bhi
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I have 69 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 69262 times
and 62 of my stories have been cherry picked.
43 of my 173 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 46 votes
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On the bridge
We met for an early lunch, unplanned - text from you saying, “meet2eat?” I crossed from the north to Borough Market, aromas of the many kitchens...
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The physiognomy of stones
I can remember my first; bronzed, in the shape of a closed hand, taken from the inner wall of the sleeping hall when the old single storey house was...
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Last night we touched
Talking in tongues only the flesh understands We moved pulled by Saturn Driven by the tide surge Into the orbit of Mars Our fingers surfing the...
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Moving on
memories are all good and fine, but that's all they should be, the future waits.
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Welsh Rarebit
memory of happiness
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I am glad you enjoyed this.
Posted on Thu, 08 Apr 2021
I am glad you enjoyed this. Love is a journey and the expectancy of return is one of its joys.
B
Read full commentPosted in the art of loving through frosted glass
Beautiful poem, and the last
Posted on Tue, 06 Apr 2021
Beautiful poem, and the last sentence is sublime.
It would be great if we could pick up time. My grandmother told me that life was all about making memories and stringing them like pearls into our souls, and at end of says we can take them...
Read full commentPosted in to pick up time
visual in a verbal way.
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
visual in a verbal way. Nature's vistas can be inspiring. Wonderful poem.
Read full commentPosted in After the Blizzard
This line is superb -
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
This line is superb -
"a mirror
of night in scissor-tailed sorcery."
And I must ask, why "biologically armed"? It invokes a picture of war, and not the serenity of love, or maybe that is my tinted glass view!
...
Read full commentPosted in Swallow-tailed Kites
You have an eye for detail
Posted on Thu, 28 Jan 2021
You have an eye for detail and building the images for the reader.
The last line is a perfect ending: "and life was translucent."
bhi
Read full commentPosted in A Secret Forest
Beautiful creatures whose
Posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2021
Beautiful creatures whose grace and dilemma have been captured perfectly in this poem.
These line:
"I sense the fray
of identity against my need
to belong to anything, any
thing, when I do not know
why...
Read full commentPosted in Herring Gull
This shows great empathy and
Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021
This shows great empathy and understanding of a country which does very often lead to an immediate "love/hate" relationship. The detail shows a sharp eye and the narrative flows very well with the interlinking of your back story with the...
Read full commentPosted in The Haunted Fort of Bhangarh
Wonderful poem. LIke this
Posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2021
Wonderful poem. LIke this verse:
"The past leaves
Only prints, disordered.
Details burned beneath the acids
Of emotion, colours telling lies
Hiding in the fade of time"
Just one observation: did...
Read full commentPosted in The Edge of Colour
There are some fantastic
Posted on Wed, 13 Jan 2021
There are some fantastic phrases in this poem, this in particular:
"Only
to be woken by crows,
black mornings, broken
by the flight of brimstone
butterflies in transformation."
Beautifully crafted....
Read full commentPosted in Oh, What’s That In The Hollow?
healing
Posted on Sun, 20 Dec 2020
this is a wonderful healing poem. The measured pace forces each word to be savioured before moving on to the next and then the end which is the return to wonder.
bhi
Read full commentPosted in Morning
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