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Terence Mullan
During the hot Balkan afternoons it’s grand to lie on the settee with jugs of glacial tea and a summer soundtrack. Joni Mitchell, Joseph Canteloube, Bob Marley and Mississippi John Hurt on scratchy vinyl all sooth as Pavlovian mosquitos snarl from their sides of insect screens.
Those afternoons will be back soon, I hope. I don't care for this having to wear socks nonsense.
Jammin'
Posted on Fri, 10 Sep 2021
This describes just about every night in our house at this time of year. We have a garden full of fruit trees and bushes and my missus is obsessed with not wasting any even though she can only scratch the surface of our lovely problem.
We...
Read full commentPosted in preserving time
This is great!
Posted on Thu, 09 Sep 2021
This is great!
It saddens me that kids at school can be lablelled as trouble makers even if they are not but simply because they don't meet academic expectations. Your poem really demonstrates how we are all able to achieve something and...
Read full commentPosted in A Winning Handshake
Autumn
Posted on Tue, 07 Sep 2021
This is a really good piece of poetry Jenny.
You have really captured the atmosphere of autumn in the way that I see it. People who are less fearful than I of the darkening at the year's end tell me that I should enjoy the colours and...
Read full commentPosted in Yin And Yang Of Autumn Forest
I really like this.
Posted on Thu, 02 Sep 2021
I really like this.
I particularly like your description of what happens when you open the window. Sometimes it does feel that by opening a window the whole of what is going on outside drifts in to stir up the stillness and change the...
Read full commentPosted in Trees Called To Me
Sad words
Posted on Sun, 29 Aug 2021
I love how you have expressed so much sadness with just a few words. The saddest word amongst them is 'happy'.
Read full commentPosted in flotsam and jetsam
Excellent imagary
Posted on Wed, 01 Sep 2021
Your poem contains some excellent imagery and a sleepless situation I can relate to myself.
I particularly liked ...
'the calloused mattress
Read full commentits lumps and humps
promises to keep my secrets
under the spell of fitted...
Posted in Bedtime Blues
Nice work
Posted on Thu, 02 Sep 2021
I enjoyed reading this. A reminder that everything in nature is unique and lasts only seconds as light and weather conditions change and time and seasons advance.
'Waste not the precious light' ... we forget just how...
Read full commentPosted in I See Something Special
Thank you very much!
Posted on Mon, 30 Aug 2021
Thank you for reading my poem and for your kind comment.
I'm not completely certain that it does get too hot for bees. It was just too hot for me to go and see what the bees were doing so I made a wild assumption in the interests of saving...
Read full commentPosted in A Hot Afternoon in Malki Chiflik
I don't share this fact with
Posted on Sun, 29 Aug 2021
I don't share this fact with many people but I spend a lot of my time sitting outdoors staring at the sky. Days with blue skies and cumulus clouds are the best because this is when I see maps of Ireland, ducks with three legs, my grandfather...
Read full commentPosted in Going With The Flow
An enjoyable read.
Posted on Mon, 30 Aug 2021
Your story captured my imagination from the outset as I know from my own experience that the trials of trying to live day to day in a new country and learn the language at the same time can be at times gruelling. I retired to Bulgaria where...
Read full commentPosted in Chinese Whispers (edited and updated, 2021)
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