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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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recipe
Small birds flicker thick, make bushes quiver shimmering silence with bright chirruping. Blackberries, swollen seconds full of sun. (Try one, to...
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brambles
blackberries, swollen seconds full of sun I pick, to burst sweet on my tongue, now and now. In overgrown long disused school ground brambles slow arc...
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wings, late summer
Blue mussel shell halves sea and sky, within shining nacre clouds water colours burst bloom, rainbows prism- prison free. Eight swifts rejoicing in...
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Bushels is a brilliant amount
Posted on Thu, 21 Sep 2023
Bushels is a brilliant amount word, like the sound of rushing dry leaves, which might have even come from a bush! This is a lovely fresh air poem, "toes in the sand" says so much
Read full commentPosted in Summer's Last Weep
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!
Read full commentPosted in Tempestuous Stirrings
wonderful :0) You have the
Posted on Thu, 21 Sep 2023
wonderful :0) You have the whole ebb and flow and ozone and brightness
Read full commentPosted in Around The Havens
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
Read full commentPosted in Sailing (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 34)
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
Read full commentPosted in Red and Green.
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...
Read full commentPosted in Devil's Advocate
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!
Read full commentPosted in Expanding The Mind
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)
Read full commentPosted in Heatwave
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
Read full commentPosted in Today’s TV
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.
Read full commentPosted in Clothes for Friendless Men
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