Yutka

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I have 345 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 630505 times and 153 of my stories have been cherry picked.
24 of my 348 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 25 votes

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Scharlie Meeuws

 

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Fate Decided

You saw me pretty as I sat My head held high, my ponytail with my red hair a sunny sight. You looked at me with narrowed eyes Your hunter’s face half...
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My Soldier Father's Body Brush

Mind’s secret tool. Sole that has ceased to work for decades now, but in the past received impressions of dark war paths, overcast skies of Russian...
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Revival

Revival Your birthday in May, such happy month, breeding apple blossoms out of the dried brown branches, mixing sleep and awakening, stirring tangled...
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I’m alive

I For a promised letter I waited for weeks from my friend, tired of life. Sad, in his well-equipped home with gadgets, computers, a drone. His wife...
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When I searched for you

When I searched for you If I used the forbidden eye to bring back the old wooden bridge over the slow streaming brook, the gnarled carvings of names...
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24 of my comments have received 25 Great Feedback votes

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What a lovely comment! Thank

Posted on Fri, 23 Aug 2024

What a lovely comment! Thank you very much. This is a true story, Peter amazes us all. You see, patience is needed, it is never too late...

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Posted in Peter finally sits on my lap ((Lap year 2024)

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I very much enjoyed reading

Posted on Sun, 14 Aug 2022

I very much enjoyed reading this mysterious tale with an ambiguous outcome that is as startling as it is intriguing! Could not stop reading after part 1 and rushed for part 2;  which is a sign for immersion into the story and totally forgetting...

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Posted in Charmed (Part Two of Two)

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You not only are a brilliant

Posted on Tue, 28 Nov 2023

You not only are a brilliant poet but an artist too. Are you a painter? Reading your minimalist poem I immediately see a canvas, a beautiful sea landscape   With the rising moon, last seagulls and a far pink coast touched by a sinking sun........

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Posted in at dusk today

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I love this well written poem

Posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2024

I love this well written poem and the great image of a single bee (An insect which I adore!)  as one writer within a "swarm" of writers appreciating each others creations. Will the honey be flowing? 

Hope you are well, my friend,I can cal...

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Posted in Bee Muse

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Thanks Jenny! Are you

Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2024

Thanks Jenny! Are you familiar with EMOTO, a man who thoroughly tested water and researched prompted water crystals' ability to change with emotions ....fascinating!

Yutka 

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Posted in The power of water

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I was walking with you

Posted on Tue, 14 Feb 2023

I was walking with you through long years of Memory Lane where magic converts all those rays of light and shadows into a beautiful tapestry loved and appreciated throughout the years. What would we do without those memories!

from Yutka

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Posted in For The Love Of Village Life

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Stuck? Living in today is the

Posted on Sun, 27 Jan 2013

Stuck? Living in today is the only thing beneficial to us....still like your poem, it speaks some truths...

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Posted in Changes

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thank you for this truly

Posted on Wed, 30 Sep 2020

thank you for this truly outstanding poem, with its many different piuctures to illuminate thought, I very  much enjoyed it

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Posted in Deus Ex Machina

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a ray of hope for our

Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2020

a ray of hope for our deprived earth, dandelions, lions in the plantlife, full of vigour, perseverance and with "lion's teeth", therefore the name, a reference to the tooth-like serrations on their leaves...they will still be there after we are...

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Posted in remembering dandelions (again)

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The story becomes touchingly

Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2019

The story becomes touchingly alive in your poem. I lived with you, her, through the various stages and felt deep emotion reading about pain, sorrow and lastly forgiveness and coming to terms with life.

love to you from Yutka

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Posted in The mask melting at 98

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