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| Type | Title | Author | Replies | Last updated |
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| Story | Images to Ponder | Richard L. Prov... | 11 | 3 years 4 months ago |
| Story | A View From the Top | luigi_pagano | 8 | 3 years 4 months ago |
| Story | Wild Rose … | Rhiannonw | 17 | 3 years 4 months ago |
| Story | Memories Of You I Keep | skinner_jennifer | 27 | 3 years 4 months ago |
| Story | Reasons To Be Cheerful | luigi_pagano | 8 | 3 years 4 months ago |
| Story | Black Cats | luigi_pagano | 6 | 3 years 5 months ago |
| Story | Days of Wine and Roses | luigi_pagano | 6 | 3 years 5 months ago |
| Story | The Butcher's Dog | luigi_pagano | 6 | 3 years 5 months ago |
| Story | Zombie Apocalypse | luigi_pagano | 8 | 3 years 5 months ago |
| Story | pool, october | Di_Hard | 8 | 3 years 5 months ago |
| Story | Feeling Blue | luigi_pagano | 12 | 3 years 5 months ago |
| Story | A Reliable Source | luigi_pagano | 4 | 3 years 5 months ago |
| Story | Last Night, on Hallow's Eve | luigi_pagano | 12 | 3 years 5 months ago |
| Story | Comings and Goings | luigi_pagano | 6 | 3 years 5 months ago |
| Story | Behold The Faerie Realm | skinner_jennifer | 12 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | Thanks For the Memory | luigi_pagano | 4 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | The Glacier Bird | luigi_pagano | 8 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | A Retiring Lady | luigi_pagano | 4 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | A Double Act | luigi_pagano | 4 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | Retraining | luigi_pagano | 6 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | Boys and Girls | rosaliekempthorne | 8 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | A Suitable Job | luigi_pagano | 8 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | To Be or Not To Be A Poet | luigi_pagano | 8 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | Virtual Travel | luigi_pagano | 2 | 3 years 6 months ago |
| Story | Caught in the Act | luigi_pagano | 6 | 3 years 6 months ago |
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Every Dog Has Its Day
World Jellyfish Day - November the 3rd.(Image from Wikipedia - Creative Commons license)
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Of War and Peace
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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A Literary Ghoul
...of the old school.
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World Pasta Day
25th of October - World Pasta Day
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May You Live in Interesting Times
It’s better to be a dog in a peaceful time than be a man in a chaotic period. (Chinese proverb)
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A brilliant addition to your
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2020
A brilliant addition to your collection that has a great number of poems which show your appreciation and concern for the natural world.
Well done on Pick of the Week, thoroughly deserved.
Best wishes, Luigi
Read full commentPosted in You can’t cling to something once it has gone.
All Japanese poems are
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2020
All Japanese poems are syllabic, Di. There are several forms each containing lines with a variable numbers of syllables. The lantern poem with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1 is the most minimalist after the haiku, I believe.
Luigi x
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An atmospheric and nostalgic
Posted on Sun, 24 Nov 2019
An atmospheric and nostalgic poem, revealing the affection for a place that is the poet's spiritual home and the yearning that he has to return to his former abode. Enjoyed.
Regards, Luigi.
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Hello Di, I much enjoyed your
Posted on Thu, 14 Nov 2019
Hello Di, I much enjoyed your multilayered poem full of real-life images with which we all can relate.
Read full commentThe reference to toilet rolls made me smile as it brought to mind my latest purchase, a jumbo pack of 18 rolls at basement prices from a...
Posted in layers
I can sympathise with your
Posted on Tue, 12 Nov 2019
I can sympathise with your painful memory, Claudine, as I had a similar experience when a small tot. (Pun intended). After a party, the grown-ups had gone out the room leaving a few bottles of liqueurs behind. I and another child decided to drain...
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Many superstitions and fears
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2019
Many superstitions and fears are associated with graveyards. References to black magic and zombies were rife in popular literature and burial grounds acquired a mysterious aura.
Read full commentI remember when youngsters dared each other to cross a...
Posted in Graveyards
What a beautiful, lyrical
Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2019
What a beautiful, lyrical poem, Di, truly deserving of the cherries.
Read full commentThanks for sharing it.
I was struck by the coincidence of both of us writing about birds on the same day, yours on murmuration (starlings) and mine on ...
Posted in starlings
Geese and all birds are
Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2019
Geese and all birds are fascinating creatures, Claudine. The graceful ballet they offer during migration is spectacular. I never tire of watching their aerial displays.
Luigi x
P.S. Thanks for pointing out the typo, now corrected....
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I used to live in a town in
Posted on Wed, 30 Oct 2019
I used to live in a town in the north of Italy not far from Switzerland I once was in Lugano, which is in the Italian-speaking Canton of Ticino and wanting some information I asked a station porter if he spoke Italian and was met by...
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I detect in this poem the
Posted on Sat, 26 Oct 2019
I detect in this poem the sadness of an unhappy relationship which promised much but whose fragility is represented by the ephemeral life of the wild flowers in the bride's bouquet.
Read full commentThese anemones will wither and die like the marriage...
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