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The Cheesesellers Wife blog is by author Kim Whysall-Hammond which talks about anything and everything but most importantly it talks about poetry.
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27m ago
Two lights gleam equally across the snowThe traveller hesitates which way to go . . .One is a cottage lamp; the other rayA world four hundred million miles away. by Theodore Stephanides, who should be familiar to all who love Gerald Durrell‘s “My Family and other Animals”. Theodore was a polymath—-both Doctor and aquatic biologist ..read more
The Cheesesellers Wife Blog
2d ago
To still possess minuteshoursdays of the week These are victories against Time Copyright © 2024 Kim Whysall-Hammond ..read more
The Cheesesellers Wife Blog
4d ago
I’m delighted to tell you that four of my poems are now published in the May issue of Littoral Magazine. The poems are Cold and Planetary / Names for my Clouds / Unharvestable Sea / Purpled with Heather at Exehead Many thanks to the Editor and poet Mervyn Linford for taking my poems. https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/68690918/issue-28-littoral-magazine-online-beltane-may-1st-2024 ..read more
The Cheesesellers Wife Blog
5d ago
So, the story so far: My poetry has developed and grown over the years. Last June I was brave enough to submit a sample of poems to Palewell Press in London. They are a small press, headed by Camilla Reeves, focused on books about Human Rights and the Environment. I was offered a contract for a poetry ..read more
The Cheesesellers Wife Blog
6d ago
Films once came in three of themwatching a Chinese vampire storyin the school hallwe didn’t notice when the third reelwas shown second Here and now, a third reelplays as heat waves throngbees disappearand wildfires burn I always thought this endingwould be later Copyright © 2024 Kim Whysall-Hammond ..read more
The Cheesesellers Wife Blog
1w ago
The Force that through the green fuse drives the flowerDrives my green age; that blasts the roots of treesIs my destroyerAnd I am dumb to tell the crooked roseMy youth is bent by the same wintry fever by Dylan Thomas. I am reuturning to the Frday Poem – where I share a poem that is ..read more
The Cheesesellers Wife Blog
1w ago
After the music and breakfastsfor the few awake, we wade, you and Ibarefoot through bright grassalong the river, back to my roomtired, footsore, happy A bird calls by the reedsnotes curl amongst themselves,spin through summer dawntranquillity reigns here yetdistantly, traffic busies itself After a full night dancingwe walk. Copyright © 2023 Kim Whysall-Hammond This poem ..read more
The Cheesesellers Wife Blog
1w ago
The eldest tree of the foresthas died. The news is passedby entwiningfungal fires, mobile filament roots In silence leaves fall out of seasondrift in sorrowing veils Copyright © 2024 Kim Whysall-Hammond ..read more
The Cheesesellers Wife Blog
2w ago
Today is the ordering of poemsthe striking out of superfluitythe removal of gerunds Copyright © 2024 Kim Whysall-Hammond I have being doing the last tweaks of my poetry manuscript today ..read more
The Cheesesellers Wife Blog
3w ago
Sedge and moss, peat and grasscover these uplandssheep run from uscattle simply watchclouds scud pastrain threatensstone track turns to muddy pathpast tumbled ruinspast scattered ponies Towards the burble of falling waterthe fluidity that carved huge hill foldsthe agent that governs this landscapemade manifest in Hollocombe Water Copyright © 2024 Kim Whysall-Hammond ..read more