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It is so strange how memories
Posted on Tue, 19 Nov 2019
It is so strange how memories from long ago can suddenly be the central subject of a dream, as if sleeping is like a fruit machine and the memories are the fruit, some stay the same, like where you are from, but others can whizz round and round...
Read full commentPosted in A Mid Night Dream
The idea of being the moon's
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
The idea of being the moon's puppet is scary. But also the implication that when bleeding stops the strings are cut, leaving us adrift as if lost in a desert.
As always with your poems I feel enriched with gorgeous images. I love "frozen...
Read full commentPosted in Repression
"knives of light"
Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018
"knives of light"
"Their torches cut through each other and bound intermittently, a single phosphorous beacon within the inky void"
"Time was a fallacy; he was stepping in and out of decades unhindered and in each one he was blind,...
Read full commentPosted in Aura (20)
Well done capturing such a
Posted on Mon, 11 Nov 2019
Well done capturing such a tiny elusive creature :0) I liked your contrast of the carefree bird and all the effort and stress of taking its photo, but you did it! And now the reader gets a wonderful snapshot of photographer/poet and treecreeper :...
Read full commentPosted in An Obliging Treecreeper
I like this very much, lots
Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2019
I like this very much, lots of great descriptions like knot of lanes, but also the closed in feeling of being in a car in ther dark, trying to find your way back, but then breaking through into the present, like you have come out of a spell. It's...
Read full commentPosted in Communion
this is lovely, I like the
Posted on Mon, 04 Nov 2019
this is lovely, I like the repeated sounds like the repeated pattern of the petals, seems so perfect and fresh
Read full commentPosted in November Bloom
Great poem for All Souls
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2019
Great poem for All Souls
Particularly liked this :
"laughed out our aliveness in hungry gasps"
and
"We haunted their dusks in the hush
behind its iron gates under the beeaches"
Posted in Graveyards
I love your walking poems,
Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2019
I love your walking poems, like Insert feel the tourist board should take you on, you certainly make me long to go to the borders!
This poem made me think of the worry of flooding, the relief of seeing the extra water nearly away to sea. I...
Read full commentPosted in Travelling down the Wye Valley 28/10/19
Luigi, I am very glad I read
Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2019
Luigi, I am very glad I read your poem! I particularly like the sense of enjoyment you share, as in your first 3 lines. The exuberant exclamation mark :0) And I loved these lines too
"winged nomads,
Read full commentunrestrained free spirits
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Posted in Geese
Thankyou Jenny :0) The poem
Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2019
Thankyou Jenny :0) The poem hasn't done them justice at all. I had a look online to see if anyone had written a poem about murmerations but couldn't find one. It is so amazing to see, there were only 20 or so last week, but every day about 4 o...
Read full commentPosted in starlings
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