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Thanks Bob and Judy
Appreciation always welcome Bob.

Judy a valued critique from you, thank you.
I will take your comments seriously and ponder
it does needs some tweaks. Yes, looking back Judy.

Hi Judy You've been here many years as a member I remember a post on some negative feedback on a poem of mine by someone else, you were very supportive. The person who wrote that negative comment (not that it's bad to give negative feedback) recently wrote via e-mail congratulating me for staying th...

“The American suspect in a crash that killed a British teenager no longer has diplomatic immunity after returning home, the British Foreign Office has said.” BBC News 13 October 2019 The parents of the late Harry Dunn meet Mr Trump, the newscaster reads out the information mournfully as if a crime h...

Our baby sons asleep in their cots dreaming of picnic bears. I listen to the shower run like rain on a corrugated roof, wait for her to join me, the mother of our children. Avocados drop and fruit bats flop, wood smoke wafts through the window grills in the purple of evening, charcoal fires pepper t...

Thanks Eira,
leas is correct spelling.

This reads as a rich tapestry of Indian village life.

I write home to ‘s-Hertogenbosch on blue airmail paper a finger print of Old Spice. The river flows in flood, dismembered bodies float by; I can’t include that in my love letter. Grey river flowing Tarnished with the pall of death Tribal enmity Her cotton dresses hang in the wardrobe; I take one out...

“Having an appetite for knowledge and wanting to develop Is important, but I believe empowering people and giving them ownership and responsibility.” Warren Gatland The hot weather has dispersed in Kitakyūshū like the mountain mists the heat has drifted away warm days remain, mellow, yellow days. H...

“Rain falls on the city and runs down the gutters to empty into the sea without soaking the ground” ― Haruki Murakami Narita Spaceport Arrivals shines - miles of glass, moulded synthetic materials - vast areas of moving walkways, elevators, stairways, toilets, and concourses. Four hundred Space-Air...

O let us see another day! Bless us all this night, I pray, As to the sun we all shall bow and say good-bye – just for now Dylan Thomas, Eli Jenkins’ Prayer My darling waters her garden, the lawn parched with patches of grey, she’d dug down earlier to find no moisture there. We have never known it so...

Thanks to all at the Writer’s Block for much support.

Siva is desperate to post a poem for this month,
She can't log in.

Thank you for your input.
I agree about too borrowed.

Excellent work Meena

My apology, Meena.

Crows believe themselves to be superior to man.

You make a valid point Siva the law condemns because none can keep it, faith gives hope. In the Christian sense, and I'm pleased you mention it, we are no longer under law, but grace. I think it is better to say: more valid than legal entities in the last s. You need that before 'go with the wind' f...

You were honoured Billy
a special experience.

That’s what we were given. Some placed a pile of wood, lit the two matches and stood back awaiting a blaze as if a miracle was about to happen. Others carefully cut tinder, but if it was damp in any way, failure. The clever ones on a grey wet day hunted recesses: spider’s webs, fluff, dust, wood chi...

Billy this is top drawer
I know you have been concerned at your muse lately
I think state tree has been said before but I still like it,
Van Gogh overused imo
Short and sweet, you could add a little more but very good.

After they'd moved overseas Sitske spent time drawing windows, month after month; each pane carefully drawn, one row of three 12 high by 8 wide, split into 4 panes 6 by 4. The lower rank the same as the top, set in rows. ‘Windows, Sitske pronounced emphatically, these are the windows’ ‘What about th...

Haha funny
enjoyed.

Thanks Billy
There is a slight change in voice as you say after the Sunday stanza.
N is one person and meandering through the past in his mind
or maybe telling a friend, or even justifying his actions
and his fears for the future.

She was an office on a top floor,
and breathtaking views.

Perhaps: 'with breathtaking views'.

Suggest you promote her to full president:

Mom was too busy for us,
a furious presidential firefly.

Thanks Siva, I have attempted to addressed Bob's concerns in S7 and shown progression. It really is about the constant hardships, fear of death and primeval conditions where a man finds comfort in the beauty of a woman's body and help in the most unlikeliest of places and thanks his maker for such a...