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Poetry Day Pastoral
Thought I'd repost this for World Poetry Day.
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In the Green Time
Mari loved this time best. It was late afternoon in the garden. The children fresh from their bath, darted about in unison, like pale rooks before...
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Endurance
Sisyphus knew daily endurance how absurd, the behaviour of living. Plastic handles cut off the blood 6 bags of tins, why tins? lugged along the long...
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Land of Clouds
The Myth of Kupe’s discovery of Aotearoa (NZ), as told by his wife, Hine-te-aparangi.
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Beautiful tiful and atmospheric, a
Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2015
Beautiful and atmospheric, a sense of the past, the exterior heat interior cool and intimate and the religious artefacts hinting at penance. How the lives of parents before children become mythic.
Read full commentPosted in On the day you were made
Great narrative running
Posted on Wed, 03 Jun 2015
Great narrative running through your poems. I'm completely hooked. A complex relationship, how childhood shapes us.
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Incredibly moving. The
Posted on Wed, 03 Jun 2015
Incredibly moving. The structure of your poem works so well with the story gradually unfolding and a shiver of emotion I for th reader in each stanza.
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This is so immediate, you
Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2015
This is so immediate, you give such a sense of the moment, I felt my heart beating faster and space shrinking, constricting breath, wonderful, frightening poem.
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What an unusual story. Very
Posted on Mon, 01 Jun 2015
What an unusual story. Very imaginative.
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This is so visual. The
Posted on Thu, 28 May 2015
This is so visual. The natural and the human world. The transitory nature of life with something immortal and timeless beneath. Lots of layers and things to think about here.
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Full of energy and passion!
Posted on Tue, 26 May 2015
Full of energy and passion!
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Beautiful, strange and sad.
Posted on Wed, 27 May 2015
Beautiful, strange and sad.
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Strong images and ideas in
Posted on Wed, 27 May 2015
Strong images and ideas in this poem. Buses are such a place for witnessing the lives of others, what we see or choose not to see. Great first post! Look forward to more.
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She needs to lay off the
Posted on Sat, 23 May 2015
She needs to lay off the organic substance...
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