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that's beautiful! I love
Posted on Thu, 09 May 2019
that's beautiful! I love these walking poems! I have never read anything like them, how you make a feeling of walking, place and moment come alive with rhythm and aliteration, more vivid even than your lovely photo
Read full commentPosted in Transfixed!
I enjoyed this very much!
Posted on Mon, 06 May 2019
I enjoyed this very much! All I know about Romans is vague memories of I Claudius on telly. You must have done lots of research to make everything seem so real!
Read full commentPosted in A Roman Triptych - 1) Calpurnia's Story
you communicate the cold so
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019
you communicate the cold so well with this, I was reaching for my cardigan at the end! And the hopelessness of it, too. This terrible journey was only leading to the front line, yet they did not lie down and die there, but carried on, such...
Read full commentPosted in 1944 (12miles south of Spa Belgium)
Nice to hear of your robin :0
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019
Nice to hear of your robin :0) I wonder how many partnerships of gardener and robin there have been through the centuries? If they know that we love their songs?
Read full commentPosted in I Talk To the Animals
oh Jane, this poem resonates
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019
oh Jane, this poem resonates so much with me!!! My garden was a drive when we moved in. I paid someone with a bulldozer to dig up the concrete and gravel but what was left under that was hard packed cinder I think, which I managed to break with a...
Read full commentPosted in I won't leave my Walled Garden
Enjoyed this very much. Words
Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2019
Enjoyed this very much. Words of a poem describing how words in a recipe are not enough, but the poem works brilliantly. It's beautiful and sad and true
Read full commentPosted in Toss in a pinch of love
There is so much to this poem
Posted on Wed, 24 Apr 2019
There is so much to this poem. The sense of movement all through, and how you start off outside and move through the window, curtains, even the bed clothes, into the space beside you. How outside is full of life with the crickets, yet deep inside...
Read full commentPosted in In the wee small hours of the morning...(that's the time I miss him most of all)
Having spent time this
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2019
Having spent time this afternoon staring up through branches where leaves are beginning to come out, it's a shock to be reminded how trees were once bent to the torturous will of people. These days they are just in the way, or dying from diseases...
Read full commentPosted in The Ducking Stool In Leominster Church
monkey puzzles are like
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2019
monkey puzzles are like octopuses, had never realised, but you are right! And your "comfortable, spongy turf" I know grass like that too, it's beautiful :0) Did your grass have tiny yellow flowers in? i like how you make the skylark song...
Read full commentPosted in The Puzzles’ Enigma
he is not ashamed to "come
Posted on Sun, 21 Apr 2019
he is not ashamed to "come out" as a murderer, yet some of his people are afraid simply to love.
you were deemed "horrible" yet someone who assaulted you to amuse his friends is elite
money is a mirror that makes morality the...
Read full commentPosted in Throwing Stones
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