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Beetle Verses Elm
Late 70s flourish of trees once majestic, stolen by affliction – disease snatched life, trunks lay shipwrecked, earth shuddered a while where once...
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Back Then
Photo is my own. As kids we measured each moment in the yawning of nightfall, when nocturnal sleep would carry me peacefully into dreaming of...
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Remembering
Photo is my own Dry and still is the day as I slowly slip away, coaxing leaves that crunch beneath my boots, damp air convinces me it's early morning...
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Girl In A Picture
Picture from pixabay free Through brushwood sits enigmatic girl, behind shadowed Autumnal leaves, nestled...soft, pensive contours gesturing a child...
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Wrong Time For A Walk In The Forest
Picture from pixbay free images. Dear diary...Sunday 24 th September 2017. Awoke to a fine sunny day which added to my excitement of a trip out to...
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Hi Maxine, I think your big
Posted on Wed, 17 May 2023
Hi Maxine, I think your big blackbird might be a crow or a rook, they are all in the corvid family and are larger than a blackbird.
It's nice that you feed the wildlife, and I'm glad it gives you so much pleasure to watch the birds....
Read full commentPosted in Half The Sky.
Hi Jane,
Posted on Tue, 16 May 2023
Hi Jane,
I so enjoyed this story. I kept thinking of Animal Farm as I read, even though it's got nothing to do with your story.
But you do have the animal characters down so well. Especially those lines: -
The female geese...
Read full commentPosted in Lucifer - What's good for the saucy gander
Hi Rhiannon,
Posted on Tue, 16 May 2023
Hi Rhiannon,
You've shown here how nature will survive long after we're gone. As with that van, I've seen empty buildings on tv with all kinds of vegetation growing through windows and leaving their marks. It's amazing how there will...
Read full commentPosted in Natural Décor
Hi Phil, don't ever doubt
Posted on Mon, 15 May 2023
Hi Phil, don't ever doubt yourself. The storyline and the characters you've created have been consistently fun to read about.
I just love it when Archibald gets confused with words: like ferry and fairy...so amusing. ...
Read full commentPosted in The Ferry Godmother? (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 17)
I always doodle if I'm on the
Posted on Sat, 13 May 2023
I always doodle if I'm on the phone and waiting in a queue. Sometimes I'm surprised at what I create, like faces and flowers. It's fun and passes the time.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Doodle.
It was a pleasure to read
Posted on Sat, 13 May 2023
It was a pleasure to read your story.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Glimpse of brighter skies
You describe the drama of the
Posted on Fri, 12 May 2023
You describe the drama of the sky, and have captured how quickly it can change with the impressive movement of the clouds.
The photos are eye catching too.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Dramatic Sky
Dear Jean,
Posted on Fri, 12 May 2023
Dear Jean,
reading this part makes me think life can seems so unbelievably cruel, to put you through so much anxiety. You deserve a long break from the worry and pressure.
You are one strong lady who has the courage and strength...
Read full commentPosted in Cippy and Bella
Hi Paul,
Posted on Wed, 10 May 2023
Hi Paul,
some evocative language described in your poem, of a revered land and its people, that is stunningly beautiful and mysterious. I especially loved stanzas three, four and five.
Thank you for sharing.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Geisha
Was it real, or did he dream?
Posted on Wed, 10 May 2023
Was it real, or did he dream? I like how you leave the reader to make up their own mind as to the ending, combining a deep knowledge of the artist.
Great poem for the I P.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Somewhere Outside Cherbourg
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