Philip Sidney

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I have 165 stories published in 5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 694141 times and 211 of my stories have been cherry picked.
393 of my 5,296 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 391 votes

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The Lost (Poetry Monthly)

Committed to memory black and white shot through with orange fire blood red stay forever burnt into retinas dna-cid melting white-hot-wired to the...
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Not a Shakespearean Sonnet

Performance poet put sounds in mouths to spit across the stage in firey streams, living dreams, from ancient times, making shadow shapes on shifting...
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Reykjavik 29/3/16

Lying in bed beneath a window, watching fat flakes fall through twiggy fingers of skeleton trees, listening to Kurt Vile, wondering how you got...
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Bad at Games

Had a go at a prose poem - I think it is anyway...
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Bombinations

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393 of my comments have received 391 Great Feedback votes

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A beautiful piece of nature

Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018

A beautiful piece of nature writing.

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Posted in To Dance in the Shadows

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What an effective use of

Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2018

What an effective use of rhyme, like a cat marking time.  I just love that last line.  ...

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Posted in finding peace

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Gorgeously languid.

Posted on Tue, 16 Jan 2018

Gorgeously languid.

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Posted in Queen Cordelia's Lament.

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There's something so restful

Posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2018

There's something so restful and meditative here, despite the hard work.

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Posted in Man on His Tractor

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Hi well wisher.  Back in the

Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017

Hi well wisher.  Back in the day convent schools had a collection for 'Black Babies', certainly racist and a blast from their 'missionary' work. I went to a few missionary schools in the colonies where these collections took place, really...

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Posted in Black babies.

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A clever idea.  I didn’t

Posted on Thu, 14 Dec 2017

A clever idea.  I didn’t understand why Paul would melt, but that was the part that slightly jarred.  Good story. 

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Posted in Firstnet

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These are wonderful, Ewan.

Posted on Mon, 11 Dec 2017

These are wonderful, Ewan. There’s a reality here which is incredibly moving.  I love poetry that shows as much as a novel in condensed form.

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Posted in 1979

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I like the yearning in this

Posted on Sat, 09 Dec 2017

I like the yearning in this poem.  The last line is wonderful! 

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Posted in True nature

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Gorgeous images.

Posted on Mon, 04 Dec 2017

Gorgeous images.

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Posted in A Mystic Winter's Eve.

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What a wonderful poem!  Well

Posted on Sat, 25 Nov 2017

What a wonderful poem!  Well done.

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Posted in School  (Automatic poem)

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