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The return of the teabag
A teabag used to be just that A perforated paper bag That let flavour flood out. Then it became a technological masterpiece A heavily nuanced plastic...
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Flashing ambers
They flash for a reason Those amber lights If no one’s coming You’re free to go Just a quick look And you’re off Getting closer to that place Looking...
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Amanda
I go to the window with my eyes closed Stay there Breathe deeply Or am I sighing? I don’t know It doesn’t matter My eyes are still closed. Boom! I...
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Spain
Under Spanish law, rebellion is defined as ‘rising up in a violent and public manner’, so how can it be that twelve Catalan leaders are now in the...
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Dubrovsky
Don’t stop a man from dreaming his dreams A man is no man without his grand schemes Allow him, instead, to suffer his fate And rest afar for the...
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Love the cheesy bit at the
Posted on Mon, 01 Sep 2014
Love the cheesy bit at the end and the dippy sauciness of thought throughout. The atheist idea that we were magically generated from the primordial fart of universal nothingness is funny and I prefer to think we were a heavenly experiment to see...
Read full commentPosted in I expect God will be there
Lovely. I always get a shiver
Posted on Sat, 19 Apr 2014
Lovely. I always get a shiver when I go into church, probably because I'm Satan first born, but I'd dearly love to see some fireplaces dotted around in there. Always found it strange that they don't have chimneys. They'd get a lot more people in...
Read full commentPosted in A Short Muse on Churches
Very good. Sounds like a lazy
Posted on Tue, 01 Apr 2014
Very good. Sounds like a lazy teacher, especially when I read a comment like Vera's. She's said it all, bar the fact that you've captured something here, carefully, that needs to be bottled/ taken upon board the good ship.
Read full commentPosted in Mynydd Carningli (for TP's parents)
Absolutely brilliant! Jake's
Posted on Sun, 02 Mar 2014
Absolutely brilliant! Jake's bee problem is an excellent analogy to the much more dangerous bee that buzzes around Eve's mind. It draws the reader further into Eve's literary dilemma, and the interaction between her and George is polished as well...
Read full commentPosted in A Question of Sanity: Prologue
Breathtaking!
Posted on Mon, 06 Jan 2014
Breathtaking!
Great dialogue driven along by a voice that grips and surprises.
Read full commentPosted in Decisions
Sufferin' succotash,
Posted on Wed, 29 Jan 2014
Sufferin' succotash, Blackjack. This has the perfect balance of measuredness and conscious flow, an unfettered diagnosis of how a man's battle to find and maintain spiritual peace can never be placated by the outside world. Citing the chap next-...
Read full commentPosted in The Man Next Door
Very moving, so much so that
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2014
Very moving, so much so that I felt compelled to write something for the first time in what seems like an eternity. Better out than in, and I'm grateful that my Mum's care-home is in good shape compared to many. Thanks, Marion.
Read full commentPosted in Notes on the State of Adult Social Care - 1. The Standard High Backed Chair; Adjustable - Without Wings
Skin-crawlingly spellbinding
Posted on Wed, 11 Dec 2013
Skin-crawlingly spellbinding storytelling smothered in such suspense that it slaps and harries the reader to rest unnervingly close to the children as they run themselves ragged in this house of toxic shame. It doesn't do the mind any favours to ...
Read full commentPosted in One Winter's Day You Will Meet Your Maker
Back with a bang, and how!
Posted on Tue, 14 Jan 2014
Back with a bang, and how! Your words dollop blotches on an already brutish painting, imparting the madness of sexual conquest through the mindset of a badly wired woman. Her insatiable appetite for lost sailors is a madness all its own. Made me...
Read full commentPosted in Her 64th boyfriend
That was more like poetry
Posted on Thu, 12 Dec 2013
That was more like poetry than rant. The funny thing about where we are now is that, having searched and fought for freedom so hard, we appear to have lost sight of it completely. Without home wars for over 60 years, drugs and drink are the new...
Read full commentPosted in Nocturnal rant
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