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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 607157 times and 283 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1943 of my 5,929 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2001 votes

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Found this so comforting and

Posted on Thu, 03 Dec 2020

Found this so comforting and reassuring as these lines resonated strongly with me:

 

like waiting landscape

relentlessly endures,

 

that you come to the uplifting conclusion

 

take comfort and...

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Posted in Waiting For The Thaw

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What a lovely poem! From the

Posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2020

What a lovely poem! From the first line about the end of the day belonging to cats all the way through to the last line which made me think that your memories from the photos were so bright they were like the moon and your going back to look,...

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Posted in Memories Of You I Keep

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you go out walking, and  in

Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2020

you go out walking, and  in the clear air and nature's shapes, your mind feels safe to fly free, exposed as black wings in a white sky. And then you are brought down,  confronted by grotesque evidence of our cruelty. The shock and horror of...

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Posted in Rooks

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 I LOVE  "layers of

Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2020

 I LOVE  "layers of invitation" but also, how you shift meaning all through, like waves in a harbour, and end with the lobsters' point of view. It is a wonderfully satisfying poem seeming simple but with lots going on underneath (like a harbour,...

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Posted in Season's Advent

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Agree with Airy about the

Posted on Sun, 25 Oct 2020

Agree with Airy about the language, it is wonderful eg "fragile display of gliding, twisting and diving"

and with Hilary about the names, Bleel particularly

I wish I had fairy help with the housework :0)

you have "rouge"...

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Posted in Behold The Faerie Realm Part Two

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Arg! Dreamies!  Tina stopped

Posted on Mon, 26 Oct 2020

Arg! Dreamies!  Tina stopped eating Whiskas and I was panicking thinking she was ill - had not realised my partner had become an alternative Dreamies supplier and she was on the way to a Dreamies Diet plan...

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Posted in Clara

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So many billions of ties of

Posted on Mon, 26 Oct 2020

So many billions of ties of love we have broken without thought. The distress, confusion, despair.

I think I remember a David Attenborough program about Clara. She did survive about half the lifetime she should have had, didn't she? The...

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Posted in Clara

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Oh! This is a treat!So GOOD 

Posted on Sat, 24 Oct 2020

Oh! This is a treat!So GOOD  to have a magic story from you. Really looking forward to the next part

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Posted in Behold The Faerie Realm

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"a careful weave of courage"

Posted on Thu, 22 Oct 2020

"a careful weave of courage" is wonderful! Thankyou for putting a link to the photo, too, neater sewing than mine and am not even using grass. Is good to read a hopeful poem from you, hope things better today

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Posted in A Tailor Bird’s Song To A Spider

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beautiful

Posted on Wed, 21 Oct 2020

beautiful

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Posted in The Red

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