Pick of the day
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Posted by Di_Hard on Sun, 13 Sep 2020
Pooled, this mild September day
from waves of work (or guilt when not)
once each year
picking blackberries
from prickly cataracts
of free sweetness pouring
over the old school’s walls
where children used to play
or creep away from canings
(now blackbird’s gentle chuck chucks
spring from fruit-spangled thickets)
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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point
Another wonderful selection to choose from this week. Thank you to everyone who's posted something.
Big congratulations to winking_tiger for 'Green' which is our Poem of the Week, with a very honourable mention for ralph's 'Bucks from a Cuban'
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Our Story and Poem for the month of August have very kindly been chosen by hudsonmoon:
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2020 POETRY BOOK AWARDS - GOOD NEWS!
It's always great to share good news, so when I saw this today I thought it definitely deserved a place on our front page.
Our very own Ewan has just found out he's made it to the long list for the 2020 Poetry Book Awards! You can read about it here:
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GAIA'S ANGRY DAUGHTER BY SYLVIA CLARE
Gaia's Angry Daughter is a new collection by Sylvia Clare - sylviec on ABCTales. Here's what she says about it:
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Illicit Exercise
Posted by Philip Sidney on Tue, 18 Aug 2020
I’ve taken to running around the field behind my house -
you might not call it running -
but there is an element of privacy the field affords
which enables me to drop the detail
of speed and style.
The field belongs to a school and strictly speaking
no one but they should use it –
but all the households that back onto it
have fashioned secret gates into fences.
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