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 (26)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (25)
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Aura (24)
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Aura (23)
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Aura (22)
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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
hey i read these two yday,
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2015
hey i read these two yday, there's so much observance in your writing and the characters are so real. i find such real-life writing hard to do but your attention to detail demands investment and i found myself mentally taking notes to learn. the...
Read full commentPosted in Daisy and The Chalet Woman (Part Two)
aw i enjoyed reading some of
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2015
aw i enjoyed reading some of your prose! this had lots of personality, a quiet sadness, liked the layered possibilities of a disappearance and return at such a time 'the day after the end of the world' and i liked little attentive touches like...
Read full commentPosted in They Called Him a Tramp. I Called Him Joe
cracking, sparky stuff, loads
Posted on Sun, 17 May 2015
cracking, sparky stuff, loads of personality, much enjoyed reading. would like to read more. dialogue was excellent and part. liked 'After a lungful of piss-stink in the gents'. re: above ^ didnt think there was too many f words at all. great,...
Read full commentPosted in Belgium
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