Philip Sidney
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I have 165 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 754064 times
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392 of my 5,291 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 390 votes
My stories
Wolf Fish
Behind the seal museum between wall and sea on the rough shale margins lay a heap of broken things. A dented car, windows smashed, resting on wooden...
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Licking up the Landscape
A response to the photograph.
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Road Ghazal
You’ve grown used to the cold, the language, driving on the other side of the road. You’ve grown used to the food, the drinking, mountains and ocean...
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Bone Beach
Steel iced water laps between long fingers of land, colder than old time. Glacial winds bite, buoyant ducks whoop, wrapped in their Eider-downy...
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Dinosaurs
They walk the earth think that they own it take for granted that they or one of their kind will win the right to tell us how to live our lives. Self-...
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You describe this feeling so
Posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2015
You describe this feeling so well, I had some teenage years of silence. You certainly are eloquent with your unspoken written words!
I would edit a little to fine tune, words like 'just' and 'probably' etc. to sharpen it even more.
Read full commentPosted in Soundless
Lovely, the structure is like
Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2015
Lovely, the structure is like a curtain, drifting back and forth in a breeze, little snatches of memory and the settling.
Read full commentPosted in Falling Asleep
What a brilliant dramatic
Posted on Tue, 04 Aug 2015
What a brilliant dramatic monologue. So convincing and compelling.
Read full commentPosted in The Road to Hell (Poetry Monthly)
Some very powerful images
Posted on Mon, 03 Aug 2015
Some very powerful images here.
Read full commentPosted in This Ragged Saviour
Gorgeous images, full of
Posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2015
Gorgeous images, full of gentle drift.
Read full commentPosted in Ten Things I Love...
An interesting meta poor here
Posted on Fri, 24 Jul 2015
An interesting meta poor here. I would lose the commas after 'terror' and 'ask' and capital letters at the start of a line that do not follow a full stop.
Read full commentPosted in The Crash
Clever structure, really adds
Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2015
Clever structure, really adds to the shattered emotions and tension. Always interesting to consider strangers in public places. Great read.
Read full commentPosted in The little white box
Loved this! You evoke that
Posted on Sat, 18 Jul 2015
Loved this! You evoke that strange crossover from life into image of the photograph, so much to see if you look, as with this rather wonderful poem.
Read full commentPosted in Photograph exhibition (poetry monthly)
Thank you so much! How
Posted on Wed, 06 Aug 2014
Thank you so much! How lovely that you read it. :)
Read full commentPosted in Dust
They are learning more about
Posted on Wed, 08 Jul 2015
They are learning more about this strange place and how to behave in it. More great characters here.
Read full commentPosted in Chapter 16 Conquest of Chimera
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