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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Very different butterflies from the ones I know but like you, I love to stop and watch them. Sometimes, people must wonder what on Earth I'm standing around for. 😏 Fascinating beauty and colour is always worth admiring. I do so with my eyes; you, your pen. Bravo, as always. 😘
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I delight in seeing the same world you see, depicted through words strung together with such care and love. Teenage boys as egrets is a vision only you could summon. And it is perfect. 😘 PS Chapter 91? Time for a new book maybe?😏
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Visiting the site this evening, no promoted author banner is displaying, showing instead a black (presumably blank) space. Laptop, Windows 10, Chrome.
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🤨 😄 But can't thoughts be like that? Bouncing around, sometimes following each other, other times leaping in what appear complete non sequiturs. Especially at night in the dark. Is the hot drink for you or Ell? 😉
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You know I love your nature poems and even more so, your offerings about birds. Being amongst nature is the perfect excuse for bird watching. Or maybe, it's the other way around. 😉 😄 Your character studies are perfect. Not bothering about the precise this-and-thats, but rather capturing the essence and wonder of each bird. ❤️
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Thank you! What a wonderfully affirming list of adjectives. Especially the 'impossibly romantic'. That coming from you, Gary, is a great compliment. I shall treasure it. 😘
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Thank you! Some readers might not consider it a story as such but I love the freedom and challenges a monologue presents.
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Yeah, not a job for the fainthearted. Thanks for reading, Tim.
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Last thing at night, it's great to relax in bed and run through the good bits of the day. Don't you find that? Admittedly, the rewind can sometimes last half a minute, tops. Work days, for instance. When that bastard AI snoop on my laptop complains the day's click tally isn't large enough. Your recommended throughput is eighty clicks per minute. Eff off, you mouthy sod. Jeez – reminds me of Mum's non-stop nagging, only your own whines and excuses have no impact whatsoever. Can't risk ignori
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Distance can mean many things. One man considers love, separation, and getting the day job out of his head.
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Pride Month Flash Fiction Challenge
northie commented on Renee Stevens's blog entry in Gay Authors Archive
Sounds fun. I've several ideas... now to choose one and hope it'll come in under 1k words. 🤨😄 -
Thanks for this article. I appreciate all thoughtful comments, even if sometimes they take a bit of swallowing. If you are never challenged as a writer, you will miss out on a very important source of self-improvement. If I find particular feedback difficult, I go away, do something else, then return, and acceptance is usually easier. Of course, you don't have to accept everything. Though if that becomes a habit with a beta-reader or editor, you might have to look for another individual to help you.
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I loved the stream of consciousness represented by the prose poem. The rhythm and the way your thoughts jump, punctuated by 'Again', feel familiar only they're your thoughts, not mine. The heron is perfectly observed. I don't have any locally but I've seen them often enough to recognise your avian poem for what it is. 😉
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Thanks for reading, Adi. It has been a long since I last tried to write verse.
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Thank you! 😘 It was the one I enjoyed writing the most.
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Thanks, Gary. You're very kind. 😊
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Thank you for listing them. No prompt = no poetry, I find. 🙄
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This poem... This poem is Instant brainfreeze Vacant mind devoid of Words This poem is Tuition unlearnt Both metre, rhythm, and Voice This poem is Muscle memory Slowly wheezing into Action This poem is Synapses stalling Imagination boost Required This poem is Joy rediscovered Melding whims and wisps into Craft April à la carte Apéritif Fresh spring water (mini ice pellets optional) Rainbow shower (umbrella not necessa
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When adding a comment to @Parker Owens latest poetry chapter, I noticed something odd. Right down at the bottom of the page was a member's details like you get if you hover on their avatar. I cropped it so only part of the details are there. @AC Benus had previously liked the chapter so maybe he was the last person to interact with page or to view it? I noticed the phenomenon yesterday as well but dismissed it as a momentary glitch. Laptop running latest Windows 10 and Chrome.
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April 7th to April 12th
northie commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in April 7th to April 12th
'I sing a song' - you do indeed. Both this and your first beg to be set to music. 🎵 They both have that ballad lilt. Your set of skyscrapers made me smile in different ways, the last making me grin. I'm sure one of these days, you won't be able to get in the house for books. 😄 Older age gets us all, dear friend. Be grateful, I suppose, that you have got so far. -
I see you're reinventing the English language again, dear friend. 😉😄 'Certual'? You had me checking, just in case. You had rather backed yourself into a corner though. 🤔 I loved the rest of that poem. Your night time writing is always amongst your best. April 5 is also very you. 'Perfect cloud-brushed teeth' - 😘
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Large corporations and bureaucracy in general are my definitions of hell.
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@Timothy M. Thanks for commenting, TIm. It'll be a while (if ever) before I get round to rewriting the rest of Demonised.
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I think that'll help me get stuff written. I have fingers in more pies nowadays and time just seems to evaporate.
