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15 of my 216 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 15 votes
melanie greenwood
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Tongue Untied
I’m your tongue. Eight tied, malleable muscles, anchored by a hidden root; plush with arteries, branching nerves, hot-wired to your brain. I lost my...
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Frontline
After your shift, you strip outside in darkling light, where an ill wind immured me. Your shadowed face, indented and chafed. ‘It’s all around,’ you...
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Teenage Twitterati
Homing instinct honed, they alight flapping, cawing, at midnight. Smoking on the wing, their sequined plumage drenched in vodka, bypassing my over-...
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Cocktail Hour in Kyiv
Arina’s dextrous fingers, so adept at teaching children to read and write, nimbly grate polystyrene in the park. The thickening agent is added to...
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Blueprint
Bulbs rustle in paper bags, pale corns, rhizomes, tubers to breathe new life into a barren corporate patch. Husks, tipped with green shoots, become...
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Thank you for choosing me as Story of the Week!
Posted on Sun, 20 Nov 2022
I'm currently preparing for another Friday night! :)
Read full commentPosted in Teenage Twitterati
stunning
Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021
Simply gorgeous, all good art makes you see something in a new, sumptuous light, that's what you've managed beautifully.
Read full commentPosted in Mistletoe
ace
Posted on Fri, 10 Dec 2021
Story telling. Love the short, sharp, descriptive sentences, the wonderful pitch black humour and the road movie like tale.
Read full commentPosted in Schrodinger’s Dog part 2
brilliant
Posted on Mon, 16 Aug 2021
love the rythm of this, made to be spoken, goes with the pace, lovely sense of atmosphere, smell, vision and that last line nailed it perfectly...
Read full commentPosted in Naples: balcony overlooking Via Firenza
Love the helicopter hope and
Posted on Tue, 24 Aug 2021
Love the helicopter hope and the way you have tried to connect seagulls with refugees and our attitudes to both....
Read full commentPosted in jormungandr
depth and beauty
Posted on Fri, 06 Aug 2021
My favourite is the image of the butterflies as velvet gloves clapping. I'll always see that now. Beautiful poem.
Read full commentPosted in fallow
Love this
Posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2021
Beautiful, makes me almost want to visit Ikea!! And that place is like Hell. Loved the languid, heated description, pulse tattoo, bolt of silk. brilliant.
Read full commentPosted in In IKEA, he dreams about the woman he loves
great imagery
Posted on Sat, 09 Nov 2019
love the feeling of childhood, the wooden and woolen connection, the moths and cicadias and how the fallen trees link to bleached bones and pennies from soldiers. Beautifully depicted.
Read full commentPosted in Trees on the Arapuni Road
lovely
Posted on Sun, 19 Feb 2017
very much liked the feeling of being on the journey with you, 'intermittent percussion' of woodpecker - I could hear it so clearly.... I'd have finished it without the last two lines because the scene is already painted well...
Read full commentPosted in Forgotten Copse
Beautiful, slow-moving, with
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
Beautiful, slow-moving, with great depth and warmth and humanity.
Read full commentPosted in Blue
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