Philip Sidney
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Bombinations
By CBS Television. - eBay item photo front photo back, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21224677
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Again and Again (Poetry Monthly)
Photograph of Marie Sweeney produced by Charles Van Schaick between 1890 and 1910 used in the book Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy (1973)
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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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This poem takes us out of the
Posted on Mon, 22 Jan 2018
This poem takes us out of the darkness and into the light - I think we could all do with a bit of that - It's our facebook and twitter pick of the day.
Read full commentPosted in Breaking The Silence
A beautiful piece of nature
Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018
A beautiful piece of nature writing.
Read full commentPosted in To Dance in the Shadows
What an effective use of
Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2018
What an effective use of rhyme, like a cat marking time. I just love that last line. ...
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Gorgeously languid.
Posted on Tue, 16 Jan 2018
Gorgeously languid.
Read full commentPosted in Queen Cordelia's Lament.
There's something so restful
Posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2018
There's something so restful and meditative here, despite the hard work.
Read full commentPosted in Man on His Tractor
Hi well wisher. Back in the
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017
Hi well wisher. Back in the day convent schools had a collection for 'Black Babies', certainly racist and a blast from their 'missionary' work. I went to a few missionary schools in the colonies where these collections took place, really...
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A clever idea. I didn’t
Posted on Thu, 14 Dec 2017
A clever idea. I didn’t understand why Paul would melt, but that was the part that slightly jarred. Good story.
Read full commentPosted in Firstnet
These are wonderful, Ewan.
Posted on Mon, 11 Dec 2017
These are wonderful, Ewan. There’s a reality here which is incredibly moving. I love poetry that shows as much as a novel in condensed form.
Read full commentPosted in 1979
I like the yearning in this
Posted on Sat, 09 Dec 2017
I like the yearning in this poem. The last line is wonderful!
Read full commentPosted in True nature
Gorgeous images.
Posted on Mon, 04 Dec 2017
Gorgeous images.
Read full commentPosted in A Mystic Winter's Eve.
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