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323 of my comments have received 328 Great Feedback votes

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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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A lovely one, Paul.

Posted on Thu, 17 Sep 2015

A lovely one, Paul.

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Posted in A Picture Of You

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The pace of this accentuates

Posted on Thu, 17 Sep 2015

The pace of this accentuates the words beautifully, in places it is resurgent and then reaches a crescendo of uninhibited expression. Homage, indeed. Has echoes of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, too.

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Posted in Homage to Mr. Ginsberg

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This is so apt and carefully

Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2015

This is so apt and carefully arranged. That flower, that single human, how easily crushed but how esily helped, too. Worked with unaccompanied asylum seeking children from the point of dispersal - straight from lorry to hostel. All those one acts...

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Posted in Poem For a Flower

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This is really good. Shifting

Posted on Wed, 09 Sep 2015

This is really good. Shifting perceptions for your reader, mix of ghostly and surreal, the level of fine detail I tend to expect of your work. 

 

Have deliberated if it should open: 'It was starting to rain when I arrived home that...

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Posted in Smudge

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Hi Jesse, it's an interesting

Posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2015

Hi Jesse, it's an interesting read. Some lovely metaphors and descriptions.

Difficult to follow without paragraph breaks. Perhaps you could put those in?

Think you could cut Adolpho's detailed character description - height, clothes...

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Posted in The Funeral

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Beautifully done. Could read

Posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2015

Beautifully done. Could read a book of your poetry. It's such a lightly handled piece for the displacement and loss inside. 

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Posted in Stockholm archipelago

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This is lovely -

Posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2015

This is lovely - contemplation and self analysis at the cemetery. The internal struggle interrupts half way through and pushes the picturesque poem out of the way, just as anxiety often does. I hope you post more often. 

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Posted in In a cemetery.

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It's a vaccum, the hospital,

Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2015

It's a vaccum, the hospital, an exclusion that even seems to slow thought down. There's a life inside there that you don't give a second thought unless you're admitted and you can't help noticing finer details, going back to the smaller world you...

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Posted in In Windows

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Ed, this is really absorbing.

Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015

Ed, this is really absorbing. I love the 'phone conversation and the description is quick, moves you along with crisp detail. May I make a suggestion - would it work if you started with 'Number 47 was suffering. The paint had peeled..' It drops...

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Posted in Repo Part 2 (Jason's last Repos)

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