Ewan
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28 collections on the site.
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138 of my 2,850 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 147 votes
Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
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Pebble
Sometimes the simplest things are the most complicated. image from freeimages.com free for non-commercial use
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Anemoi - Winds
Bank Holiday walk on the Northumbrian Coast. Image source: geography.co.uk. Licence CC- BY SA 2.0 photographer MikeatSeahouses
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"One, Two, Three, Four!"
Not actionable. Image is CC0 and in Public Domain.
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Apocryphon
Umm... well, odd, yes. But you can't beat a good puzzle on a Friday, eh? Oh, okay look at the image's provenance. Image is of a papyrus said to be a fragment of The Gospel of Mary. Source: Wikipedia.org Public Domain.
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You Must Remember This
A short poem about things that happened two-thirds of a lifetime ago... image source picclick.com no known copyright issues.
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I don't know why
Posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2020
but you are getting better and better. No, I do: it's practise making perfect, or as near as anything can get to that. You need to be looking at another collection soon. This is extremely good work.
Read full commentPosted in Dutch Elm Disease
Excellent.
Posted on Wed, 17 Mar 2021
Very fine. Whimsical, I agree.
You have a missing apostrophe at line 5 in "Willows favourite".
Always best to keep the fantastic rooted in the everyday. You do that well here.
Well done.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail"
We
Posted on Mon, 28 Dec 2020
(ok I, but I'm sure that you - at least - feel the same) write about these things to try and make sense of them. For ourselves, yes, but if in writing them we can help others then they MUST be written.
Beautiful, layered writing as usual...
Read full commentPosted in Tawny Owl
There will be
Posted on Mon, 10 Feb 2020
...but as you know I'm writing Moffat III at the moment (12,000 words and counting). I always have a vanity project going, whilst I'm writing a novel. It helps to dive off into something else completely unrelated. Usually, The Picture Ranch or...
Read full commentPosted in Powerhousing II
Ah well,
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2019
don't we know? "This is John, he...we used to know each other." Joan is about 19, John has been away for 20 years.
Read full commentYes, I know people don't like holes, but I do like clues, rather than telling everything.
Anyway, glad you liked it...
Posted in A Polka Dot Dress
One thing you will
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
find by doing this, is that your description in any prose you do write will be tighter, more compact, more effective, it's something I was told would happen if I wrote more poetry. I'm not completely sure it has for me, but it will for you....
Read full commentPosted in Tail-end
It's the mothballs
Posted on Tue, 10 Jan 2017
I remember, and the faint smell of Lion pee and Turkish Delight.... hahaha. I do not know anyone who has never explored their parents' wardrobe. When I was 8, my dad's wardrobe had hundreds of football programmes from the 40's and 50's; Rangers...
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Marvellous
Posted on Thu, 29 Apr 2021
and ends particularly well.
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Scans well,
Posted on Wed, 21 Apr 2021
and none of the rhymes seem forced. An insistent rhythm that serves the subject well. A little unconvinced by one or two of the images. "severed souls impaled upon a pike" - for example - although I appreciate you may well be using soul as person...
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As funny as
Posted on Wed, 21 Apr 2021
part one. I can think of no finer accolade. Well done on the pick.
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