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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1039302 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2373 of my 6,682 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2483 votes

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The idea of being the moon's

Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019

The idea of being the moon's puppet is scary. But also the implication that when bleeding stops the strings are cut, leaving us adrift as if lost in a desert.

As always with your poems I feel enriched with gorgeous images. I love "frozen...

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Posted in Repression

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"knives of light"

Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018

"knives of light"

"Their torches cut through each other and bound intermittently, a single phosphorous beacon within the inky void"

"Time was a fallacy; he was stepping in and out of decades unhindered and in each one he was blind,...

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Posted in Aura (20)

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Well done capturing such a

Posted on Mon, 11 Nov 2019

Well done capturing such a tiny elusive creature :0) I liked your contrast of the carefree bird and all the effort and stress of taking its photo, but you did it! And now the reader gets a wonderful snapshot of photographer/poet and treecreeper :...

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Posted in An Obliging Treecreeper

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this is lovely, I like the

Posted on Mon, 04 Nov 2019

this is lovely, I like the repeated sounds like the repeated pattern of the petals, seems so perfect and fresh

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Posted in November Bloom

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Great poem for All Souls

Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2019

Great poem for All Souls

Particularly liked this :

"laughed out our aliveness in hungry gasps"

and

"We haunted their dusks in the hush 

behind its iron gates under the beeaches"

 

 

 

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Posted in Graveyards

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I love your walking poems,

Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2019

I love your walking poems, like Insert feel the tourist board should take you on, you certainly make me long to go to the borders!

This poem made me think of the worry of flooding, the relief of seeing the extra water nearly away to sea. I...

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Posted in Travelling down the Wye Valley 28/10/19

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Luigi, I am very glad I read

Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2019

Luigi, I am very glad I read your poem! I particularly like the sense of enjoyment you share, as in your first 3 lines. The exuberant exclamation mark :0) And I loved these lines too

"winged nomads,
unrestrained free spirits
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Posted in Geese

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Thankyou Jenny :0) The poem

Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2019

Thankyou Jenny :0) The poem hasn't done them justice at all. I had a look online to see if anyone had written a poem about murmerations but couldn't find one. It is so amazing to see, there were only 20 or so last week, but every day about 4 o...

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Posted in starlings

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I love these lines - I am

Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2019

I love these lines - I am always thinking about what trees  mean to me but you describe briiliantly and in two lines how other creatures depend on them for life

"its empty frame exposed, that all this life had clung to."

"...

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Posted in Tree from a window

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I've never seen so many

Posted on Fri, 25 Oct 2019

I've never seen so many apples at once! How lovely it must be where you live, full of orchards! You must be able to smell Autumn? Do you get to drink the fresh juice? My Dad used to put our windfalls in a plastic dustbin (specially bought!) and...

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Posted in Harvest!

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