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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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Walking home from shopping 8/3/18
You know how, if you find a piece of quartz on the beach and hold it up to the light you can see white, cream and amber fractured bright as the...
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predator (just re uploaded)
snow lies outside waiting like a cat thick fluffy fur white gleaming flat bumper deep cars lurk stuck fast as burrs in streets shaken by sky ripping...
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Lethe
Forgetting things is so scary like standing on a bank a river is eating away at. My Dad died of dementia unable to talk. My son hates that I want to...
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Those last 3 sentences are so
Posted on Sat, 17 Nov 2018
Those last 3 sentences are so sad. But she IS still in you, every time you see something you find beautiful, that appreciation was shaped by her. She gave you your sensitivity to see things, feel things, she gave it to you and you will always...
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (Blood)
I like how the beach is woven
Posted on Mon, 12 Nov 2018
I like how the beach is woven all through, the people, the seagulls. It's a great frame for the story, it adds to the easy warmth of it
Read full commentPosted in Sass (Part 2)
Glad your Mum got to stay at
Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018
Glad your Mum got to stay at home. I'm sure your instincts were right. The two care homes I have visted were aweful. The high heels rang a bell. I wonder why they think that looking like they are running a business is...
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (Push)
In an interview someone
Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018
In an interview someone famous who had gone to live in America (can't remember who it was) said the thing they missed most about England was the sound of crows cawing in the Autumn. Your poem has a timelessness to it, makes me think this has been...
Read full commentPosted in In That Moment
Another of your beautiful
Posted on Wed, 07 Nov 2018
Another of your beautiful pared down poems. No unnecessary stuff just like Nature itself
Read full commentPosted in NATURE
I didn't know contactless was
Posted on Sat, 03 Nov 2018
I didn't know contactless was so risky! I don't like it because I forget my PIN number if don't use it each time. When I worked in a supermarket we had to check people's signatures carefully for every non cash transaction. Now if you lose a card...
Read full commentPosted in I Give Up!
44 years wow! You must both
Posted on Wed, 31 Oct 2018
44 years wow! You must both be warm and giving people :0) C ongratulations
Read full commentPosted in GROWING OLDER
I would love to see a book of
Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018
I would love to see a book of poetry by you and Rhiannon and Jenny and other writers, and I'm honoured you ask me too, but I have had no luck ever getting my stuff published
Read full commentPosted in An Autumn of Leaves
this is lovely. If ever I got
Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018
this is lovely. If ever I got to choose where in the world I'd like to visit, it would be those maple trees when the leaves turn, I'd love to walk under them. Your poem makes a beautiful picture to help my imagining. I love "cradle of colour"...
Read full commentPosted in An Autumn of Leaves
one you need to read quite a
Posted on Sun, 21 Oct 2018
one you need to read quite a few times.
the other night there was a program about two asylum seekers from Ghana trying to get from America across the border into Canada, describing how in the snow they headed towards the lights of cars...
Read full commentPosted in From Roadside
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