Di_Hard

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angelica (after reading Onemorething's beautiful poem)

By Di_Hard on Tue, 01 Dec 2020

Reality is a trap. In this garden no sun warms. Underground, worms squirm in a rootless world as tongues before words. But then, there, at the back,...

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pool, october

By Di_Hard on Mon, 19 Oct 2020

light-leap ripples make laughter lines tickle snake swooping willow bough's moss green crossing bright, gold leaf lined pool below, where rain, held...

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bird feeder

By Di_Hard on Mon, 05 Oct 2020

Slog uphill, from Bargain Buys trolley-tugging a big bag, heart heavy with world's worries hard to change till become aware of pigeons, jackdaws,...

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gather

By Di_Hard on Sun, 13 Sep 2020

Pooled, this mild September day from waves of work (or guilt when not) once each year picking blackberries from prickly cataracts of free sweetness...

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"rigid, entwined with

Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2026

"rigid, entwined with rambling ivy;

yet assembled for slithering motion

most strange."

Jenny's wonderful poem inspired by a woodcarving is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

Posted in Let's Make Believe

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I like your first two lines

Posted on Thu, 05 Feb 2026

I like your first two lines so much, showing how night time can seem like a different world, your walk home must have been very special, and your memory stays so clear between writing on a wall to writing about that writing here, even if the full...

Posted in Long ago Thoughts

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I love the evocation of

Posted on Mon, 02 Feb 2026

I love the evocation of contentment and peace, everyone enjoying the sun, like cats :0) And your remembering your cock pit! Knowing how you hated school once you got there, is like Winter in bleakness and inevitability. My memory was intended for...

Posted in Tom All Alone (11)

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Wasn't only that bit! I loved

Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2026

Wasn't only that bit! I loved the first entry too, about the lady who went to Woodstock, and that everyone has changed their minds about the euros because they are shiny, and the lady who was cross about getting other countries' euros, when that...

Posted in I Feel Like I’m Fixing to Tie-Dye My Raggy Socks

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Thank you for your IP

Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2026

Thank you for your IP response Rhiannon. I hope your mother in law is sleeping better, now. I like that you include cooking sounds in those which it is good to hear :0)

Posted in Silence, or quiet?

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Brilliant! Thank You :0) I

Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026

Brilliant! Thank You :0) I love

The kind that held you.
The kind that asked nothing.
The kind that was still there
when you came back.

your suggestion that the sounds of the world we are creating are wearing it...

Posted in While I Wasn't Listening

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Perfect, Rhiannon, all the

Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2026

Perfect, Rhiannon, all the word sounds and that way you have of making the last line still and comforting somehow

Posted in Dark and dreary …

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Thank You for your beautiful,

Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026

Thank You for your beautiful, very personal IP response Jenny. I don't know anything about Laycock, but it sounds like a good place to hold such a precious memory of your Mum

Posted in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Love the Ferrero Roche

Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026

Love the Ferrero Roche/Hazelnut allergy :0)

Is it Totem Carol wants to give to Harry's Mum?

I like this part even more than the first, really hope there are LOTS MORE :0)

This thing with the salmon did actually happen at my...

Posted in The Cat Krampus Campus (And Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing) Part 2

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That's a fantastic title :0)

Posted on Wed, 24 Dec 2025

That's a fantastic title :0) I am glad they missed out on the trouble this one time! Happy New Year, with lots of writing :0)