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Ali Farka Touré and crochet on a Sunday

By Bee on Mon, 19 Oct 2015

A tribute to the man

Spiritual

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Like a Baby

By Bee on Wed, 14 Oct 2015

A poem from my son

Autobiography

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Oh Poet

By Bee on Mon, 12 Oct 2015

Your rhymed reason for being is seeing and saying the scene from every available angle with word trick imagery, and truths alluded to with...

Miscellaneous

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Boy

By Bee on Fri, 09 Oct 2015

Going through old recordings ...

Autobiography

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Really liked this - and that

Posted on Wed, 10 Jun 2015

Really liked this - and that 'unsettling' (as Philip said) after-feeling. It's probably just me, but this line feels a bit awkward to me. - 'which I yawn out to relieve' Its a good description, but maybe it's the order of it - just doesnt sit...

Posted in On Comedown Hill

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I like the new title. Still

Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2015

I like the new title. Still love the scarf flirting with the breeze memory. I might be wrong, but this feels briefer - yet even more vivid in those unfading memories.

'I recall her sister’s red scarf flirting
with the breeze...

Posted in The Weatherman said...

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There's anxiety in this and

Posted on Fri, 05 Jun 2015

There's anxiety in this and loss; a longing in the slipping away. The coldness and fluidity add to the movement - everything leaving, but there's coldness, too, in the almost scientific description - like an unwilling acceptance of death. Filled...

Posted in Ice

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'We find an icon shop on the

Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2015

'We find an icon shop on the edge of a pilgrimage village
which we are in quite by accident.' - seems important because being there by chance means they are not there because of desperation - eg.

'In the fountain, a scattering of...

Posted in On the day you were made

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This is on fire. Lots if real

Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2015

This is on fire. Lots if real emotion. You turn repression into a drug. Brilliant!

Posted in Repression

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Insert, I was in stitches

Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2015

Insert, I was in stitches reading what you said, from finding nothing, to the dreaded thought of not only listening, but them thinking you were the sort of person to like Neil Diamond. Funnily enough, I turned down the offer of music, too. I just...

Posted in Panic Button

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What a longing is expressed

Posted on Thu, 28 May 2015

What a longing is expressed here! Wordless communication to last a lifetime, and the possibility it could have a lifelong impact on both sides is something only a child could appreciate, I think, at least until we close our minds and feel...

Posted in ‘Like Me’

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I loved the description of

Posted on Wed, 27 May 2015

I loved the description of her, backlit with the sun on her shoulder, and that you bring her back to mind as she was - then at end, the poignant evacuee story; buttons for eyes, so lovingly sewn on the bear. That was touching.

Posted in Journeys

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That's nice, but what about

Posted on Sun, 24 May 2015

That's nice, but what about the people of Vietnam ?

Posted in God Is Benevolent

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Looking at love in an honest

Posted on Mon, 18 May 2015

Looking at love in an honest light from all angles doesn't detract from the real Angels here. So much love in the writing, and between the sisters. I found this piece very moving indeed.