Jane Hyphen
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3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 241399 times
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187 of my 1,368 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 197 votes
My stories
Phantoms
Phantoms, that’s all we ever were, Vapour trails melding in the rush hour. The same shades of green flicker past And morse code blinks winter sun...
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Happy Mother's Day
Mother of dragons The cat’s mother The martyr who reminds Us how it was so much harder The numb mother numbering The days from when it started And...
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Strange Beings in Strange Times
Something changed. People crawled out from under rocks, Wiped the moss from their heads And headed out alone or in choleric pairs, To where they...
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Imagine if we Didn't Feel Pain
Imagine if we felt no pain No stinging thorn to dock us To the margins of our term Or cuspate pin to hold us Down upon this sober ground We’d be...
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Ode to Compost
On black frosty nights, hands clutch eggshells: On precarious paths, clear goop strings do drip, Down wrists withheld slimed bags of precious peel...
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Beautiful Rhiannon. Your
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2020
Beautiful Rhiannon. Your poems are always so visual and full of texture, I can see those crops swaying, 'swells rippling' and aren't they so early this year. Walking around it feels as if we are a month ahead or more.
Read full commentPosted in Dream with the breeze
It does feel like there is a
Posted on Fri, 29 May 2020
It does feel like there is a magical spell on all the land doesn't it. This weather has made everything look more like July than May and we are all slowing down but we probably needed to.
Read full commentPosted in Here Comes The Sun
It's just really nice to see
Posted on Fri, 01 May 2020
It's just really nice to see another face coming along the road. I always try to be the one who crosses or steps out into the road but my whippets often cause me to have some delay (they always embarrass me or me them) so the other people beat me...
Read full commentPosted in Friendly Separation
I love this, it's like a full
Posted on Tue, 28 Apr 2020
I love this, it's like a full literary meal of a poem. I particularly enjoyed your description of fallen cherry petals, 'wind-lipped , pale and panpipe soft, there could be no better way of describing them. Every line is reminiscent of the walks...
Read full commentPosted in 28th April
I love this, it's so classy
Posted on Fri, 17 Apr 2020
I love this, it's so classy and clean. 'Sunless pauses' and 'blind cave fish'. It's lovely to read and pure quality.
Read full commentPosted in The Biology of Caves
Stay safe, follow your gut
Posted on Wed, 01 Apr 2020
Stay safe, follow your gut and put yourself first. Managers might seem important but if you left your workplace they would forget your name after a few weeks. Best wishes.
Read full commentPosted in Choices.
Hi Di_Hard, yes Airy and I
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2020
Hi Di_Hard, yes Airy and I are both bringing ghosts into our social circle in the absence of flesh and blood humans.
There are many interesting facts about hedges, for example sparrows won't frequent a hedge if it has a fence on one side....
Read full commentPosted in How Long Can You Stew For, Before You Fall Apart? (2)
Who needs god when you have
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2020
Who needs god when you have the Too Ticky. Big fan of the Moomins and trees so this is right up my street. I'm kind of jealous, I want to find my own Moomin tree. Perhaps when the lady of the cold goes away I can find some new tree friend. So...
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This is very magical and
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
This is very magical and light, I like the atmosphere. The distrust combined with the playful and it's true that we adapt so quickly to the unthinkable, frighteningly quickly in fact. Or maybe it was all unthinkable before but we were just too...
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Beautiful aren't they
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Beautiful aren't they Rhiannon and strangely waxy too as you describe. There are a few examples of Soulangeana in my area looking their best right now, I admire them on my singular outing of the day and they significantly improve the quality of...
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