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Recent posts

As the Lights Dim and Die

POETRY: On my mother’s peaceful final hours.

Mar 18, 2025 • Ian Winter

Somebody’s Stolen the Moon

POETRY: America darkly metamorphoses, and the Me is looming close

Mar 11, 2025 • Ian Winter

The Wedding Poem

Tongue-tied and need to say something at a wedding? Here’s some sparkle to sprinkle on your speech.

Mar 6, 2025 • Ian Winter

LOVE POEM #3: Frustration. Barriers. Desire.

Mar 2, 2025 • Ian Winter

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, 2025 • Ian Winter

LOVE POEM #2: The heavenly choir. Peacefully blessed. Simple desire in an infinite cosmos.

Feb 14, 2025 • Ian Winter

POETRY: Cause and consequences, the concertina of time, human failings.

Feb 11, 2025 • Ian Winter

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, 2025 • Ian Winter

LOVE POEM #1: Rawness. Intensity. Yearning.

Jan 31, 2025 • Ian Winter

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Poetry

Thistles and Thorns

LOVE POEM #4: The pathway to passion. Barbed beginnings. Soft landings.

Apr 6, 2025 • Ian Winter

A Badger on the Road

POETRY: Nature’s struggle in the English countryside

Apr 1, 2025 • Ian Winter

Slivers of Gold

POETRY: From winter’s depths, inching to spring

Mar 27, 2025 • Ian Winter

As the Lights Dim and Die

POETRY: On my mother’s peaceful final hours.

Mar 18, 2025 • Ian Winter

Somebody’s Stolen the Moon

POETRY: America darkly metamorphoses, and the Me is looming close

Mar 11, 2025 • Ian Winter

Fiction

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 • Ian Winter

Actuality

ACTUALITY: Adventures in AI, in which Claude admits to “talking out of my ass”

Jan 27, 2025 • Ian Winter

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