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    Week in the Life of an Insomniac's Dreams

    Monday    I travelled through the night to try and find you    Tuesday    Awake in the far away  it could be July or December,  bones rattled under sleeping blankets  like a beggar’s hand cupped to receive silver    Wednesday    Perchance to dream my way back to  the music of our rains  and...

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    • Rob, your poem drifts like a half-remembered dream, tender and yearning. Each day carries longing, memory, and desire. The way you reach for someone across nights and cities is heartbreakingly beautiful. Even sleeplessness feels like a lover in your words.

      Beautifully done

      • Thank you Roma. Life becomes a two-storey building collapse, with past on one level and present on the other. The trick is to navigate through the rubble.

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      Art feeds on our oxygenand breathes heavily on our necks...Art snores and won't let us sleep. Art can give me three more verses. ...Art infiltrates the cracks in our skinand whispers secrets we don't want to hear.Art disfigures time,drags memories like...

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    'No Dad, We Won't Be Home Tonight'

    For eighteen months before   alzheimer’s shred his soul  I trapped my father’s voice  in the answering machine    Palimpsest of tobacco teak  lay over his Nottingham dialect,  did Robin Hood fire similar phonemes  into the deepest of oak?      The familiar sibilants which once read me into  other universes in...

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    • My father had dementia. I have written notes but no answering machine voice which would be really great. You’re lucky. You have some unique writing here. Glad I read this. Good one.

    • I wasn’t expecting the pictures this painted with words. It was so vivid that I could feel those memories even though they weren’t my own.

    • That’s a really moving and powerful piece. The way you capture your father’s voice and the layers of memory, from the “palimpsest of tobacco teak” to the echo of his working life, is just beautiful. It really makes you feel the weight of what’s been lost and the preciousness of that preserved memory.

    • Profound ink Ghosteen.

      Bat

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    End of a Good Thing

    you're always sad because someone you love has passed seemed like it would be forever but nothing ever last you still remember his muddy shoes he used to leave by the door and how his laugh brightened the room never felt the need to be taken...

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    • A tender and compassionate writing, dear Nick! The death of a loved one will always leave scars on the soul. But the memory of the time this couples shared can’t be taken away. Gratitude helps coping with the loss.

      • The good days are the now. It’s important not to take them for granted for they won’t last unfortunately.

        Thanks for the read

    • Powerfully penned, Nick. This one tugged at my old heartstrings, outstanding write my friend. Appreciate you.

      Damian

    • Life can be hard but I always have my support from my wife. I think it would be impossible for me without her. But I’ve seen a few people go through this tragedy.

      Thanks friend. Much appreciated.

    • Life is short and tragedy comes fast.

      Thanks for the read friend

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