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"For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Some people are angry that Just Stop Oil threw coloured cornflour at Stonehenge. Because the structure is old? A symbol of how humans have survived...
Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Leaving the road for the slick, clay-swallowed gravel of the footpath, newly scalped of its sodden, rot smelling dark brown felt of last year's...
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at dusk today
light mourning lavender sheets sky and sea far pink coast recalls sunset white triangle sail heading out gulls fly, wings bright as full moon's disc...
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October 2023
Shame : so hard to forget this soft word starting with a Sh! as of secrets, brushed under deep carpets and A in its middle, alphabet's beginning an...
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open your eyes!
bombing your moral high ground (won at such terrible cost) must always be a tricky manoevre to pull off - before you know where you are, history is...
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You really have given it
Posted on Thu, 07 Nov 2024
You really have given it character! There seems something welcoming about the sea here, on the West. And it is amazing how different light is, the purple that gets into everything. I guess on the East, there's always the sense that cold weather...
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You made me think how Lego
Posted on Thu, 10 Oct 2024
You made me think how Lego has become like gold, to be handed down, and added to over generations! And imagined that others in your family made things from the same bricks - it is almost like DNA :0)
Read full commentThe trouble with those expensive sets is...
Posted in Wee Plastic Hats Off to Ole Kirk Christiansen!
Glad you think all her songs
Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024
Glad you think all her songs sound the same, too :0) Brilliant IP response, Thankyou! Find it so interesting that she endorsed Harris, and Musk endorsed Trump, two very powerful opposites in social media? Maybe she really does make white noise,...
Read full commentPosted in On the Wind
You Poor One! So sorry things
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
You Poor One! So sorry things are so horrible still. It is like you to think of helping others by writing of your experience in the MRI. I am glad that found there is nothing extra wrong with your back, as that must mean once you have your other...
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This very powerful expression
Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024
This very powerful expression of what so many of us feel, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Read full commentPosted in They Were Only Children
As CM said, Summer up here
Posted on Sat, 17 Aug 2024
As CM said, Summer up here has been and gone. Not sure more than 2 weeks of days with any sunshine, where we live. But your poem makes me grateful not to be somewhere more meteorologically exuberant! I do hope you get your rainy coolness by bed...
Read full commentPosted in No Country for Cold Men
Brilliant :0) I love that
Posted on Tue, 16 Jul 2024
Brilliant :0) I love that wearing a toadstool hat can make a person blend in. Also, intrigued how happy Spencer is that Vanessa will buy him a present. Oh, and how she says "No" about him smoking, imagining smoke coming out of "my gaps" could...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you...Part 29
So many great stories and
Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024
So many great stories and poems today, choosing was really hard. This piece by Marandina, intriguing and full of wonderful description will have you instantly hooked, and it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Read full commentPosted in The 16:03 to Purgatory (Part One of Two)
Jane Hyphen's encounter with
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2024
Jane Hyphen's unsettling encounter with what seems like the opposite of her guardian angel is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
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Thankyou so much, Jean, both
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Thankyou so much, Jean, both for sharing your inspiring Spirit of braveness and intelligence, imagination and humour, and also the kindness of your comments. I had to go to hospital for a check up recently and started having a panic attack, but...
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