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)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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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
i read this as being quite
Posted on Fri, 16 Jan 2015
i read this as being quite dark amongst the lovely images...grasping for meaning that can't be reached but ultimately finding happiness in fleeting moments (all there is), always passing into fractured unreliable memories. maybe reading too deep...
Read full commentPosted in Bubble-blow, Thistledown and Candyfloss
yes i agree with noo you
Posted on Sat, 10 Jan 2015
yes i agree with noo you managed to weave interesting ideas together fluidly to create a lovely layered whole. the myth aspects, the giant serpent etc mirrored the couples new myth sparky narration&dialogue leading us through&subtly...
Read full commentPosted in The Hill in the Pale
Ah I thought this was
Posted on Mon, 22 Dec 2014
Ah I thought this was absolutely lovely writing, delicate touches like 'thin needle cut/through the grey/pushing, entering' and the alliterative spike of 'mottled marble/fleeting flutter', lovely subtle word combinations and otherworldly...
Read full commentPosted in Opaque sky
enjoyed ,onto the next parts,
Posted on Sun, 04 Jan 2015
enjoyed ,onto the next parts, liked the reflective conversational style, short punchy sentences lots of personality within the narration('I give him his drink and then continue with something like.')&cool sparky dialogue, characters&their...
Read full commentPosted in Bar Stool Preacher
another transportive,
Posted on Tue, 06 Jan 2015
another transportive, evocative, chilly wonder...i loved bleaching the land, and the cold alliterative rattle of barren, bare bleak hills, contrasted at the end with welcoming/warmth. also soil's deep sleep, very delicate and vital word choice....
Read full commentPosted in January
thought this was very dark
Posted on Fri, 12 Dec 2014
thought this was very dark and atmospheric with a real,close undercurrent and a v effective final line lifting it somewhere else...the passageways of stainless steel set the tone/images, but straight, stark descriptions like 'brilliant as an...
Read full commentPosted in Name
i am really enjoying the
Posted on Fri, 12 Dec 2014
i am really enjoying the transportively descriptive nature of your poems! The fluid alliterative moments, sparky images 'fuzzy daubs' and rhythmic vivid feeling 'drizzle, mizzle, rubbed, dabbed' fit/flow together brilliantly to convey these...
Read full commentPosted in Gloom’s End
Very lovely to read, shimmers
Posted on Sat, 13 Dec 2014
Very lovely to read, shimmers with interpretive possiblity beyond the story it tells.
Lovely touches throughout, simple yet effective in moments close to ourselves like she 'delicately shined', was 'always lifted by the kindness around...
Read full commentPosted in Waiting for a Train to Remember
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