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StoryPad Life 9: Fluffy Bunnies airyfairy232 years 6 months ago
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Storypool, october Di_Hard84 years 2 months ago
StoryNext Door penguin04 years 3 months ago
StoryI Am Tired of Complexity Ewan34 years 3 months ago
Storypoetry can be fatal Coolhermit44 years 3 months ago
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StoryTo Be or Not To Be A Poet luigi_pagano84 years 3 months ago
StoryChild (Work in Progress) midgeryall24 years 3 months ago
StoryI Can’t winking_tiger14 years 3 months ago
StoryAdopting At Our Age penguin114 years 8 months ago
StoryMoney For The Circus 8 Ewan64 years 8 months ago
StoryI Look Up onemorething94 years 9 months ago
StoryDay Unresolved penguin14 years 9 months ago
StoryA Clockwise Direction penguin44 years 9 months ago

My stories

A Melody So Plain

A Melody So Plain All the young boys and girls wish to share the same sex and are cocking a snook at The Daily Express. Each generation’s appalled at...

A Local History Facebook Group

Does anyone know why 17 Borrowdale Road is missing? Every day I walk past the empty space and wonder why it’s not there. No. 13 is missing as well...

Next Door

Summer is loudest, their windows fly open, voices vault fences and enter our house. Screaming at children, beer bottles broken, cursing and knocking...
Cherry

Jeremiad

I used to think I was my own worst enemy and so did many of my friends. But I wanted to find out for sure. So I kept a diary: a record of faces and...
Cherry

Game of Thrones

Corruption and deformity must haunt the major dynasty: a scheming witch, licentious imp, a severed hand, sadistic prince; suggestions of incest,...

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3 of my comments have received 3 Great Feedback votes

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I think you've improved it.

Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2020

I think you've improved it. Bit too fond of hyphenated phrases, but I liked coiled cold and sequin sounds very much. 

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Posted in pool, october

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Well, I wouldn't delete as

Posted on Mon, 12 Oct 2020

Well, I wouldn't delete as there's a lot to like. But the switch from Butler-Lytton to McGonagall needs a bit more finesse. Wasn't his most famous poem about a fallen bridge? Perhaps a bridge is the answer. 

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Posted in To Be or Not To Be A Poet

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I Look Up

Posted on Fri, 10 Apr 2020

Enjoyed, the last 3 lines are lovely. Can't get my head around these lines, though -

By midnight, respite in invisibility

bar the matt absence of stars

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