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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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remembering dandelions (again)
Prisoned between tarmac bars of road and footpath herbicide subdued Earth waits sure of the last laugh when only the toughest are still around to see...
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breezy
this breeze, seeming slight might be calmness dying, a storm’s birth it could have come from Samarkand or been in Neanderthal lungs we all breathe...
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10th july grasshopper
mossy rocks tumbled from windbreak wall hold back reed tines' reaching on and on to moor's distance misty bright of gorse here, in warm air, low...
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wet 6th july
clouds secrete clear, cold threads, falling, coccoon round tree limbs shade flesh, lumens an airy tingle of tall grass, till rainbow orbs pool bodies...
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So sorry to hear of Penka. I
Posted on Tue, 10 Jun 2025
So sorry to hear of Penka. I guess in a way one small good is that she must have gone without long pain, and you were able to know this, and have a special place to remember her in your garden. In our very small garden here, two cats, a dog and a...
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Congratulations! This is Poem
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
Congratulations! This is Poem of the Week!
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This white knuckle ride from
Posted on Fri, 06 Jun 2025
This white knuckle ride from Jane Hyphen is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Photo is from here :
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Posted in The Vale - Part One (a)
Jenny, I think you are a bit
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
Jenny, I think you are a bit older than me, so I consider you to be very brave to take up the challenge of a phone! I do not have one as my hands shake too much, also I cannot hear phones very well. BUT I can do email! Emails are REALLY EASY...
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That sounds a bit of an
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
That sounds a bit of an ordeal! But you describe it brilliantly! Must have been scratchy and hot, as well as a bit scary, incase turning an ankle on the hard ground. Glad you made it out safely to record in this poem as your track :0)
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How you describe your
Posted on Tue, 03 Jun 2025
How you describe your experience is funny and made me smile Rhiannon, but must have been frustrating! And your description of your Father in law, too.
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Hoping babies are more
Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025
Hoping babies are more treasured, if fewer. Have to say, though, that I don't know any young people who are confident about future prospects. This drive to replace all jobs with machines of some kind, (now even creative opportunities), and at the...
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What an Inspirational poem!
Posted on Sat, 31 May 2025
What an Inspirational poem! Thank you! i will write it out to put by my laptop :0)
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Agree with Claudine - GREAT
Posted on Sat, 31 May 2025
Agree with Claudine - GREAT cliffhanger from stepping off the kerb :0) I liked your descriptions of the green grocer's too. And the pressure of people's lives and possibilities on the bus
Read full commentPosted in Dead Man: 3
i love how always you weave
Posted on Thu, 29 May 2025
i love how always you weave time into your poems about Ireland. Seeing your photo made me think of those poor bodies found buried since the Bronze age, the brown water you describe must be much the same do you think, as it was then? All the...
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