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Terence Mullan
During the hot Balkan afternoons it’s grand to lie on the settee with jugs of glacial tea and a summer soundtrack. Joni Mitchell, Joseph Canteloube, Bob Marley and Mississippi John Hurt on scratchy vinyl all sooth as Pavlovian mosquitos snarl from their sides of insect screens.
Those afternoons will be back soon, I hope. I don't care for this having to wear socks nonsense.
Well deserved.
Posted on Thu, 30 Sep 2021
Hello Jenny.
Congratulations on your golden cherries. They are well deserved.
I really enjoyed reading your poem. Your words put clear images in my mind of not only the shy but busy little fish but also all the features of the river...
Read full commentPosted in Stone Loach
Bleak
Posted on Sun, 10 Oct 2021
Ah, you can't beat a bit of abject misery to brighten up the day.
Read full commentPosted in The Condemnation of Darkness
The solitude of the elderly
Posted on Tue, 21 Sep 2021
I love this Jenny. Your words remind me of so many elderly people I have known who spend the autumn years of their lives living alone, speaking to no one because they neither want to dwell upon more eventful times in the past nor discuss what...
Read full commentPosted in Beneath An Autumn Moon The Poem
Jammin'
Posted on Fri, 10 Sep 2021
This describes just about every night in our house at this time of year. We have a garden full of fruit trees and bushes and my missus is obsessed with not wasting any even though she can only scratch the surface of our lovely problem.
We...
Read full commentPosted in preserving time
This is great!
Posted on Thu, 09 Sep 2021
This is great!
It saddens me that kids at school can be lablelled as trouble makers even if they are not but simply because they don't meet academic expectations. Your poem really demonstrates how we are all able to achieve something and...
Read full commentPosted in A Winning Handshake
Autumn
Posted on Tue, 07 Sep 2021
This is a really good piece of poetry Jenny.
You have really captured the atmosphere of autumn in the way that I see it. People who are less fearful than I of the darkening at the year's end tell me that I should enjoy the colours and...
Read full commentPosted in Yin And Yang Of Autumn Forest
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...
Read full commentPosted in Trees Called To Me
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'.
Read full commentPosted in flotsam and jetsam
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
Read full commentits lumps and humps
promises to keep my secrets
under the spell of fitted...
Posted in Bedtime Blues
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...
Read full commentPosted in I See Something Special
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