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Glancing Back
We stood at lakeside...camera poised, I thought about time flowing rapidly; imagined we were two water lillies floating on calm water, laughing at...
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Shelter For The Weary
Each year I journey through the seasons where guardians commune with earth, share awareness of mother nature's embrace; a place where the elemental...
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Under Late Spring Sky
Dear diary...although my attempt to create a patch of meadow didn't go to plan, I will hope to try again next year. These are my thoughts in a poem...
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When All I Need Is Artistry
It was the pulse of life beating that encouraged my love to write, then within a language unfurls where those passions are understood; so then I...
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In A Place Of Respite
In forest dream, I draw on such sensations, my world suspended between sky and earth; where tiny insects crawl, some fly to unhurried silence,...
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Hi Penny,
Posted on Sun, 14 Dec 2025
Hi Penny,
I have to say this is one of the best Christmas poems I've read since:
The night before Christmas when all round the house, nothing was stirrring not even a mouse.
Beautifully written with great rhythm and rhyme....
Read full commentPosted in "Christmas with a Child's View" (....Santa Claus, Pere Noel, Father Christmas, Sinterklaas, Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle....)
It's so sad that there was so
Posted on Sat, 13 Dec 2025
It's so sad that there was so much conflict between Catholics and Protestants, it must have been even worse for the children, not really understanding what the problem was and having friends that came from the other side of what the parents...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare’s Breath 3 - The Accident
This is such an endearing
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
This is such an endearing read Turlough. Your young voice comes across perfectly and I can just imagine you all sitting in the van. I'll bet those kids that made fun of your dad's van were just jealous and that's why they made fun.
Me and...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
I had to look up Hristo Botev
Posted on Fri, 05 Dec 2025
I had to look up Hristo Botev, as I knew nothing about this man. I discovered he was a poet who was in exile for a good part of his life because of his beliefs in dignity and freedom. He wrote poems of the mountains, rivers and fields and there's...
Read full commentPosted in When Botev Peaked
Making plans is so easy when
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
Making plans is so easy when you're young, but as we age the anticipation is great, but the actual doing is something else that's harder to cope with.
You've explained this in your poem very well Rhiannon.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in An elderly dream
A haunting story that's
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
A haunting story that's morally concerned with the mother's distinction of right and wrong. It made me wonder how much the children missed out on being rebellious. Their lives were so controlled.
Very much enjoyed reading.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in The Provider (Part 2)
I love the mystery behind the
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
I love the mystery behind the presence that lingers. On to next part with anticipation.
Jenny.
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Oh! Dear, so Hasan's dream
Posted on Wed, 03 Dec 2025
Oh! Dear, so Hasan's dream machine would probably suit the likes of me and my partner,..she says grinning...
Read full commentPosted in The Strange Case of Dr Gunchev and Crazy Ludo
This is so special Penny, it
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
This is so special Penny, it sums up the magic of winter. Love the idea of Barren branches sway and shiver, and Subnivean creatures scurrying underfoot, then the Owls screeching in the canopy Sounds carried on howling winds. Could picture the...
Read full commentPosted in "Winter Constitutional"
Such an interesting patchwork
Posted on Mon, 01 Dec 2025
Such an interesting patchwork of diary entries and comments going on Turlough. I was so sorry to hear about Ludo's cat fight injuries, It must be so hard on you both going backwards and forwards to the vets and I know how hard it is to keep cats...
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