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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...
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...
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
This must have been a very hard job and not one that many could do, but I imagine you met a lot of people in their pain and helped them. The combination of listing and rhyme / half-rhyme work so well in this to give the sense of weightiness of...
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
Read full commentPosted in Independence
'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...
Read full commentPosted in Cinderella river
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 :)
Read full commentPosted in Gliding Through Woods
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...
Read full commentPosted in #BLM
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
Read full commentPosted in Anger
This is a sweet idea, I
Posted on Wed, 27 May 2020
This is a sweet idea, I suppose having just posted a poem about anger that listening to them would do me good! Rachel :)
Read full commentPosted in Look For The Good
There is a sad hollowing to
Posted on Thu, 28 May 2020
There is a sad hollowing to this and it's perfectly circled for me in the 'there, there'. Full of vulnerability, of subject and writer.
Read full commentPosted in Lepidoptera
I have really enjoyed your
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2020
I have really enjoyed your use of language in your latest poems. Nice images here too, as Jenny said. Rachel :)
Read full commentPosted in The Ocean
This must have been a very
Posted on Sat, 23 May 2020
This must have been a very hard job and not one that many could do, but I imagine you met a lot of people in their pain and helped them. The combination of listing and rhyme / half-rhyme work so well in this to give the sense of weightiness of...
Read full commentPosted in By One's Own Hand
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