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Joy Of Writing
When imagination hungers many a tale evolves, expanding on some personal journey, if not lost in the twinkling of an eye. Occasionally ideas are...
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Rhythm Of The Buskers
This a poem based on my respect for those buskers who spend many hours entertaining crowds. They are my heroes. In this muggy...humid heat playing...
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Brainstorming Moments Like This
Just for a short while when shrinking under heat of raging sun, to see snow would be a great relief, contrasted with last dregs of autumn rain, just...
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The Listening Tree
I buried my thoughts under the village oak tree many years ago, swooning at the memory that was fleshed out in words, making it all the more...
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The Butterfly-Maiden - Rewrite
This is a resurrected poem from 2011. I wanted to put something on for International fairy day, 24 th June 2019. Slipping through rainbow coloured...
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Loved reading these diary
Posted on Mon, 08 Apr 2024
Loved reading these diary entries Turlough.
I can relate to your aching limbs, we took to the garden to do some clearing too. It feels never ending the older I get.
You always manage to put a smile on my face with your amusing...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - L'ouverture
At least the son came clean
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024
At least the son came clean in the end. Well told.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Dad's poet society
Evocative of my Hawkwind days
Posted on Tue, 02 Apr 2024
Evocative of my Hawkwind days. Life was so much easier back then.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Radio Galaxies
Hi Dougie,
Posted on Sat, 30 Mar 2024
Hi Dougie,
I know I always harp back to the American Indians when thinking of the drums, but the people are such a gentle nation of humans that for some reason leave me emotional with happy tears. I only have to hear one of the elders...
Read full commentPosted in Passion Of The Drums
I found this poem so moving
Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2024
I found this poem so moving and a personal reminder of the gradual fading of ones memory in old age, not so much of the past, but of the here and now.
Some astute woven metaphors add to the vividness too.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Son of My Father
Your scenic walk has so much
Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2024
Your scenic walk has so much to offer the reader Rhiannon, with the malvern hills and those excited lambs with their yews.
I could even smell the fresh country air as i read and it gave me a smile.
Breathtaking as always.
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Read full commentPosted in Above Peterchurch, east of the Black Mountains
As always Phil, your
Posted on Fri, 29 Mar 2024
As always Phil, your characters spring from the page with their distinctive traits that you've created.
Enjoyed as always.
Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Footloose ('Dead Reckoning' series - Part 4)
Hi Jane,
Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2024
Hi Jane,
when I was going through the menapause, I was working in a factory. I would get so embarrassed because my face would flush bright red when I got nervous, or if someone came over and spoke to me I would have no control. So my only...
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It sounds like you had an
Posted on Tue, 26 Mar 2024
It sounds like you had an invigorating walk. The scenery looked so inviting with those black mountains in the distant east. The frisky lambs must have been a pleasure to come across too.
Lovely to read and imagine being there too.
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Read full commentPosted in Above Pencombe, a cold day
Hi Maxine,
Posted on Sat, 23 Mar 2024
Hi Maxine,
we live in a crazy technological world that I myself cannot grasp, so I really feel for you. I always have to give my partner's mobile phone number for any deliverys or information as I don't have a mobile phone. I know it...
Read full commentPosted in When Did Our World Become SO Complicated?
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