Di_Hard

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change of address

By Di_Hard on Tue, 16 Apr 2019

houses are envelopes posted through time recipients changing letters put in, taken out. From the War son, brother, father, lost mother upstairs, her...

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pondering

By Di_Hard on Fri, 05 Apr 2019

jelly ellipsis or small eyeballs with tiny pupils, or thought bubbles, each containing a full stop No! A full beginning a drip of ink After some...

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First Walk Of April

By Di_Hard on Thu, 04 Apr 2019

Step on a moon stone to cross the stream - Van Gogh’s Starry Night - willow flowers pollen halo’d in swirling water.dark. Sun-coin's cloud-pursed. In...

herring gull gallantry

By Di_Hard on Thu, 28 Mar 2019

If you wait till half past six there's cheap bread at the Co op or donuts for 16p. So now, after chores are done I put on my coat (it's still cold...

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"quiet mines the years" I

Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019

"quiet mines the years" I thought at first this was about a cliff but now think it is a relationship? Makes me think of two people in armchairs on opposite sides of a room, not speaking, one looking at the profile of the other in the light, and...

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sunshine, showers short, and

Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019

sunshine, showers short, and rainbows,
cuckoo calls and swooping swallows.

fresh and shining shade,
glowing green of woods and glade

How precious a home,
a haven that’s warm

of mosses, saturated, soft;...

Posted in Through the year month by month

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I love the description

Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019

I love the description "withers and fills" . Scrolling back up top to the top of the poem, was surprised how short it is as it is so full of images

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"soul sweeping"

Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2019

"soul sweeping"

"darkness risen as smoke"

"gripped and twined and kept by roots"

"leaching your black industry/into channels of sand and clay"

so many brilliant lines! Please put this on soundcloud!

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wow! what a brilliant

Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019

wow! what a brilliant wonderful amazing reader you are! I could listen to you reading all day :0) I'm really glad you posted this one! Please do a Craven Danger one with lots of dialogue?

Posted in Lincoln's Crumpled Paper IP

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The weight on your shoulder,

Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019

The weight on your shoulder, that is the most precious feeling, isnt it? I didn't feel I was a mother till I felt that, like somehow I was balanced. And the sense of unbalance you brought to the story was so strong, like the narrator couldn't be...

Posted in Katy, A Ghost Story (IP)

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this is one of your intense

Posted on Sat, 10 Aug 2019

this is one of your intense mood creations, the stillness (I hope not loneliness) in this place, and the weather/life disturbing outside. And the wondering what conversation caused the ringing in your ears. Covers the same weather as Jenny's...

Posted in In perpetuity

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Brilliant description of

Posted on Wed, 07 Aug 2019

Brilliant description of incoming tide being "the long push"

"pincered beasts and tube-dwelling tentacled lagoon worms" makes them sound like fantasy monsters :0) I like your contrast of the diferent uses of shells, too. So many details....

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i do that! feel like dr

Posted on Sat, 03 Aug 2019

i do that! feel like dr frankenstein sewing thoughts together trying to get it to come alive/make sense, when they would be better off each being part of something else :0) However, this poem has an intense feel to it as well as being beautiful...

Posted in You became a thorn

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lots of great lines, eg "ant

Posted on Sat, 03 Aug 2019

lots of great lines, eg "ant march of bitter bites" Weather tangled and held in" very visual poem, stark, dark and glittering