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Alex Smith
Decided to stop talking about it and do it.
Twitter: @AlexCalling79
Instagram: poetofhome
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Stories I won't tell you.
Dada, what kind of baby was I? Do you remember me from back then? Was I terrible or was I just… I don’t know, just tell me how it feels? How it feels...
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The Unsaid
…and sometimes on better days I just see people people being and …ing and …ing in all their mundane glory and I think we are invincible unbound cloud...
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Distilled
Distilled At 23 I sat on a Ronda balcony watching a crane toil through a Spanish day with nothing but bad lager and a good friend. Propped up by a...
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I didn’t take that picture
I didn’t take that picture through the hospital window. The one with the sign in the background, neon-green and sickly. The one with the airplane...
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Ode to a quince
O, so there’s this quince tree near our house, yeah? and the kids think the fruit’s some type of pear and I wanna tell em that it is cos they ask all...
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I'll give it a shot!
Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2020
I'll give it a shot!
Read full commentPosted in Run
There's such beauty here in
Posted on Tue, 05 Nov 2019
There's such beauty here in all aspects but especially where you don't put your stresses - in your endings like 'stiff unlovely things'. Such delicate touches.
Read full commentPosted in The Language of Dead Flowers
Oh this is just sumptious.
Posted on Tue, 10 May 2022
Oh this is just sumptious. Such wonderful words to wrap yourself around and the light...oh the light!
Read full commentPosted in The Dead Want Their Moon Back
Such wonderfully contrasting
Posted on Tue, 26 Jan 2021
Such wonderfully contrasting lines stitched together with care and skill. That ugly number squats in the middle.
Read full commentPosted in Screenshot
Some very affective lines in
Posted on Mon, 21 Sep 2020
Some very affective lines in here. I loved the 'homes were a prison' part and your final line is built up to and crafted really well.
Read full commentPosted in Strange Times
Sure footed and sumptuous. I
Posted on Mon, 13 May 2019
Sure footed and sumptuous. I'm coming back to this again and again.
Read full commentPosted in bluebells
‘Camouflaged better here than
Posted on Sun, 11 Nov 2018
‘Camouflaged better here than in the desert’ Jesus that just encapsulates it. We deify the unknown (as we should) but disregard the known.
Read full commentPosted in Listen
Just gorgeous. I am denied
Posted on Thu, 08 Nov 2018
Just gorgeous. I am denied this pleasure as my little sods always wake up!
Read full commentPosted in not ready to fly yet
This wonderfully panoramic
Posted on Tue, 18 Sep 2018
This wonderfully panoramic piece is our pick of the day. Well done!
Read full commentPosted in Manhatten
Beautiful, powerful and
Posted on Tue, 18 Sep 2018
Beautiful, powerful and replete with loss.
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