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J is for Jingle Bells and Jackdaws (another go at this)
bright sound from high, cold night of promise drawing near dusk; like roofs' slates took flight with joyous jew's harps' cheer
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I is for Icing and Ivy
concealing sweetness spreads white, on all made before lushly sheltering birds' first food in next year's store
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H is for Holly (for sale and for song)
Tied wild tamed by gold spray fussily ossified bright red in gloss green sway where feasting blackbirds ride
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G is for Glitter and Gorse
scattering sparkle specks outlast family trees bully wind's brash frolics fresh gold unfurlings tease
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F is for Fairy Lights and Frost
fossilised Life's dark fires strings of electric sweets skimming crystal empires as blue sky's bright heart beats
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The hare episode is brutal.
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
The hare episode is brutal. Bobby is a brilliant best friend, his solidarity, about the hare's blood dripping onto your bike. Your Mum is so strong! I think the laughing must have got her through, I love the hilarity that flickers all through...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 4 - The Horror
This lovely :0) Echoing what
Posted on Sun, 14 Dec 2025
This lovely :0) Echoing what Insert says. Best wishes for you and all your family XXX
Read full commentPosted in "Christmas with a Child's View" (....Santa Claus, Pere Noel, Father Christmas, Sinterklaas, Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle....)
Beautiful writing. You know
Posted on Fri, 12 Dec 2025
Beautiful writing. You know how to convey to the reader completely your experiences, rich, vivid, human. I loved "The table felt like an organism, warm and loud and insistent, wrapping itself around all of us."
Read full commentAlso liked very much "ladled...
Posted in The Kitchen Door
there are different forms of
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
there are different forms of attack though? Your best admonitory poems are light as rapier thrusts, not wishy washy, but swishy swashy :0) You are literary Errol Flynn
Read full commentPosted in The Vexation of Nikolai
Hadn't realised this was to
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
Hadn't realised this was to be a whole SERIES!!! BRILLIANT NEWS :0) Your description of grown up telly is perfect :0) "These programmes are just a load of old men in their bathers pretending to fight with each other in a square thing called a...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 2 - The Bicycle
This whole piece is BRILLIANT
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
This whole piece is BRILLIANT :0) I LOVE your family banter :0)
Just 2 favourite bits
"I wanted to know how he knew which rock samples were boring and which ones were interesting but he had already told me I was asking too many...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
This reminiscence from
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
This reminiscence from Turlough is gold all through, so had to be Pick of the Day! Please do share this wonderful writing if you can
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So glad this is Poem of the
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
So glad this is Poem of the Week! I read it but didn't have time to comment before. It is so rich! I love it, Thank You so much for posting, Jenny :0)
Read full commentImagining the clouds outside your window all preening their fluffy bits in hope you are...
Posted in Happiness Of Anticipating Inspiration
I looked up his poems, so
Posted on Fri, 05 Dec 2025
I looked up his poems, so much energy, certainty!
Read full comment'The fool is honoured everywhere,
"He's rich" they say, and do not care'
I don't remember celebrating any of England's great writers the way Burns is, here. It's brilliant that...
Posted in When Botev Peaked
"Winter's wardrobe" is great
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
"Winter's wardrobe" is great :0) Made me go back to re read your wonderfully descriptive poem, imagining C.S Lewis's White Witch
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