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Beautiful, Paul. 'Carrion
Posted on Wed, 24 Feb 2021
Beautiful, Paul. 'Carrion crows blink milk-lid eyes' - I love the contrast of the beauty of night and its shadows of crows. The 'ocean of our making' - a line to swoon over. The last stanza and line is so powerful set against the description of...
Ah thanks Paul. Yes, I love bees. I have planted almost every plant in my garden to attract them and in the summer I lie out there on a bean bag and listen to them buzzing busily around me. I have sat out there with the odd bee or damselfly...
Continues to be completely fascinating and moving. Apart from anything, too, it is such a precious record of firsthand experience - it reminds you of what would be lost if you weren't keeping this record. I'm so glad you are. Rachel.
The perils of living on an island, especially Neville's. This brilliantly written and deeply wry story is our Pick of the Day. Do share on Facebook and Twitter.
(Ross - I hope the image is ok. Feel free to change if not. It's from...
Ah well, you conjure it up very well. (And not to labour my point like a pedant...I should have explained myself better, I wondered if it should be gazed at, or gazed upon, rather than just gazed - but, as I said, could just be me!)
Beautiful, Paul. 'Carrion
Posted on Wed, 24 Feb 2021
Beautiful, Paul. 'Carrion crows blink milk-lid eyes' - I love the contrast of the beauty of night and its shadows of crows. The 'ocean of our making' - a line to swoon over. The last stanza and line is so powerful set against the description of...
Read full commentPosted in Forgotten Souls
Ah thanks Paul. Yes, I love
Posted on Wed, 24 Feb 2021
Ah thanks Paul. Yes, I love bees. I have planted almost every plant in my garden to attract them and in the summer I lie out there on a bean bag and listen to them buzzing busily around me. I have sat out there with the odd bee or damselfly...
Read full commentPosted in The Hive
Continues to be completely
Posted on Mon, 22 Feb 2021
Continues to be completely fascinating and moving. Apart from anything, too, it is such a precious record of firsthand experience - it reminds you of what would be lost if you weren't keeping this record. I'm so glad you are. Rachel.
Read full commentPosted in My New Nemesis
Gorgeous, Di. Love moss
Posted on Sun, 21 Feb 2021
Gorgeous, Di. Love moss swelling, lichen rigged and still deer. I think your nouns and verbs are beautifully threaded. :)
Read full commentPosted in deer
These slices of personal
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2021
These slices of personal history are mesmerising and moving. This is our Pick of the Day. Do share on Facebook and Twitter.
Read full commentPosted in 276 Portobello Road
The perils of living on an
Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2021
The perils of living on an island, especially Neville's. This brilliantly written and deeply wry story is our Pick of the Day. Do share on Facebook and Twitter.
(Ross - I hope the image is ok. Feel free to change if not. It's from...
Read full commentPosted in Take it Back
This has such a wistful
Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2021
This has such a wistful sadness to it.
'a brook bird song
hardly audible
beneath perpetual
flowing river'
Lovely lines.
Rachel :)
Read full commentPosted in Silent Lament
Ah well, you conjure it up
Posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2021
Ah well, you conjure it up very well. (And not to labour my point like a pedant...I should have explained myself better, I wondered if it should be gazed at, or gazed upon, rather than just gazed - but, as I said, could just be me!)
Read full commentPosted in Mehtab Bagh (Moonlight Garden)
Lovely, Paul. Really
Posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2021
Lovely, Paul. Really evocative. (BTW - is 'gazed an ivory tomb' - could just be me.)
Read full commentPosted in Mehtab Bagh (Moonlight Garden)
Yes, the promise of Spring
Posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2021
Yes, the promise of Spring just around the corner. A nice reminder.
Read full commentPosted in Drifting On The Muse
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