Jane Hyphen
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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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I Saw You
I saw you And the years had washed you pale A stranger standing Staring at the layered air Nothing in your eyes But spirits still confide Stirring...
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It's a fail of a tale we
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2019
It's a fail of a tale we teach our kids. Bad deeds will be punished, if not in life then in hell, look around it's easy to tell, the few reap what the many broke their backs to sow with next to nothing there to show.
Read full commentPosted in The Three Fields of You
Thank you, it is shocking but
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
Thank you, it is shocking but having a site like this to go and writing friends is a great comfort
Read full commentPosted in Last Week I Lost My Job (Rimus Dissolutas)
Wow, I like the way you have
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
Wow, I like the way you have described your human situation in horticultural terms. Move any established plant and for a good while it will be vulnerable in soil untrue.
Read full commentPosted in Roots
This is a lovely snapshot in
Posted on Fri, 08 Mar 2019
This is a lovely snapshot in time Rhiannon. I feel like people stretched their imaginations a little more back then and then was less shame in choosing something a bit different and making use of what you had.
Read full commentPosted in Gladys Aylward and Tenzing
Yes she did @Di_Hard and Rod
Posted on Sat, 02 Mar 2019
Yes she did @Di_Hard and Rod and Karen didn't know how to react because that's not their currency.
Read full commentPosted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (3)
This is beautiful Jenny.
Posted on Sun, 03 Mar 2019
This is beautiful Jenny. There is a sense of nature being effortless yet it always trumps human creations. I love the idea of it all being at your back door, I'm the same, I really appreciate my little garden and as one thing fades there is...
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I love it too, it's
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019
I love it too, it's unconfined, perhaps you are a bird after all.
Read full commentPosted in Conversation of a Tree
A storm, however brief does
Posted on Thu, 14 Feb 2019
A storm, however brief does seem to bring with it a change of behaviour in our wildlife as well as the palpable change in atmosphere. This is a lovely tribute. I really enjoyed 'globules released from dark sky splashing.' We missed most of the...
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I too love the arrangement
Posted on Tue, 12 Feb 2019
I too love the arrangement Rhiannon, it really works and of course the theme is perfect for February, the soil warming and those seeds about to burst unseen with so much in store.
Read full commentPosted in Seasons Connect
'Somewhere like yesterday'
Posted on Mon, 11 Feb 2019
'Somewhere like yesterday' sad truth in these words and it's a beautiful poem too. Thanks for linking it to mine. I also love to see work inspired by other writers on here as I'm so often inspired myself.
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