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Crab Customs
Since there is nothing upon the horizon these days except for a vast plane, dusty and barren barring the odd amorous pigeon and a few clusters of...
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Locked
When I woke up from my nap, my stupor as I call it since the line between wakefulness and sleep had thinned to a hairline’s width, I noticed how...
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How Long Can You Stew For, Before You Fall Apart? (3)
I love Joanne, sometimes she can be insightful and clever especially when it comes to people, she is intuitive and capable of picking apart people’s...
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How Long Can You Stew For, Before You Fall Apart? (2)
It wasn’t the first time I’d been stood up on the astral plane. However this was different, I was getting, dare I say it, lonely. I’m usually the...
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How Long Can You Stew For, Before You Fall Apart?
“How long can you stew for Before you fall apart?” That’s the little mantra I had going round in my head as I consumed a tin of baked beans. ‘...
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Interesting piece. The tree,
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2019
Interesting piece. The tree, once an ordinary sapling, with so many stories to tell and still causing intrigue inside an old church. It's hard to believe punishing nagging wives and mean merchants in this manner was considered normal...well not...
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Excellent poem, really made
Posted on Tue, 16 Apr 2019
Excellent poem, really made me think. There is something sad about the idea of us just passing through but that is what we are all doing isn't it. All those plastic Little Tyke wendy houses people buy for their kids are destined to outlive us all...
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This is a story which runs
Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2019
This is a story which runs along two time trails, the elderly woman searching through turbulent memory banks spanning decades. It reminds me of when my grandmother was lying in bed in her nineties, refusing food because she wanted to die, she was...
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I love the comparison to
Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2019
I love the comparison to glitter in a snow globe. How nice to walk along the sea to the supermarket and be seranaded by gulls, they don't have many tunes in their repetoire but I admire their enthusiasm and of course they are very busy at this...
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Green is so restorative. Just
Posted on Fri, 29 Mar 2019
Green is so restorative. Just reading this poem is like a pick me up Rhianon.
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Beautiful Rhiannon. The
Posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2019
Beautiful Rhiannon. The description of young lambs is dancing with their knobbly knees is perfect and spring wouldn't be spring without daffodils. They look so natural growing in the field in your photos, in contrast to my local council which...
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Wonderful tribute to a
Posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2019
Wonderful tribute to a prickly beauty. Bee-full I love. One of the best smells I've ever experienced was on a coastal path in Pembrokeshire in May, the sun was out and the gorse scented the air, to me it was not unlike Pina Colada. Generally the...
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It's a fail of a tale we
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2019
It's a fail of a tale we teach our kids. Bad deeds will be punished, if not in life then in hell, look around it's easy to tell, the few reap what the many broke their backs to sow with next to nothing there to show.
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Thank you, it is shocking but
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
Thank you, it is shocking but having a site like this to go and writing friends is a great comfort
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Wow, I like the way you have
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
Wow, I like the way you have described your human situation in horticultural terms. Move any established plant and for a good while it will be vulnerable in soil untrue.
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