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I shaved my head again today. I shave it every couple of months to disguise the fact that I’m going bald.

773 of my comments have received 816 Great Feedback votes

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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...

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Posted in October robin

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Intelligent

Posted on Sun, 10 Oct 2021

Hibernation or no hibernation, it's long been my dream to be an intelligent lifeform.
Thank you for your comment.

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Posted in The Condemnation of Darkness

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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...

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Posted in Stone Loach

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Bleak

Posted on Sun, 10 Oct 2021

Ah, you can't beat a bit of abject misery to brighten up the day.

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Posted in The Condemnation of Darkness

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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...

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Posted in Beneath An Autumn Moon The Poem

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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...

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Posted in preserving time

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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...

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Posted in A Winning Handshake

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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...

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Posted in Yin And Yang Of Autumn Forest

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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...

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Posted in Trees Called To Me

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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'.

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