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322 of my comments have received 327 Great Feedback votes

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Some interesting descriptions

Posted on Tue, 06 Oct 2015

Some interesting descriptions. The formal language is distancing though - seems some grammatical errors in the translation.

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Posted in Fun Filled Days (Revised)

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Beautiful simplicity worked

Posted on Sat, 03 Oct 2015

Beautiful simplicity worked in to this story. Particularly love the lines: cradled her weightless corpse upstairs, undid her dress... It feels very personal as though we are voyeurs to this intimate confession.

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Autumn days when the grass is

Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2015

Autumn days when the grass is jewelled...A gorgeous piece full of the colours of fall and putting summer to bed. Is it meant to be 'silvered.'

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A weak child rehabilitating..

Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2015

A weak child rehabilitating.. Echoes of the sickness that ravaged her immune system still there and the burn conveys how virus / disease feasts on the weakest. A slow burn to the poem - your pauses and breaths used to striking affect. Her...

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This is lovely. Warm and

Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2015

This is lovely. Warm and thoughtful, full of liberating love, animals unleashed, a sense of the happy go lucky threads through it. I agree with Bear. Your ending would be more resonant without that last apology. But it's just a thought on a minor...

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Posted in If you love someone

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Found this deeply moving. I

Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015

Found this deeply moving. I think it's the simplicity you've opted for. Not that it isn't complex but your colloquial dialogue, those deliberately chosen acts of togetherness don't seem a big deal until that last stanza. You nail that fear and...

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Posted in 'Mine's a Saveloy!'

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The personification of that

Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015

The personification of that black dog is really powerful. All that darkness and the confines of the mind well conveyed, here.

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I like this. Opening stanza's

Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015

I like this. Opening stanza's rhythm sounds like a train on tracks. Is that intentionally worked or magic? I know, I know. Lots of relationship debris and the allusion of violence, hot on many well-cultured heels. Your subject(s) often feels...

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Posted in Kickings from my Sweetheart

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Brilliant, Tina. Inspired and

Posted on Sun, 20 Sep 2015

Brilliant, Tina. Inspired and often found, well paced, conveys the ghastly small talk and life going on.

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Posted in Why Does it Always Rain at Funerals? (Poetry Monthly)

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Really scenic and

Posted on Thu, 17 Sep 2015

Really scenic and transporting.

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Posted in On A Cloud

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