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For 'Custard' - who I hand reared from a new hatched chick eighteen years ago. She's not been well the past few days - here's hoping she'll soon get well.
I was always accused of being antisocial as a child, and until I left home - always in my room, reading, or playing my guitar, while everyone downstairs squabbled whilst watching tv. But as you say, they slept at night.
The images are so clear and femininely demonic, full of hidden threat and self accusation, like he'd be a better person if he didn't harbour such a devious mistress. But that she's there for him in all those quaintly infuriating poses and guises...
Sometimes the burdens weigh too heavy and we are forced to allow others to not only lift our load, but provide needed and appropriate care. It takes humility to let go of responsiblity sometimes, but how wonderful the sudden release of freedom,...
I got how the regret is there, but mostly cast aside in favour of reality. It made me cry reading. I guess so many of us have a story close to this one, and that's why the poem is so easy to relate to and make fit in with our own easily...
So powerful and simply heartbreaking. I wept too. Nothing hard hearted in your poem - it's like standing aside and seeing and actually being at the same time.
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Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2016
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I was always accused of being
Posted on Fri, 19 Feb 2016
I was always accused of being antisocial as a child, and until I left home - always in my room, reading, or playing my guitar, while everyone downstairs squabbled whilst watching tv. But as you say, they slept at night.
I love the way...
Read full commentPosted in When in Rome – get used to it
The images are so clear and
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2016
The images are so clear and femininely demonic, full of hidden threat and self accusation, like he'd be a better person if he didn't harbour such a devious mistress. But that she's there for him in all those quaintly infuriating poses and guises...
Read full commentPosted in Doubt is my mistress
Sometimes the burdens weigh
Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2016
Sometimes the burdens weigh too heavy and we are forced to allow others to not only lift our load, but provide needed and appropriate care. It takes humility to let go of responsiblity sometimes, but how wonderful the sudden release of freedom,...
Read full commentPosted in Restrictions lifted (Poetry Monthly)
I got how the regret is there
Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2016
I got how the regret is there, but mostly cast aside in favour of reality. It made me cry reading. I guess so many of us have a story close to this one, and that's why the poem is so easy to relate to and make fit in with our own easily...
Read full commentPosted in Anniversary
Three nicely put together
Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2016
Three nicely put together senryu, conjuring great images.
Read full commentPosted in Black Saturn Haiku Set
Line 6 - could take out 'be'.
Posted on Sun, 14 Feb 2016
Line 6 - could take out 'be'. Lovely romantic, rhyming poem with a dancing sway that fits in with the tide being pulled in by the moon,
Read full commentPosted in The moon in the man
The unsaid speaks the loudest
Posted on Fri, 12 Feb 2016
The unsaid speaks the loudest in this piece. Louder than the verbal abuse.
Read full commentPosted in Pink with Purple Peonies
I don't know anything about
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2016
I don't know anything about golf, but I loved this. Lovely rhymes and funny. I can just picture the scene.
Read full commentPosted in According to the Birdie
So powerful and simply
Posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2016
So powerful and simply heartbreaking. I wept too. Nothing hard hearted in your poem - it's like standing aside and seeing and actually being at the same time.
Read full commentPosted in THE ONE IN THE NEST
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