Stephen Thom
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Stephen Thom
Carrbridge/Edinburgh
Mandolin strummer in a folk-rock band 'Dante' https://www.youtube.com/user/wearedante
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Aura (31)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (30)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (29)
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Aura (28)
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Aura (27)
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very transportive and pretty.
Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2015
very transportive and pretty. lovely diction&alliteration rolls well, accentuates the feel. liked the sudden 'his', too, ' his half crescent smile'. don't know much about form and found the info interesting. very much enjoyed :-)
Read full commentPosted in While you were sleeping
yeah this is really beautiful
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2015
yeah this is really beautiful and intricately put together...subtle attention to detail everywhere... from the initial c rattle of 'clambering, climbing – /craving', 'delicately', 'trembles' and 'quiver' dropped throughout, but it was these two...
Read full commentPosted in June...
lovely diction and expression
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2015
lovely diction and expression. this is beautifully written. i liked 'turn on/the smoothest hinge' early on, and the tangled cluster of - later. the use of 'snapping' in the final line is brilliant too. dark thoughts, but wonderful expression...
Read full commentPosted in Cripple's Catharsis
ah this is fantastic! but ah,
Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2015
ah this is fantastic! but ah, I don't have the necessary diction to describe how it read - think vera says it best with 'high-brow and quick-speaking'! think there was layers within layers here but it's the rattle of diction and interest that...
Read full commentPosted in Flight of the Bumblebee
v lovely, lovely diction
Posted on Sat, 20 Jun 2015
v lovely, lovely diction throughout (tatted was new for me) loved 'the one who listens
Read full commentfor a question' and the line it led to. lots of thought and beautiful depth but the moments are always there...think celticman has touched on this with...
Posted in Lace Wings
very sad and even seems to
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2015
very sad and even seems to move with a certain ominous pace such things must be written about and it is painted with beautiful strokes 'lay howling /on a laundered sheet' / 'I'll have shed/my fat and will look eagerly/round corners'. very lovely...
Read full commentPosted in Growing wings
hi eb some beautiful diction
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2015
hi eb some beautiful diction&lovely word combinations and the stanza beginning 'I thought I sensed breath on my neck', leading to ending, was so close and vivid and full of regret. v neat and pretty but quietly devastating. v much enjoyed.
Read full commentPosted in Absence
firstly, this is a lovely
Posted on Wed, 10 Jun 2015
firstly, this is a lovely title... there's a level of angst but it's the thread of thoughts and images conveyed with such economy of words - the truly wonderful 'A beautiful profile, opened/and closed its flickering lids as it passed away' that...
Read full commentPosted in All As I Watched
this is a wonder, l.w... i
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2015
this is a wonder, l.w... i think the level of detachment (if that makes any sense) is ultimately all the more expressive - the lists of observations - in conveying a level of feeling and a balance between different places/points in journeys
Read full commentPosted in Dust
hi jane, this worked really
Posted on Tue, 21 Apr 2015
hi jane, this worked really well and was genuinely affecting. i think you caught that continual throb of hurt within images of nature wonderfully, and the final part - Does it seek to dim the golden glow/of every followed dawn? April came so warm...
Read full commentPosted in April
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