Philip Sidney

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I have 166 stories published in 5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 608325 times and 212 of my stories have been cherry picked.
400 of my 5,342 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 398 votes

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Wool

By Philip Sidney on Mon, 08 Jun 2015

Lambs follow the others from the meadow, with its sweet grass and yellow flowers smiling back at the sun, into the mountain folds, the secret places...

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Breath

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 06 Jun 2015

I listen hard to hear the low drone carved from air drifting with the wind across space and time a sound from those distant hidden places where quiet...

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Ice

By Philip Sidney on Fri, 05 Jun 2015

I think of it out there, at night creaking, weighty, floating dreaming of the next transformation hydrogen hydrogen oxygen loosening bonds the slow...

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Revision

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 16 May 2015

Retake students gaze, nod, scribble they must do better must grasp how to go beyond the formula ‘What can I write instead of: this poem is to...

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Remembering Burnt Norton

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 09 May 2015

We sat in the folly and light May rain tip, tip, tapped through new-green leaves on old trees a mingled scent of soil, bluebells, mildew, memory the...

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400 of my comments have received 398 Great Feedback votes

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Lovely spooky stuff.

Posted on Fri, 19 Feb 2016

Lovely spooky stuff.

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Posted in The Everlasting Pie

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The weight lifted, such a

Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2016

The weight lifted, such a wonderful feeling.

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Posted in Restrictions lifted (Poetry Monthly)

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I like the use of rhyme here,

Posted on Wed, 17 Feb 2016

I like the use of rhyme here, has a gothic weight to it.

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Posted in The Evil Eye

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I enjoyed these musings.

Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2016

I enjoyed these musings. 'Love is a temporary, biological imbalance', is true, but there again that's what we are too. Love is such a complicated word.

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Posted in Time To Love ?

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