Jane Hyphen
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I Didn't Kill the Scarlet Beetles
I didn’t kill the scarlet beetles Who fed and fornicated upon The pregnant buds of beauty My martagon lilies, frilly nods Which shalt not come if I...
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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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Gosh, is this a true story?
Posted on Sun, 07 Apr 2019
Gosh, is this a true story? It would certainly ring true for many people who've put others needs before their own until their stuffing has gone all lumpy only to be dumped like an old worn-out toy. Love twins...more like the evil twin. I enjoyed...
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I love the comparison to
Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2019
I love the comparison to glitter in a snow globe. How nice to walk along the sea to the supermarket and be seranaded by gulls, they don't have many tunes in their repetoire but I admire their enthusiasm and of course they are very busy at this...
Read full commentPosted in herring gull gallantry
Green is so restorative. Just
Posted on Fri, 29 Mar 2019
Green is so restorative. Just reading this poem is like a pick me up Rhianon.
Read full commentPosted in Colours for Kids 6)
Beautiful Rhiannon. The
Posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2019
Beautiful Rhiannon. The description of young lambs is dancing with their knobbly knees is perfect and spring wouldn't be spring without daffodils. They look so natural growing in the field in your photos, in contrast to my local council which...
Read full commentPosted in Wild daffodils of field and meadow*
Wonderful tribute to a
Posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2019
Wonderful tribute to a prickly beauty. Bee-full I love. One of the best smells I've ever experienced was on a coastal path in Pembrokeshire in May, the sun was out and the gorse scented the air, to me it was not unlike Pina Colada. Generally the...
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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
Get back in the cave, the
Posted on Wed, 06 Mar 2019
Get back in the cave, the flow of words is infinite and who know which spirit will be your next inspiration. I enjoy your writing syle, it's unique with touches of brilliance.
Read full commentPosted in Ray Coach In Cave
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
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