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Its been a mad week for me. I will be back in promise. Thanks for the comments 😎

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Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:19 am

Hi Daryl,

Welcome to you and your muse. I believe you were on MWC when I joined in 2009. Good to see you here.

I was indeed. Good to be here now though

Beautiful. No nits from me. Love 'the new eleven' line. You are a wonderful poet, Sharon

. Rachmaninov's 2nd fills this room as that Brief Encounter hand-on-shoulder moment plays on repeat in my mind. January chills seep through open windows, first spots of rain hit the glass then the sill its tattoo picking up the rhythm where piano notes waver and fade. I'm at the station with you. I ...

Agree with Sharon re the ending. Wonderful picture you paint Bev.

Thanks guys and girls. The problem with biographical writing is we get too close to it. Great suggestions though and I'll be back with a stronger edited poem. Take care while I'm gone

Hi everyone.

It's great to see so many old friends from the past. I will try to make best use of this forum by posting and adding comments whenever I can. For reasons not divulged here I lost my muse but she's coming back. Oh, is she coming back with a vengeance!



Daryl

One of the most beautiful poems I have read in a very long time. I'm sure there may be things that can be picked at by somebody of higher intelligence than me but as a reader it rolls gently along with sensitive and evocative imagery. For me it has everything. Thanks for sharing.

Daryl

. Last week their regal plumage graced this man-made waterway, kept us focused on our slow, sometimes apart but mates for life journey instead of barge-spilled oil, shopping trolleys and traffic cones. Alone on the bank, laughter howls through leafless limbs joining with gulls jeers as we drift apa...