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This is wonderful. Like Airy

Posted on Thu, 05 Aug 2021

This is wonderful. Like Airy I had to look up the Greek words - the idea of beautiful evil is new to me. The misogyny Helen faced, you make it so real. Despite the glamour all these poems have and the larger than life feeling you have created,...

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Posted in I, Helen -Parts 1 and 2

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Thankyou so much! You are

Posted on Fri, 06 Aug 2021

Thankyou so much! You are very kind reading all these, you must think "Oh no! Not another blinking poem about climate change!"

If it has any merit at all it is thanks to Tina, as every time I thought it was ok she would sit on the...

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Posted in fallow

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Was there an earlier version

Posted on Tue, 03 Aug 2021

Was there an earlier version of this? Sure I remembered normal being a myth? It's a great message, I wish it was tought in school instead of the opposite, that you have to be the same to belong - where would orchestras be if everyone had to play...

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Posted in Saccades of Sands

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I like "peeped staccato" very

Posted on Fri, 06 Aug 2021

I like "peeped staccato" very much, always find it hard describing bird sounds, but this is perfect, delicate

I would not dare to have the sky as a love :0) a surrogate parent perhaps

beautiful, rich poem

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Posted in White Sailors

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You have described these

Posted on Wed, 04 Aug 2021

You have described these foxcubs so well! So many great observations -

"squeal, cavorting amid brilliance of/security light" Cavorting brilliant, sort of exciting and unusual, just as seeing the foxes

"See a rustling spill of fading...

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Posted in Foxy Till Dawn

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Good for Willow!

Posted on Sun, 01 Aug 2021

Good for Willow!

That's a spooky thought, being manipulated by herbal tea, a brilliant idea though, that herbs could cause introspection etc as well as the more expected things like calmness. Perfidia's concern she might start feeling...

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Posted in "Willow's Tail" 14

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I love the line "the sun, a

Posted on Sun, 01 Aug 2021

I love the line "the sun, a child that sails away" it makes me happy and sad, thinking about my own, growing up?

I had to look up what it was. And then felt all Lammasy as the Co Op has run out of lots of things lately so had to do all the...

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Posted in Lammas

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what an amazing dream!

Posted on Sat, 31 Jul 2021

what an amazing dream! Thankyou for sharing :0) Your imagination is wild! I wish I dreamed like that, but reading your account is wonderful :0)

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Posted in Compelling Dream

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There is such a feeling of

Posted on Fri, 30 Jul 2021

There is such a feeling of snarling sensuality in this poem! Frustrated strength covering fragility. I thought the voice was brilliant, am really looking forward to the next pieces, and how you weave them together. ps loved the Greek neighbours...

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Posted in Notes by Menelaus on Helen’s Abduction

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Agree with Jenny, it's always

Posted on Fri, 30 Jul 2021

Agree with Jenny, it's always good to see you have posted another story - India is my favourite, though :0)

Is that a cat and a dog sleeping back to back in your photo?

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Posted in A Lick of the Cat and the Muck of a Duck

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