Di_Hard

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April shower

By Di_Hard on Thu, 07 Apr 2022

Sun is shattered by dark tree branches, splinters glint scattered on twig tips, diamond- dusting downy oval honescuckle leaves' warm green-blue,...

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Win

By Di_Hard on Thu, 24 Mar 2022

this meeting of trees and rushes glows, peaceful as a holy place warbler songs shimmer warm blue air where speckled wood butterflies dance from spine...

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Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...

By Di_Hard on Tue, 22 Mar 2022

Reporters list atrocities suggesting which might qualify as war crimes, while Western leaders' words slide over blood, too afraid of falling in to...

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Listening to the News 2/3/22

By Di_Hard on Wed, 02 Mar 2022

Does sound of our clapping drown out the bombs exploding in your homes? Our politicians stand shoulder to shoulder with ambassadors come to beg for...

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Have heard of someone

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Have heard of someone becoming "a shadow of their former self" but not the idea of there being a shadow of possible future self. I found this sentence most interesting : "A mirror showing him a version of himself he no longer knew how to reach...

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Makis brings a glimpse of

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Makis brings a glimpse of peace in our troublous times, in this Pick of the Day. Please do share if you enjoy it too

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Thankyou for your wonderful

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Thankyou for your wonderful IP response, so interesting how your experience with the steam train shaped the direction of your life's journey

Posted in No Going Back

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Thankyou for this, Rhiannon.

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Thankyou for this, Rhiannon. I love the kindness, gentleness you evoke, both in the elderly man whose autobiography your husband printed, but also the landscape in which he lived. And that the family friendship came because of your husband giving...

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I LOVE "looming

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

I LOVE "looming

Unhurried in Stillness and settling"
such a feeling of immensity in stone and time

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Really enjoyed this holiday

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025

Really enjoyed this holiday diary, and your wonderful photos, too. Best of all is your spirits battling against the liquids of sideways rain, dampness in the musty rustic cottage, and tea trickling from leaky teapot - helped by the liquids of...

Posted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin

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I am glad you let him in :0)

Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025

I am glad you let him in :0) Wondering if perhaps, his people might have moved recently, and being in new territory, added to the fear of the noise, might have made him run too far to find his way back? Do you have a local facebook page you could...

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Enjoyed this one so much!

Posted on Sat, 08 Nov 2025

Enjoyed this one so much! THANKYOU :0)

"There, for a good while, we took pleasure from watching the oystercatchers catching oysters on the mudflats. Oysters, I’d noticed, didn’t run very fast so they didn’t take much catching." Brilliant...

Posted in My Perfect Zombie

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I like the rushing feeling

Posted on Thu, 06 Nov 2025

I like the rushing feeling the rhythm of your poem brings, just like the swift changes - in colour, and how many leaves are left, and temperature every day at this time of year. And your words are wonderful, too - I love "crisped by breeze"

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I feel sorry for him, too,

Posted on Fri, 07 Nov 2025

With your great writing, I feel sorry for him, too, though? It must be really hard to know there's a way to stop feeling old, but he is going to be too tired and sore even to try soon, swallowed up by the inevitability of time falling suddenly...