Jane Hyphen
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I have 209 stories published in
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My stories have been read 231162 times
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176 of my 1,320 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 186 votes
My stories
I am a Fruit Cake
I am a fruit cake. I have good ideas but I never act on them. They dry out and are preserved in a sweet syrup of optimism. There are always more,...
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No one comes here.
No one comes here. A sun rises each day between the faded drapes. And dust sparkles in the air, There’s no gravity, in this choked cell, it is silent...
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After the Blizzard
Frozen in the ground, I found the bones of a forgotten road. Where it was so hard to dig, under scentless layers of pristine snow. An unspoilt drift...
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The Edge of Colour
White clouds in a white sky An indeterminable pause A stifling room, alone With all the layers I’ve ever worn Flames thrown across the world Enough...
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I Name that Shoe....
I’m not particularly fussed about footwear these days but as a child it’s difficult to describe how shoes made me feel. It was as if the shoes on my...
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Thank you Di, I was worried
Posted on Sun, 28 Nov 2021
Thank you Di, I was worried it might be a bit trippy but I think we all need a trip as November comes to a close. Birds definitely form friendships and there are so many cross species friendships in the animal world. I say this looking at my...
Read full commentPosted in Parrot Rescue
It's so clever. A pendulous
Posted on Mon, 29 Nov 2021
It's so clever. A pendulous poem, I love it
Read full commentPosted in Welig for Paul (marandina)
One of those pieces which had
Posted on Sat, 27 Nov 2021
One of those pieces which had the rare effect of making me feel as if I was being squeezed while reading but in a good way. It's divine.
Read full commentPosted in Yew
This reminds me of a rich,
Posted on Wed, 24 Nov 2021
This reminds me of a rich, still life oil painting, each time you look at it, you see something different. A beautifully verdant, quiet journey into a dream.
Read full commentPosted in A Secret Garden
Brilliant ending. I hadn't
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
Brilliant ending. I hadn't heard the word ecocide before. It feels hopeless but as Di-Hard said, that is the worst, most defeatist way to address it. My kids are adults now, I worry for their kids. People come into the garden centre where I work...
Read full commentPosted in ECOCIDE
I felt this lowering my blood
Posted on Thu, 18 Nov 2021
I felt this lowering my blood pressure. Your poem has class, grace and an element of nocturnal escapism. I wish I had the stamina to stay awake all night and be a part of this magic world.
Read full commentPosted in The Solitude of Sleep
Beautiful tribute to our
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
Beautiful tribute to our native trees which are themselves like planets when they become mature. This has such a sense of the magic of winter to it. You can most definitely feel the earth's pulse through an oak limb, I have felt it many times...
Read full commentPosted in Thoughts Of An Oak Tree's Spirit
It's so clever have you've
Posted on Mon, 09 Aug 2021
It's so clever how you've communicated the pre-deluge drama. I love it when the dark clouds gather, everything goes quiet and the land is so thirsty. There is an otherwordly feel to this atmosphere and then, as you have desribed here, a patina of...
Read full commentPosted in suddenly
This made me laugh a lot!
Posted on Mon, 17 May 2021
This made me laugh a lot! 'Mad as a wet hen' and all the things people you have lived with for too long which over time become 'disgusting'.
Read full commentPosted in Caught Guzzling
Wonderful poem. So depressing
Posted on Tue, 20 Apr 2021
Wonderful poem. So depressing that this has happened in such a short space of time. Many companies, governments simply making noises about tackling climate change and yet the amount of plastic in the industry I work in is frankly mind boggling...
Read full commentPosted in just deserts
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