Jane Hyphen
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I Woke Up (in inverted commas)
I woke up in inverted commas. That is I woke but didn’t feel fully awake, it happens to all of us doesn’t it but this time it was different. There...
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I won't leave my Walled Garden
I won’t leave my walled garden Through scores of season cycles I’ve nursed and nourished soil And plucked the lump stone To form freethinking loam...
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Throwing Stones
‘You horrible lot will be working at Royal Ascot this summer.’ He looked at us as if we should feel honoured. A horrible lot, teenagers from...
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The Unsent Letter
I've been going through old untitled documents on my cloud and found this unsent letter to my next door neighbour whose noisy handy man (her little pet) polluted the air space with a very loud radio each weekend, drowning out the birds and other soothing sounds.
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Orange
Orange just doesn’t sit right with me Claiming to be both colour and fruit It can’t just choose one and it’s loud Too shouty, too few this colour...
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Lovely Rhiannon, leafy
Posted on Mon, 25 Jun 2018
Lovely Rhiannon, leafy filters, what more could you wish for. There is no better place than the shade to watch nature play out on a hot day. Unfortunately I was working in the sun today and felt quite sick in Reading, it was baking!
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One of those times when as
Posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2018
One of those times when as children we experience internal volcanos of emotion, shock at how parents treat us, the audacity of their failure to listen. It's builds indepence and resilience but it's also an awakening, as a human you're often alone...
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I love the little loose bit
Posted on Wed, 30 May 2018
I love the little loose bit at the end, blowing in the wind there, it's brave but it works. May is the most beautiful month. Lovely fresh words.
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False teeth, yes I couldn't
Posted on Sun, 27 May 2018
False teeth, yes I couldn't bring myself to include those, something creepy about them. We used to back onto a small cemetary where badgers would dig up bones, brass coffin rings and once some false teeth were in a pile of freshly dug soil!
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I can just imagine blurting
Posted on Fri, 25 May 2018
I can just imagine blurting those words out because of the sense of duty and expectation from the people around you and then living two lives; the flimsy fake outer one and the real one swelling inside your head constantly. What a horrible...
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This made me laugh a lot! I
Posted on Sun, 01 Apr 2018
This made me laugh a lot! I can't decided which one applies to me, I think we're all in there somewhere. If the prayers said in church were anything like this the churches would be full again and you would have saved the church of England.
Read full commentPosted in Alternative Prayer of Remembrance, Easter 2018
I love the way you've mashed
Posted on Fri, 09 Mar 2018
I love the way you've mashed up the man-made and mundane with nature where there's always something fresh and beautiful when you look for it. Like one of those mixed media collages with bits of plastic and leaf skeletons, feathers and bottle tops...
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You've illustrated the terror
Posted on Fri, 02 Mar 2018
You've illustrated the terror of losing control of your faculties here, like files all stored neatly in your head suddenly scattered in disarray. The frustrating thing is you know it's there but you cannot access it. I've no experience of...
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I really like this, sums
Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018
I really like this, sums those road repair men up perfectly.
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This is such a charming
Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018
This is such a charming tribute to dogs and their childish, eager to please characters. Where would we be without our furry friends, they give so much without all the heavy stuff which humans emit.
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