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That's Not The Way I Go
That’s not the way I go. I go Through the knotted hedgerows In the folds of misty trees. I stop to listen to the music Spirits rustling in the...
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Mash Potato Thoughts
All I have are mash potato thoughts That is, not thoughts of mash potato Rather thick cloying thoughts, meaningless That stick in your frontal lobe...
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Silver Skin
Young man lucid as an onion Silver skin thin and flint bones Jutt-jabbing from his span frame He shrinks under himself and Waters up as likely as a...
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The Volunteers
What became of the volunteers? At school they raised their hands Stretched them to the ceiling tiles While I looked down and made Myself as invisible...
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Drivers
My world is full of drivers Alone inside their spaceships I watch them going by See the furrows of their faces Eyes anchored to the road But the mind...
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I love this and so would Bee.
Posted on Wed, 08 Mar 2017
I love this and so would Bee. It's so hard for women when absolutely everything gets sexualised. Sadly I think it might be getting worse. Are we our own worst enemies? Occasionally but mostly we're not, just trying to survive and be all and...
Read full commentPosted in Boldly a Woman
It sounds lovely, socialising
Posted on Wed, 23 Nov 2016
It sounds lovely, socialising, mature style, comforting and fun bar a few physical restraints. An interesting, beautiful poem.
Read full commentPosted in The old Heifer and the Two old Bulls at Peace
I never really thought about
Posted on Thu, 09 Jun 2016
I never really thought about how much history is in a millstone, what toil and how many lives nourished by the flour. Beautiful and interesting peom, very much enjoyed Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in Memorial
Beautiful and sad. Yellow,
Posted on Thu, 26 May 2016
Beautiful and sad. Yellow, the colour of a glimpse of eternal hope. Thanks for bringing her writing to my attention, had a little look, she lives on in words. Sorry for your loss x
Read full commentPosted in Yellow for my daughter
Crikey, is this a Suffolk
Posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2015
Crikey, is this a Suffolk thing, like pargeting? Very amusing. Bring back the park keeper I say, he'll sort them out with his rake.
Read full commentPosted in the shared park
Love this, 'winter ending so
Posted on Fri, 20 Nov 2015
Love this, 'winter ending so soon'. I can imagine how he feels; New Year for breakfast, Easter for lunch, Christmas for dinner. Time can fly and drag all at the same time. I do hope that elderly lady was doing something nice in her garden - how...
Read full commentPosted in An Ill Wind
Wow, do you work for Reading
Posted on Tue, 17 Nov 2015
Wow, do you work for Reading Borough Council? This is brilliant, repellent, hilarious, well-written and the rest. Don't think I can eat dinner now though.
Read full commentPosted in my colleague
Really enjoyable and
Posted on Tue, 17 Nov 2015
Really enjoyable and uplifting Rhiannon, making sense of the gloom, my least favourite month but you made it more beautiful.
Read full commentPosted in November
This is so beautiful, from a
Posted on Wed, 04 Nov 2015
This is so beautiful, from a place felt, breaks the lines which separate what we perceive as our reality from the rest.
Read full commentPosted in Nights Such as These
Rhus typhina - Stag's Horn
Posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2015
Rhus typhina - Stag's Horn Sumach x
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