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Present
Today's gift wrapped in light. Birdsong as foil ribbon unspools, bright slipping trills tying time together. The woods' snowdrops have come! Beside...
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comfort and joy (another go at this)
beside a garage the magnolia grew in grace, still-dance of slender curves, smooth grey stem arcs, loose laced, spacing light. Buds slept - tight...
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woods, late
walk in the company of streams through chill evening, day's ash, grey shadows clot into understanding night a deer starts awake, hastens to hide life...
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Be Leave
I'm tired as a bee buzzing against glass for cannot pass into sleep. The deep beyond thought. Unreached though mind's wings batter and long hours,...
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gloaming
Charcoal-soft dark calls, silk wings oil-easy under cinder blue. Llightless, sky heavies falls to tall birch tops' black lace twigs, pillared on slim...
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I long to ask you what this
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
I long to ask you what this is about, on the other hand, it keeps seeming to mean different things when I read it, so knowing might make it smaller. What is the same each time is how beautiful the images are eg "soft crystal curves"
Read full commentPosted in After the Blizzard
this is so exciting! I loved
Posted on Fri, 12 Feb 2021
this is so exciting! I loved it - would never have thought of shoving, but it's perfect, giving the idea of eagerness. And I love the peace of the 2 wide, flat A sounds at the end - vast made me think of the sky and last the sea wrapping round...
Read full commentPosted in River in Spate
pps I had got almost half way
Posted on Wed, 10 Feb 2021
pps I had got almost half way round the woods before realising what your last line meant!
Perfect!
Is strange re your comment to Jenny - I don't like those paintings at all, they always seem to me to objectify women, yet your poems...
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I liked this very much. I
Posted on Wed, 10 Feb 2021
I liked this very much. I read it while trying to get up courage to go for a walk :0) I will look at the snowflakes differently, if I do! These days snowflake has just a feeble meaning, but here you give them a huge existence, they become like...
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Agree with Airy. Coming away
Posted on Thu, 04 Feb 2021
Agree with Airy. Coming away from reading your posts I feel like I am dripping magic
Read full commentPosted in Dipper
loved this one! You are
Posted on Tue, 02 Feb 2021
loved this one! You are amazing at catching fleeting moments of infinite beauty.
The two feet bit made me think of when I saw a deer this afternoon, in very windy woods, and just as you say, it was my solidity that struck me, compared to...
Read full commentPosted in I Cannot Explain
That IS stubborn!
Posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2021
That IS stubborn!
Could you have defined and realigned to contuinue the strong rhyme? Eg
though sees through mist a wrong defined
his point of view still can't be ever realigned
only with your brilliant springy...
Read full commentPosted in A mind made up
"Showery and cool the day" is
Posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2021
"Showery and cool the day" is musical as a song itself!
and I liked the repetition of V sounds in "quiver" and "over"
"untamed routes" made me think of a cowboy at a rodeo seeing how long they can stay on :0)
"gently prosper...
Read full commentPosted in Drifting On The Muse
I love herring gulls, and I
Posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2021
I love herring gulls, and I love this poem, too!
cries that pull threads
of understanding
yes!
from a rooftop, a silver
wing to seize the wind
gorgeous
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Love this! Exactly how I
Posted on Sat, 16 Jan 2021
Love this! Exactly how I rememeber it :0) Spotify is great, would never have heard any of the music I like now, without it, but the foreplay of records is a wonderful thing, and you have recreated it perfectly
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