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touch of blue (another go at this)
between skeletal flames of beech trees, lithe in bud comes a doorway to Heaven where frail, scented bluebells shining in luminous indigo, rise from...
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just deserts
I wander beside the desert unfurling like a sea of chrysanthemum petals wondering, Do fish swim under those diminishing curves? For sure, there are...
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cock robin
Who killed Cock Robin? We, said the workmen, with chainsaws from our van, we killed Cock Robin. Who saw him die? No one - he could still fly, find...
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to pick up time
never done, the sea is a bed remaking itself over and over, so light never sleeps on the salt shot silk of its sheet and thoughts are beached shells...
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Hand Washing, Glasgow Central
Unfortunately, our ferry got in late because of the wind, so we missed the train we needed, to get to his appointment, but fortunately I had...
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Hi Isabel :0)
Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021
Hi Isabel :0)
Well Done! being brave and posting about how you feel, this is not an easy thing. It is what a strong, hopeful person does, someone who wants to make things better! There has been lots of advice from members of the site who...
Read full commentPosted in How do you forgive a parent?
Oh Iam so sorry! Your poems
Posted on Mon, 28 Dec 2020
Oh Iam so sorry! Your poems about your friendship are extremely beautiful, as any sonnet or love poem I have read.
While this poem is so tender and deeply from your soul it must make you feel like you are showing a wound to passing...
Read full commentPosted in Tawny Owl
This is so exciting to read!
Posted on Mon, 21 Sep 2020
This is so exciting to read! How many poems about wind there must be, but you have made it new. Particularly liked
"Watch it climb a house in a second like an upside down waterfall,
Watch it ballroom dance with a plastic bag And...
Read full commentPosted in I Want To Watch The Wind Dance
A terrible memory to be
Posted on Tue, 14 Jan 2020
A terrible memory to be carrying in you. I can only echo Insert and Rhiannon? I hope your shoulder stops hurting. I know what it's like to be near the bottom. The important thing is to find your choices, to know you are where you are because you...
Read full commentPosted in The policeman sat in the armchair
"Stars seeded"
Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018
"Stars seeded"
"they passed taxis, night buses, lonely punters stumbling on the long walk home."
"the Firth of Forth moving in glittering sheets below them. The bridge lights were reflected in the dark water as if a row of...
Read full commentPosted in Aura (19)
I love the hugeness of your
Posted on Sun, 22 Sep 2019
I love the hugeness of your poem, the importance of what is happening for you. I hope your new world fulfills all your dreams
Read full commentPosted in New World
what a great metaphor for
Posted on Wed, 19 Jun 2019
what a great metaphor for aging
We walked the plateau
Flat and scattered green
But now in this desert scape
Dragging our bags behind.
Pink is a halfway colour, isn't it? Unthreatening, which is why it's so scary...
Read full commentPosted in My Favourite Colour's Changed
You've conveyed all your
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
You've conveyed all your feelings brilliantly, specially how jobs are seen as defining people, so not having one makes a person a blob. And yet not having a specific shape/a slot to fit into, makes you able to go anywhere, the possibility of...
Read full commentPosted in Last Week I Lost My Job (Rimus Dissolutas)
BRILLIANT!!!
Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2019
BRILLIANT!!! This is absolute magic :0)
love "pale posy bunches" "coin wings" Wow! "seed-bulge" perfect . Also "far beyond their leafing"
well, all of it, really!
Insert, i wasn't sure what the trees across the road...
Read full commentPosted in The fruit of the elm
Very interesting to read his
Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018
Very interesting to read his story. I only really knew of him from hearing an interview about how by the time they let working class people into Oxford it was so dummed down there was no point going there, and that the elites never accepted him...
Read full commentPosted in Les Rowse, Philippe and I
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