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brambles

By Di_Hard on Sat, 21 Sep 2019

blackberries, swollen seconds full of sun I pick, to burst sweet on my tongue, now and now. In overgrown long disused school ground brambles slow arc...

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wings, late summer

By Di_Hard on Sun, 15 Sep 2019

Blue mussel shell halves sea and sky, within shining nacre clouds water colours burst bloom, rainbows prism- prison free. Eight swifts rejoicing in...

wall

By Di_Hard on Tue, 03 Sep 2019

We're the biggest stone in the wall but we don't sit straight, almost fall each time we ask why are we here? This is our free will, to feel fear yet...

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airmail from the amazon (august 2018)

By Di_Hard on Thu, 15 Aug 2019

surrounded by green everywhere I walk through Life, breathe leaf breath only the wind comes guiltless messenger of our destruction

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THANK YOU SO MUCH :0)

Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025

THANK YOU SO MUCH :0)

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your top photo is GORGEOUS!

Posted on Fri, 08 Aug 2025

your top photo is GORGEOUS! Thank you for sharing your wonderful walk, I hope, too, that you are not built round and keep your peace and space. It seems a big problem, the building homes without health services or schools, far from supermarkets...

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Thank you for understanding.

Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025

Thank you for understanding. This side of the island seems saturated in peace, I wish so much it could be shared, all the terror and despair eased

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Turlough's fabulous diary

Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025

Turlough's fabulous diary entry for July is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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lovely poem

Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025

lovely poem

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I've bin everywhere, man,

Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025

"I've bin everywhere, man, crossed the desert sand, man, I've bin everywhere"...

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loved the sossij bit :0)

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

loved the sossij bit :0)

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I liked very much what Walt

Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025

I liked very much what Walt Dodson said about the silences between David Bowie tracks :0) He sounds so lovely, as Sheila. My school, we never had recorders given out, but my son did. It is one of a year's milestones, that afternoon when primary...

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so many kind people! This is

Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2025

so many kind people! This is a lovely poem, though your comment about being on a snowy hilltop when he rang to tell of its being left on the train - very funny as a story, but HOW STRESSFUL that must have been at the time! For you and your son

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Jenny, you MUST know grace,

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

Jenny, you MUST know grace, to write how you do! I like very much

"weaving lyrics...beating natures / pulse" which made me think of the flutter of wings being like a pulse and the flight-paths of birds being invisible veins in the heart of...