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Emily's avatar

These are definitely poems to be proud of. I thought they were wonderful. The first was gripping with striking imagery. I loved the moment captured in the second. The third was beautiful and profound. It’s great when poems just spring from you.

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Tamsin 🍂's avatar

You are very kind

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Ralph Barraclough's avatar

I knew you were a closet Jethro Tull fan: the first one is clearly about Aqualung 😃

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Tamsin 🍂's avatar

Hey, me and Ian Anderson were thick as thief’s in those days. Just on an alternate universe.

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Ralph Barraclough's avatar

Only if those thieves were 'Thick as a Brick' ... chortle.

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Nelly Bryce's avatar

Enjoyed reading these poems and the stories behind them. There’s something about early poems don’t you think? There’s a free ness, a willingness. A lack of self consciousness.

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Tamsin 🍂's avatar

Yes, agreed. You sort of just do it, without worrying too much. And when trudging up a hill you don’t have any resources to hand so it just ‘is’. There is as you say a ‘freeness’, experimentation is fun and not stressful. I’m trying to get back to it in a way. Mind you, a lot of my early stuff is also a whole bucket of pretentious cr*p 😂😂😂😂

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