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Terence Mullan
Down the years I have lived in many places and I have done many jobs. Now I live in Bulgaria and the only work I do is tending to my lovely garden when the sun is shining and scribbling away in my big book of writing stuff when it is not.
I may have left it too late in life to become a famous writer or celebrated gardener but I will persevere anyway. These are the things that occupy me in a seemingly effortless and satisfying way.
A cry for help from someone
Posted on Sun, 17 Oct 2021
A cry for help from someone who has heard another's cry for help. I can feel the desperation in your words. An excellent poem.
Read full commentPosted in Make Me
This is a sad story but a
Posted on Mon, 18 Oct 2021
This is a sad story but a poem is a good way to remember your father. A poem will always be with you.
I particularly liked the way you constructed the poem with the long lines spreading right across the page but still maintaining a rhyme...
Read full commentPosted in Dad's 74th Birthday
They do have warm sunny days
Posted on Sat, 16 Oct 2021
They do have warm sunny days in Leeds too. I can remember having to unfasten the buttons on my coat at least half a dozen times while I lived there. But I think the opening clip with the winter weather set the scene of the video and the black and...
Read full commentPosted in We Are Seacroft!
I'm not very clever (but I
Posted on Sat, 16 Oct 2021
I'm not very clever (but I can lift heavy things) so the only way I know to let you hear this is via a link to the whole Vimeo video.
My bit starts at 05:22 (immediately after John Betjemen's bit) and lasts about three minutes. I'm not...
Read full commentPosted in We Are Seacroft!
I'm never comfortable if I'm
Posted on Wed, 22 Sep 2021
I'm never comfortable if I'm surrounded by millions of them but, generally speaking, I love insects. In each one of them, the way they find food, the way they behave, the mechanics of their bodies fascinates me. Yet we neglect them in such an...
Read full commentPosted in Out in the Fields
This is a wonderful poem Di
Posted on Wed, 06 Oct 2021
This is a wonderful poem Di and, as you know, it fits in with my own perception of this time of year.
I love your words ...
"allowing Heaven through a crack
to show a path for coming back"
I spend the whole of November...
Read full commentPosted in October robin
Intelligent
Posted on Sun, 10 Oct 2021
Hibernation or no hibernation, it's long been my dream to be an intelligent lifeform.
Read full commentThank you for your comment.
Posted in The Condemnation of Darkness
Well deserved.
Posted on Thu, 30 Sep 2021
Hello Jenny.
Congratulations on your golden cherries. They are well deserved.
I really enjoyed reading your poem. Your words put clear images in my mind of not only the shy but busy little fish but also all the features of the river...
Read full commentPosted in Stone Loach
Bleak
Posted on Sun, 10 Oct 2021
Ah, you can't beat a bit of abject misery to brighten up the day.
Read full commentPosted in The Condemnation of Darkness
The solitude of the elderly
Posted on Tue, 21 Sep 2021
I love this Jenny. Your words remind me of so many elderly people I have known who spend the autumn years of their lives living alone, speaking to no one because they neither want to dwell upon more eventful times in the past nor discuss what...
Read full commentPosted in Beneath An Autumn Moon The Poem
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