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Tempestuous Stirrings
No solace found in the night, what wakes and leaves me cowering beneath quilt? My childhood imagination speaks of mischievous fears, spine chilling...
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Carefree Days
Where spirit tune plays softly in drifting late summer stillness; Maple tree took rein of my heartstrings, rocked me beneath shady limbs, entwined...
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Expanding The Mind
Stirring impressions flood gallery, imagination now silently engaging; not on canvas...but with words, art dips and dives; passions reflect an...
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Stirring Forest
As Autumn turns to Winter's chill, forest hunger draws us where fallen dead leaves scrunch beneath boots. Whispered breath of timid deer in brushwood...
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Feathers Without Hope
Dear diary...poem about discovering a bird with a broken wing in a storm, on St Pete's Beach in Florida back in the early 90s. I recount brief...
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Hi Rhiannon,
Posted on Fri, 09 Apr 2021
Hi Rhiannon,
I'm so happy to hear you're finally managing to get out, if only for a stroll. I understand and do feel for you. You've captured a lovely bit of colourful nature here in your poem, which I always love to read.
Beautiful...
Read full commentPosted in Good Friday Stroll, 02/04
This is a wonderful piece of
Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021
This is a wonderful piece of writing Paul, you've captured so much of the colourful traditions and also the realities too. I admire you for not sitting around moping, but actually using this time to travel to India and discover the way of life...
Read full commentPosted in The Haunted Fort of Bhangarh
What an adorable poem
Posted on Thu, 31 Dec 2020
What an adorable poem Rhiannon, bought back some of my own happy memories.
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Read full commentPosted in Toddler opening presents
Hi Hilary, long time no hear,
Posted on Thu, 03 Dec 2020
Hi Hilary, long time no hear, hope you are keeping well.
Winter is a time I love so much, but like you say for many it's a time of rest and that includes the imagination.
I really hope we all continue to be inspired and are able to...
Read full commentPosted in Waiting For The Thaw
How amazing you caught these
Posted on Wed, 12 Aug 2020
How amazing you caught these spectacular photos in such great detail too, Your poem shows exactly how excited you must have been to see such a spectacal, a momentous poem indeed.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Film in the night sky
Hi insert,
Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2020
Hi insert,
like many other writers and readers out there, I don't know where I'd be without abc tales. For me it's been an addiction from the moment I joined in 2010 and has always felt like one big family that comes and goes over time. I...
Read full commentPosted in Needing Hugs
What a loving thoughtful lady
Posted on Mon, 20 Jul 2020
What a loving thoughtful lady your mum was Penny. Your poem shows that there is good in the world.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in "Anna's Blanket"
This is gorgeous Penny. I too
Posted on Wed, 08 Jul 2020
This is gorgeous Penny. I too am a night person, though I do not have the distractions of the day like you do. It's just me and my partner in our old age, but the night time inspires, as I can see it does for you. Being able to let go and just be...
Read full commentPosted in Random thoughts...
I don't think this is cheesy
Posted on Mon, 06 Jul 2020
I don't think this is cheesy at all. I went for a walk up on the ridge way and can completely understand how inspired you would be, it really shows in this beautiful poem. The gentle movement comes across of being part of the peace of nature,...
Read full commentPosted in Wind in Trees by Water
Your story reminded me of my
Posted on Sun, 17 May 2020
Your story reminded me of my own dad who died of cancer, he too was a great book reader. The bit about shaving your dad, I've been there too, it's so strange to think we never really know a parent until we reach that age we remember them at. ...
Read full commentPosted in the old geezer
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