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I love this.
Posted on Fri, 27 Apr 2018
I love this.
Going at different speeds but arriving together
A dead end coming to life - brilliant!
"look back at the increasingly staggering view". Gives a strong image of space/time so easily.
"Convenient" table...
Read full commentPosted in Effort & View
Beautiful poem, you express
Posted on Sat, 21 Apr 2018
Beautiful poem, you express so well the seeming fragility of Spring but also how it's actually very strong, as it has overcome the darkness of Winter, just as the flames of your dreams overcome dark times. It makes me think of those ink paintings...
Read full commentPosted in My Dreams are Safe (IP)
hm, not if you can't see the
Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018
hm, not if you're short sighted like me :0) It's like a miniature metaphor for the miracle of life, the twentieth attempt the thread goes through and you're off. Before that it gets fuzzier and cut off and bent and huffed and puffed at and...
Read full commentPosted in On sewing buttons
I love this, it's so gentle
Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018
I love this, it's so gentle :0) I'm not technical, so always feel very pleased that I've managed to fix something, when I sew on a button. Equally, I worry that I don't understand writing often. Your idea of joining the two together is lovely. I...
Read full commentPosted in On sewing buttons
yes, I would. There was an
Posted on Thu, 29 Mar 2018
yes, I would. There was an interesting interview on the World Service a while ago, with someone who had written about his experiences doing his compulsory national service in Israel. He spoke about how it felt to be called a traitor by his own...
Read full commentPosted in End Islamophobia (In the Blairite Party)
Really enjoyed this. My
Posted on Sun, 25 Mar 2018
Really enjoyed this. My partner is doing OU in computing and we joke it is his magic books being delivered by the postman.
Particularly liked "Summon a Magician! I appear, sometime just after a puff of smoke actually.“
Read full commentPosted in Mechanics & Artists
I like this one.
Posted on Sat, 24 Mar 2018
I like this one.
Read full commentPosted in Beyond the Day
I sympathise with the
Posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2018
I sympathise with the narrator - you have so well described how stressful it is for children to keep foxes out of hen runs. Always straining your ears incase you miss their terrified clucking cackle, even when you are asleep.
Read full commentPosted in The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chapters 13-14)
Maybe it's because we are
Posted on Wed, 14 Mar 2018
Maybe it's because we are tool makers that we look for purpose in everything we come across, even life. But "pure experience of being" as you say, unsullied with being chipped into a more useful shape, that's what animals have, presumeably that's...
Read full commentPosted in So long
Enjoyed this richly packed
Posted on Tue, 13 Mar 2018
Enjoyed this richly packed account, haiku like fitting a wardrobe of clothes into a brief case. Particularly liked the botanic garden in the storm, and patatas bravas in Burger King
Read full commentPosted in Coimbra Haiku
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