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angelica (after reading Onemorething's beautiful poem)
Reality is a trap. In this garden no sun warms. Underground, worms squirm in a rootless world as tongues before words. But then, there, at the back,...
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pool, october
light-leap ripples make laughter lines tickle snake swooping willow bough's moss green crossing bright, gold leaf lined pool below, where rain, held...
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bird feeder
Slog uphill, from Bargain Buys trolley-tugging a big bag, heart heavy with world's worries hard to change till become aware of pigeons, jackdaws,...
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gather
Pooled, this mild September day from waves of work (or guilt when not) once each year picking blackberries from prickly cataracts of free sweetness...
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something in the air
Flies weave a buzzing basket of still warm light. Hairline rainbow cracks in space above paths, like mistakes leave unseen tethers of regret, sticky...
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This is magic! I do hope it
Posted on Sat, 27 Mar 2021
This is magic! I do hope it is where you live?
I love the first part, the crazy dance (rooks always seem a bit crazy) I imagined a scene which has played for centuries on those hills? A wonderful timeless quality.
I liked how you...
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Your poem made me very glad
Posted on Fri, 26 Mar 2021
Your poem made me very glad not to need to be going anywhere :0) It has a bustly feel - I like how you slow it right down with the "op" sounds and then the easing with s sounds at the end. There is always so much craft in your writing! I'm amazed...
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I like the belligerence of
Posted on Tue, 23 Mar 2021
I like the belligerence of the first line :0)
I have been called this several times at work in the past :0) First time, I didn't realise it was not a compliment. Because fruit cake is wonderful (not mine though as it always sinks)
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Read full commentPosted in I am a Fruit Cake
I cannot tell you how very
Posted on Sun, 21 Mar 2021
I cannot tell you how very much I loved this!
I am so sorry for your loss, Penny. You sound like the best person a dog could live with, Frankie was surrounded by love and respect all his life.
My dog passed 21 years ago and I miss...
Read full commentPosted in "The Canine's of My Life"
Oh! I loved this :0) You are
Posted on Sat, 20 Mar 2021
Oh! I loved this :0) You are a great story maker!!! Perfidia Mishapsham is a BRILLIANT name :0)
Are these typos?
circumstances dire
Willow jumped thru her pet door..... she waked further into the garden...
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 2
Do, please write some more!
Posted on Wed, 17 Mar 2021
Do, please write some more!
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail"
Agree with Jenny and Paul,
Posted on Sun, 14 Mar 2021
Agree with Jenny and Paul, this is one of my favourites of yours, too. Full of movement, informative, gorgeous language making rich and lovely images. One to read a lot of times, just because it is so beautiful, it makes me happy
ps I didn...
Read full commentPosted in Confessions Of An Alder Tree
I like this very much, coming
Posted on Sun, 14 Mar 2021
I like this very much, coming after Lydeford Gorge made me think of a ghost?
"swirl of billowing white silk floating," I love this!!!
Please could you explain what is devoured by trees? Am too thick, have read several times and can'...
Read full commentPosted in Escape To Freedom
I liked this very much, too.
Posted on Sun, 14 Mar 2021
I liked this very much, too. Particularly your description of birch trees. Hope you are well and Spring is coming where you live
Read full commentPosted in The Wind
Enjoyed this very much, a
Posted on Wed, 10 Mar 2021
Enjoyed this very much, a great 50th piece :0) I can identify the moon and that's it, everything else is unknowable, vast. Your poem made me think of a huge jewellery box, full of silver chains of orbits and crystal celestial orbs and medallion...
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