Jane Hyphen
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Jam
I couldn’t understand why I’d never discovered it before. Perhaps I had, once, years ago during my childhood but it had frightened me and I’d locked...
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There's Still Enough Time
He looks so nice; an unfolded smile, harmless eyes. No thoughts at the front, only the manners, his mother wrapped up and gave him, when, as a boy,...
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Ladies who lunch at The Entomol
The waiter served the mermaid pie with a glass of our favourite tipple As he pulled out the cork, a wasp flew out and stung me on the nipple Daphne...
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Another Day
Another day, announced the birds in non negotiable verse, sharp tools to cut you from the sack of your sleep and nick you just enough to feel the...
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The Price of Gold
I was late because I fell into a hole. I was desperately searching for glimmers and someone was digging for gold. The hole and I both were open...
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What a horrible story and
Posted on Mon, 06 Nov 2023
What a horrible story and sadly not an unusual one. The punishments don't tend to fit crimes like this but to match barbarism with barbarism seems like a step backwards. You're right, that poor little boy...
Read full commentPosted in Seriously?
Such wise words and so neatly
Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023
Such wise words and so neatly and artfully arranged. The age old problem of how to right wrongs without doubling up on the wrong or being trampled all over. We've still some evolving to do.
Read full commentPosted in One Good Turn
'whose bark wrinkled with age
Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2023
'whose bark wrinkled with age' I love the idea of elements of the forest also growing old like the journey of your parents from their youthful courtship through to 'the suffocated heavy blanket of fear' in old age. The endless cycle of new...
Read full commentPosted in Remembering
This is very powerful, Di.
Posted on Sun, 29 Oct 2023
This is very powerful, Di. The word shame is so exposing, the sound of it making you feel, at once ashamed.
'It is revenge', an endless cycle of revenge. We learn it as children but as adults, with no greater powers to intervene, does it...
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It sounds like all your cats
Posted on Sat, 28 Oct 2023
It sounds like all your cats are living the good life. I love their names. I have a very fussy cat. Magnus, he has put on weight recently and I know my neighbour feeds him, what I don't know, pate maybe.
Tricky having six, especially when...
Read full commentPosted in Nanny, Shot Herself In The Foot!
An interesting look into the
Posted on Sun, 22 Oct 2023
An interesting look into the night time world of wakefulness, Jenny, your psyche soaring beneath those closed eyelids. It does seem to provide a unique gap into more mysterious layers of consciousness, somewhere between proper dreams and lucidity...
Read full commentPosted in Transcendental Journey of Meditation
Ha ha, you must have gone to
Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023
Ha ha, you must have gone to a mixed mega comprehensive like me then. Those poor teachers, the ones who tried that is. Thank you for reading.
Read full commentPosted in Come to the Sports Hall
Love, 'wordlessly as a storm'
Posted on Sun, 22 Oct 2023
Love, 'wordlessly as a storm'. The magic of the lake, communicated softly in your poem. I googled it and now I want to visit.
Read full commentPosted in Blagdon Lake in Winter
Summed up that feeling of
Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023
Summed up that feeling of lying awake, the anxiety of missing out on the essential shut down hours and all worries magnified. Counting sheep, who came up with that? A farmer perhaps but I bet they sleep like babies anyway.
Read full commentPosted in Three O’Clock Sheep Club
I used to admire those
Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023
I used to admire those bicycle locks too with the chain buried in some trendy looking plastic tubing. I can just imagine an uncle indulging in a trick like this, they certainly do 'love to tease', it's their job.
Read full commentPosted in A Hazy Memory of an Uncle’s Trick
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