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I have 177 stories published in
2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 408341 times
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1532 of my 5,146 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1573 votes
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bluebells
Lush warm blue. Radiant. Rain cool bells, fresh celestial pigment, space untempered slipped, low, through trees - solemn grey, hushed, host this deep...
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rock
I remember the barnacles that scratched when I clung to your steep side as waves crashed; they found you first on your journey through life -...
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change of address
houses are envelopes posted through time recipients changing letters put in, taken out. From the War son, brother, father, lost mother upstairs, her...
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pondering
jelly ellipsis or small eyeballs with tiny pupils, or thought bubbles, each containing a full stop No! A full beginning a drip of ink After some...
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First Walk Of April
Step on a moon stone to cross the stream - Van Gogh’s Starry Night - willow flowers pollen halo’d in swirling water.dark. Sun-coin's cloud-pursed. In...
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That is a really good idea
Posted on Mon, 21 Aug 2023
That is a really good idea for a present! And your cake looks fabulous! How wonderful to have a caring care home, and for your son to be able to entertain all the people there and make a proper celebration, with your grandchildren too
Read full commentPosted in 104!
So clever! How dust is
Posted on Sat, 19 Aug 2023
So clever! How dust is evidence of time passing, the objects it comes from remaining complete, and Wendy is created from memories of his past experiences of real women. How the term "bit of fluff" holds no recognition at all that the person...
Read full commentPosted in His Bit of Fluff
I love this one :0) I don't
Posted on Thu, 17 Aug 2023
I love this one :0) I don't know how you do it, find the essence of a place, or a kind of weather, in just a few words. But somehow you do, over and over again, and make each poem so beautiful and true and fresh
Read full commentPosted in Drizzle
This hauntingly beautiful and
Posted on Thu, 17 Aug 2023
This hauntingly beautiful and thought provoking poem by Onemorething is Pick of the Day! Please do share and retweet if you can
Read full commentPosted in The Loneliness of a Cuckoo
I had never thought about how
Posted on Thu, 17 Aug 2023
I had never thought about how they would learn their own cuckoo song, being brought up by other parents! No wonder their calls sound how they do, wistful and brash at the same time
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you have taken lots of lovely
Posted on Wed, 16 Aug 2023
you have taken lots of lovely photos :0) I am not sure about "declining years" as your life seems rich with creativity and full of love :0) I really like this illustration of your poetic creativity
delicate wisps softly dancing
on...
Read full commentPosted in Glancing Back
I love the bull's
Posted on Tue, 15 Aug 2023
I love the bull's alliteration! You made me think, too how I have never seen a bull eating or chewing cud, but they must. Perhaps just much less as they don't have to make milk
Read full commentPosted in Cow — and Bull
That was great! Imagining it
Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2023
That was great! Imagining it like the house in the Caspar the Friendly Ghost film. I really liked the details of crunching leaves and the bicycle stands
Read full commentPosted in "Hug-a-lass"
They seem like the worst jobs
Posted on Tue, 08 Aug 2023
They seem like the worst jobs possible for mental health. My partner worked for a mobile phone company (won't say which) for a bit - either being ordered to sell stuff to people who didn't want it/couldn't afford it, or being penalised for...
Read full commentPosted in There’s a new sick line, for calling in sick apparently! By Alfred Muggins, Call Centre Agent!
I do not know what to say.
Posted on Fri, 11 Aug 2023
I do not know what to say. Cannot say I hope you forget it soon, because should not be forgotten. Everyone should remember about this all the time. You did a good thing to write about what you saw. Poor Priyatelkata.
Read full commentPosted in Trip of a Lifetime
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