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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
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Gold heavy galleons, round hulls banded velvet black, yellow, orange, white, sail- wings catching rainbows make their own wind between ports - wide...
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Gold cherry

later

Woods' edge, evening, mid july. Walk through tall, wirey grass, make a dozen daddy long legs zizz up, spark-like in sideways sun, though each returns...
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Cherry

Instead of throwing money at the sky

wouldn't it be great if there were a race to zero carbon between the world's most powerful nations? So much harder to achieve than rockets in zero...
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Cherry

to bee

In shade most of the year, infront of a curving wall not quite road nor verge at tarmac's edge a large fuscia bush drops stiff silk particoloured red...
Cherry

giving ground

we surprised each other, far in leaf-locked woods, layered tree tops tent-poling a pale cloud roof in mizzle-tingling new made air, as birdsong...

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2062 of my comments have received 2127 Great Feedback votes

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That sounds a bit of an

Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025

That sounds a bit of an ordeal! But you describe it brilliantly! Must have been scratchy and hot, as well as a bit scary, incase turning an ankle on the hard ground. Glad you made it out safely to record in this poem as your track :0)

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Posted in Immersed in barley!

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How you describe your

Posted on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

How you describe your experience is funny and made me smile Rhiannon, but must have been frustrating! And your description of your Father in law, too.

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Posted in Undisentanglable!

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Hoping babies are more

Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025

Hoping babies are more treasured, if fewer. Have to say, though, that I don't know any young people who are confident about future prospects. This drive to replace all jobs with machines of some kind, (now even creative opportunities), and at the...

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Posted in Population decline

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What an Inspirational poem!

Posted on Sat, 31 May 2025

What an Inspirational poem! Thank you! i will write it out to put by my laptop :0)

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Posted in Float Downstream.....

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Agree with Claudine - GREAT

Posted on Sat, 31 May 2025

Agree with Claudine - GREAT cliffhanger from stepping off the kerb :0) I liked your descriptions of the green grocer's too. And the pressure of people's lives and possibilities on the bus

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Posted in Dead Man: 3

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i love how always you weave

Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025

i love how always you weave time into your poems about Ireland. Seeing your photo made me think of those poor bodies found buried since the Bronze age, the brown water you describe must be much the same do you think, as it was then? All the...

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Posted in Tan Remembered Toes

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So Emily is at the start of

Posted on Tue, 27 May 2025

So Emily is at the start of her story!

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Posted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Eight

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I am so impressed at how you

Posted on Sun, 25 May 2025

I am so impressed at how you are making all your research come alive!

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Uncle Hugo had arrived home late. His virtuous demure hadn't changed

should this be virtuous demeanour?

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Posted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Six

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a romance :0)

Posted on Mon, 26 May 2025

a romance :0)

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Posted in A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Seven

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That is so sad. But adds to

Posted on Fri, 23 May 2025

That is so sad. But adds to my admiration for your Dad. Was this when record players were becoming popular? Maybe people did not feel it was so bad if they could have music in another way? Only less about gatherings and sharing

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Posted in 10 Life Lessons. Number 8.

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