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I have 230 stories published in 8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 586761 times and 172 of my stories have been cherry picked.
197 of my 1,601 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 210 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

Soup

First, make your broth :-)
Cherry

Assembly

poem

A shift in the scenery

Poem. minor ed. 30/10/12
Cherry

The World Turns

doodlydoodle

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197 of my comments have received 210 Great Feedback votes

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How quiet...

Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2020

still and unknowable that space between them and us, where words and images repeated often enough on social media become meaningless, taste of ashes or nothing but our own tooth decay.. Looking forward to you kicking 'em inna googlies for the...

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Posted in Burning Bridges

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Like this a good deal, puts

Posted on Fri, 25 Oct 2019

Like this a good deal, puts me in mind of Wendell Berrys' "Peace of Wild Things" and the work of Mary Oliver.

Best L x

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Posted in Black Herons

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Lovely

Posted on Thu, 03 Oct 2019

Gently, she reminded us all to be kind, by showing her kindness. A warm reverie, thank you Jennifer.

Best

Lena xx

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Posted in Remembering Bee Symbol Of Our Great Poets

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Now there's a song

Posted on Fri, 09 Aug 2019

...in the making.

Enjoyed

Lxx

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Posted in The Ballad of Laura Middleton

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Subjects frozen..

Posted on Wed, 30 Jan 2019

...in current climate of distaste for those who don't fit a functional mould. Damned good write Ewan, Rylands curates relics and fortunes in literary text, who holds or promises concrete future for those unwritten?

best wishes

Lena...

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Posted in Winter in Manchester

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Enjoyed

Posted on Thu, 15 Feb 2018

I like ideas running through this; futility of pinning a butterfly wing of time, "She said they only knew how to pin minutes" and the inevitability of decay, however wrought. 

 

all the best

Lena x

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Posted in Pins (3)

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...Did that...

Posted on Thu, 05 Oct 2017

...and the clutter pile began again. We are our memories, however we amass and tag them :)

Like very much.

Best regards

Lena x

 

 

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Posted in Vanity and Bonfires

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Each detail.

Posted on Thu, 03 Aug 2017

...blends, but stark in its own right. The submerged in water and life beneath earth, that creates earth, a draw to the eye and mind. Excellent, enjoyed reading xx

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Posted in Submerged

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Striking

Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017

Damned enjoyable. The narrator as  alienated observer, is crafted well. A sense of this pervades. Though at an uneasy peace with a culture and heat to which he does not belong, he yet observes in practice, and masters local pleasantries. Again...

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Posted in Tail-end

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Embracing ..

Posted on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

... an idealised memory of self and nation...that never was.....

Good read.

Lena x

 

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Posted in Dream On

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