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I love these lines - I am
Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2019
I love these lines - I am always thinking about what trees mean to me but you describe briiliantly and in two lines how other creatures depend on them for life
"its empty frame exposed, that all this life had clung to."
"...
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I've never seen so many
Posted on Fri, 25 Oct 2019
I've never seen so many apples at once! How lovely it must be where you live, full of orchards! You must be able to smell Autumn? Do you get to drink the fresh juice? My Dad used to put our windfalls in a plastic dustbin (specially bought!) and...
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I like the contrast between
Posted on Sat, 26 Oct 2019
I like the contrast between the heavy solidity of a necklace/collar, and the fragility of wildflowers, which never the less can grow and increase, whereas a metal necklace can at best only stay the same. I love the line "spread of promises"! And...
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I had not heard of black
Posted on Fri, 25 Oct 2019
I had not heard of black herons, but your wonderful poem makes me want to know all about them! So many lines stand out
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"the tall decay of sunflowers
Posted on Sat, 19 Oct 2019
"the tall decay of sunflowers
- Whose?"
I like this, allotments have so much of a person's life poured in, the dead stalks are like gravestones for the time in summer past
"swirl and deadly swell" brilliant alliteration...
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bleak and strong. I like how
Posted on Wed, 16 Oct 2019
bleak and strong. I like how there is no blame, what has happened is compared to weather, it just happens. And I like that the last word is "thaw"
Interred flames of spent desires
Nothing can live here now
although the poem...
Read full commentPosted in It feels like winter here
I love the slow majestic
Posted on Mon, 14 Oct 2019
I love the slow majestic sweep of these lines :
the deep blue cruise
of an underwater colossus.
and these, you have expressed how I felt as a child seeing the one at the Natural History Museum. This is brilliant,...
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Oh I love this story :0)
Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2019
Oh I love this story :0)
Read full commentPosted in "The Trouble with Magical Beings" (A Fantasy) Chapter 9
I love these rhymes! It flows
Posted on Wed, 09 Oct 2019
I love these rhymes! It flows so well, the line endings are so smooth? It's what I am always aiming for when attempting to do rhyming and don't achieve :0)
Do you always remember the seed of writing, when you read it years later? It seems...
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Witloof! My Dad used to grow
Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2019
Witloof! My Dad used to grow that in a cupboard. It would be all pale, like something Gollum might eat if he went veggie. I hope you are bringing the chestnuts home? Or is it too prickly for your dog? Mine used to get sore paws trying to see what...
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