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The Loneliness of a Cicada
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Phytoplankton
A little meditation.
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Oh yes, they do like a frog
Posted on Fri, 19 Jun 2020
Oh yes, they do like a frog dinner too, don't they. Which would make sense because I think the name heron comes from a French word. I could just be making that up though...I hope your frogs escaped largely unscathed. Thanks ever so much for Pick...
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Ha. Yes, I have read that
Posted on Fri, 19 Jun 2020
Ha. Yes, I have read that about herons. They stab something repeatedly, fish floats dead, down the hatch. They also swallow small mammals head first so that they swallow with the direction that the fur lies. There's a name for it, but I can't...
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A lot to take in, as
Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020
A lot to take in, as airyfairy said, but things that stand out straight away - the outsider does not yearn to be tolerated and inclusion is not the same as belonging. Rachel :)
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I love the bombardment of
Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020
I love the bombardment of this. Quite a walk. I enjoyed it very much. Has some great lines too, 'the sweat of labour, the sweat of love' just for one. Rachel :)
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Love this one, Luigi. So sad
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2020
Love this one, Luigi. So sad that he's not here anymore. Like the reflection on mortality. Rachel x
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'But forget to grab my heart
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2020
'But forget to grab my heart
Leaving it in the living room
Where it fibrillates weakly'
Some wonderful lines in this, I really felt them. Particularly these. Made me sigh. You must go back in and retrieve it. Rachel :)
Read full commentPosted in Unpicking knots
I have been back to read this
Posted on Sun, 10 May 2020
I have been back to read this wonderful poem a number of times for the light and shade in its imagery and metaphor, and for how it reads as if it is full of secrets. It is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please do share if you like it...
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I love the idea of the wind
Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2020
I love the idea of the wind as a vagabond of change and the water of goodwill. Some lovely images. Rachel :)
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Such beautiful, grief-laden,
Posted on Sat, 30 May 2020
Such beautiful, grief-laden, weighty lines in your poem as well as images. And as well as being very erudite. I know very little about Lacan. I haven't processed the horror of what I think and feel about what happened to George Floyd yet. I found...
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Ha ha. That's the perfect
Posted on Thu, 28 May 2020
Ha ha. That's the perfect solution, Luigi! I think I will take your advice and when people ask what the rattling noise is coming from them, I'll plead ignorance. Rachel x
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