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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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Was totally involved, you
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Was totally involved, you have great details, like the bathwater washing over the edge, and the kitchen chair scraping, Bruce going round and round before curling up. It was very moving to read, particularly when he was in the bath. And the end/...
Read full commentPosted in With or Without You
Enjoyed this very much! Is
Posted on Sat, 08 May 2021
Enjoyed this very much! Is the birthday of the narrator significant? All the details are brilliant, particularly the bit about intern for Markle :0) I wonder whether in a populist system Elgar would be played over loud speaker? Maybe latest...
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This is so exciting to read!
Posted on Mon, 21 Sep 2020
This is so exciting to read! How many poems about wind there must be, but you have made it new. Particularly liked
"Watch it climb a house in a second like an upside down waterfall,
Watch it ballroom dance with a plastic bag And...
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"Stars seeded"
Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018
"Stars seeded"
"they passed taxis, night buses, lonely punters stumbling on the long walk home."
"the Firth of Forth moving in glittering sheets below them. The bridge lights were reflected in the dark water as if a row of...
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what a great metaphor for
Posted on Wed, 19 Jun 2019
what a great metaphor for aging
We walked the plateau
Flat and scattered green
But now in this desert scape
Dragging our bags behind.
Pink is a halfway colour, isn't it? Unthreatening, which is why it's so scary...
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You've conveyed all your
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
You've conveyed all your feelings brilliantly, specially how jobs are seen as defining people, so not having one makes a person a blob. And yet not having a specific shape/a slot to fit into, makes you able to go anywhere, the possibility of...
Read full commentPosted in Last Week I Lost My Job (Rimus Dissolutas)
BRILLIANT!!!
Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2019
BRILLIANT!!! This is absolute magic :0)
love "pale posy bunches" "coin wings" Wow! "seed-bulge" perfect . Also "far beyond their leafing"
well, all of it, really!
Insert, i wasn't sure what the trees across the road...
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Very interesting to read his
Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018
Very interesting to read his story. I only really knew of him from hearing an interview about how by the time they let working class people into Oxford it was so dummed down there was no point going there, and that the elites never accepted him...
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You are quite right Tom, it's
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
You are quite right Tom, it's just a collection of nature scenes. It's just that I realised that someone from centuries ago could have seen them, too. And while I think of the wood as a beautiful place to go and see the sun and hear the birds....
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I liked this very much,
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2026
I liked this very much, slight as a breeze, but with the sense of hope for change
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