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• Sailor-Man by Edwin James Brady 118 lines, 3 comments
• The Crocodile by Roald Dahl 26 lines, 4 comments
• The Glass Of Beer by James Stephens 12 lines, 65,535 comments
• The Living Book by Charlotte Fiske Bates 6 lines, 0 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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  I-Like-Rhymes
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  on "Back To The Army Again" by Rudyard Kipling, 6 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, 6 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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  Charley Noble
  7 hours ago
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  on Sailor-Man by Edwin James Brady, 7 hours ago

  Edwin J. Brady

  I've just gotten a copy of THE WAYS OF MANY WATERS, 1899, and will be harvesting and posting more poems by this poet. I find it fascinating stuff, truly a portal to another time and place.
  
  Cheerily,
  Charley Noble, Oldpoetry Team

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