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"teeth of history" that's
Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021
"teeth of history" that's great, just brilliant!
a shroud growing gently is suffocating, the unease
"frightened of ourselves" this is all so powerful, the coldness and wet.
I love reading your diary entries, Jenny, what a person you are, open as a flower to every experience, and then passing it all on to someone like me, who could only dream of such courage
It must be 45 years or so since we went! And even then, the last few years there were loads more people. I remember we had arrived somewhere magnificent after a very long walk, (for us, anyway, my youngest brother was about six I think) and all...
Inspired by your poem, I looked up this woods, I think we walked round it once, when on holiday (but didn't dare go in!). We went often to Dartmoor. My brother and I never forgot it :0) Your poem is wonderrful, you really conjure up the tangled,...
"teeth of history" that's
Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021
"teeth of history" that's great, just brilliant!
a shroud growing gently is suffocating, the unease
"frightened of ourselves" this is all so powerful, the coldness and wet.
You make a horrible feeling of never being...
Read full commentPosted in Wintered Thin
reading this is as scary as I
Posted on Tue, 26 Oct 2021
reading this is as scary as I can take :0) Please say you are working on a Halloween installment of your political comedy?
Read full commentPosted in Dreams of Halloween
I love reading your diary
Posted on Sat, 23 Oct 2021
I love reading your diary entries, Jenny, what a person you are, open as a flower to every experience, and then passing it all on to someone like me, who could only dream of such courage
Read full commentPosted in That Was Genesis
Another one for your Almanac
Posted on Tue, 19 Oct 2021
Another one for your Almanac :0)
It has a strong chanting feel to it.
I particularly liked
"stoical belfries watch stone gargoyles spout rain,
carved pumpkins illuminate porches, fired grins,"
"fired grins" is...
Read full commentPosted in Samhain and Beyond
"And the sky not deep enough
Posted on Thu, 21 Oct 2021
"And the sky not deep enough for escape.
I stand entangled in the moment -"
Every time I read this, I am struck by the power of these lines.
Read full commentPosted in Owl Down
That must have been so scary!
Posted on Tue, 12 Oct 2021
That must have been so scary! I do hope you are all ok now!
I think your approach must be how lots of great recipes came to be, in the first place!
My trouble is, in the unlikely event my family likes something I have cooked enough...
Read full commentPosted in Ostrich eggs and elephant milk
I love this about blackbirds
Posted on Mon, 18 Oct 2021
I love this about blackbirds : " its natural flair for tossing leaves" made me smile each time I read it :0)
and this : " to linger here for just a while,
watch each leaf gently clinging;
till letting go" is gorgeous....
Read full commentPosted in Grounding Of Autumn
It must be 45 years or so
Posted on Mon, 11 Oct 2021
It must be 45 years or so since we went! And even then, the last few years there were loads more people. I remember we had arrived somewhere magnificent after a very long walk, (for us, anyway, my youngest brother was about six I think) and all...
Read full commentPosted in Secrets Of Wistman Woods
Inspired by your poem, I
Posted on Mon, 11 Oct 2021
Inspired by your poem, I looked up this woods, I think we walked round it once, when on holiday (but didn't dare go in!). We went often to Dartmoor. My brother and I never forgot it :0) Your poem is wonderrful, you really conjure up the tangled,...
Read full commentPosted in Secrets Of Wistman Woods
Good to see a new poem :0)
Posted on Sat, 16 Oct 2021
Good to see a new poem :0) This makes me imagine you sailing out of poemless doldrums on a red leaf
Read full commentPosted in Red Breast of Autumn
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