Stephen Thom
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Stephen Thom
Carrbridge/Edinburgh
Mandolin strummer in a folk-rock band 'Dante' https://www.youtube.com/user/wearedante
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Aura (21)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (20)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (19)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (18)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (17)
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hey, this was great, v
Posted on Tue, 19 May 2015
hey, this was great, v transportive in thoughts and propulsion. love train settings and it played alongside the thoughts well. really enjoyed some of the original prose moments - the rush of 'I am half-cut, face-pressed-against-the-glass glad to...
Read full commentPosted in I Can Stop When I Want To
very sad but very special
Posted on Wed, 04 Feb 2015
very sad but very special poem...appreciate the starkness, makes the keynote 'my heart was never strong enough-' phrase and the ending all the more devastating...wonderful piece
Read full commentPosted in The other day
trill thrilled song..
Posted on Mon, 02 Feb 2015
trill thrilled song...perfect three words. this is lovely, i love reading the poetry here, love that you can freeze these moments and stretch time this way and constantly reaffirm the wonder in the small things, and therefore everything...'makes...
Read full commentPosted in Small
always enjoy your ability to
Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2015
always enjoy your ability to bottle nature and the elements and project them with lovely phrases like 'whirl the twigs along the floor, bend the oak, and buffet ship'. and again repeating but i like the idea/homage/imagination, bringing something...
Read full commentPosted in February
nice one, lots of personality
Posted on Tue, 27 Jan 2015
nice one, lots of personality in your writing :-) lines like 'looks like it popped out of the 60's, robbed the 70's, then gave birth to the 80's' really sparky and add lots to your style. well crafted intense sequence in the middle, nice...
Read full commentPosted in Truth or Dare
this is really good. the
Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2015
this is really good. the short clipped sentences at the start really ramp up the early tension and v atmospheric throughout, adding a haunting quality to the fraught exchanges. goes to some dark places, pulling the reader along with descriptions...
Read full commentPosted in Under My Skin
this felt quite epic bee, i
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2015
this felt quite epic bee, i loved the lyricism of the once we were runners- lines, the small moments of repetition throughout and the line put out the fires that burned in the flight of our hair against (later) her head on my pillow, hair like a...
Read full commentPosted in Once, We Were Runners
excellent poem, some lovely
Posted on Sat, 17 Jan 2015
excellent poem, some lovely wordings here 'liveried innocence' and appreciated the sentiment, the throwback to another time&the abstract otherworldy conveying of it in lines like ' furrow a different time' and particularly 'some portal...
Read full commentPosted in Time Lords
thought this was really good,
Posted on Sat, 17 Jan 2015
thought this was really good, v lovely writing and images. lines like For all your life there/was no age between you, no years, /now your likeness is eggshell and carbon, and images like whitened skin from aged hands peeling were v pretty and...
Read full commentPosted in Apres
there are some incredible
Posted on Tue, 30 Dec 2014
there are some incredible moments you have managed to transmit here in your words...moments that seem too hard to convey you have done it and so beautifully...actually i was reading Alice Munro's last book...she had 4 life pieces at the end&...
Read full commentPosted in Apologies and Pardons
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