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Fork Ahead!
DANGER! NO ENTRY! …Desire to peek … dabble and paddle … get back on the other track.
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For a while …
Her “will” was a “won’t” and her “won’t” was “I want”, but there’s safety in “don’t” and “No”, “Not now”, “Not anyhow” from loving parents with more...
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What, or Who, can you lean on?
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Trusting in his riches – riches fail, he’ll fall. Trusting in the Saviour – flourishing through all. Earthly...
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Repatriation
Coming home from war: Will things be as before? will Nellie be waiting? will the country be grateful for what we have done – has freedom been won...
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A sleepy mid-July mid-afternoon
Azure sky green leaves lie against the blue, and puffs of white float by. All is quiet except a wood-pigeon’s constant thrusting note. A car sweeps...
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My mother-in-law, nearly 95,
Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2014
My mother-in-law, nearly 95, has had no real contact with hearing/seeing the news for a long time. She read something brief recently, and commented, 'who would have thought in this day and age'. I was quite taken aback, realising she had...
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I'm not sure if I read this
Posted on Sun, 03 Aug 2014
I'm not sure if I read this before, but if so, I think if so I must have done so too quickly. I have now caught its picture more clearly, and really feel how it has captured much of both worlds quite simply, and effectively.
Read full commentIt reminds me...
Posted in Touring the City
I enjoyed your journey among
Posted on Sat, 26 Jul 2014
I enjoyed your journey among the changing shades. Your spaces are much more vast than in England's farms and countryside, I think.
Read full commentI looked up Leshenaultia, but it seemed to have a 'c' between the 's' and 'h', if I had the right plant....
Posted in Yellow Days
This is very well 'sculpted',
Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2014
This is very well 'sculpted', Bee, and the interweaving rhymes heighten the flow. So much unsaid, left to the imagination, including what kind of love could lead to such a parting, and the finality of not being able to yet ask that question...
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I liked this very much too.
Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2014
I liked this very much too. Concise, but not obscure. Actually, I thought that the rhino's horn looks like a pointed bone, so poetic licence! Particularly liked 'Labouring body lumbers' alliteration.
Read full commentand in the last lines...
Posted in Thandi
Well put, Taris. I think I
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2014
Well put, Taris. I think I would add that the desire to obey God needs to be there, though if it is really there then there will be a realisation of the need for his help to do so, and for his forgiveness of the constant failings.
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Posted in Burning Bridges
The contrast of escape to the
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2014
The contrast of escape to the garden peace, observation and imagination, with the tension of everyday struggles of communications and misunderstandings of relationship interestingly portrayed, Maisie. Rhiannon
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You leave us with wondering
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2014
You leave us with wondering about the background to this. Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in White Walls Of Hope
This is very touching, real
Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2014
This is very touching, real and vivid. The slow bereavement, the mind swimming about, but not agitated. The brevity and conciseness and form helps. Rhiannon
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Some lovely threads, and
Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2014
Some lovely threads, and detail again – so much beauty out there to see and feel, and you share and beckon us to look! Rhiannon
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