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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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lovely poem

Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025

lovely poem

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I've bin everywhere, man,

Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025

"I've bin everywhere, man, crossed the desert sand, man, I've bin everywhere"...

Posted in While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps

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loved the sossij bit :0)

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

loved the sossij bit :0)

Posted in Sausage (Episode18 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))

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I liked very much what Walt

Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025

I liked very much what Walt Dodson said about the silences between David Bowie tracks :0) He sounds so lovely, as Sheila. My school, we never had recorders given out, but my son did. It is one of a year's milestones, that afternoon when primary...

Posted in While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps

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so many kind people! This is

Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2025

so many kind people! This is a lovely poem, though your comment about being on a snowy hilltop when he rang to tell of its being left on the train - very funny as a story, but HOW STRESSFUL that must have been at the time! For you and your son

Posted in My Absent-Minded Violinist

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Jenny, you MUST know grace,

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

Jenny, you MUST know grace, to write how you do! I like very much

"weaving lyrics...beating natures / pulse" which made me think of the flutter of wings being like a pulse and the flight-paths of birds being invisible veins in the heart of...

Posted in A Poet's Greek Mythology

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That's a lovely story :0)

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025

That's a lovely story :0) Apart from the Earthquake. Mariyka is a true heroine with such gumption! I imagine her happily dancing the nights away with her happy and hunky husband. Hopefully, if she cared so little for conventions that she sat on...

Posted in There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Engels

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I would be the same as Rachel

Posted on Sat, 26 Jul 2025

I would be the same as Rachel, so really enjoyed your story

should this be stroking, in the last few lines? "Striking the bird's head, the broken wing."

Posted in The face is what forbids us to kill

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I hope your bees come back.

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025

I hope your bees come back. And you are having cooler weather now, it is starting to feel like almost Autumn, here

Posted in Hollyhock Tears Or Whispers Of Gods.

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You taught me about the story

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025

You taught me about the story, too. Those Greek gods were so tetchy!!! Hollyhocks were one of the first things I managed to grow - one grew as high as Mum's bedroom window :0) Now I like the single ones best though as bees can get inside