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preserving time
When this pan's hot, usually it's dull- full of potatoes or lentils. Tonight, blackberry juice simmers fathomless and darkest purple as the pupil of...
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flotsam and jetsam
On the beach, among litter a herring gull fledgeling, dead beside a Happy Birthday balloon background : Soothed in vast freedom and insouciance of...
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jormungandr
Some things will never change. At Summer's height bright as a plastic butterfly, the Fair unpacks on the Prom.
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suddenly
Grey cloud-palm presses down crushed air trees still as puppets hanging from their strings waiting a hiss across fields...... becomes patter on...
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fallow
A sheet of tall stemmed notes, soft rushes, grow yellow-ochre, golden-green, and with brown flower rests rustling, make fresh glissando tides of...
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Hadn't realised this was to
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
Hadn't realised this was to be a whole SERIES!!! BRILLIANT NEWS :0) Your description of grown up telly is perfect :0) "These programmes are just a load of old men in their bathers pretending to fight with each other in a square thing called a...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 2 - The Bicycle
This whole piece is BRILLIANT
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
This whole piece is BRILLIANT :0) I LOVE your family banter :0)
Just 2 favourite bits
"I wanted to know how he knew which rock samples were boring and which ones were interesting but he had already told me I was asking too many...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
This reminiscence from
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
This reminiscence from Turlough is gold all through, so had to be Pick of the Day! Please do share this wonderful writing if you can
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
So glad this is Poem of the
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
So glad this is Poem of the Week! I read it but didn't have time to comment before. It is so rich! I love it, Thank You so much for posting, Jenny :0)
Read full commentImagining the clouds outside your window all preening their fluffy bits in hope you are...
Posted in Happiness Of Anticipating Inspiration
I looked up his poems, so
Posted on Fri, 05 Dec 2025
I looked up his poems, so much energy, certainty!
Read full comment'The fool is honoured everywhere,
"He's rich" they say, and do not care'
I don't remember celebrating any of England's great writers the way Burns is, here. It's brilliant that...
Posted in When Botev Peaked
"Winter's wardrobe" is great
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
"Winter's wardrobe" is great :0) Made me go back to re read your wonderfully descriptive poem, imagining C.S Lewis's White Witch
Read full commentPosted in "Winter Constitutional"
Loved today's Diary :0) So
Posted on Wed, 03 Dec 2025
LOVED today's Diary :0) So much made me smile! Does Hasan know how famous he is becoming? He and Johnny Ten Levs and the old ones who sit by the fountain when the sun shines. Your vet!
I am glad if you have a better tea pot at last :0)...
Read full commentPosted in The Strange Case of Dr Gunchev and Crazy Ludo
Dip into slow-time of wide,
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
Dip into slow-time of wide, cool silence in this wonderful new poem from Queen Beatle, which is Pick of the Day!
Please change the image if you want to. It is from here :...
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If only one survives, does
Posted on Sun, 30 Nov 2025
If only one survives, does that mean Alexander dies from hypothermia? Or that Alicia is killed trying to kill those who hurt her? You have finished with even MORE questions!!!
Read full commentI hope you post the other strands of this story, to answer them...
Posted in Alexander (16)
What a treasure chest month!
Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025
What a treasure chest month! I love the colours of the mountainside trees! And the photos on the gravestones. And is Manoushka the cat in your photo, looking so contented? Even with so much that is wonderful, I would NOT LIKE to live with no...
Read full commentPosted in Nor Any Drop to Drink
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