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My stories have been read 235956 times
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38 of my 1,940 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 40 votes
simon whitworth
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The Lookout Boy
No blood relation. Sentry at the gatehouse of some vast and rambling estate. His wife had followed him down through the years, held the front-line in...
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That Morning
In this dream I never told, I ran away.
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Too Much Sky - Prologue
Something old I never finished editing that I forgot to post. maybe the beginning of a novel, I'm not sure.
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Flat Badger
and I know I’ve just crushed its skull, spread its brains for the happy crows, laid suicide supper for the loveable fox -
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Burnt Coffee
First entry for the comp which did O.k thanks to those that voted for it.
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Congratulations, your poem is
Posted on Fri, 29 Dec 2017
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Lovely poem Richard.
Posted on Fri, 29 Dec 2017
Lovely poem Richard.
Read full commentPosted in Love in Sight
Hi Poppy, I read your forum
Posted on Sun, 03 Dec 2017
Hi Poppy, I read your forum comment and then chose a random poem. I could say I really like this, or that doesn't work for me, but what do I know? Someone will come along and say, no I like that, he's wrong etc
For what it's worth and this...
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Super poem.
Posted on Sun, 19 Nov 2017
Super poem.
Read full commentPosted in Come With Me
Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2017
Read full commentPosted in The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 4 of 4)
A lovely journey and many,
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
A lovely journey and many, many beautiful images. Most of what I write is probably nonsense to most, but if they like a phrase or a few parts, great - if they get the whole, even better - if they don't like it, or don't have time to decipher my...
Read full commentPosted in time travelling
Really good, all set off by
Posted on Thu, 03 Aug 2017
Really good, all set off by that excellent beginning.
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Such good poetry as always
Posted on Tue, 13 Jun 2017
Such good poetry as always Kilb.
Read full commentPosted in Cathedral Swans
like latent life's tight coil
Posted on Tue, 27 Jun 2017
like latent life's tight coil - lovely, a poem so delicate the act of reading it might break it.
Read full commentPosted in “The Hush of the Snow”
Thanks Vera, it has been a
Posted on Thu, 16 Jun 2016
Thanks Vera, it has been a long time, such a great comment. I learnt a new word today, which is hiraeth (Welsh) and which describes what you mention, a longing for home you cannot return to, or a grief for the lost places of your...
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