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Gagiikwe

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Thanks for dropping by. Welcome to my virtual patio. Grab a chair and sit a spell. Browse all you want.

And yes, I really do look like President Grant.

James Gagiikwe [pronounced "Ga-zhe-kw"]

  • Last seen on Sep 24 7:42 AM. Member since January 22.
  • I am a man (Australia)
  • When I'm not writing, I'm Retired .
  • I have 148 comments, 80 archived poems

Poems I'm focused on

  • This vista in my memoried youth recalled / on a rainy Sunday morning in my aged day. / / White gleaming forest, / these stunted trees row and rank stand, / seeming as alabaster in the noon sun, / stretching endless beyond the eyes’ compass.
    261 words, 4 comments, June 16. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Life. Reward
  • Some, sequential words arranged / according to forms as old / as Athens or David’s Psalms. / Cascading sounds, / crafted complexity / appearing simple, / fecund with meanings / to birth in us / some pleasant response. / / Or /
    162 words, 10 comments, June 10. In Thoughts. Reward
  • Uilleann those pipes they are that cry my Bardic heart, / and delve historic blood-deep memories, as I / in mystic interplay / listen to
    212 words, 1 comment, February 24. In Personal, Spiritual, contest, music
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  • on Return to Cliff Cottage by riveralex, on September 23

    As melancholy as the North Sea

    Lovely line, full of pain and victory: "And time brings grace Even to stones."

    You are at your lyric and descriptive best when dealing with coastlands and firths.

    JG

  • on Nine Four Time by quillsword, on September 10

    Very well crafted

    Poignant, emotive, how often do we compose in a breeze.
    An excellent word picture of the composer's frustration.
    Reminded me of Copeland or Bacharach or Cohen, or some such; stymieed by a creative block.

    JG