Jane Hyphen
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My stories
Jar of Lights
Holding my jar of lights Closeted rays of hope Thaw those enduring walls of grey And frigid bleak indifference One by one I gathered Over time, in...
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The Worst
The worst. You left your entrails in a glass box. Sealed forever with a deadlock. Thick blood trails every pane. Our darkest hours to temper and...
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It feels like winter here
It feels like winter here The bone frames of you and me Clutching our own hands Blue flesh scars exposed as Frost forms on each word Light casts us...
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Strange Light
Strange light in the sky And in your eyes Listen…. Don’t stay too long In this strange place Where only shadows Show themselves To draw you in...
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September Chills
September The dread tread Of rolling bombs Loose in the pit Of my stomach Cold dawn New term chills Crack whack jabs Of hockey sticks Torture of team...
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Excellent poem, really made
Posted on Tue, 16 Apr 2019
Excellent poem, really made me think. There is something sad about the idea of us just passing through but that is what we are all doing isn't it. All those plastic Little Tyke wendy houses people buy for their kids are destined to outlive us all...
Read full commentPosted in change of address
This is a story which runs
Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2019
This is a story which runs along two time trails, the elderly woman searching through turbulent memory banks spanning decades. It reminds me of when my grandmother was lying in bed in her nineties, refusing food because she wanted to die, she was...
Read full commentPosted in The mask melting at 98
I love the comparison to
Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2019
I love the comparison to glitter in a snow globe. How nice to walk along the sea to the supermarket and be seranaded by gulls, they don't have many tunes in their repetoire but I admire their enthusiasm and of course they are very busy at this...
Read full commentPosted in herring gull gallantry
Green is so restorative. Just
Posted on Fri, 29 Mar 2019
Green is so restorative. Just reading this poem is like a pick me up Rhianon.
Read full commentPosted in Colours for Kids 6)
Beautiful Rhiannon. The
Posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2019
Beautiful Rhiannon. The description of young lambs is dancing with their knobbly knees is perfect and spring wouldn't be spring without daffodils. They look so natural growing in the field in your photos, in contrast to my local council which...
Read full commentPosted in Wild daffodils of field and meadow*
Wonderful tribute to a
Posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2019
Wonderful tribute to a prickly beauty. Bee-full I love. One of the best smells I've ever experienced was on a coastal path in Pembrokeshire in May, the sun was out and the gorse scented the air, to me it was not unlike Pina Colada. Generally the...
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It's a fail of a tale we
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2019
It's a fail of a tale we teach our kids. Bad deeds will be punished, if not in life then in hell, look around it's easy to tell, the few reap what the many broke their backs to sow with next to nothing there to show.
Read full commentPosted in The Three Fields of You
Thank you, it is shocking but
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
Thank you, it is shocking but having a site like this to go and writing friends is a great comfort
Read full commentPosted in Last Week I Lost My Job (Rimus Dissolutas)
Wow, I like the way you have
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
Wow, I like the way you have described your human situation in horticultural terms. Move any established plant and for a good while it will be vulnerable in soil untrue.
Read full commentPosted in Roots
This is a lovely snapshot in
Posted on Fri, 08 Mar 2019
This is a lovely snapshot in time Rhiannon. I feel like people stretched their imaginations a little more back then and then was less shame in choosing something a bit different and making use of what you had.
Read full commentPosted in Gladys Aylward and Tenzing
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