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Well done capturing such a
Posted on Mon, 11 Nov 2019
Well done capturing such a tiny elusive creature :0) I liked your contrast of the carefree bird and all the effort and stress of taking its photo, but you did it! And now the reader gets a wonderful snapshot of photographer/poet and treecreeper :...
Read full commentPosted in An Obliging Treecreeper
I like this very much, lots
Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2019
I like this very much, lots of great descriptions like knot of lanes, but also the closed in feeling of being in a car in ther dark, trying to find your way back, but then breaking through into the present, like you have come out of a spell. It's...
Read full commentPosted in Communion
this is lovely, I like the
Posted on Mon, 04 Nov 2019
this is lovely, I like the repeated sounds like the repeated pattern of the petals, seems so perfect and fresh
Read full commentPosted in November Bloom
Great poem for All Souls
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2019
Great poem for All Souls
Particularly liked this :
"laughed out our aliveness in hungry gasps"
and
"We haunted their dusks in the hush
behind its iron gates under the beeaches"
Read full commentPosted in Graveyards
I love your walking poems,
Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2019
I love your walking poems, like Insert feel the tourist board should take you on, you certainly make me long to go to the borders!
This poem made me think of the worry of flooding, the relief of seeing the extra water nearly away to sea. I...
Read full commentPosted in Travelling down the Wye Valley 28/10/19
Luigi, I am very glad I read
Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2019
Luigi, I am very glad I read your poem! I particularly like the sense of enjoyment you share, as in your first 3 lines. The exuberant exclamation mark :0) And I loved these lines too
"winged nomads,
Read full commentunrestrained free spirits
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Posted in Geese
Thankyou Jenny :0) The poem
Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2019
Thankyou Jenny :0) The poem hasn't done them justice at all. I had a look online to see if anyone had written a poem about murmerations but couldn't find one. It is so amazing to see, there were only 20 or so last week, but every day about 4 o...
Read full commentPosted in starlings
I love these lines - I am
Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2019
I love these lines - I am always thinking about what trees mean to me but you describe briiliantly and in two lines how other creatures depend on them for life
"its empty frame exposed, that all this life had clung to."
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Read full commentPosted in Tree from a window
I've never seen so many
Posted on Fri, 25 Oct 2019
I've never seen so many apples at once! How lovely it must be where you live, full of orchards! You must be able to smell Autumn? Do you get to drink the fresh juice? My Dad used to put our windfalls in a plastic dustbin (specially bought!) and...
Read full commentPosted in Harvest!
I like the contrast between
Posted on Sat, 26 Oct 2019
I like the contrast between the heavy solidity of a necklace/collar, and the fragility of wildflowers, which never the less can grow and increase, whereas a metal necklace can at best only stay the same. I love the line "spread of promises"! And...
Read full commentPosted in Wood Anemones
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