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renewable
Bluebell slopes shimmer bright green shade full of cool incense. Then across the field airy Rumplestiltskins white, slim as bird bones spin, slow...
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cotyledons
winter fingered earth safed. Now joined as prayer clasped hands they come up from darkness forgotten hopes open for the sun. Fragile, green growing...
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on the way to the letterbox
On trees, sky high blossom's pure, untouchable pink. Fallen, fresh soft coolness mixes with dust and thorns.
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wind
Come home from far across the sea no soft shawled shoulders welcome the wanderer - nor familiar comforting arms catch me from the race, save me from...
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hearth song
This is not a flame quivering in every misunderstanding or longing that flares in the pull of absence nor forest fire, consuming all needs, breath...
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but politicians DON'T
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
but politicians DON'T describe them as war crimes!!! Someone explained this is because as soon as it is accepted that something is a war crime, action has to be taken against the perpetrators. And no one wants to go up against Israel/America....
Read full commentPosted in Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table
Fabulous word sounds all
Posted on Fri, 20 Jun 2025
Fabulous word sounds all through this! Amazing experience to read, thank you!
Read full commentPosted in The Old Look Back …
Seeing your death being
Posted on Sun, 08 Jun 2025
Seeing your death being filmed on bystanders' phones, that seems worse than the dying, somehow. Being used as a bid for attention on strangers' social media. Specially after you described so well before all his senses' awareness, his intense...
Read full commentPosted in Dead Man: 4
I liked your poem very much
Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025
I liked your poem very much :0) Your home and garden must radiate positive energy. Planting new stuff is my favourite way to feel better, I hope it worked for you and you are all flourishing soon
Read full commentPosted in Aura Urziceanu’s Lullaby Effect
This is a fab response to the
Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025
This is a fab response to the IP, I felt for you worrying until your Dad sold the car :0)
Read full commentPosted in What You Don't Know Don't . . . .
So sorry to hear of Penka. I
Posted on Tue, 10 Jun 2025
So sorry to hear of Penka. I guess in a way one small good is that she must have gone without long pain, and you were able to know this, and have a special place to remember her in your garden. In our very small garden here, two cats, a dog and a...
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Congratulations! This is Poem
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
Congratulations! This is Poem of the Week!
Read full commentPosted in Perverse Future
This white knuckle ride from
Posted on Fri, 06 Jun 2025
This white knuckle ride from Jane Hyphen is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Photo is from here :
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Posted in The Vale - Part One (a)
Jenny, I think you are a bit
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
Jenny, I think you are a bit older than me, so I consider you to be very brave to take up the challenge of a phone! I do not have one as my hands shake too much, also I cannot hear phones very well. BUT I can do email! Emails are REALLY EASY...
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That sounds a bit of an
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
That sounds a bit of an ordeal! But you describe it brilliantly! Must have been scratchy and hot, as well as a bit scary, incase turning an ankle on the hard ground. Glad you made it out safely to record in this poem as your track :0)
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