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Ray Miller
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A Melody So Plain
A Melody So Plain All the young boys and girls wish to share the same sex and are cocking a snook at The Daily Express. Each generation’s appalled at...
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- 70 reads
A Local History Facebook Group
Does anyone know why 17 Borrowdale Road is missing? Every day I walk past the empty space and wonder why it’s not there. No. 13 is missing as well...
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- 199 reads
Next Door
Summer is loudest, their windows fly open, voices vault fences and enter our house. Screaming at children, beer bottles broken, cursing and knocking...
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- 174 reads
Jeremiad
I used to think I was my own worst enemy and so did many of my friends. But I wanted to find out for sure. So I kept a diary: a record of faces and...
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Game of Thrones
Corruption and deformity must haunt the major dynasty: a scheming witch, licentious imp, a severed hand, sadistic prince; suggestions of incest,...
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I think you've improved it.
Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2020
I think you've improved it. Bit too fond of hyphenated phrases, but I liked coiled cold and sequin sounds very much.
Read full commentPosted in pool, october
Well, I wouldn't delete as
Posted on Mon, 12 Oct 2020
Well, I wouldn't delete as there's a lot to like. But the switch from Butler-Lytton to McGonagall needs a bit more finesse. Wasn't his most famous poem about a fallen bridge? Perhaps a bridge is the answer.
Read full commentPosted in To Be or Not To Be A Poet
I Look Up
Posted on Fri, 10 Apr 2020
Enjoyed, the last 3 lines are lovely. Can't get my head around these lines, though -
By midnight, respite in invisibility
bar the matt absence of stars
Read full commentPosted in I Look Up