Philip Sidney
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I have 143 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 152144 times
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Southall Girl
Doreen of the twilight shift suffers with her nerves, leaves them with her handbag to join the line-up at the belt - strip lit, focus down, this is...
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Ingrid
Grey Sunday, Casablanca, tea slopped over homework, to be finished in maths, sat at the back, pretending to listen - cheap little actress, lashes...
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Night-flying in North Wales
In daylight the sleek, black, gleam of wing flashes above slate tiles tilts and slips into a gap in the mountain. Later- you look up past a neighbour...
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Cold Call
I hang wet sheets on the line and they slap me - they struggle in the spring air so I leave them with the resilient daffodils, the colour of...
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The Cow Hand's Wife (Poetry Monthly)
Tedious green sates the lazy cows, they chew in dull absence and wait for the next round of milking. A crow rummages in a fresh pile of digested...
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I like the way time seems to
Posted on Tue, 19 Jan 2016
I like the way time seems to slow down to hold the moment, like a segment of slow motion at the centre of fast motion film. Beautiful language.
Read full commentPosted in All change
Wish I could remember back
Posted on Thu, 02 Jul 2015
Wish I could remember back this far, I sometimes thik I can recall moments from being a baby, I guess it's all lurking there somewhere. Really interesting perspective.
Read full commentPosted in First Day First Memory
The small details of the
Posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2014
The small details of the mundane show how momentus the last contact is, all is preserved, impossible to resolve. I like the ideas of soaking up your mother as yourself. When we lose our mothers we lose some of ourself.
Read full commentPosted in My Mother Myself
Or we'll find ourselves
Posted on Sat, 08 Jul 2017
Or we'll find ourselves bumping along with some other oddness imposed by our 'leaders'.
Read full commentPosted in Something's broke
A great sense of energy made
Posted on Sat, 08 Jul 2017
A great sense of energy made with these rhythms.
Read full commentPosted in Festival Of Life (Freeform poem)
How wonderfully restful.
Posted on Sat, 08 Jul 2017
How wonderfully restful. Really nice use of rhyme too.
Read full commentPosted in Soothing
Haha, serves him right!
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
Haha, serves him right!
Read full commentPosted in The Errorphobe
I don't quite get it - but I
Posted on Tue, 27 Jun 2017
I don't quite get it - but I like it.
Read full commentPosted in After Inventing Poe
Lots of interesting touches
Posted on Wed, 21 Jun 2017
Lots of interesting touches here, I really enjoyed it.
Read full commentPosted in Daddio and Beyond
Haha! I have long greyish
Posted on Sat, 10 Jun 2017
Haha! I have long greyish hair too - if you do yours I'll do mine.
Read full commentPosted in Not Going With The Flow
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