Philip Sidney
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I have 159 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 254051 times
and 198 of my stories have been cherry picked.
376 of my 5,275 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 372 votes
My stories
Gardening (Poetry Monthly)
A boy tends plants under a foil sky to the monotone of big-bulbed lamps humming in electric unison. White, silver, green colour this pungent world -...
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Old Central Birmingham Library
Old Central Birmingham Library the dark decades had us sitting on your concrete steps we smokers, dreamers, waiting for adventurers. You were the...
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Border Control (Poetry Monthly)
I’ve given up on border control, the making and remaking of beds, there’s pleasure in surrender to the slow creep over and under the hedge. A tangle...
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Huldufolk (Poetry Monthly)
We are not so different, our spirits grow thin in the absence of joy, you wonder how we survive chill lives spent skipping into rocks, cracked by ice...
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Triptych 3: Souls
Children nod heads at the priest as he instructs them on sin and the soul, they arrange their faces to radiate understanding, as they might for an...
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A lovely sense of words
Posted on Sun, 19 Mar 2017
A lovely sense of words blowing about us here and a great sentiment too.
Read full commentPosted in Don Quixote Was Right
Slick writing and a great
Posted on Wed, 22 Feb 2017
Slick writing and a great ending.
Read full commentPosted in Machine
Beautiful imagery. This poem
Posted on Wed, 08 Feb 2017
Beautiful imagery. This poem would work for Poetry Monthly too.
Read full commentPosted in Winter Dispossessed.
This is such a poignant piece
Posted on Sun, 05 Feb 2017
This is such a poignant piece, delicate and touching.
Read full commentPosted in Mother, Mother, Everywhere
Rich in gorgeous imagery!
Posted on Wed, 11 Jan 2017
Rich in gorgeous imagery!
Read full commentPosted in Lady Sofia's Nightingale.
We need songs like this today
Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2016
We need songs like this today.
Read full commentPosted in Colour Blind
Wonderfully atmospheric.
Posted on Wed, 07 Dec 2016
Wonderfully atmospheric. Such powerful metaphors. Tenses are a little confused but this is such a moving piece.
Read full commentPosted in They call me the Portal
Natural born writer. The
Posted on Fri, 25 Nov 2016
Natural born writer. The child's tender understanding is so touching.
Read full commentPosted in widdershins
Wonderfully inventive use of
Posted on Mon, 28 Nov 2016
Wonderfully inventive use of language!
Read full commentPosted in Digispeak
Thank you! :)
Posted on Wed, 26 Oct 2016
Thank you! :)
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