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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 984405 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2335 of my 6,579 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2439 votes

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between

hills are mirrors reflecting dreams bullet hole sun through sky window air comes in shards blown out, cutting rainbow bridges instants of sea...
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gorse

wild yellow, bold, bee-full, gladsome glory yellow glowing gifts grow, spirit lifting sweet, small yellow flames, lip-soft, scented, bright tip dull...
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view

My neighbour had seen me, slow pulling my shopping up the road had waved and cheerily bellowed "Can you not go faster?" Below his renovated house,...
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untravelling path

a memory of walking worn between trees into moss and fallen leaves. A parting as through hair, to tame or make bindable a growing thing shod foot...
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driverless

the more people run away the less there is to escape to the more beauty we buy the less room we have for truth we fuel our vehicles with tomorrows...
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2335 of my comments have received 2439 Great Feedback votes

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Hadn't realised this was to

Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025

Hadn't realised this was to be a whole SERIES!!! BRILLIANT NEWS :0) Your description of grown up telly is perfect :0) "These programmes are just a load of old men in their bathers pretending to fight with each other in a square thing called a...

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Posted in A Hare's Breath 2 - The Bicycle

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This whole piece is BRILLIANT

Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025

This whole piece is BRILLIANT :0) I LOVE your family banter :0)

Just 2 favourite bits

"I wanted to know how he knew which rock samples were boring and which ones were interesting but he had already told me I was asking too many...

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Posted in A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van

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This reminiscence from

Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025

This reminiscence from Turlough is gold all through, so had to be Pick of the Day! Please do share this wonderful writing if you can

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Posted in A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van

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So glad this is Poem of the

Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025

So glad this is Poem of the Week! I read it but didn't have time to comment before. It is so rich! I love it, Thank You so much for posting, Jenny :0)
Imagining the clouds outside your window all preening their fluffy bits in hope you are...

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Posted in Happiness Of Anticipating Inspiration

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I looked up his poems, so

Posted on Fri, 05 Dec 2025

I looked up his poems, so much energy, certainty!
'The fool is honoured everywhere,
"He's rich" they say, and do not care'
I don't remember celebrating any of England's great writers the way Burns is, here. It's brilliant that...

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Posted in When Botev Peaked

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"Winter's wardrobe" is great

Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025

"Winter's wardrobe" is great :0) Made me go back to re read your wonderfully descriptive poem, imagining C.S Lewis's White Witch

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Posted in "Winter Constitutional"

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Loved today's Diary :0) So

Posted on Wed, 03 Dec 2025

LOVED today's Diary :0) So much made me smile! Does Hasan know how famous he is becoming? He and Johnny Ten Levs and the old ones who sit by the fountain when the sun shines. Your vet!

I am glad if you have a better tea pot at last :0)...

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Posted in The Strange Case of Dr Gunchev and Crazy Ludo

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Dip into slow-time of wide,

Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025

Dip into slow-time of wide, cool silence in this wonderful new poem from Queen Beatle, which is Pick of the Day!

Please change the image if you want to. It is from here :...

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Posted in Tuesday

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What a treasure chest month!

Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025

What a treasure chest month! I love the colours of the mountainside trees! And the photos on the gravestones. And is Manoushka the cat in your photo, looking so contented? Even with so much that is wonderful, I would NOT LIKE to live with no...

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Posted in Nor Any Drop to Drink

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So exciting!

Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025

So exciting!

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Posted in "Art of Trouble" 7

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