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clues
Pheonix feathers ruffle beneath the cherry trees on pavement by the letterbox and shed gold of a giant lion molten on the road's curve near the park'...
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mushroom movement
green grown gown gauzy grass grace solid soil lid down wonder on grains gain rain sense tense dense silent silt still eel slick icky cling linger...
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blackberries
prussian purple sprays, each sweet-swollen round of rounds bursts with crimson juice, stalk-thrust out as if reaching to fill Autumn's hungry gaze or...
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storm cooking
unseen fingers flex kneading clouds of soughing dough as gulls white flakes, salt flavour here and now with calls of far dangers journeyed on sea's...
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pinned
Today I forgot my PIN number. I think it's all the contactless there is now. How easy it is to go without needing to say hello or reply. Or touch...
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I love how you describe the
Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2015
I love how you describe the others in the refuge - even though you must all have been struggling, so much support! It is lovely to read of the kindness, perhaps Granny's nastiness even made you all closer, a threat you could overcome and looking...
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 6 )
That must have been such joy,
Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2015
That must have been such joy, to hold your baby again, getting him back, since it had been the two of you against the world. But to be told you had to let him go back to the situation you had rescued him from, and then be told you had to leave...
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 5 )
To think, if it hadn't been
Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2015
To think, if it hadn't been for that piece you posted this week, would never have read any of this! I feel as Bee says, to have thought of you always as so sensitive, a born poet through and through, it makes your bravery and resilience the more...
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 4 )
This is great writing, the
Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2015
This is great writing, the relief that you have somewhere away from the landmines you described in the first part! And the contrast between welcome kindness and hostility of the other residents, the details of toothpaste, wonderful. It's good you...
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As others say, this is
Posted on Sun, 08 Nov 2015
As others say, this is AMAZING WRITING, Jenny. I am so glad you had a good health visitor, so there was one person who understood and knew how to help. Thank goodness she was there! I believe this would help others, to read. It is so kind of you...
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 2 )
As others have said, your
Posted on Sat, 07 Nov 2015
As others have said, your bravery shines through. I was never brave enough to try going on my own, and having read the whole of your account of this time, that was the right choice for my son and me, whatever anybody said, I could not have coped...
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 1 )
Wow! What a writer you are :0
Posted on Sun, 13 Dec 2015
Wow! What a writer you are :0) And what a resilient person! This is so, so good. And the perfect ending, not what I had expected, but perfect :0) To have gone from the frightened young Mum at the beginning, to this person who could turn down an...
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The letters hiding in the
Posted on Sat, 04 Oct 2025
The letters hiding in the words like a stripey tiger?
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Agree with Jenny, absolutely
Posted on Fri, 03 Oct 2025
Agree with Jenny, absolutely brilliant poem, Rhiannon, Thank You for posting
Read full commentPosted in Harebells
sorry, have not found That's
Posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013
sorry, have not found That's Life, yet. But I am glad I did not find it at once, or I would not have found these Diary entries :0) Could really have done with reading them, 20 years ago!
Read full commentPosted in Baby Makes Three ( Part Three )
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