Di_Hard
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How do you think up these
Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022
How do you think up these fabulous images? Clouds being "plump ogres" is WONDERFUL. And I love "realm of trails" too, magic! Off to look up your woods :0)
Read full commentPosted in Burnham Beeches
I love "a yearning of notes
Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022
I love "a yearning of notes flung/to the sky" and "stars scatter with their call" shivery exciting :0)
Read full commentPosted in Wolves, blizzard
I think that might be what
Posted on Sat, 15 Jan 2022
I think that might be what the new anti protesting laws are for
Read full commentPosted in Money - some context
These pooems about your
Posted on Sat, 15 Jan 2022
These pooems about your experiences with homeless people are moving and informative Richard, and hold great dignity
"my infantry
days in Afghanistan did
this to me.
Now PTSD crawls all
over me."
I am...
Read full commentPosted in This Homeless Man
Brilliant! Am rather like
Posted on Fri, 14 Jan 2022
Brilliant! Am rather like that, specially with computers, so is great to have a new hero :0) You had plausible historical details (no idea if they are true but they seem true) which made it all more real. And your own wonderful writing style,...
Read full commentPosted in The God of Mistakes
Argh, I have the memory of an
Posted on Sun, 09 Jan 2022
Argh, I have the memory of an amnesiac mayfly, I knew about that but couldn't remember his name! I keep telling myself to ignore any new instalment and wait till you have finished when I will be able to keep track of everyone, but then I see one...
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 24
this is withering :0)
Posted on Sun, 09 Jan 2022
this is withering :0) "Perfidia stared at him. Was he trying to hide a smile or was it a burp he was trying to swallow; it was most likely the latter she decided."
again (know have mentioned before) I love the relationship between...
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 24
How you have "confine!" in
Posted on Mon, 10 Jan 2022
How you have "confine!" in the middle of the line, breaking the flow, works so well, it really stands out as a warning, and the rest of the poem explaining why. I wonder if first people using fire might have had rhymes like this? Even not so long...
Read full commentPosted in Harness!
I love these stories :0) That
Posted on Tue, 11 Jan 2022
I love these stories :0) That beginning is brilliant :0) Our neighbour (not the one who has just got better from COVID) has a woodburning stove. Whenever I offer him any Buddleia prunings etc he tries not to shudder and says that the wood has...
Read full commentPosted in A Hot Little Model from France
As a child the only fruit we
Posted on Tue, 11 Jan 2022
As a child the only fruit we had (apart from a satsuma in Christmas stocking) was from the garden. Apples would be kept in trays in the garage getting wrinklier and smaller through the winter, and sometimes with maggots growing in their cores. So...
Read full commentPosted in Two Generations. Two Fruits.
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