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NO! If you think of your poem
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
NO! If you think of your poem like a lump of rock - I can pick it up and see some quartz sparkling but someone else picks it up from a slightly different angle and sees some copper veins, and another person maybe sees a face in the bumps and...
"quiet mines the years" I thought at first this was about a cliff but now think it is a relationship? Makes me think of two people in armchairs on opposite sides of a room, not speaking, one looking at the profile of the other in the light, and...
wow! what a brilliant wonderful amazing reader you are! I could listen to you reading all day :0) I'm really glad you posted this one! Please do a Craven Danger one with lots of dialogue?
The weight on your shoulder, that is the most precious feeling, isnt it? I didn't feel I was a mother till I felt that, like somehow I was balanced. And the sense of unbalance you brought to the story was so strong, like the narrator couldn't be...
this is one of your intense mood creations, the stillness (I hope not loneliness) in this place, and the weather/life disturbing outside. And the wondering what conversation caused the ringing in your ears. Covers the same weather as Jenny's...
Brilliant description of incoming tide being "the long push"
"pincered beasts and tube-dwelling tentacled lagoon worms" makes them sound like fantasy monsters :0) I like your contrast of the diferent uses of shells, too. So many details....
NO! If you think of your poem
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
NO! If you think of your poem like a lump of rock - I can pick it up and see some quartz sparkling but someone else picks it up from a slightly different angle and sees some copper veins, and another person maybe sees a face in the bumps and...
Read full commentPosted in Cathedrals
"quiet mines the years" I
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
"quiet mines the years" I thought at first this was about a cliff but now think it is a relationship? Makes me think of two people in armchairs on opposite sides of a room, not speaking, one looking at the profile of the other in the light, and...
Read full commentPosted in Cathedrals
sunshine, showers short, and
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
sunshine, showers short, and rainbows,
cuckoo calls and swooping swallows.
fresh and shining shade,
glowing green of woods and glade
How precious a home,
a haven that’s warm
of mosses, saturated, soft;...
Read full commentPosted in Through the year month by month
I love the description
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
I love the description "withers and fills" . Scrolling back up top to the top of the poem, was surprised how short it is as it is so full of images
Read full commentPosted in prairie river flowing
wow! what a brilliant
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
wow! what a brilliant wonderful amazing reader you are! I could listen to you reading all day :0) I'm really glad you posted this one! Please do a Craven Danger one with lots of dialogue?
Read full commentPosted in Lincoln's Crumpled Paper IP
The weight on your shoulder,
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
The weight on your shoulder, that is the most precious feeling, isnt it? I didn't feel I was a mother till I felt that, like somehow I was balanced. And the sense of unbalance you brought to the story was so strong, like the narrator couldn't be...
Read full commentPosted in Katy, A Ghost Story (IP)
this is one of your intense
Posted on Sat, 10 Aug 2019
this is one of your intense mood creations, the stillness (I hope not loneliness) in this place, and the weather/life disturbing outside. And the wondering what conversation caused the ringing in your ears. Covers the same weather as Jenny's...
Read full commentPosted in In perpetuity
Brilliant description of
Posted on Wed, 07 Aug 2019
Brilliant description of incoming tide being "the long push"
"pincered beasts and tube-dwelling tentacled lagoon worms" makes them sound like fantasy monsters :0) I like your contrast of the diferent uses of shells, too. So many details....
Read full commentPosted in Tentacled Lagoon Worm
or maybe you outgrew it. Or
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2019
or maybe you outgrew it. Or life's lexicon discovered you had been mislabelled all the time
Read full commentPosted in Nameless
"cardinal red
Posted on Thu, 01 Aug 2019
"cardinal red
laced and wired with veins and arteries,
a muscular bomb" this is so vivid!
Read full commentPosted in Rubatosis
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