Jane Hyphen
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Happy Mother's Day
Mother of dragons The cat’s mother The martyr who reminds Us how it was so much harder The numb mother numbering The days from when it started And...
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Strange Beings in Strange Times
Something changed. People crawled out from under rocks, Wiped the moss from their heads And headed out alone or in choleric pairs, To where they...
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Imagine if we Didn't Feel Pain
Imagine if we felt no pain No stinging thorn to dock us To the margins of our term Or cuspate pin to hold us Down upon this sober ground We’d be...
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Ode to Compost
On black frosty nights, hands clutch eggshells: On precarious paths, clear goop strings do drip, Down wrists withheld slimed bags of precious peel...
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I Saw You
I saw you And the years had washed you pale A stranger standing Staring at the layered air Nothing in your eyes But spirits still confide Stirring...
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This is so atmospheric,
Posted on Tue, 11 Jun 2019
This is so atmospheric, mostly grey in colour like all your writing but this isn't bleak, it has fresh air and the edges of nature hardening the characters. It would make a wonderful play but it's wonderful to read too. Full of clever phrases...
Read full commentPosted in Puddle of land
Wow, this is really
Posted on Tue, 04 Jun 2019
Wow, this is really terrifying like a nightmare. It reminds me of The Pied Piper of Hamlyn but perhaps much worse because of the reality of our environment and the possibility of irreversible change. Trains and stations with young children are...
Read full commentPosted in the train leaving now
Lovely piece Rhiannon. I
Posted on Thu, 23 May 2019
Lovely piece Rhiannon. I enjoyed the way you describe their beauty in yellow shades and also how you point out that they serve as a warning to the water's edge often hidden, I'd never thought of them like that. They are a very classy plant.
Read full commentPosted in Bog Brilliance
I enjoyed the intertwining of
Posted on Mon, 20 May 2019
I enjoyed the intertwining of the natural and the supernatural here Jenny and you've included so many elements from stars in the sky to the underwater plant life. The result is dreamy and full of magic.
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Really enjoyed this stand
Posted on Wed, 15 May 2019
Really enjoyed this stand-alone quirkdom. The uses of a potato know no bounds, it's no wonder the swan wanted to pass itself off as one.
Read full commentPosted in The Identity of the Potato and the Swan
As others have said the first
Posted on Mon, 13 May 2019
As others have said the first verse is a perfect accolade to these woodland beauties and then you use them as an example of what could be lost. The rich won't share, there is evidence of that all around us and so much of our natural resources is...
Read full commentPosted in bluebells
Thanks Insert. I'm pretty
Posted on Sat, 11 May 2019
Thanks Insert. I'm pretty horrified by the dehumanising of people in the workforce. I know it happened in the Victorian era but I believe there was a bit in the middle where things improved and now we are returning to those dark days. The sort of...
Read full commentPosted in I Woke Up (in inverted commas)
Lots of texture and emotion
Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2019
Lots of texture and emotion in this, the metaphor of a large rock, imperfect but unbreakable as this person in your life, it sounds like somebody we could all use. 'Holding my child with feet deep in your sand' is wonderful and you cannot help...
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It's incredible what these
Posted on Thu, 18 Apr 2019
It's incredible what these men and boys did each day, the risks and conditions, it must have been the comradarie that gone them through it and faith and trust as you say. The elderly man as an engineer had a huge responsibility but saw himself as...
Read full commentPosted in Going Down Below
Interesting piece. The tree,
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2019
Interesting piece. The tree, once an ordinary sapling, with so many stories to tell and still causing intrigue inside an old church. It's hard to believe punishing nagging wives and mean merchants in this manner was considered normal...well not...
Read full commentPosted in The Ducking Stool In Leominster Church
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