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cotyledons
winter fingered earth safed. Now joined as prayer clasped hands they come up from darkness forgotten hopes open for the sun. Fragile, green growing...
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on the way to the letterbox
On trees, sky high blossom's pure, untouchable pink. Fallen, fresh soft coolness mixes with dust and thorns.
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wind
Come home from far across the sea no soft shawled shoulders welcome the wanderer - nor familiar comforting arms catch me from the race, save me from...
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hearth song
This is not a flame quivering in every misunderstanding or longing that flares in the pull of absence nor forest fire, consuming all needs, breath...
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Walking home from shopping 8/3/18
You know how, if you find a piece of quartz on the beach and hold it up to the light you can see white, cream and amber fractured bright as the...
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"what you understand is
Posted on Wed, 06 May 2020
"what you understand is darkness" Powerful! Those first four lines are so sad. No possibility of nature v nurture
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covagants :0) Or is
Posted on Tue, 05 May 2020
covagants :0) Or is that mixing root languages?
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a feeling of glory, golden,
Posted on Mon, 04 May 2020
a feeling of glory, golden, then gone. Splendour is the word
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"shoal-less silvered fish"
Posted on Sat, 02 May 2020
"shoal-less silvered fish" that's so scary/lonely, reminded me of in films when the tether breaks on a spacewalk. "silvered" makes it magic, and sad. And I love the alliteration! This line will be my mind-worm for today I think!
I...
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I find this too! People are
Posted on Fri, 01 May 2020
I find this too! People are more likely to smile and say something even than before, to make up for going round, or saying thankyou if I go round. And people talk in the queue outside shops, where before they would just go in. Maybe to make up...
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This is how I imagine being
Posted on Fri, 01 May 2020
This is how I imagine being in a bobsleigh, exhilarating and liberating, with the potential for terrible injury if the person it is about finds you out. Particularly liked
"she’ll squeeze your life
Til the dreams fall out"
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wow! what GORGEOUS
Posted on Wed, 29 Apr 2020
wow! what GORGEOUS alliteration!!!
I started copying and pasting bits, but it was basically the whole poem
love this
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this is great, the insight,
Posted on Wed, 29 Apr 2020
this is great, the insight, the rhythm :
"When anger and resentment form the core, everything on top is window-dressing: the character is not believable, the traits of affection, generosity are badly carried off. I see this daily.
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That is intense observation.
Posted on Mon, 27 Apr 2020
That is intense observation.
The poem gave me the impression of the writer stuck at the bottom of a pond with something that has been there a long time and is sinking. The writer is stuck as if snagged on a piece of rusty metal, but he is...
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They ARE greyhound trees!
Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2020
They ARE greyhound trees! How brilliant of you to think of this! Graceful, light and whippy. My favourite tree :0) Have you heard the rhyme
if the oak is out before the ash, we are in for a splash
but if the ash is out before the...
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