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Mother's Help

By Philip Sidney on Sun, 22 Mar 2015

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Certificate 15

Poetry Day Pastoral

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 21 Mar 2015

Thought I'd repost this for World Poetry Day.
Poem
Certificate U
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In the Green Time

By Philip Sidney on Thu, 19 Mar 2015

Mari loved this time best. It was late afternoon in the garden. The children fresh from their bath, darted about in unison, like pale rooks before...
Story
Certificate 15
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Endurance

By Philip Sidney on Sun, 15 Mar 2015

Sisyphus knew daily endurance how absurd, the behaviour of living. Plastic handles cut off the blood 6 bags of tins, why tins? lugged along the long...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate 12
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Land of Clouds

By Philip Sidney on Sat, 14 Mar 2015

The Myth of Kupe’s discovery of Aotearoa (NZ), as told by his wife, Hine-te-aparangi.
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393 of my comments have received 391 Great Feedback votes

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Great plot development and

Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2015

Great plot development and description, very smoothly written.

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Posted in The Fifth Star - Chapter 16 (1/2) - The Hideout

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I like the perspective here,

Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2015

I like the perspective here, projecting into the future and considering the present, lots of layers, personal and distant at the same time.  Good luck with the pamphlet!

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Posted in Two Years

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I just love your enthusiastic

Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2015

I just love your enthusiastic responses Art, they lift my spirits.  I have an affinity with your side of the world, I was brought up in NZ, very many years ago.  I didn't find out about one of my great greats... who apparently brought the zither...

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Posted in Breath

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Utterly heartbreaking, the

Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2015

Utterly heartbreaking, the stoic praticality until the crumble at the handwriting, such a personal marker of identity.  And the desperately sad truth that we would settle for just about anything, just to keep them. 

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Posted in Dearest Daughter...

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It must be such a wonderful

Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2015

It must be such a wonderful relationship, biker and bike.

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Posted in silver horns

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Touristy anthropology,

Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2015

Touristy anthropology, fiction and fact merging, really like this, unsettling

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Posted in Everything this man says

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Beautiful tiful and atmospheric, a

Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2015

Beautiful and atmospheric, a sense of the past, the exterior heat interior cool and intimate and the religious artefacts hinting at penance. How the lives of parents before children become mythic.

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Posted in On the day you were made

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Great narrative running

Posted on Wed, 03 Jun 2015

Great narrative running through your poems.  I'm completely hooked.  A complex relationship, how childhood shapes us.  

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Posted in SOUND

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Incredibly moving. The

Posted on Wed, 03 Jun 2015

Incredibly moving. The structure of your poem works so well with the story gradually unfolding and a shiver of emotion I for th reader in each stanza.

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Posted in An Obituary for Stephanie

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This is so immediate, you

Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2015

This is so immediate, you give such a sense of the moment, I felt my heart beating faster and space shrinking, constricting breath, wonderful, frightening poem.

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