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Thistles and Thorns
LOVE POEM #4: The pathway to passion. Barbed beginnings. Soft landings.
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A Badger on the Road
POETRY: Nature’s struggle in the English countryside
Apr 1
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Slivers of Gold
POETRY: From winter’s depths, inching to spring
Mar 27
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Bones in the Rocks
Nov 3, 2024
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Moor
Jan 13
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As the Lights Dim and Die
Mar 18
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Tendrils
Nov 10, 2024
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Somebody’s Stolen the Moon
Mar 11
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Silt
Nov 22, 2024
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As the Lights Dim and Die
POETRY: On my mother’s peaceful final hours.
Mar 18
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Ian Winter
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Somebody’s Stolen the Moon
POETRY: America darkly metamorphoses, and the Me is looming close
Mar 11
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Ian Winter
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The Wedding Poem
Tongue-tied and need to say something at a wedding? Here’s some sparkle to sprinkle on your speech.
Mar 6
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Flesh Within
LOVE POEM #3: Frustration. Barriers. Desire.
Mar 2
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Ian Winter
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On The Struggle Of A Poetry Grump When Confronted With Free Verse That Isn’t
Scuffling with poetry that fails to resonate, blooms and dies. Parched flowers in the dark.
Feb 25
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Seraphim
LOVE POEM #2: The heavenly choir. Peacefully blessed. Simple desire in an infinite cosmos.
Feb 14
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Hourglass Sand
POETRY: Cause and consequences, the concertina of time, human failings.
Feb 11
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Ian Winter
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Buzzer’s Call
Mum died. I stay busy, yes-yes I’m OK, OK, I’m fine. But Hamlet broods. Grief grows like ivy – delicate, lingering, and rooted in these three poems. On…
Feb 6
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Oversense
LOVE POEM #1: Rawness. Intensity. Yearning.
Jan 31
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Thistles and Thorns
LOVE POEM #4: The pathway to passion. Barbed beginnings. Soft landings.
Apr 6
•
Ian Winter
19
6
5
A Badger on the Road
POETRY: Nature’s struggle in the English countryside
Apr 1
•
Ian Winter
12
5
9
Slivers of Gold
POETRY: From winter’s depths, inching to spring
Mar 27
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Ian Winter
11
3
2
As the Lights Dim and Die
POETRY: On my mother’s peaceful final hours.
Mar 18
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Ian Winter
19
6
9
Somebody’s Stolen the Moon
POETRY: America darkly metamorphoses, and the Me is looming close
Mar 11
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Ian Winter
17
9
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Dorothy, the Demon and I
FICTION: Night-walking to an appointment with ELIZA in the Underworld. Terror lurks. Choice becomes destiny. Freedom has a price.
Oct 28, 2024
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Flawed Claude
ACTUALITY: Adventures in AI, in which Claude admits to “talking out of my ass”
Jan 27
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