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TEST Please ignore
Let us put thewordstogether keep them apart s t r e w them on the page sdrawkcab meht etirw D R O P T H E M use them abuse them until we wrench...
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Don't Ask
So many people in the Armed Forces back in the day - before don't ask don't tell - were living a lie. I'm glad most of them are still friends.
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The Esoteric Few
Whom Byron claimed one of his poems was written for. Not this one, because it's mine, but it's still for the esoteric few. Image author's own
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No-one Found
Nowadays we need closure. In the past, it might have been a long and lingering grief, we have forgotten what it is like not to know, which must make it even harder to bear. Image is PD, YAY!
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wOr d S
what it s a ys Image created by author at canva.com
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Hahaha
Posted on Sun, 15 Nov 2020
If only it weren't all so nearly true!
Read full commentWell done.
Posted in Invisible
Your poem
Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2020
reminded me of a visit to the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore one day, over 40 years ago.
Monsoon season, I remember it well. Half the broadsheet back page of the Straits Times would be dedicated to forecasts attempting to predict at what...
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Some
Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020
striking imagery here.
Do you mean "algæ-d" at line 8?
Your poem finishes very strongly with these lines.
"the sun’s departure
under the horizon’s guillotine,
...
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I think
Posted on Wed, 28 Oct 2020
this has touches of MR James about it: something off, glimpsed out of the corner of your eye. Bags of atmosphere, you have a sure touch when generating a sense of place.
Sound.
Ewan x
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If
Posted on Tue, 20 Oct 2020
books COULD talk 'though, eh?
I loved this Sean. It made me laugh and when it's dark those who make us laugh loudest are the best writers of all.
Ewan
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Weird
Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2020
is good. And that's all I have to say.
E x
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Atmospheric
Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2020
eerie, too. I love the idea of a mourning fog and what it might be mourning.
Ewan x
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I reckon
Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2020
the lightning bird will be out and about today.
This is terrific poetry.
E x
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White noise
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2020
is played very loud as an "interrogation" technique by most intelligence agencies. That's the point , government people know about Rueda's phone. It's easy enough to keep track of a mobile, even if it's switched off. Teniente Elizondo doesn't...
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Hi Ed,
Posted on Tue, 04 Aug 2020
loved this. Any reason for "night-lite" vice "night-light"? You have "nite-lite" at the end. Should "swats" in "swats-for-mocks" be swots (like I was)?
Well done.
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