Yutka
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| Type | Title | Author | Replies | Last updated |
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| Story | Manners | GlosKat | 8 | 3 weeks 6 days ago |
| Story | I missed the dentist | Yutka | 1 | 1 month 3 days ago |
| Story | While he was at work | Yutka | 1 | 3 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Is Silence your way of speaking? | Yutka | 8 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Windows | Yutka | 4 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | A Steady Carry On | ralph | 8 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Absenses | ralph | 5 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Fate Decided | Yutka | 1 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Revival | Yutka | 4 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | My Soldier Father's Body Brush | Yutka | 5 | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | I’m alive | Yutka | 8 | 4 months 6 days ago |
| Story | I am the stillness | Yutka | 14 | 11 months 1 week ago |
| Story | When I searched for you | Yutka | 7 | 11 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | To Bite Hearts Black | Yutka | 1 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | The Last Customer | Jessiibear | 8 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | Steps | Yutka | 2 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | The Ghost in the Machine | Yutka | 16 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | Freedom of Speech | Yutka | 4 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | If Jesus had an iPhone | Yutka | 3 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | What the caterpillar calls the end (for those who are becoming…) | Yutka | 8 | 1 year 1 month ago |
| Story | Gaffe! | Rhiannonw | 17 | 1 year 2 months ago |
| Blog entry | Yutka’s latest book: | Yutka | 3 | 1 year 5 months ago |
| Story | Complicated Man | Tom Brown | 13 | 1 year 5 months ago |
| Story | Shower song | queen beatle | 9 | 1 year 6 months ago |
| Story | Cats | Yutka | 6 | 1 year 6 months ago |
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I missed the dentist
The dentist kept my chair for half an hour. No tooth was pulled. No drill complained. No polite assistant called my name. Only the empty room did...
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While he was at work
The sink ran all afternoon. He had left early, as always, boots by the door, the smell of bleach settled into the hallway. You came when the house...
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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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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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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?...
Read full commentPosted in A Steady Carry On
Brilliant! I read it twice,
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2026
Brilliant! I read it twice, made me laugh....very good observation. And yes, the thoughts come up in the night- mostly. Point on..
yutka
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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!
Read full commentPosted in Freedom of Speech
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...
Read full commentPosted in The Ghost in the Machine
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!
Read full commentPosted in Gaffe!
"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...
Read full commentPosted in A figure in the vast landscape
It's called "poetic liberty".
Posted on Thu, 28 Nov 2024
It's called "poetic liberty".....thanks for your comment...
Yutka
Read full commentPosted in How to avoid the seemingly anavoidable
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
Read full commentPosted in Who Wants to Live Forever?
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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"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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