Jane Hyphen

The Easter Rat

By Jane Hyphen on Mon, 05 Apr 2021

He’s got a rat, Mango’s caught a rat! Mango can’t catch anything.. He was once hit by the Amazon van, It broke his pelvis, his back, his tail. Let it...

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Open Gardens

By Jane Hyphen on Thu, 01 Apr 2021

‘I didn’t sleep Jackie.’ ‘Maybe you should stay at home this morning. I can get everything we need from Sainsbury's and the garden is looking...

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The Cheesemaster Cometh.

By Jane Hyphen on Wed, 31 Mar 2021

The cheesemaster cometh, Sweaty, stilton thighed. He’s bitter-sweet. And as strong as Equinoctial tides. An omnipotent being. He’s fat. At almost...

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I am a Fruit Cake

By Jane Hyphen on Tue, 23 Mar 2021

I am a fruit cake. I have good ideas but I never act on them. They dry out and are preserved in a sweet syrup of optimism. There are always more,...

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I love the idea of the empty

Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2020

I love the idea of the empty road, being like an eel, is it sloping? And the way you've animated your surroundings in the absence of human life. Suddenly the nature around us had greater significance because it carries on, flourishes, it's so...

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I don't know how I missed

Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2020

I don't know how I missed this, what a treasure. Brain scans have shown that looking into a forest in full leaf is restorative, rather like sleep. Access to safe, green spaces for all - and if that isn't possible then poems like this help a lot...

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I really enjoyed this, it

Posted on Tue, 10 Mar 2020

I really enjoyed this, it brought back so many memories of feeling absolutely free on summer evenings with no worries and so many opportunities stretching out, and of course trees are the backdrop of life.

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I like this a lot, it's

Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2020

I like this a lot, it's unique and reminds me a bit of Hans Christian Anderson and the way he sometimes wrote from the perspective of an object. I also like the way you have avoided the cliche of exhibiting pride around damage.

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Light is an infinite resource

Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2020

Light is an infinite resource, if only everyone could know that. Thanks celtic - hope you're well

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This is very fine, especially

Posted on Tue, 04 Feb 2020

This is very fine, especially the first verse, it made my mouth water. Even pavement cracks hold possibilities, I love. It's a shame people don't spend much time outside when it's cold in February because there is so much happening.

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Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares

Posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2020

Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares is an example of everything which is wrong with the human race. I enjoyed this piece about the little conflicts that occur inside our heads and reasons behind them. I can lose myself in the mug section in Homesense...

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A fine tribute to these

Posted on Sun, 02 Feb 2020

A fine tribute to these incredible animals, to think they were once a staple part of our diet. I enjoyed the slippery, fluid movement throughout. A shimmering length of muscle, who needs legs?

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This stands on its own like a

Posted on Sun, 29 Dec 2019

This stands on its own like a piece of art. I really love it.

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Hi Rhiannon. Thanks for your

Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2019

Hi Rhiannon. Thanks for your comment. I agree with you, some people cannot accept help or are so far gone that they don't know how to ask for it and yet those connected with them would have done anything to help.