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time travelling

By Di_Hard on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

at woods' edge shadow-silt nestles lumps of amber air floating ballrooms where midges dance brief lives away since before words on one side sun warm...

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first day in senior school

By Di_Hard on Fri, 18 Aug 2017

Rain heavy air, clear, fresh colours drenched. I walk through clinging grasses like hands welcoming. Summer condensing on twig ends in rowan berries...

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calm before

By Di_Hard on Thu, 03 Aug 2017

trunk tethered galaxies of leaves wild weaves, wind owned. Waist high, light grained grasses spray. Green-good air an open mouth, bird-fled, waits...

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a sort of green

By Di_Hard on Mon, 17 Jul 2017

in autumn small, three-toed green, lizard dry stampedes down the steps' side dark green cloaking concrete with rustling possibilities or, lushly...

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Thankyou so much Jane XXX

Posted on Wed, 08 Jan 2025

Thankyou so much Jane XXX

Thankyou very much, Maxine, for your kind advice XXX

Posted in "Before They Call, I Will Answer, While They Are Still Speaking, I Will Hear." Part Five.

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I can imagine it all too

Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025

I can imagine it all too easily! Possibly (fool's) gold, definitely glowing. But Musk's will be bigger, he will make his face in the sky with satellites to look like stars

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Enjoyed this part, and that

Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024

Enjoyed this part, and that posted today, very much. The rhythm all on its own is great

Don't know how pernickety you like your suggestions -

"That morning felt more like March than December. The sky was a rinsed-out blue like a...

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I liked this a lot, too. How

Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025

I liked this a lot, too. How you describe the outer wide space of the beach, and the inner space each of us carries. As if afraid of another's footprints in one's mind, but also the possibility for there being a new beach, a new horizon, in the...

Posted in Sonnet in Silence

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That must have been so awful

Posted on Wed, 08 Jan 2025

That must have been so awful for you. You describe it really well. I am sorry. My Mum has just passed, and we are going to have to do this. Though losing someone close must always be terrible, how quickly your brother passed away, that must have...

Posted in "Before They Call, I Will Answer, While They Are Still Speaking, I Will Hear." Part Five.

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She really did! I never met

Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025

She really did! I never met her after she left school, though I know she got married, and had children. Dusty might not have been your type, either - would she have been ok with huge, poisonous millipede things and power cuts and cats breaking...

Posted in Making Do with Dusty Springfield

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Love

Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025

Love

"Gravestones leant against the red brick wall

Like dockers waiting for work"

and this bit reminds me of so many times at school

"‘At night I dream we are kissing

Then when I wake up you’re missing,...

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Happy New Year to you, too!

Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025

Happy New Year to you, too! And Thankyou so much for all your wonderfully funny writing in 2024

Posted in Nowhere Man (Dead Reckoning series - Part 42)

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I am reading a book just now

Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025

I am reading a book just now which does this "where we are now, and who has done what" stuff, and in there it is boring, but you have not written yours in the same way at all!

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This fabulous, stressful

Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025

This fabulous, stressful episode from Jane Hyphen's brilliant story of the marriage of Vanessa and Cybermate Spencer, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

Jane, the image is from here :
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