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Ashes To Ashes
It was dark in the beginning; a neutrino sat suspended in a vast array of nothingness. All things of real matter were frozen in an inanimate void of space and time. It was impossible to explain this vacuum -'it simply was
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At the Going Down of The Sun
A poem about a life
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Private Heaven
Memnock had waited for a thousand years. At least, he thought it was a thousand years but it could have been much longer than that; he didn't wear a watch after all.
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Chinese Whispers
I guess there was no way of knowing that things would turn out like this. As I stood and stared out across the moonlit, mountain vista, I reflected back on what had led up to this moment. When you're a mile high in the sky the air seems so much clearer and your thoughts become crystallised like a moth caught in an arctic freeze.
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A Working Complaint
It's been a hard day's night, And I've been working like a dog,
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There's that lovely rhythm
Posted on Thu, 25 Jan 2024
There's that lovely rhythm again. I like the way this flows, Rhiannon. Nicely done, as ever. Paul
[Is that intentional the way the title is spelt?]
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"..Stu looked up, he removed
Posted on Tue, 23 Jan 2024
"..Stu looked up, he removed his napkin from his lap, folded it and placed it on the table as if he’d suddenly been challenged to a duel...."
All caught up again. The exchanges around the dinner table are well done. You are inside the...
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"It was a star falling out of
Posted on Sat, 20 Jan 2024
"It was a star falling out of the sky with comets trailing behind it. Sputniks went off course and experienced gravitational wobbles. The QE2’s sister ship ran aground in Damuir Canal. An invasion of big boats and ocean liners were likewise...
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"..was left quite literally
Posted on Mon, 22 Jan 2024
"..was left quite literally high and dry
up the mountain road on a dead-end track."
There's a lot of drama in such a short poem, Rhiannon. We do get so attached to our cars, don't we? I enjoyed the ride and was glad of a happy ending...
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".. a cloud-bellied
Posted on Sat, 20 Jan 2024
".. a cloud-bellied necromancer..."
Such wonderful use of language in evoking a unique atmosphere to celebrate a "pie". Gorgeous.
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Well I've been to Inverness
Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024
Well I've been to Inverness so that makes me a third of a real traveller, I guess.
On my tour across the Golden Triangle in India, it was invariably air-conditioned coach excursions each day. There was a young couple with expensive cameras...
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Breathless, dramatic and cool
Posted on Thu, 18 Jan 2024
Breathless, dramatic and cool. Of course.
"As they say, shit roles downhill…" I had a boss that used to use this phrase all the time. It was always a coded warning to make sure you perform. Nice guy..
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Well I've read all 3 parts
Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024
Well I've read all 3 parts now. Your lilting style and wry humour makes it an effortless reading journey. You make the point that we make assumptions about people and places (almost certainly based on the images we see in the media). My lad...
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"Step into the forest
Posted on Sun, 14 Jan 2024
"Step into the forest
Contemplate the lake.."
Wise words, Penny. There's a whole industry in forest-bathing devoted to encouraging just that. Maybe we need to break the bonds of slavery to our electronic devices. They are...
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"So glad they weren’t out on
Posted on Mon, 15 Jan 2024
"So glad they weren’t out on the windy hill
with buffeted lamp and wintry chill."
A highly visual poem. I like the rhythm and rhyming aspects. It's a scene to be played out a lot soon with lambing season coming. I know farmers...
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