Turlough

Primary tabs

I have 202 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 692005 times and 283 of my stories have been cherry picked.
833 of my 3,038 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 884 votes

Close reader
Turlough's picture
Terence Mullan

 

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

833 of my comments have received 884 Great Feedback votes

1 Vote

I've always struggled with

Posted on Mon, 18 Oct 2021

I've always struggled with autumn. I love spring when nature bursts into life and then the warmth and richness of summer, but autumn just gives me a feeling that everything is over and done with despite its beautiful colours that everyone keeps...

Read full comment

Posted in Grounding Of Autumn

1 Vote

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 comment

Posted in Make Me

1 Vote

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 comment

Posted in Dad's 74th Birthday

1 Vote

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 comment

Posted in We Are Seacroft!

1 Vote

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 comment

Posted in We Are Seacroft!

1 Vote

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 comment

Posted in Out in the Fields

1 Vote

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 comment

Posted in October robin

1 Vote

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.

Read full comment

Posted in The Condemnation of Darkness

1 Vote

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 comment

Posted in Stone Loach

1 Vote

Bleak

Posted on Sun, 10 Oct 2021

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

Read full comment

Posted in The Condemnation of Darkness

Pages