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I had not heard of
Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2020
I had not heard of "indwelling" before. Having looked it up, it's a great word :0) There is a quiet, positive power in this:
I like the details revealing age, of taking care, of themselves and of each other, the way he holds the glass of water till her fingers grip it is so tender, the way he has to manage his heart, what he can do. Finding music he knew on the radio....
Yes, I always wanted to see one too, there was something magic about how you never do. Years later Mum's cat caught one, I was suprised how tiny it was! It didn't bite or scratch when I picked it up, just wriggled in a muscly...
I like this one very much. Well, not like, because it is grim. Admire. The idea of earthworms being like memories in the tunnels of your mind and "uncoil of earthworms" is wonderful.
I like the waterfall "c" sounds, in cleft and cliff and crystal - you didn't need to say the sound as the sight words give it, really clever! The last line, every word seems stressed so it is full of the power of a mass of water.
I had not heard of
Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2020
I had not heard of "indwelling" before. Having looked it up, it's a great word :0) There is a quiet, positive power in this:
"Not so bright to shine beyond
Nor enough to light the way
But an indwelling warmth
To...
Read full commentPosted in Jar of Lights
I like the details revealing
Posted on Thu, 30 Jan 2020
I like the details revealing age, of taking care, of themselves and of each other, the way he holds the glass of water till her fingers grip it is so tender, the way he has to manage his heart, what he can do. Finding music he knew on the radio....
Read full commentPosted in There Was The House and There Was The Sea (1)
I love your walking poems,
Posted on Thu, 30 Jan 2020
I love your walking poems, with their breathing rhythm. But I love this too, the pause of it:
spitting drizzle – growing
heavier, but nearly back at car – see through
the cloudy veil a gleam of sunshine glowing
...
Read full commentPosted in Grey-Day rambling
I'm glad :0)
Posted on Mon, 27 Jan 2020
I'm glad :0)
Yes, I always wanted to see one too, there was something magic about how you never do. Years later Mum's cat caught one, I was suprised how tiny it was! It didn't bite or scratch when I picked it up, just wriggled in a muscly...
Read full commentPosted in Underground
I like this one very much.
Posted on Mon, 27 Jan 2020
I like this one very much. Well, not like, because it is grim. Admire. The idea of earthworms being like memories in the tunnels of your mind and "uncoil of earthworms" is wonderful.
"thoughts concealed
until I forgot the existence...
Read full commentPosted in Underground
you have made the memory of
Posted on Sat, 25 Jan 2020
you have made the memory of hurt into a liquid, it's a fantastic metaphor
the welts reappear across my back...
groaning at the bottom of the sea...
the sewerage pouring through your door...
the river running through...
Read full commentPosted in Reading room
This bit, in the middle of
Posted on Mon, 13 Jan 2020
This bit, in the middle of all the trance inducing greenery like a dagger in a soft hand:
every decency,
every abomination is homogenised -
this slavery of a belief
that is the condemnation of the abused.
...
Read full commentPosted in Lime Tree
You evoke a very strong
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2020
You evoke a very strong feeling of uneasiness:
she will show you
that you are no hunter at all -
you are the little lamb that knows
the cold sharp of terror, that knows you have,
unnoticed,
drifted from...
Read full commentPosted in Wolf moon
I like the idea of willows
Posted on Wed, 08 Jan 2020
I like the idea of willows talking to the moon and hiding nests off moon pearly eggs :0)
Posted in There is hope here
I like the waterfall "c"
Posted on Wed, 08 Jan 2020
I like the waterfall "c" sounds, in cleft and cliff and crystal - you didn't need to say the sound as the sight words give it, really clever! The last line, every word seems stressed so it is full of the power of a mass of water.
The woods...
Read full commentPosted in Water-Break-its-Neck, Radnor Forest
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