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• Sailor-Man by Edwin James Brady 118 lines, 4 comments
• The Crocodile by Roald Dahl 26 lines, 4 comments
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• Allama Muhammed Iqbal Written by Faisal Hanif by Faisal Hanif, from I-Like-Rhymes
  Most of us, poetry lovers or others, have read Allama Muhammed Iqbal at least some of him somewhere. To many he remained hard-to-understand philosopher poet. Iqbal has written pure poetry too which is equally remarkable. I like Dr Iqbal, one my favourite poets. I find his poetry the most interesting, most intriguing and most touching. It leaves an indelible mark on reader's mind. I vitalize his style also his gift for conciseness and frugality.

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• rbruce
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  on Sailor-Man by Edwin James Brady, 17 minutes ago

  I like the way the way the sailors vernacular is used throughout and fits the rhythm and flow of the poem perfectly The author obviously knows the way of the merchant sailor very well and probably experienced much of what he wrote in the poem.
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  I-Like-Rhymes
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  on "Back To The Army Again" by Rudyard Kipling, 7 hours ago

  Goose Stepping

  For Morag
  The Victorian Tommy used the term goose stepping to refer to marching in reference to the goose's rather obvious left-right left-right waddle (especially fast paced units such as the DLI).
  The high stepping German drill we now think of as goose-stepping was much more emphatic than that and derived from the Stechschritt (piercing step) and Stechmarsch of the Prussian Army
  The term came into common parlance following a Cartoon in 1936.
  Jim
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  I-Like-Rhymes
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  on Sailor-Man by Edwin James Brady, 8 hours ago

  An excellent piece of writing by someone who knows his stuff.
  It points out just what a real sailor would think about the sloppy, sentimental, bilge that land-lubbers used to sing and talk about "a sailor's life"
  Although Brady doesm't appear to have been a sailor himself he will have met enough real sailors in his job as a wharf clerk to know what they actually thought.
  He has also done a good job in conveying the language of the day too.
  This would make a good recitation piece or monologue.
  Jim

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