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Go Now
(You are allowed to cheat the driver)
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Shifting Sands
The ebb the flow, the stay the go upon the shifting sands The ebb the flow the yes the no the water and the land I blew in on an August wind and some...
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Coimbra Haiku
Downtown cobbled view Too many up and down steps My wine party in. Past "backbreakers' climb Red slogans, wet sheets, communes Student dreampower...
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Why Feminism - Me too?
Two nights ago I was kept awake by my neighbour battering his girlfriend. Today I was in my garden. It’s all hunky-dory now and he is on the phone...
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Jupitermoon this is pretty
Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2014
Jupitermoon this is pretty real. I often tell myself that it is a waste of time where I live searching for a man my age as all the singletons are wedded to their pint of beer. You illustrate how this relationship can sometimes be unhappy....
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Great story and I love the
Posted on Wed, 28 Mar 2018
Great story and I love the island's name! One pedantic query - 'naturists'? Are the scientists walking round this place of recyled muck naked?
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Illustrates the pressures of
Posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2018
Illustrates the pressures of parent and offspring, the domestic everpresent 'elephants in the room'. The loon watching works well too. The last section would work just as well as writing if Dad said 'we can work together' and you then...
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Worth reading for the fishy
Posted on Sun, 11 Mar 2018
Worth reading for the fishy tips alone. I am in Portugal right now and yesterday was wet and windy but the 2 before were great, plane home today. You described your encounter with the fish vendor well. When Im an Englishwoman abroad I sometimes...
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Birds, minerals, .tabbystone,
Posted on Fri, 09 Mar 2018
Birds, minerals, .tabbystone, buildings, branches, music, light, dark, the sound of children , you make something solid yet mobile and everchanging out of all the pieces, as you walk through it. Lovely.
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I too like the dark riverbank
Posted on Fri, 02 Mar 2018
I too like the dark riverbank.
I'm functional about most things that matter but I forget books that I have read recently more than ones I read a long time ago. Also I'm a bit 'use it or lose it' with names of things. A couple of years ago...
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lovely. I opted for silly
Posted on Wed, 14 Feb 2018
lovely. I opted for silly irony yesterday and so did 'him down the road' Your moment is good.
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You feel hotels like I do
Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018
You feel hotels like I do Alan, the machinery, the atmo of anonymity, the lights in the opposite street. Hotels offer far more than a room and meals, they are an experience.
If you feel like playing with this again you could gut the...
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'It's an ongoing situation'
Posted on Fri, 29 Dec 2017
'It's an ongoing situation' to borrow a cliche. Back in the 70's Adrian Mitchell said 'most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.' Book reviewers for the broadsheets put me off for a while. These 'big experts' seemed...
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Enigmatic, gives the mood of
Posted on Sat, 16 Dec 2017
Enigmatic, gives the mood of a hermit. 'the big black side' sits at the heart of the poem, when I hear the poem in my head this is where the central emphasis falls.
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