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I am sorry I didn't see this
Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023
I am sorry I didn't see this companion to your one about cities. We are not so rural as those you describe in the second part of this poem, but even so, there is a big problem with "nothing to do, nowhere to go" particularly when it is raining....
I live where everything is within walking. It is brilliant, but there is not very much choice? I would not like it so much if there was no internet delivery. And if there is a problem with availability of a basic fresh grocery item (eggs at the...
you have brilliantly evoked the importance of trees! For birds and bees and us :0) I liked you having "flourishing" as I think of it as a conjuror sort of word and Spring flowering trees ARE magical. Well Done being POD :0)
Even living by the sea, reading your lovely poem I got that tingle of holiday magic :0)
I loved the contrast of high stillness and adjacent movement in
Thankyou for sharing another of your wonderful walks! How lovely to see a rainbow, they always seem like a gift making the landscape even more special. And I didn't know the word sessile, so learned something too as well as feeling refreshed by...
I am sorry I didn't see this
Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023
I am sorry I didn't see this companion to your one about cities. We are not so rural as those you describe in the second part of this poem, but even so, there is a big problem with "nothing to do, nowhere to go" particularly when it is raining....
Read full commentPosted in "15 minute walk to nature for all" aim
I live where everything is
Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023
I live where everything is within walking. It is brilliant, but there is not very much choice? I would not like it so much if there was no internet delivery. And if there is a problem with availability of a basic fresh grocery item (eggs at the...
Read full commentPosted in The 15-minute city
you have brilliantly evoked
Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023
you have brilliantly evoked the importance of trees! For birds and bees and us :0) I liked you having "flourishing" as I think of it as a conjuror sort of word and Spring flowering trees ARE magical. Well Done being POD :0)
Read full commentPosted in Relaxed Day In Summer
Even living by the sea,
Posted on Tue, 28 Mar 2023
Even living by the sea, reading your lovely poem I got that tingle of holiday magic :0)
I loved the contrast of high stillness and adjacent movement in
"Gulls suspended in silence - mid-flight,
gliding high over spume-dashed...
Read full commentPosted in Brean Down
dolls and cobwebs are such
Posted on Wed, 29 Mar 2023
dolls and cobwebs are such opposites, having them together immediately seems strange and dreamlike, you certainly evoke a dreamlike feeling with
"harvesting surreal visitations
for my soul, not knowing the
way to go; but...
Read full commentPosted in Dreaming
This moving poem by Ralph
Posted on Thu, 30 Mar 2023
This moving poem by Ralph about the power of Music is Pick of the Day, please do share and retweet if you can
Picture is James Brown on ABC Television's Music Scene, and is from :...
Read full commentPosted in Shame
Really enjoyed this, thankyou
Posted on Sat, 25 Mar 2023
Really enjoyed this, thankyou so much for sharing!
Read full commentPosted in The busy oven
Thankyou for sharing another
Posted on Fri, 24 Mar 2023
Thankyou for sharing another of your wonderful walks! How lovely to see a rainbow, they always seem like a gift making the landscape even more special. And I didn't know the word sessile, so learned something too as well as feeling refreshed by...
Read full commentPosted in Above Clunton
I loved the suggestion of
Posted on Tue, 21 Mar 2023
I loved the suggestion of bluebells in moonlight - had never thought of them this way
"half-moonlight, shades
with splendour held in"
Read full commentis GORGEOUS
Posted in Awakening Of Spring
You have fitted in all your
Posted on Wed, 22 Mar 2023
You have fitted in all your facts seeming without effort, a skillful, fun lesson about a Natural wonder
Read full commentPosted in Pacific Golden Plover
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