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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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2051 of my comments have received 2115 Great Feedback votes

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Yes. Hard to hear so many

Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025

Yes. Hard to hear so many speakers proclaim "We must never let this happen again" as this seems to relate to one lot of people only, while others can with equanimity be walled in, starved, bombed and forced into disease and homelessness

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This is wonderful, like Jane

Posted on Sun, 26 Jan 2025

This is wonderful, like Jane Austen, getting ready to untangle all the strings :0)

Posted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 24

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You are doing a brilliant job

Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025

You are doing a brilliant job with Perfidia's character. This dinner party is really well set up for maximum tension :0) And, as always, you take great care with descriptions of food. Going back into this world you have created is always so...

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a site about cetaceans says "

Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025

yes! a site about cetaceans says " the part of their brain which processes emotions (limbic system) appears to be more complex than our own "

one of the horrifically incomprehensible things about humans, for me, is how we value emotions...

Posted in Parcel for You - Part 49

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I like how I don't know if

Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025

I like how I don't know if this is about an author, like Tolkien, and a character they created, or about a reader who seeks a character they have read and re-read through a lifetime. There's a magical feeling in this poem

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Glad Jeannie is involved

Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025

Glad Jeannie is involved again. This story is becoming driven by female characters!

Posted in Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand) (Dead Reckoning series - Part 45)

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Oh, poor Vanessa! She will

Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025

Oh, poor Vanessa! She will want to drive round to check under all the bridges where she thinks homeless people might be, won't she? Will she rescue Spencer, or will he rescue her? And the wanting to communicate with whales and dolphins! Is that...

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Pat is brutal :0) ‘Oh my god,

Posted on Thu, 16 Jan 2025

Pat is brutal :0) ‘Oh my god, he’s jumped,’ said Pat, holding her hands together in a prayer position and lifting them up to the tip of her hooked nose. ‘He’ll just be a pile of wires and gubbins on the patio. Stop looking, Vanessa, fetch me a...