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Wool
Lambs follow the others from the meadow, with its sweet grass and yellow flowers smiling back at the sun, into the mountain folds, the secret places...
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Breath
I listen hard to hear the low drone carved from air drifting with the wind across space and time a sound from those distant hidden places where quiet...
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Ice
I think of it out there, at night creaking, weighty, floating dreaming of the next transformation hydrogen hydrogen oxygen loosening bonds the slow...
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Revision
Retake students gaze, nod, scribble they must do better must grasp how to go beyond the formula ‘What can I write instead of: this poem is to...
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Remembering Burnt Norton
We sat in the folly and light May rain tip, tip, tapped through new-green leaves on old trees a mingled scent of soil, bluebells, mildew, memory the...
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Lovely spooky stuff.
Posted on Fri, 19 Feb 2016
Lovely spooky stuff.
Read full commentPosted in The Everlasting Pie
The weight lifted, such a
Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2016
The weight lifted, such a wonderful feeling.
Read full commentPosted in Restrictions lifted (Poetry Monthly)
I like the use of rhyme here,
Posted on Wed, 17 Feb 2016
I like the use of rhyme here, has a gothic weight to it.
Read full commentPosted in The Evil Eye
I enjoyed these musings.
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2016
I enjoyed these musings. 'Love is a temporary, biological imbalance', is true, but there again that's what we are too. Love is such a complicated word.
Read full commentPosted in Time To Love ?
Completely feasible.
Posted on Sun, 07 Feb 2016
Completely feasible.
Read full commentPosted in The Coldplay Problem
Your description of meanings
Posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2016
Your description of meanings dissolving into the surreal is a great metaphor for the reaction to transforming news.
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Full of the wisdom of
Posted on Fri, 29 Jan 2016
Full of the wisdom of experience. 'ish' is a wonderful suffix, a word in its own right.
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Glistening moments contained
Posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2016
Glistening moments contained by controlled structure, you make these moments ours too.
Read full commentPosted in The Way of Rain...
A horrible experience, I was
Posted on Sun, 17 Jan 2016
A horrible experience, I was once crippled by them but haven't had one for years, so it will probably pass, if that helps at all.
Read full commentPosted in Panic attack
From the freedom of the sky
Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2016
From the freedom of the sky to what lies at the heart of things, wonderful in its layers.
Read full commentPosted in My Family and Other Animals
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