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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth" Albert Schweitzer
we breathed each other's breath. It was enough once you sheltered within me. We were one before fences. I grew to know burning, soon you chose to...
February Rainbow
snow cloud's blue, bomb ominous, blooms through beech trees' fragile dark raised bars that seek to cage west's brutal storms rampaging from unbroken...
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BBBB
In rows, shining stems and identical, (almost) spikey tips, grey. Where could each take me? Their names gave nothing away : HB, 2B, etc pointless as...
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Z is for Zing
home's in coming, going and holding time between in mud's dark-under, Spring rememberings begin image is by Boris Drenec off Flickr https://www...
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Y is for Yule log and Yew
wood many suns' knowing, felled, burns through year's fear wall bird sown life outgrowing religions' rise and fall ~ this photo is byJonny Andrews...
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One bright side is that, if
Posted on Wed, 21 Jan 2026
One bright side is that, if you had got super successful ages ago, all of us on ABCTales now might not have known about your writing, and got to tell you how much we love it? Also, your life might not have been so rich, all the people you have...
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Sherlock sounds like a really
Posted on Mon, 19 Jan 2026
Sherlock sounds like a really good friend. I like the juxtaposition of this bit very much -
Above us, the stars were scattered like glitter on a blackboard, and a crescent moon rode a cloud like a beached galleon in the night. And yeah, I...
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Agree with all above comments
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Agree with all above comments, this is wonderful
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Another great plot twist :0)
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Another great plot twist :0) Also, Gwladys continues to be a brilliant heroine ! If a dinosaur poked their head through the kitchen window, she'd not spill her tea :0)
Read full commentPosted in Ending (Episode 35 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid)
Sounds like you were a child
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Sounds like you were a child in a desert where all that grew were expectations like huge prickly cactus. Every seedling you planted withered. Parents don't always know best though? My Mum told me once I was impossible to love (advice, never ask)...
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She must have been a very
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
She must have been a very brave person. Thank you for your poem, it is one to read many times, as Turlough says. You describe brilliantly the wonder of life growing inside, made unescapable doom because of a few words in a book unsaid
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Thank You for your beautiful,
Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026
Thank You for your beautiful, very personal IP response Jenny. I don't know anything about Laycock, but it sounds like a good place to hold such a precious memory of your Mum
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Thank You for this wise
Posted on Fri, 09 Jan 2026
Thank You for this wise IP response Rhiannon. That's a clever idea of hatred being cold, prejudice frozen in, and hearts need to become warm, to gain the fluidity of tolerance
is there a typo here?
"in amger will just escalate"
Read full commentPosted in Oh, for Stirrings and Softenings!
This perfect conclusion to
Posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2026
This perfect conclusion to Beanzie's intense, immersive collection of poems about Timmy, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Read full commentPosted in My Dinosaur Era Chapter 53 [The Actual Full Epilogue]
i love your conversations
Posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2026
i love your conversations with people like your dentist and vet :0) I imagine you going about everywhere making them laugh and they making you laugh, and you writing it all down to make us laugh :0)
Read full comment"I suggested to Dr Gunchev that, because...
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