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Film in the night sky
[from our garden, north Herefordshire 11/8/20] A realm lights up in the sky momentarily, between cloud mountains: gone in a flash, but reappearing...
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How does the little beetle spring?
More than 200g g-force experienced at take-off (– extremely extreme); and each time it can jump over 200 times its body length, (like a man jumping...
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Like Sheep
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Wandering far for lusher grass, sheep cannot give thought to the bogs and pits they pass where they could get caught. Need a Shepherd to control, where they drift and roam …
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“Let’s Party!”
“Let’s drink and be merry – who cares if we carry a virus – we’re well but bored, want a …"
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Safe Space
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … space for all from fears to hide. Safe because … As you struggle in this place … ’till reach danger-free ‘home-base’.
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From an extremely brief
Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2015
From an extremely brief offering to a very lengthy one! Certainly not sure I've followed it all (though as usual your rolling, rhythmic rhyming is very effective), but the thoughts that come to mind at the end are that there was a new start after...
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A dream like mix of memories
Posted on Sat, 12 Sep 2015
A dream like mix of memories and imaginings and hopes to ease the stress? (did you mean 'dreams of memories' rather than 'dreamt of memories' in the last stanza?)
gifting treasures in the form of shells and gleaming gems –- a...
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Enjoyable scene as Bee says,
Posted on Sat, 12 Sep 2015
Enjoyable scene as Bee says, and a clever use of the IP without making the colours too dominant. Rhiannon
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Oh, the tragedy and agony
Posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2015
Oh, the tragedy and agony that no-one, especially the mother, was watching over her wisely, perceptively, nurturingly. Rhiannon
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How intriguing, Terry! There
Posted on Thu, 10 Sep 2015
How intriguing, Terry! There seems such a lot that can be unpacked from that: the fading things that come to life again, the relivening of the daze dismembering December (January sometimes seems a daze to people after the excitement of the end of...
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This brought back memories!
Posted on Wed, 09 Sep 2015
This brought back memories! My mother (recently widowed) coming awhile and calling herself 'chief cook and nappy washer'! the full buckets, and the feeling, 'I feel totally ignorant, but only I can really understand and help this child at all.'...
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This is very moving, Terry –
Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2015
This is very moving, Terry – and it 'moves' well! I take it it's metaphor after metaphor to show the distress, the emptiness, the tragedy of the feeling of hopelessness at losing her. And that certainly comes over, and especially with the...
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Interesting comment on a hard
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2015
Interesting comment on a hard day. You are one able to make the best of inactivity and even pain with observations and imaginative thought. This reminded me of that Poetry Monthly about windows. Your views out, and the trains of thought...
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Again, you've got into the
Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015
Again, you've got into the child's mind, and can empathise. Won't be long before the routine is friendly and familiar! that can be a bit of a shock for Mum too!
Read full commentLast line schools – school's ? Rhiannon
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Certainly surreal, Terry, and
Posted on Sun, 30 Aug 2015
Certainly surreal, Terry, and having fun with how many of the rhymes you could weave such a tale around I guess! And keep the rhythm going. It's always interesting to see the traditional mediaeval myth feel of such tales interjected with the...
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