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My stories have been read 735343 times
and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2115 of my 6,209 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2180 votes
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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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starlings
a dashing sky scatter of black stars swirl, mass spread, film fine specks lead, loop, pass swoop round; rain-sound wings mimic the world's mind (...
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appeal
on amber sheen of polished wood apricots spill, cheek soft and sweet and from a terracotta pot geranium flowers lift hearts when days sink down in...
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Hadn't realised they get so
Posted on Tue, 06 May 2025
Hadn't realised they get so tall! They really are giants, but from googling not as pretty as ordinary hogweed, so I wonder if it was just the size that gardeners admired. I like how you describe them marching across continents :0)
Read full commentPosted in Heracleum Metnegazzianum
hope you feel better soon xxx
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
hope you feel better soon xxx
Read full commentPosted in Triumphant Folly In The Park
Congratulations! This is Poem
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
Congratulations! This is Poem of the Week!
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This beautiful poem by Jenny
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
This beautiful poem by Jenny is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
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That's so beautiful Rhiannon!
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
That's so beautiful Rhiannon! Could almost smell them as I read :0) They really blaze, don't they? And the SMELL!!! That is like a creature itself, winding through the trees
Read full commentPosted in Wild Garlic, Ramsons
Sumptuous poem, Jenny. So
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
Sumptuous poem, Jenny. So many gorgeous lines. I particularly love your genius line break :
Read full comment"of time....blissfully I'm aware" as that is how I have felt, in the woods watching the shadows ripple. The line before is wonderful, too, "...
Posted in Triumphant Folly In The Park
Wow! Brilliant story! Perfect
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
Wow! Brilliant story! Perfect descriptions of tulips, and seems so real being a picker. And the magic woven through. Loved this
Read full commentPosted in Semper Augustus
How scary! Well Done You for
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
How scary! Well Done You for remembering advice, and saving yourself and your younger friends! I hope no other children were caught by him. What a contrast from your dreamy descriptions and excitement at the beginning, then meeting a monster and...
Read full commentPosted in More Than We Bargained For
That sounds like the perfect
Posted on Thu, 24 Apr 2025
That sounds like the perfect walk, Thank You so much for sharing, and your wonderful photos, too! Hazy lakes is a wonderful way to describe bluebells, and violets "peeping"
Read full commentPosted in On the Hill, Abberley
Poor one. Though that collar
Posted on Thu, 24 Apr 2025
Poor one. Though that collar is so much better than buckets with the bottom cut out, which used to be what our dogs got when I was a child. I hope she is better soon!
Read full commentPosted in Why Me?
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