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Spindrift
I am no longer there cannot see standing horses bending heads against the wind leaning into each other sharing warmth dreaming waiting nibbling...
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Bathing
Take in the kitsch candy colours of the Blue Lagoon, limpid aqua pools, backlit, like pictures of Jesus or Elvis, frilly lime algae floats, languid,...
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Trolls
Trolls look down from the ridge at those who pass watch colours change they know each rock how light reveals the curve of the land how shadows...
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Cod War
A low key Icelandic harbour, one jaunty fishing boat, the salting-shed is shut, gulls swoop, ducks bob on the swell, their Frankie Howard, 'ooohs'...
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On Not Seeing the Northern Lights
I never have seen the Northern Lights, you sent pictures from your garden after I had left, beautiful, but you said an image cannot capture how it...
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Great story with a shocking
Posted on Fri, 28 Aug 2015
Great story with a shocking end.
Read full commentPosted in That White Man In The Corner
Lovely imagery, a mythic feel
Posted on Thu, 27 Aug 2015
Lovely imagery, a mythic feel, ancient and present at the same time.
Read full commentPosted in Through fragrant Esplanades
Immensely readable, I look
Posted on Thu, 27 Aug 2015
Immensely readable, I look forward to part 2!
Read full commentPosted in Cafe By The Sea- Part 1
Love this, and the notion of
Posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2015
Love this, and the notion of a running tree. Your poem is light but runs deep, how we cannot be free to be who we are, very well put.
Read full commentPosted in Baobab
You describe this feeling so
Posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2015
You describe this feeling so well, I had some teenage years of silence. You certainly are eloquent with your unspoken written words!
I would edit a little to fine tune, words like 'just' and 'probably' etc. to sharpen it even more.
Read full commentPosted in Soundless
Lovely, the structure is like
Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2015
Lovely, the structure is like a curtain, drifting back and forth in a breeze, little snatches of memory and the settling.
Read full commentPosted in Falling Asleep
What a brilliant dramatic
Posted on Tue, 04 Aug 2015
What a brilliant dramatic monologue. So convincing and compelling.
Read full commentPosted in The Road to Hell (Poetry Monthly)
Some very powerful images
Posted on Mon, 03 Aug 2015
Some very powerful images here.
Read full commentPosted in This Ragged Saviour
Gorgeous images, full of
Posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2015
Gorgeous images, full of gentle drift.
Read full commentPosted in Ten Things I Love...
An interesting meta poor here
Posted on Fri, 24 Jul 2015
An interesting meta poor here. I would lose the commas after 'terror' and 'ask' and capital letters at the start of a line that do not follow a full stop.
Read full commentPosted in The Crash
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