Philip Sidney
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I have 165 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 905214 times
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392 of my 5,280 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 390 votes
My stories
Poetry Day Pastoral
Thought I'd repost this for World Poetry Day.
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In the Green Time
Mari loved this time best. It was late afternoon in the garden. The children fresh from their bath, darted about in unison, like pale rooks before...
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Endurance
Sisyphus knew daily endurance how absurd, the behaviour of living. Plastic handles cut off the blood 6 bags of tins, why tins? lugged along the long...
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Land of Clouds
The Myth of Kupe’s discovery of Aotearoa (NZ), as told by his wife, Hine-te-aparangi.
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Great plot development and
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2015
Great plot development and description, very smoothly written.
Read full commentPosted in The Fifth Star - Chapter 16 (1/2) - The Hideout
I like the perspective here,
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2015
I like the perspective here, projecting into the future and considering the present, lots of layers, personal and distant at the same time. Good luck with the pamphlet!
Read full commentPosted in Two Years
I just love your enthusiastic
Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2015
I just love your enthusiastic responses Art, they lift my spirits. I have an affinity with your side of the world, I was brought up in NZ, very many years ago. I didn't find out about one of my great greats... who apparently brought the zither...
Read full commentPosted in Breath
Utterly heartbreaking, the
Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2015
Utterly heartbreaking, the stoic praticality until the crumble at the handwriting, such a personal marker of identity. And the desperately sad truth that we would settle for just about anything, just to keep them.
Read full commentPosted in Dearest Daughter...
It must be such a wonderful
Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2015
It must be such a wonderful relationship, biker and bike.
Read full commentPosted in silver horns
Touristy anthropology,
Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2015
Touristy anthropology, fiction and fact merging, really like this, unsettling
Read full commentPosted in Everything this man says
Beautiful tiful and atmospheric, a
Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2015
Beautiful and atmospheric, a sense of the past, the exterior heat interior cool and intimate and the religious artefacts hinting at penance. How the lives of parents before children become mythic.
Read full commentPosted in On the day you were made
Great narrative running
Posted on Wed, 03 Jun 2015
Great narrative running through your poems. I'm completely hooked. A complex relationship, how childhood shapes us.
Read full commentPosted in SOUND
Incredibly moving. The
Posted on Wed, 03 Jun 2015
Incredibly moving. The structure of your poem works so well with the story gradually unfolding and a shiver of emotion I for th reader in each stanza.
Read full commentPosted in An Obituary for Stephanie
This is so immediate, you
Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2015
This is so immediate, you give such a sense of the moment, I felt my heart beating faster and space shrinking, constricting breath, wonderful, frightening poem.
Read full commentPosted in Panic Button
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