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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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Scozen :0) Thank You so much
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Scozen :0) Thank You so much for reading. You come from Loch Lomond! We live on one of the islands, but may be moving to be nearer Edinburgh, as my son has a place at Napier, and it is going to be a wrench. I am so happy to have taken you back to...
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not sure you meant "marking
Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025
not sure you meant "marking time" like this, but i love the idea of the patterns in the sky being a huge, incomprehensible angelic version of our clock face. I really liked "languorous" too, as it sounds like long, giving another impression of...
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How lovely to find such a
Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2025
How lovely to find such a treasure, out of the blue! Your Father's poem so full of love. I am glad to hear you filled your postcards all up, as I used to, also :0)
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In memory of Seashore, this
Posted on Fri, 29 Oct 2010
In memory of Seashore, this beautiful poem is Pick of the Day. Please do share if you can
the photo is from here :
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Posted in St Ives, Summer 1993
You are right, Luigi! I hadn
Posted on Sat, 09 Aug 2025
You are right, Luigi! I hadn't imagined when first getting a computer decades ago, how very important this would be, to make friends which I find hard in actual life. Your poem is a lovely tribute to those whose kindness and talent flowed and...
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I have been learning a little
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
I have been learning a little about what happened to witches, how terrifying it must have been. And so many people killed! One website said women in Scotland would have been relieved when Cromwell invaded, because he stopped the witch hunts!!!...
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your description of tower
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
your description of tower blocks, how unnatural they are, is brilliant. You are explaining Jam's feeling of detachment as a grown up so well, why he struggles to have roots, because he started off the ground
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THANK YOU SO MUCH :0)
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
THANK YOU SO MUCH :0)
Read full commentPosted in before Floris
your top photo is GORGEOUS!
Posted on Fri, 08 Aug 2025
your top photo is GORGEOUS! Thank you for sharing your wonderful walk, I hope, too, that you are not built round and keep your peace and space. It seems a big problem, the building homes without health services or schools, far from supermarkets...
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Thank you for understanding.
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Thank you for understanding. This side of the island seems saturated in peace, I wish so much it could be shared, all the terror and despair eased
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