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StoryIs Silence your way of speaking? Yutka81 day 19 hours ago
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StoryFate Decided Yutka11 week 21 hours ago
StoryRevival Yutka41 week 21 hours ago
StoryMy Soldier Father's Body Brush Yutka51 week 21 hours ago
StoryI’m alive Yutka83 weeks 2 days ago
StoryI am the stillness Yutka147 months 3 weeks ago
StoryWhen I searched for you Yutka78 months 1 week ago
StoryTo Bite Hearts Black Yutka19 months 3 weeks ago
StoryThe Last Customer Jessiibear89 months 4 weeks ago
StorySteps Yutka210 months 2 days ago
StoryThe Ghost in the Machine Yutka1610 months 1 week ago
StoryFreedom of Speech Yutka410 months 1 week ago
StoryIf Jesus had an iPhone Yutka310 months 2 weeks ago
StoryWhat the caterpillar calls the end (for those who are becoming…) Yutka810 months 2 weeks ago
StoryGaffe! Rhiannonw1711 months 2 weeks ago
Blog entryYutka’s latest book: Yutka31 year 1 month ago
StoryComplicated Man Tom Brown131 year 2 months ago
StoryShower song queen beatle91 year 2 months ago
StoryCats Yutka61 year 2 months ago
StoryChildren of the Absolution Turlough301 year 2 months ago
StoryPerfect Synchronicity Yutka41 year 3 months ago
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Windows

Light casting shadows in corners it cannot enter persistent rain tip tapping or the wind searching for an entrance or an exit Do we look outside or...
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Is Silence your way of speaking?

New York, August heat, and your silence like a room I keep entering expecting you to be there. Three times I have written— postcards, small attempts...
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Cherry

Fate Decided

You saw me pretty as I sat My head held high, my ponytail with my red hair a sunny sight. You looked at me with narrowed eyes Your hunter’s face half...
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Poem of the week

My Soldier Father's Body Brush

Mind’s secret tool. Sole that has ceased to work for decades now, but in the past received impressions of dark war paths, overcast skies of Russian...
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Revival

Revival Your birthday in May, such happy month, breeding apple blossoms out of the dried brown branches, mixing sleep and awakening, stirring tangled...

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23 of my comments have received 24 Great Feedback votes

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Hi Ralph I think I have

Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026

Hi Ralph, I think I have discovered  a real poet here...I'm smitten....and that does not happen often. Brilliant poetry! I read lots now, and yes, your skill of expressing things, profoundly,  takes my breath away. Have you published anything?...

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Posted in A Steady Carry On

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Oh Jess, you made my day!

Posted on Sun, 25 May 2025

Oh Jess, you made my day! Thank you for your kind words.I thought no one likes this poem which was written heartfelt!

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Posted in Freedom of Speech

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Thank you for your lovely

Posted on Tue, 06 May 2025

Thank you for your lovely comments. I checked you site out too and read a fascinating poem about your beagle dog "axed" by some evil people....so sad. I spent many months in South Africa, off the tourist track. Never forget it, it's nature, it's...

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Posted in The Ghost in the Machine

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a moment from the past,

Posted on Tue, 15 Apr 2025

a moment from the past, recalled in this sparse poem, and still, tons of memories revived in waves of nostalgia...i loved this, Rhiannonw....also thank you for the last line....lovely! 

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Posted in Gaffe!

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"Separation is an illusion"

Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2024

"Separation is an illusion" these beautiful words evoke a feeling of being understood and finding a kindred spirit in this poet. I write about the same theme, near to my soul,  the endless wonder of creation and the unity between everything alive...

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Posted in A figure in the vast landscape

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It's called "poetic liberty".

Posted on Thu, 28 Nov 2024

It's called "poetic liberty".....thanks for your comment...

Yutka

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Posted in How to avoid the seemingly anavoidable

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I could not stop reading this

Posted on Wed, 30 Oct 2024

I could not stop reading this thrilling story! Well deserved golden Cherry!

Yutka

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Posted in Who Wants to Live Forever?

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Losing friends in our times

Posted on Tue, 10 Sep 2024

Losing friends in our times is a well known thing now. (I think I never lost as many as in the years from 2020 onwards...) As you say in your poem, the loss of God does not help, for there are eternal values, such as forgiveness and love and also...

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Posted in Reaching out …

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"assured they are always

Posted on Thu, 05 Sep 2024

"assured they are always first in line", this is a great discription of crows, the kind of birds I am fascinated with (wrote once a poem about crows...) we have a huge walnut tree opposite with many, many of them, I love it when they leave for...

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Posted in Contemplating Crows

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What a lovely comment! Thank

Posted on Fri, 23 Aug 2024

What a lovely comment! Thank you very much. This is a true story, Peter amazes us all. You see, patience is needed, it is never too late...

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Posted in Peter finally sits on my lap ((Lap year 2024)

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