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April shower
Sun is shattered by dark tree branches, splinters glint scattered on twig tips, diamond- dusting downy oval honescuckle leaves' warm green-blue,...
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Win
this meeting of trees and rushes glows, peaceful as a holy place warbler songs shimmer warm blue air where speckled wood butterflies dance from spine...
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Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...
Reporters list atrocities suggesting which might qualify as war crimes, while Western leaders' words slide over blood, too afraid of falling in to...
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Listening to the News 2/3/22
Does sound of our clapping drown out the bombs exploding in your homes? Our politicians stand shoulder to shoulder with ambassadors come to beg for...
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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth" Albert Schweitzer
we breathed each other's breath. It was enough once you sheltered within me. We were one before fences. I grew to know burning, soon you chose to...
I can imagine it all too
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
I can imagine it all too easily! Possibly (fool's) gold, definitely glowing. But Musk's will be bigger, he will make his face in the sky with satellites to look like stars
Read full commentPosted in A statue of you
Enjoyed this part, and that
Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024
Enjoyed this part, and that posted today, very much. The rhythm all on its own is great
Don't know how pernickety you like your suggestions -
"That morning felt more like March than December. The sky was a rinsed-out blue like a...
Read full commentPosted in The Patrolman - 1
I liked this a lot, too. How
Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025
I liked this a lot, too. How you describe the outer wide space of the beach, and the inner space each of us carries. As if afraid of another's footprints in one's mind, but also the possibility for there being a new beach, a new horizon, in the...
Read full commentPosted in Sonnet in Silence
That must have been so awful
Posted on Wed, 08 Jan 2025
That must have been so awful for you. You describe it really well. I am sorry. My Mum has just passed, and we are going to have to do this. Though losing someone close must always be terrible, how quickly your brother passed away, that must have...
Read full commentPosted in "Before They Call, I Will Answer, While They Are Still Speaking, I Will Hear." Part Five.
She really did! I never met
Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025
She really did! I never met her after she left school, though I know she got married, and had children. Dusty might not have been your type, either - would she have been ok with huge, poisonous millipede things and power cuts and cats breaking...
Read full commentPosted in Making Do with Dusty Springfield
Love
Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025
Love
"Gravestones leant against the red brick wall
Like dockers waiting for work"
and this bit reminds me of so many times at school
"‘At night I dream we are kissing
Then when I wake up you’re missing,...
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Happy New Year to you, too!
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025
Happy New Year to you, too! And Thankyou so much for all your wonderfully funny writing in 2024
Read full commentPosted in Nowhere Man (Dead Reckoning series - Part 42)
I am reading a book just now
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025
I am reading a book just now which does this "where we are now, and who has done what" stuff, and in there it is boring, but you have not written yours in the same way at all!
Read full commentPosted in Nowhere Man (Dead Reckoning series - Part 42)
This fabulous, stressful
Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025
This fabulous, stressful episode from Jane Hyphen's brilliant story of the marriage of Vanessa and Cybermate Spencer, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Jane, the image is from here :
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Posted in Parcel for You - Part 46
Because of Ewan's comment,
Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025
Because of Ewan's comment, looked up BDSM, goodness knows what will happen to my algorithms now :0)
Read full commentBeing attacked by a pack of stray dogs must have been terrifying! I would be too scared to go there again. There are two airedales here,...
Posted in Mad Dogs and Donkeys
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