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Hello Deb

I'm fairly new here so feel free to learn from my mistakes
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Niall.

This is a curious and strange poem. I can read it from both the oyster's and a limp-dick man's POV  :) Looking again, it's also a social commentary! Anywho, I like it a lot...only niggle is the last line; are you happy with it?   Good that it's got you thinking Colm. Id say the social aspect is a c...

Sweep me off my feet  again. I'm cracking with  hope and you with  potential, ebbing away. Maybe it was only ever a fabrication, a stage-  set, fed to open mouths. Deliriously ignorant. You are a silhouette  against the moon, far  away and unreal. We have nowhere else to go. Nothing is too good  for...

Revision chair left out -side the back door where Dad sat and kept an eye on footie-mad us and his beloved roses   Original chair left out -side the back door where Dad sat and kept an eye on us footie-mad kids and the yellow roses   Hi Matty I have watched the evolution of the roses over the last ...

A very pleasant read, and a nice vignette of a happy family life. The sweetness in S2 could be toned down a bit. Sure beats all the death and illness some here are obsessed with  :lol:   Hi Colm Yes it seems S2 might be a bit much for some. I do agree it's nice to read the other side of life someti...

Some good detail in this Niall. Authentic, but you could tone down the sentiment (starting with the title!) Our youngest leads me by the finger. I follow the pull, steadying his wobbles to the cupboard with the red biscuit tin. Eyes locked on mine, nodding his head, I know he isn’t asking. The dema...

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revision She wakes in water that is cold enough to cut the dreaming cloth. The shivers scissor along her spine, a signature of ghosts, a longing for warm skin - and him, within the tangle of sheets, his arms hugging pillows, clothes huddled with hers. She knuckles soap, scrubs, drys. Quietly closes...

Two worlds coalesce   as he travels through them, a first time explorer  on well worn paths. One was always there the other, always owned by others. Cheap hotel rooms in Asia Minor and operating theatres,  surgically similar in their clinical ability to get you in, then out... Net curtains or gauze...

Hello Hugh
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Niall.