Philip Sidney

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I have 166 stories published in 5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 610142 times and 212 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Cherry

June 2012

My arms are full of New England, Kira, seven days old, golden skinned, sweet honey. English mother, Indian father, an American - yet - she is not...
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Cherry
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Snowdonian Stone

This is the stone, thrown molten from a fiery heart which took its small part in: The Transformation of the Great Mountain. This is the stone,...
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Cherry

Bubble-blow, Thistledown and Candyfloss

Oh this silly life I live light as soapy bubble-blow, sparking with foolish iridescent hope, watch it float away and – pop it bursts and is no more...
Cherry

Teasels

Colours, faded to winter’s gentle browns and greys. Sweet nectar, gone, lapped by the long tongued bee. We stand, unaided through icy nights and...
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Gold cherry

The City Lives

The city lives grows like a child imperceptibly unless seen at intervals creeps over time and once green fields produces imitations mutations which...
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400 of my comments have received 398 Great Feedback votes

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I love this!  I like to write

Posted on Tue, 05 May 2015

I love this!  I like to write about the changing nature of the city too.  I think this is beautiful, the natural world making use of what humans made and no longer want. Love 'the dust of men and machines'.

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Posted in Rust

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Full of strangeness, which I

Posted on Sun, 03 May 2015

Full of strangeness, which I really like.

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Posted in The Ravens of Portobello

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This great, full of energy

Posted on Sun, 03 May 2015

This great, full of energy and perverseness of being human.

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Posted in The Protest

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Oh my!  I just googled it and

Posted on Sat, 02 May 2015

Oh my!  I just googled it and if it's the one set in NZ it sounds close to my childhood, I'm going to try and get it!  Thank you Vera. 

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Posted in Measles

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Such a fascinating story!

Posted on Tue, 28 Apr 2015

Such a fascinating story!  There are still some issues with tenses and it should be 'her husband' not his.  I really like this mix of history and myth.

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Posted in The Ancient tax on Breast

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This has a touch of horror to

Posted on Mon, 27 Apr 2015

This has a touch of horror to it, I wonder why she has to stay locked up.  Very dark but interesting ideas.  Still a few gammatical issues, e.g. 'find hersself' should be 'found, 'ringed', 'rang', it seems like tenses need looking at.

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Posted in Strange deeds of Anduin,

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Nearly there!  This reminds

Posted on Sun, 26 Apr 2015

Nearly there!  This reminds me of 'Wild', the camaraderie and how far you have all come.

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Posted in Camino 14 – 2 October 2014

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Wistful and true, shedding

Posted on Tue, 21 Apr 2015

Wistful and true, shedding the past.

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Posted in moving in

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I quite like the awkwardness

Posted on Fri, 24 Apr 2015

I quite like the awkwardness of 'comfortability' and 'moonlight-less', seems to refelect the feelings in the poem.

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Posted in Barcelona Midnight

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Memories, beautifully

Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2015

Memories, beautifully captured.

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Posted in Lady Plays the Blues

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