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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 505870 times and 283 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1791 of my 5,590 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1841 votes

1791 of my comments have received 1841 Great Feedback votes

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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

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Posted in November Bloom

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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"

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Posted in Graveyards

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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...

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Posted in Travelling down the Wye Valley 28/10/19

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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,
unrestrained free spirits
...

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Posted in Geese

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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...

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Posted in starlings

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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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Posted in Tree from a window

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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...

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Posted in Harvest!

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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...

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Posted in Wood Anemones

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