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Sol Monath (mud month in old english)

By Di_Hard on Wed, 21 Feb 2018

frost a cold kindness makes scars of passage reopened each day numb, unhealing. New sun brings back feeling warms clenched stone knuckles and knee...
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Chutes of Spring

By Di_Hard on Wed, 14 Feb 2018

*/ Freshet chill blue ceiling full clouds uncoil loosedrops cold spool, pool till slow supple surface slope-called, slips dimples ripple, demure...
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February low tide

By Di_Hard on Fri, 02 Feb 2018

He comes in, rosy cheeks smooth-cool to mine as the inside of half cockles we used to collect on the beach as big as his hands, then. The shells we...
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finding peace

By Di_Hard on Sat, 13 Jan 2018

As I fish fur from my coffee mug the rhythm of your purr's like the chug of the ferry bringing people home or strangers, who from far places come...
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left over

By Di_Hard on Mon, 08 Jan 2018

these are the left over years life reduced, the womb dry. If I were a vegetable I would be limp but I am stiffening, from the fingers in and my...
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I love how you describe the

Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2015

I love how you describe the others in the refuge - even though you must all have been struggling, so much support! It is lovely to read of the kindness, perhaps Granny's nastiness even made you all closer, a threat you could overcome and looking...

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That must have been such joy,

Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2015

That must have been such joy, to hold your baby again, getting him back, since it had been the two of you against the world. But to be told you had to let him go back to the situation you had rescued him from, and then be told you had to leave...

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To think, if it hadn't been

Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2015

To think, if it hadn't been for that piece you posted this week, would never have read any of this! I feel as Bee says, to have thought of you always as so sensitive, a born poet through and through, it makes your bravery and resilience the more...

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This is great writing, the

Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2015

This is great writing, the relief that you have somewhere away from the landmines you described in the first part! And the contrast between welcome kindness and hostility of the other residents, the details of toothpaste, wonderful. It's good you...

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As others say, this is

Posted on Sun, 08 Nov 2015

As others say, this is AMAZING WRITING, Jenny. I am so glad you had a good health visitor, so there was one person who understood and knew how to help. Thank goodness she was there! I believe this would help others, to read. It is so kind of you...

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As others have said, your

Posted on Sat, 07 Nov 2015

As others have said, your bravery shines through. I was never brave enough to try going on my own, and having read the whole of your account of this time, that was the right choice for my son and me, whatever anybody said, I could not have coped...

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Wow! What a writer you are :0

Posted on Sun, 13 Dec 2015

Wow! What a writer you are :0) And what a resilient person! This is so, so good. And the perfect ending, not what I had expected, but perfect :0) To have gone from the frightened young Mum at the beginning, to this person who could turn down an...

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The letters hiding in the

Posted on Sat, 04 Oct 2025

The letters hiding in the words like a stripey tiger?

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Agree with Jenny, absolutely

Posted on Fri, 03 Oct 2025

Agree with Jenny, absolutely brilliant poem, Rhiannon, Thank You for posting

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sorry, have not found That's

Posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013

sorry, have not found That's Life, yet. But I am glad I did not find it at once, or I would not have found these Diary entries :0) Could really have done with reading them, 20 years ago!

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