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 (31)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (30)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (29)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (28)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (27)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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v lovely, lovely diction
Posted on Sat, 20 Jun 2015
v lovely, lovely diction throughout (tatted was new for me) loved 'the one who listens
Read full commentfor a question' and the line it led to. lots of thought and beautiful depth but the moments are always there...think celticman has touched on this with...
Posted in Lace Wings
very sad and even seems to
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2015
very sad and even seems to move with a certain ominous pace such things must be written about and it is painted with beautiful strokes 'lay howling /on a laundered sheet' / 'I'll have shed/my fat and will look eagerly/round corners'. very lovely...
Read full commentPosted in Growing wings
hi eb some beautiful diction
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2015
hi eb some beautiful diction&lovely word combinations and the stanza beginning 'I thought I sensed breath on my neck', leading to ending, was so close and vivid and full of regret. v neat and pretty but quietly devastating. v much enjoyed.
Read full commentPosted in Absence
firstly, this is a lovely
Posted on Wed, 10 Jun 2015
firstly, this is a lovely title... there's a level of angst but it's the thread of thoughts and images conveyed with such economy of words - the truly wonderful 'A beautiful profile, opened/and closed its flickering lids as it passed away' that...
Read full commentPosted in All As I Watched
this is a wonder, l.w... i
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2015
this is a wonder, l.w... i think the level of detachment (if that makes any sense) is ultimately all the more expressive - the lists of observations - in conveying a level of feeling and a balance between different places/points in journeys
Read full commentPosted in Dust
hi jane, this worked really
Posted on Tue, 21 Apr 2015
hi jane, this worked really well and was genuinely affecting. i think you caught that continual throb of hurt within images of nature wonderfully, and the final part - Does it seek to dim the golden glow/of every followed dawn? April came so warm...
Read full commentPosted in April
stellar, transportive stuff,
Posted on Fri, 15 May 2015
stellar, transportive stuff, delicate and gorgeous. pointless to pick out parts as would be reprinting whole thing here but part. loved 'cradles him like a cello/having fed him a teaspoon of sin.' whisks you away and feeds the soul :-)
Read full commentPosted in A Room In Chungking
lots to admire here, i part.
Posted on Tue, 26 May 2015
lots to admire here, i part. liked the stanza beginning 'You’ve flayed me once...' and its lovely/bruising final line, 'you bait me for catastrophe' as well as the aside 'you didn't hear'. rides a tense, bruised level of emotion but is also taut...
Read full commentPosted in Bitterness
this is excellent, the series
Posted on Fri, 29 May 2015
this is excellent, the series of moments come together well. lovely writing throughout; 'from the high window I can view and not be viewed/crouched, crooning as she feeds sweet grass'. the passage of time is done well, fluid between the...
Read full commentPosted in Skin
we are all our choices. loved
Posted on Wed, 27 May 2015
we are all our choices. loved this, v beautiful and layered, esp. last stanza 'trudging on.../with pockets full of pebbles' :-)
Read full commentPosted in Pockets full of pebbles
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