Pick of the day
Mysterious Veil On All Hallows Night
Posted by skinner_jennifer on Fri, 31 Oct 2025
Gaze through gossamer of
spider's web, other worlds
that appear beyond veil
most mysterious and
nebulous.
Hazy amorphous place just
out of reach, living beside
us, surrounding our world.
But when night comes
on Eve of All Hallows,
concealed in dark of
night...
do we feel when truly
believing? That there's
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Wobbling between this and that.
Posted by rask_balavoine on Mon, 27 Oct 2025
Death sat gaunt and unloved at the piano in Alice's drawing room after many years of silent tears and honey. His coattails fell almost to the floor behind him. Light from candles threw shadows on the walls as his fingers raced over the keys releasing shivers of Tchaikovsky than transported Alice to some place where she believed love could never touch her.Read morePoem of the week
Early Lateness
Posted by Turlough on Sun, 26 Oct 2025
If I could turn back time, I’d write a song about it.
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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point
Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 31 Oct 2025OOOH! Lots of lovely spooky stuff on the site this week! Hard choices for the Picks, but here they are.
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The Rialto Nature And Place Poetry Competition 2026
The Rialto Nature And Place Poetry Competition 2026
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The Paper Over The Cracks by Ewan Lawrie
I'm very pleased to announce that Ewan Lawrie's third poetry collection is now available. Here's what he says:
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Our Story and Poem of the Month for September, very kindly chosen by Ewan:
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Posting From Your Android Phone - Fixed!
Some of you have been having issues with posting your work using an android phone. Ewan and John our techie have been working really hard to fix this.
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Picks of the Month
Welsh Lessons-1
Posted by Ivan the OK-ish on Mon, 29 Sep 2025
WELSH LESSONS
April 1975, on the waste ground where the old abattoir used to be
“S’mae?”
“Sorry, don’t speak Welsh.”
“Just means ‘How’s things? We all say it here.”
“You Welsh?”
“No. But I’ve lived here almost all my life. I’m Nicholas…Nick, by the way. You’re Janice?”
“Guess everybody in the village knows that. Are we the first in this place?”
“First what?”
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