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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 991719 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2342 of my 6,592 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2448 votes

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Enjoyed this very much. Words

Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2019

Enjoyed this very much. Words of a poem describing how words in a recipe are not enough, but the poem works brilliantly. It's beautiful and sad and true

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Posted in Toss in a pinch of love

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There is so much to this poem

Posted on Wed, 24 Apr 2019

There is so much to this poem. The sense of movement all through, and how you start off outside and move through the window, curtains, even the bed clothes, into the space beside you. How outside is full of life with the crickets, yet deep inside...

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Posted in In the wee small hours of the morning...(that's the time I miss him most of all)

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Having spent time this

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2019

Having spent time this afternoon staring up through branches where leaves are beginning to come out, it's a shock to be reminded how trees were once bent to the torturous will of people. These days they are just in the way, or dying from diseases...

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Posted in The Ducking Stool In Leominster Church

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monkey puzzles are like

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2019

monkey puzzles are like octopuses, had never realised, but you are right! And your "comfortable, spongy turf" I know grass like that too, it's beautiful :0) Did your grass have tiny yellow flowers in? i like how you make the skylark song...

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Posted in The Puzzles’ Enigma

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he is not ashamed to "come

Posted on Sun, 21 Apr 2019

he is not ashamed to "come out" as a murderer, yet some of his people are afraid simply to love.

you were deemed "horrible" yet someone who assaulted you to amuse his friends is elite

money is  a mirror that makes morality the...

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Posted in Throwing Stones

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you write of a friendlier

Posted on Thu, 18 Apr 2019

you write of a friendlier time. So much changed when supermarkets opened. I guess when supermarkets are all self service or home delivery today's children will remember the weekly shop there as a loss too, one more chance for human contact gone....

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Posted in The Milkman

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oh Rhiannon THIS IS GORGEOUS!

Posted on Sat, 20 Apr 2019

oh Rhiannon THIS IS GORGEOUS!!!

love "sudden spillage"

"dandelions' moment"

"escapes from farmer’s fields to anywhere"

you have caught the sense of wildness perfectly!

"but by the woods more in the shade, the...

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Posted in Golden Blast at the Roadside

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"... and good poets make it

Posted on Tue, 16 Apr 2019

"... and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

well, you are a good poet :0) This poem seems to me like a display cabinet where you have carefully curated lines by great writers to make the reader...

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Posted in London's Burning

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sounds like you are the true

Posted on Wed, 17 Apr 2019

sounds like you are the true family, remembering him with beauty

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Posted in Crocuses in Spring

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Elsie, so sorry to hear that!

Posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2019

Elsie, so sorry to hear that! Try writing on here? You will get so much support, so many of us have been through this

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Posted in Wild daffodils of field and meadow*

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