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There is hope here

By onemorething on Wed, 08 Jan 2020

This is not strictly what was requested for IP. I imagine it was more a 'fresh start' request than this, but I latched onto the word hope so I'm still claiming it meets the IP criteria...

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To the belly of an osprey

By onemorething on Sat, 04 Jan 2020

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You can’t cling to something once it has gone.

By onemorething on Fri, 03 Jan 2020

The photo is of a splendid fairy wren. I was doing a bit of reading about them and then read all the updates for this morning about the bushfires and found the koala videos very upsetting.

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Wood Mouse

By onemorething on Tue, 31 Dec 2019

Not very festive at all.

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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 :)

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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 :)

Posted in Gliding Through Woods

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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

Posted in Anger

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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 :)

Posted in Look For The Good

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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.

Posted in Lepidoptera

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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 :)

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So glad you enjoyed, Luigi. :

Posted on Thu, 21 May 2020

So glad you enjoyed, Luigi. :) I always revel a little when you use words like refined and elegant as I am neither refined nor elegant as a person, but I do enjoy the reflection of the compliment about my poem! Thanks for reading it. Rachel x

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I love the personal elements

Posted on Wed, 13 May 2020

I love the personal elements of this that emphasise its sadness somehow. Very moving indeed and beautifully written.