Di_Hard

In your shoes

By Di_Hard on Sat, 23 Jun 2018

The bag's bright pink, prawn cocktail in clear script. We don't have prawns now the sea is plastic soup. You wear shoes so your feet don't touch the...

Rant

Poetry Monthly

Read more about In your shoes
12 comments
Log in to post comments
564 reads

renewable 2 (second go at this)

By Di_Hard on Wed, 30 May 2018

behind a moss furred wall woods slope down and bluebells shimmer peacock hued through bright green shade cool incense filled and in the field airy...

Read more about renewable 2 (second go at this)
14 comments
Log in to post comments
720 reads

renewable

By Di_Hard on Mon, 28 May 2018

Bluebell slopes shimmer bright green shade full of cool incense. Then across the field airy Rumplestiltskins white, slim as bird bones spin, slow...

Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

Read more about renewable
10 comments
Log in to post comments
395 reads

cotyledons

By Di_Hard on Wed, 23 May 2018

winter fingered earth safed. Now joined as prayer clasped hands they come up from darkness forgotten hopes open for the sun. Fragile, green growing...

Read more about cotyledons
16 comments
Log in to post comments
672 reads

128 of my comments have received 129 Great Feedback votes

1 Vote

"Many times, I feel ordinary,

Posted on Sun, 06 Jan 2019

"Many times, I feel ordinary, just ordinary, with my many weakness and failures, but in reality, we are all extraordinary, in this Life that we have, there are things that only I can do and the same for You too, what You do, only You can do that...

Posted in He Got His Name Into The Book!

1 Vote

this is wonderful reading. I

Posted on Mon, 19 Nov 2018

this is wonderful reading. I like your two different voices, you slower, descriptive and full of rich images but an outsider and your friend chatty, personal and an insider, the difference emphasised by "you Canadians"

ps I'm so sorry...

Posted in Belgrade

1 Vote

Those last 3 sentences are so

Posted on Sat, 17 Nov 2018

Those last 3 sentences are so sad. But she IS still in you, every time you see something you find beautiful, that appreciation was shaped by her. She gave you your sensitivity to see things, feel things, she gave it to you and you will always...

Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (Blood)

1 Vote

I like how the beach is woven

Posted on Mon, 12 Nov 2018

I like how the beach is woven all through, the people, the seagulls. It's a great frame for the story, it adds to the easy warmth of it

Posted in Sass (Part 2)

1 Vote

Glad your Mum got to stay at

Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018

Glad your Mum got to stay at home. I'm sure your instincts were right. The two care homes I have visted were aweful. The high heels rang a bell. I wonder why they think that looking like they are running a business is...

Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (Push)

1 Vote

In an interview someone

Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018

In an interview someone famous who had gone to live in America (can't remember who it was) said the thing they missed most about England was the sound of crows cawing in the Autumn. Your poem has a timelessness to it, makes me think this has been...

Posted in In That Moment

1 Vote

Another of your beautiful

Posted on Wed, 07 Nov 2018

Another of your beautiful pared down poems. No unnecessary stuff just like Nature itself

Posted in NATURE

1 Vote

I didn't know contactless was

Posted on Sat, 03 Nov 2018

I didn't know contactless was so risky! I don't like it because I forget my PIN number if don't use it each time. When I worked in a supermarket we had to check people's signatures carefully for every non cash transaction. Now if you lose a card...

Posted in I Give Up!

1 Vote

44 years wow! You must both

Posted on Wed, 31 Oct 2018

44 years wow! You must both be warm and giving people :0) C ongratulations

Posted in GROWING OLDER

1 Vote

I would love to see a book of

Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018

I would love to see a book of poetry by you and Rhiannon and Jenny and other writers, and I'm honoured you ask me too, but I have had no luck ever getting my stuff published