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Terence Mullan

 

In the movies, the people who are writers only ever drink coffee and write. I could do that. They never have to work in their garden or take their cat to the vet or go shopping in Kaufland.

 

 

621 of my comments have received 648 Great Feedback votes

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I really like this.

Posted on Thu, 02 Sep 2021

I really like this.

I particularly like your description of what happens when you open the window. Sometimes it does feel that by opening a window the whole of what is going on outside drifts in to stir up the stillness and change the...

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Posted in Trees Called To Me

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Sad words

Posted on Sun, 29 Aug 2021

I love how you have expressed so much sadness with just a few words. The saddest word amongst them is 'happy'.

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Posted in flotsam and jetsam

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Excellent imagary

Posted on Wed, 01 Sep 2021

Your poem contains some excellent imagery and a sleepless situation I can relate to myself.

I particularly liked ...

'the calloused mattress
its lumps and humps
promises to keep my secrets
under the spell of fitted...

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Posted in Bedtime Blues

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Nice work

Posted on Thu, 02 Sep 2021

I enjoyed reading this. A reminder that everything in nature is unique and lasts only seconds as light and weather conditions change and time and seasons advance. 

'Waste not the precious light' ... we forget just how...

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Posted in I See Something Special

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Thank you very much!

Posted on Mon, 30 Aug 2021

Thank you for reading my poem and for your kind comment.

I'm not completely certain that it does get too hot for bees. It was just too hot for me to go and see what the bees were doing so I made a wild assumption in the interests of saving...

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Posted in A Hot Afternoon in Malki Chiflik

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I don't share this fact with

Posted on Sun, 29 Aug 2021

I don't share this fact with many people but I spend a lot of my time sitting outdoors staring at the sky. Days with blue skies and cumulus clouds are the best because this is when I see maps of Ireland, ducks with three legs, my grandfather...

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Posted in Going With The Flow

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An enjoyable read.

Posted on Mon, 30 Aug 2021

Your story captured my imagination from the outset as I know from my own experience that the trials of trying to live day to day in a new country and learn the language at the same time can be at times gruelling. I retired to Bulgaria where...

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Posted in Chinese Whispers (edited and updated, 2021)

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I really enjoyed reading this

Posted on Wed, 25 Aug 2021

I really enjoyed reading this. I like the way that your words seem to slide and ripple as smoothly as the grass snake and the surface of the canal water. As I read I could clearly see in my mind the scene and the movements and sense the...

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Posted in Swimming Snake

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This is a very well written

Posted on Sat, 28 Aug 2021

This is a very well written poem, Jenny, which I read twice to ensure that it had sunk in.

Your explanation helped me appreciate it. I can fully understand what you mean by 'Feelings from the past have an impact on who we are now' as my...

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Posted in Curious Ambiance

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As I see it / her, although

Posted on Mon, 23 Aug 2021

As I see it / her, although Alexa sounds like a lovely young lady, she is merely Wikipedia personified. If you ask the Wikipedia website itself if it is a reliable source of information it will give you an honest 'no' as an answer. Perhaps one...

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Posted in Saint Patrick's Day (17/3/21) : Part 3 by Mr A.N.Muggins

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