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I have 177 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 406355 times and 278 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1528 of my 5,140 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1569 votes

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woods, late

walk in the company of streams through chill evening, day's ash, grey shadows clot into understanding night a deer starts awake, hastens to hide life...
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Be Leave

I'm tired as a bee buzzing against glass for cannot pass into sleep. The deep beyond thought. Unreached though mind's wings batter and long hours,...
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gloaming

Charcoal-soft dark calls, silk wings oil-easy under cinder blue. Llightless, sky heavies falls to tall birch tops' black lace twigs, pillared on slim...
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thoughts in the small hours

as the most intelligent species it is our right to destroy this planet we are the only creatures here to have self awareness and understand concepts...
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layers

Day's doorway closes, people rush along pavements, time cut short as thoughts before sleep ; a car slams shut, cocoons a growing warmth whose wings...
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1528 of my comments have received 1569 Great Feedback votes

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Wow! You have brilliantly

Posted on Thu, 21 Sep 2023

Wow! You have brilliantly evoked the atmospheric brutality of thunder and lightning!

"such deluge of fury rages in the here and now"
"sheet lightning searches darkness"

wonderful!

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Posted in Tempestuous Stirrings

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wonderful :0) You have the

Posted on Thu, 21 Sep 2023

wonderful :0) You have the whole ebb and flow and ozone and brightness

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Posted in Around The Havens

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that definition of banquette

Posted on Fri, 08 Sep 2023

that definition of banquette is wonderfully daft :0) Would love to have seen Archibald's face

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Posted in Sailing (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 34)

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I sympathise with you SO

Posted on Mon, 18 Sep 2023

I sympathise with you SO MUCH about slugs! I hope all grows well next year :0)

I was working at Woolworths when that closed. I don't know how the same thing could happen again with Wilcos, there are fewer and fewer useful shops

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Posted in Red and Green.

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Really enjoyed this story! I

Posted on Wed, 13 Sep 2023

Really enjoyed this story! I liked very much the description of people like bees dancing. And how you chose the Empire State building, which made me think of where Jesus was meant to meet the Devil, too. And how you went smoothly from here to...

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Posted in Devil's Advocate

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what a visual poem! I am

Posted on Sat, 09 Sep 2023

what a visual poem! I am guessing you are starting to feel Autumnal with all the richness!

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Posted in Expanding The Mind

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It rained here today, too,

Posted on Sat, 09 Sep 2023

It rained here today, too, such a relief! I love all these weather poems you are doing :0)

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Posted in Heatwave

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we don't watch telly

Posted on Fri, 08 Sep 2023

we don't watch telly but ITV2's schedule might change that

7.00 - 8.00 Goats, Goats, Goats – Steve discovers that his pet goat, Algeron, is actually a hamster

8.00 - 9.00 When Ducks Attack

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Posted in Today’s TV

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wonderful lines in this poem,

Posted on Fri, 08 Sep 2023

wonderful lines in this poem, I liked very much

half heartedly eaten by unspecified moths

and

Trilbies delicate as fossilised dodo eggs

wait for heads no longer there,

destined to be undoffed for ever more.

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Posted in Clothes for Friendless Men

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Happy birthday for September

Posted on Tue, 05 Sep 2023

Happy birthday for September 10th! Your writing continues to convey the wonder and excitement of a young person, but also the wisdom age has earned :0)

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Posted in Another World

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