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Honeysuckle On The Breeze
Bring summer flamboyance untamed merging, not a dance between air's trembling touch; but yellow and cream gathering in June, delighted to climb and...
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In The Stillness Of Late Years
Dear diary...a poem remembering day trip along coastal path while on a single parent holiday retreat in Devon. June 1985. Struck by father time, as...
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When We Were Young
This is an attempt at a poem about being eight in 1962, the last summer before moving onto pastures new. Childhood roads were many like the traces of...
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Capturing Garden Memories
Mum's secret dreamy flowers settle gently on my mind, her cooled murmur of breath hidden, yet garnished with droplets from spring showers that cling...
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Resting Place
Like owl soaring into the wind where clouds or shadows are unpretentious, there's satisfaction derived from being wise for those natural simple...
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Poor Cedric sounds like he's
Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Poor Cedric sounds like he's had such a tough time, but what's to become of him now I wonder! Where as Spencer seems back to his old self, even with a bump on the head. One thing's for sure, Spencer always been spontaneous...what will he get up...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you - Part 54
You made me laugh Turlough.
Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025
You made me laugh Turlough.
Had this vision of tiny little skates on the end of...
Read full commentPosted in Skating Without Ice
The pleasure was mine
Posted on Thu, 27 Feb 2025
The pleasure was mine Turlough.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in The Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo
I just had to look up Ras
Posted on Thu, 27 Feb 2025
I just had to look up Ras Gombo, what an amazingly island with natural scenery and untouched beauty. It must be such a pleasure to be part of a place so special.
Your poem was stirring with a sense of how impressive the ocean can be. I...
Read full commentPosted in The Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo
Hi Turlough,
Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025
Hi Turlough,
It's so sad that we're loosing so many great musicians. I too remember Roberta Flack's: Killing Me Softly. Always brings back memories of a friend who passed recently from Lymphoma, which she'd suffered with since 2017. This...
Read full commentPosted in In Twilight Years
This poem is as mysterious
Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025
This poem is as mysterious and amazing as the planet itself.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Pluto’s Ode To Charon
This is so dreamy to read. I
Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025
This is so dreamy to read. I especially love that second stanza. Beautifully done Penny.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Deep in the Land of REM
Status plays a big part in
Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2025
Status plays a big part in school life. Trouble is when leaving, that position doesn't go with you.
Teenagers go one of two ways, either firm and determined, or irresolute.
You make some valid points in this story Jane, of which I...
Read full commentPosted in Nicola's Privilege
Hi Rhiannon,
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Hi Rhiannon,
what a great trip out. I just love castles, but haven't been to one since Warwick Castle many years ago. The castle ruins in your photo look so impressive. I know Wales has many, but I've never been to any.
These...
Read full commentPosted in Above the Teme and Ludlow
Hi Phil,
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Hi Phil,
I think you've done a brilliant job at pulling Jeannie's back story together. Poor woman being raped by her grandfather is horrifying. Everything adds up now. I wonder! If Precious will change her ways.
I'm sorry to see the...
Read full commentPosted in Family Affair (Dead Reckoning series - Part 49)
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