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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lovely to read more of your
Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2015
lovely to read more of your prose :-) little flourishes like 'watched a mist that slowly rose to fill The Devil’s Punchbowl.' add so much, it is a v evocative, thoughtful piece and interesting to hear of social dynamics at the time. the chemical...
Read full commentPosted in Breaking the Code
yeah really enjoy being
Posted on Fri, 26 Jun 2015
yeah really enjoy being transported into your wanders, there's so much to appreciate in this poem - 'steep green sloping mounds surround' has such a (again transportive) roll to it, 'chaffinch or chats darting from the gorse/ and on the top a sea...
Read full commentPosted in Disgwylfa* Hill
this all came together really
Posted on Sun, 28 Jun 2015
this all came together really well! liked the spark to try something and the execution. think your writing always feel v vivid and alive - lots of little attentive details 'crumples limply in my mouth.' from part 1, use of sound throughout - `...
Read full commentPosted in Cravings (Two)
very transportive and pretty.
Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2015
very transportive and pretty. lovely diction&alliteration rolls well, accentuates the feel. liked the sudden 'his', too, ' his half crescent smile'. don't know much about form and found the info interesting. very much enjoyed :-)
Read full commentPosted in While you were sleeping
yeah this is really beautiful
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2015
yeah this is really beautiful and intricately put together...subtle attention to detail everywhere... from the initial c rattle of 'clambering, climbing – /craving', 'delicately', 'trembles' and 'quiver' dropped throughout, but it was these two...
Read full commentPosted in June...
lovely diction and expression
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2015
lovely diction and expression. this is beautifully written. i liked 'turn on/the smoothest hinge' early on, and the tangled cluster of - later. the use of 'snapping' in the final line is brilliant too. dark thoughts, but wonderful expression...
Read full commentPosted in Cripple's Catharsis
ah this is fantastic! but ah,
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2015
ah this is fantastic! but ah, I don't have the necessary diction to describe how it read - think vera says it best with 'high-brow and quick-speaking'! think there was layers within layers here but it's the rattle of diction and interest that...
Read full commentPosted in Flight of the Bumblebee
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
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