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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 593859 times and 283 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1915 of my 5,869 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1971 votes

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April shower

Sun is shattered by dark tree branches, splinters glint scattered on twig tips, diamond- dusting downy oval honescuckle leaves' warm green-blue,...
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Win

this meeting of trees and rushes glows, peaceful as a holy place warbler songs shimmer warm blue air where speckled wood butterflies dance from spine...
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Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...

Reporters list atrocities suggesting which might qualify as war crimes, while Western leaders' words slide over blood, too afraid of falling in to...
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Poem of the week

Listening to the News 2/3/22

Does sound of our clapping drown out the bombs exploding in your homes? Our politicians stand shoulder to shoulder with ambassadors come to beg for...
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Cherry

"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth" Albert Schweitzer

we breathed each other's breath. It was enough once you sheltered within me. We were one before fences. I grew to know burning, soon you chose to...

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1915 of my comments have received 1971 Great Feedback votes

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Not just the way to a man's

Posted on Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Not just the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, then? It seems another part of Cedric's creepiness to manipulate Vanessa like this!

Very interesting, looking at stuff from Spencer's point of view, now. Not enough just to react to...

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Posted in Parcel for you - Part 56

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love the sound matching the

Posted on Sun, 23 Mar 2025

love the sound matching the meaning in : "Sufficient soaking"

and "thrive in radiance" is gorgeous.

Light showers do descend more slowly, they make me think of sky finger tips

wonderful to read a new poem from you, hope you...

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Posted in Rain

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I feel I am getting to know

Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2025

I feel I am getting to know your river through your posts :0) I really liked

our shadows

dark and monstrous elongated in slanting

light.

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Posted in Walking the Dog on a Frosty Morning

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I like music being physical

Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2025

I like music being physical emotional mental blessing :0) Makes a lot of sense that it must be better to be woken by something pleasant than alarming.

It is nearly the time of year for the herring gulls to start their families which lots...

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Posted in Time to Rise and Shine!

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Oh! That makes Cedric really

Posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2025

Oh! That makes Cedric really creepy! BRILLIANT idea. And Annie calling him uncle Cedric, and the contrast of how she views it all as an experiment while Vanessa is living it, you are so clever

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Posted in Parcel for you - Part 55

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OOh, I love the wind locking

Posted on Sun, 09 Mar 2025

OOh, I love the wind locking them all in! Brilliant to have everyone turning up, too. This is a FABULOUS installment :0)

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Posted in 'Willow's Missing Tail" 26

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Congratulations! This is Poem

Posted on Tue, 04 Mar 2025

Congratulations! This is Poem of the Week!

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Posted in Killed By Cows

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I love the characters you

Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025

I love the characters you share in your Diaries, like this : "The toothless old widow who sits beneath the pomegranate tree in the square told me that her favourite Anton Chekov quote was ‘People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when...

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Posted in The Archers in Cyrillic Script

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yes, you are so right about

Posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2025

yes, you are so right about it needing to be very thin! Wish I had understood that before the first time I made Marmite sandwiches - I put way too much on and had to spread it round lots more bread to be edible, then had to persuade everybody...

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Posted in Love it or hate it … ?

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Maybe the news just now, but

Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025

Maybe the news just now, but Cedric putting his arm up made me think he might have been taught a dodgy salute, all sorts of problems that might cause. i loved the squid lorry, like everybody else. And Spencer mentioning how Crate didn't wear...

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Posted in Parcel for you - Part 54

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