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Pad Life 8: Protect Our Way Of Life
More thoughts from the Pad. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons.
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Pad Life 7: A Submission and Three Falls
An ongoing journal series. I'll number them one day. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Scream
Not a piece of writing but a self-indulgent howl, written for entirely self-indulgent therapeutic reasons. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Pad Life 6: The Elephant In The Room
The nights are drawing in. Closing the blinds may be the best option. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Tower of Strength Part 1 of 4
Re-posted in response to this week's IP - now available on Soundcloud. Link in text - despite repeated efforts, the link won't work when pasted here. Image: Author's own
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I'm with you on this one.
Posted on Wed, 02 Oct 2019
I'm with you on this one. The only place grey looks magnificent is on an elephant.
Read full commentPosted in Fifty Shades of Shade
A beautiful image, sitting
Posted on Sun, 12 May 2019
A beautiful image, sitting making music under a tree. All your pieces have the ability to make the reader feel both the permanence of the surroundings, and the impermanence of the people, particularly the narrator, within them. Our narrator is...
Read full commentPosted in Under the pines and the power lines
As well as the wonderful
Posted on Thu, 09 May 2019
As well as the wonderful descriptions you get in these poems, they are always so well constructed, so that the way the words are used, as much as the words themselves, help the reader to see what you see. Another beauty, Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in Transfixed!
I really enjoyed this, and
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019
I really enjoyed this, and then reading about the background to it made it even more poignant. What a wonderful memorial to your relative.
Read full commentPosted in 1944 (12miles south of Spa Belgium)
I am Delilah, and this is
Posted on Sun, 26 Aug 2018
I am Delilah, and this is being typed by the servant of myself and Zsa Zsa. I have a new game for Omar. Get your local vet to put either you or Mitsie on special expensive food that only the one of you is supposed to have, and then swap bowls...
Read full commentPosted in Omar's Diary - Sunday 26th August 2018
More than one journey is
Posted on Sun, 04 Dec 2016
More than one journey is explored in this wonderful exploration of pain and hope. That's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!
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Read full commentPosted in Journey to Minneapolis
Some very striking imagery -
Posted on Thu, 18 Jun 2015
Some very striking imagery - the one that stood out for me was the passage comparing Joanie's voice to a shotgun, 'her words repeating until the cartridge emptied, until her words were simple, hollow clicks.' I wasn't too sure about some of the...
Read full commentPosted in Buried Secrets
Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 16 Apr 2024
A beautiful poem about a very particular little quest, and it's our Facebook and X Pick of the Day! Please share if you enjoy it too.
Read full commentPosted in Wild Side Of April
Lovely hopeful ending, Paul,
Posted on Wed, 10 Apr 2024
Lovely hopeful ending, Paul, and yes, I think we probably all are buyers at the door waiting for hope. I'm such an old cynic I thought things would probably end badly for your protagonist, but they didn't, and that was a really nice surprise!
Read full commentPosted in Eclipse
That's a lovely bittersweet
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024
That's a lovely bittersweet ending!
Read full commentPosted in Dad's poet society
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