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I have 230 stories published in 8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 617632 times and 172 of my stories have been cherry picked.
200 of my 1,610 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 213 votes

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Maddalena

Doodles, scribbles and poesy.

Has the tact of a tin of mushy peas lobbed through a plate glass window.

Why? We're all folk, that's why.

Thank you for reading.

 

My stories

Cherry

Tour Bus

Odd doodle
Gold cherry

Weeding

Who decides what enhances? Speed doodle
1 likes
Gold cherry
Poem of the week

Our Soil

Peep of green/ grand daughter/doodle
1 likes
Gold cherry
Pick of the Month

Identity

We resent crush, constant news of hatred and horrors
1 likes
Gold cherry
Poem of the week

Hush

Poem
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200 of my comments have received 213 Great Feedback votes

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Keep on

Posted on Sun, 20 Oct 2019

...keeping on. In Leeds, the facade changes, corporate aspirations rise, still the same heartsink beyond gentrification and tarmaced over cobbles. Stay bright and look for points of light

xxx

L

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Posted in Bar room blues

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Like this very much Tina,

Posted on Sun, 16 Mar 2014

Like this very much Tina, there's a considered and deliberate fracture in the rhythm to add weight to the cracks of her day and in temperment. Carefully crafted, as ever with you. :)

all the best

Lena x

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Posted in Definitely Not Just Another Dog Story

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Oranges

Posted on Tue, 24 Feb 2026

and clemantines yield an intense sweetness if juiced when slightly wrinkledwink

I...

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Posted in Last Week's Oranges

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Thoughtful and measured

Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026

for its presentation, and as a poet you ask yourself, as many do, do you write for this for purely this time and audience or for truth of humanity throughout tech and age, evoke and critique what we are? Really like what you've done. 

Best...

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Posted in While I Wasn't Listening

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In the tradition...

Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2025

of great satirical fabulists (including Calvino and Dario Fo)

Cracking read.

Best as ever

Lena

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Posted in The Plenilune

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Wistful smile

Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025

Nicely told, I often re-visit Pennine walks I can't take anymore, hope my memories hold at least :)

Best as ever

Lena x

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Posted in An elderly dream

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Sharp description

Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025

...  formed in little slices to underpin sensation in cut of sudden winter.

Delightful.

Best

Lena x

 

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Posted in Glinting Diamonds Everywhere!

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Love it,

Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025

wry and telling: modern "magical" aspirations deconstructed smiley

best as...

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Posted in FAIRY CAKES

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Structure

Posted on Wed, 05 Nov 2025

carefully crafted to reflect fragmentation of thought displaced by ever present unwanted memory.

Excellent

best as ever

Lena

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Posted in Put The Sword Down

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Reminds me

Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025

of Plath and her figs of opportunity in The Bell Jar.

Good read and enjoyed

best

Lena x

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Posted in At Home in the Pause

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