Philip Sidney
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I have 166 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 608866 times
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My stories
Living with Giants
Skyscrapers have grown along the harbour, they look out to sea and across to mountains, they do not tower like buildings in bustling cities, more...
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Spindrift
I am no longer there cannot see standing horses bending heads against the wind leaning into each other sharing warmth dreaming waiting nibbling...
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Bathing
Take in the kitsch candy colours of the Blue Lagoon, limpid aqua pools, backlit, like pictures of Jesus or Elvis, frilly lime algae floats, languid,...
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Trolls
Trolls look down from the ridge at those who pass watch colours change they know each rock how light reveals the curve of the land how shadows...
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Cod War
A low key Icelandic harbour, one jaunty fishing boat, the salting-shed is shut, gulls swoop, ducks bob on the swell, their Frankie Howard, 'ooohs'...
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This took me to the edge of
Posted on Sun, 25 Oct 2015
This took me to the edge of things, the border between life and death that is always there but we pretend isn't. Death and beauty and that blast of light that is living; I found this moving in its lightness.
Read full commentPosted in White Light
A lovely shimmer of summer,
Posted on Thu, 22 Oct 2015
A lovely shimmer of summer, on this dark autumnal morning, I'll borrow pictures from it to cheer up my day.
Read full commentPosted in 'The Borrowers' (Poetry Monthly)
Some interesting ideas but
Posted on Fri, 16 Oct 2015
Some interesting ideas but quite difficult to read the white on black.
Read full commentPosted in The Bad Day that Never Should Have Been
I liked this bird's eye view,
Posted on Thu, 15 Oct 2015
I liked this bird's eye view, felt like astral projection, some striking images and interesting ideas.
Read full commentPosted in Kataskopos
I liked it.
Posted on Mon, 12 Oct 2015
I liked it.
Read full commentPosted in MIRROR, MIRROR
It's funny how small things
Posted on Thu, 08 Oct 2015
It's funny how small things just strike us in a most particular way, you have an artist's eye.
Read full commentPosted in Poet to his Muse
Great sketch with hidden
Posted on Fri, 09 Oct 2015
Great sketch with hidden depths.
Read full commentPosted in Salou and Portaventura
It is so strange to be left
Posted on Wed, 07 Oct 2015
It is so strange to be left behind, looking at the space they grew in. Loved the avacado and its resonance particularly.
Read full commentPosted in Stepping Stones (Poetry Monthly)
Beautiful, especially lovely
Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2015
Beautiful, especially lovely with Leonard Cohen playing in the background.
Read full commentPosted in It's Four in the Afternoon...
This is so very moving, now
Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015
This is so very moving, now you've really set me off, my darling ones grown and flown...beautifully effective in its simplicity and vivid moments.
Read full commentPosted in 'Mine's a Saveloy!'
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