PM
That’s the beauty of eternity Anaya anything and everything can appear true at any given time, the wannabe scientist in me believes on the face of it, relativity explains most of the universe at a local level, but then breaks down when quantum physics and infinity is applied, let alone consciousness, yes indeed no GUT stands up to scrutiny, so still a place for a God, of course, I’d never be arrogant enough to dismiss one out of hand!
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Date: 10/10/2024 12:09:00 PM
Gober my bad, question's the “consensus” cosmological model. Are we really flying through space on a spinning ball within an expanding universe, while free-falling around the Sun—all as a consequence of a “Big Bang” that supposedly occurred 13.8 billion years ago? Do we really occupy no special place in the cosmos, while living out random and fundamentally meaningless existences? Or are there problems with this scientific worldview? He deconstructs these beliefs revealing many shocking flaws and inconsistencies. Although he doesn’t claim to provide definitive answers, sometimes arriving at what’s not true is just as valuable. (Book sleeve)
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/10/2024 11:45:00 AM
Very true Anaya, man’s nature is sometimes to project onto others what he sees in the mirror to take the gaze away from himself, I don’t believe I’ve heard of Grober, but I have heard this kind of reasoning many times, but then I think (why anything at all why not just nothing) I believe we’re here because we have to be here, an inevitability of an infinite cosmos, which ultimately leads to a profound postulation, if we lived once why not a trillion trillion times in the past and future, we are part of eternity after all, mad stuff! Cheers David
Date: 10/9/2024 4:34:00 PM
pshawww at this one, David. At least I didn't miss it. The incentive for some to fix what's not broken is that they are broken, but never see it in a mirror. If they did, they'd see what needs changing is the face looking back at them... him... whatever. I just had a comment removed from a blog. ha
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/10/2024 2:42:00 AM
Ah you see deeper into my Tanka Lin which is great , I’m sorry you had a comment removed on a blog, perhaps if Admin spent more time removing spam and AI lunatics from PS, it would a better place for the whole community, cheers David
Date: 10/9/2024 3:39:00 PM
if it aint broken then why try to fix it - looks like we have a result from admin that they will not change the current contest system. as ever blog comments have been removed but its a victory for those who enjoy the contests as it is. hugs jan xx
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/10/2024 2:34:00 AM
Thanks Jan, the contests are fine the way they are, once checked over properly by sponsors for AI content, hopefully this little effort will place lol! Cheers David
Date: 10/9/2024 2:57:00 PM
David....I had to read this a few times to understand that the small measures taken are really just window dressing. It's put in a very clever and funny way. I just saw you are in Ireland. Hopefully, nice being there. It's a beautiful place. BTW, smiles and thank-you for your kind comments!!
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David Kavanagh
Date: 10/9/2024 3:29:00 PM
Heya Duke yes I live in Ireland, it is a beautiful place once you get outside the city, I always try to peer below the surface in my poems, sometimes I go below and off to the side and very few get me on first read, perhaps a hint of dishevelment in this one with a twist, great to meet you Duke, cheers David

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