Deliberately Evolving
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Holly Fisher
A performance poet and protégée of the late Bee – a beautiful poet and former editor on ABC Tales. #seeabeethinkofme
My stories
Grounded
Reach up, stretch high, unroll spine to sky. Bow, recall how small we are humility. Grasp the earth, say thanks for precious life. Step back, press...
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- 414 reads
Rain - a haiku
Rain! Oh graceful wet. Precious life rise and falling. Summers dry earth quenched.
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Appreciation
Find a place you’ve never seen. Wander a path of sun dappled loveliness, never want to leave. Complete peace you know unique creates almost holy...
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Paradise
Paradise... When eyes have ceased to search and rested. We sped up life to degrees impossible to see... A blur! whizzing past, react so fast,...
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Wish list
Dear Santa, (it’s come to this - I’m writing to a fictional symbol of a holiday masquerading Christian, dressed in pagan clothing, sending him this...
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This is a very evocative and
Posted on Fri, 18 Dec 2015
This is a very evocative and clever piece of writing and describes the situation extremely well. If only it would touch the heart of the person it should the most and yet only the kind hearted will be the ones saddened.
Read full commentPosted in Sparrow
These are are extremely
Posted on Wed, 09 Dec 2015
These are are extremely clever. The depth and importance of the subjects coupled with the jokey rythm of the Limerick bring a rather dark humour to the whole thing.
Read full commentPosted in Lotsa Limericks - It Couldn't be Verse
Oh my gosh - take it to HR.
Posted on Thu, 10 Dec 2015
Oh my gosh - take it to HR. That's complete bullying and harassment. Don't let her get away with it.
Read full commentPosted in Anger Management
That is good news - as good
Posted on Fri, 04 Dec 2015
That is good news - as good as you could hope for in the circumstances anyway. I know you might feel like you are not out of the woods yet and you still have cancer but it's a positive milestone passed. You can take comfort that your suffering...
Read full commentPosted in Result! (part 1)
I think we all had them in
Posted on Sat, 24 Oct 2015
I think we all had them in one form or another. My son says there are monsters in his room - he is 2. We ask him what he would like us to do with them and he says "take them down to the conservatory - they can sleep there". So we do.
Read full commentPosted in Baddies in the dark
Interesting piece. I liked
Posted on Fri, 23 Oct 2015
Interesting piece. I liked the voices too. How they think and express. Made me sad because there are many such families struggling. It's easy to judge but when you hear each story you find reasons why and how things have become that way. People...
Read full commentPosted in The Youngest Sister
Brilliant! I loved every word
Posted on Fri, 23 Oct 2015
Brilliant! I loved every word of this and who wouldn't love Tom and that awful cardigan.
Read full commentPosted in Sons and Mothers
This is a poem of great depth
Posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2015
This is a poem of great depth and courage. It's really inspiring.
Only one side point: is it supposed to be "taught me the lesson of not trusting anyone"?
Read full commentPosted in I - WAS - NOT
I was waiting for that ending
Posted on Fri, 16 Oct 2015
I was waiting for that ending all the way through. How often have we spoken to our children like that in order to protect them from something nasty. It struck a chord.
Read full commentPosted in In ver ness (Poetry Monthly)
Yes. It's true. I'm sure we
Posted on Tue, 15 Sep 2015
Yes. It's true. I'm sure we all have a story or other to tell (or maybe not because we couldn't really remember it)
Read full commentPosted in Oh the shame!
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