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Meeting with a Dark-edged Bee Fly
‘You look kind of menacing?’ ‘Oh really, tell me more…’ ‘That long proboscis thing, It’s rather like a sword.’ ‘It’s for getting at the nectar In the...
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Phantoms
Phantoms, that’s all we ever were, Vapour trails melding in the rush hour. The same shades of green flicker past And morse code blinks winter sun...
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Happy Mother's Day
Mother of dragons The cat’s mother The martyr who reminds Us how it was so much harder The numb mother numbering The days from when it started And...
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Strange Beings in Strange Times
Something changed. People crawled out from under rocks, Wiped the moss from their heads And headed out alone or in choleric pairs, To where they...
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Imagine if we Didn't Feel Pain
Imagine if we felt no pain No stinging thorn to dock us To the margins of our term Or cuspate pin to hold us Down upon this sober ground We’d be...
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This is a lovely snapshot in
Posted on Fri, 08 Mar 2019
This is a lovely snapshot in time Rhiannon. I feel like people stretched their imaginations a little more back then and then was less shame in choosing something a bit different and making use of what you had.
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Yes she did @Di_Hard and Rod
Posted on Sat, 02 Mar 2019
Yes she did @Di_Hard and Rod and Karen didn't know how to react because that's not their currency.
Read full commentPosted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (3)
This is beautiful Jenny.
Posted on Sun, 03 Mar 2019
This is beautiful Jenny. There is a sense of nature being effortless yet it always trumps human creations. I love the idea of it all being at your back door, I'm the same, I really appreciate my little garden and as one thing fades there is...
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I love it too, it's
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019
I love it too, it's unconfined, perhaps you are a bird after all.
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A storm, however brief does
Posted on Thu, 14 Feb 2019
A storm, however brief does seem to bring with it a change of behaviour in our wildlife as well as the palpable change in atmosphere. This is a lovely tribute. I really enjoyed 'globules released from dark sky splashing.' We missed most of the...
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I too love the arrangement
Posted on Tue, 12 Feb 2019
I too love the arrangement Rhiannon, it really works and of course the theme is perfect for February, the soil warming and those seeds about to burst unseen with so much in store.
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'Somewhere like yesterday'
Posted on Mon, 11 Feb 2019
'Somewhere like yesterday' sad truth in these words and it's a beautiful poem too. Thanks for linking it to mine. I also love to see work inspired by other writers on here as I'm so often inspired myself.
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Thanks celticman. Your
Posted on Mon, 04 Feb 2019
Thanks celticman. Your comments in riddley rhyme motivate me time after time.
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I love 'pure pearls' Rhiannon
Posted on Mon, 04 Feb 2019
I love 'pure pearls' Rhiannon and also 'rich greening'. They are such a pure little flower braving the cold and warming the beds for the spring flowers to come.
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It's so beautiful Rhiannon, I
Posted on Sat, 02 Feb 2019
It's so beautiful Rhiannon, I don't think I've ever seen one of these birds and your poem is a graceful tribute.
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