Di_Hard

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mushroom movement

By Di_Hard on Fri, 05 Oct 2018

green grown gown gauzy grass grace solid soil lid down wonder on grains gain rain sense tense dense silent silt still eel slick icky cling linger...

blackberries

By Di_Hard on Wed, 19 Sep 2018

prussian purple sprays, each sweet-swollen round of rounds bursts with crimson juice, stalk-thrust out as if reaching to fill Autumn's hungry gaze or...

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storm cooking

By Di_Hard on Mon, 10 Sep 2018

unseen fingers flex kneading clouds of soughing dough as gulls white flakes, salt flavour here and now with calls of far dangers journeyed on sea's...

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pinned

By Di_Hard on Fri, 17 Aug 2018

Today I forgot my PIN number. I think it's all the contactless there is now. How easy it is to go without needing to say hello or reply. Or touch...

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272 of my comments have received 277 Great Feedback votes

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Agree with Jane, your poem

Posted on Tue, 10 Dec 2019

Agree with Jane, your poem starts off tight and jabby then unwinds into calmness at the end.

Posted in Awoke, then awaking

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It's masterpiece example of

Posted on Sun, 08 Dec 2019

It's masterpiece example of free verse, line ends, space between stanzas. Even though all the information apart from last line and title, are about movement and stress, it ends with such a sense of peace and relief, I think because of the rhythm...

Posted in Conditions for sleep

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I liked the hurried way this

Posted on Thu, 05 Dec 2019

I liked the hurried way this starts and breathless way it finishes, like a sigh of relief. Pseudo Summer is a good phrase!

Posted in From winter to …

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i like your images of the

Posted on Wed, 04 Dec 2019

i like your images of the landscape, also how you link accent with water - sea, rain, mists, phlegm (!) How language like water is everywhere, acid or soft, salt or sweet, in the air, on the ground (page?) in us.The last lines I thought were...

Posted in A Slip of the Mother Tongue

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Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019

"low glinting golden" I love the long vowels in this! Like sunbeams
"winter evening sunshine" and this line is nippy
"brightening bricks" and the immediate idea of cosiness here

"dusk falls, then darkness
– a...

Posted in The End of a Brighter November Day

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yes, it was the turn of

Posted on Thu, 28 Nov 2019

yes, it was the turn of phrase :0) Voting for Sod's Law

Posted in The Stealth of Great Misfortune

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I love the sound of "jostle a

Posted on Sun, 24 Nov 2019

I love the sound of "jostle a sway", jostle a shut in sort of word and sway wide open, and "tell their lie and seem to glide away" the repetition of "l" sounds and then the drift of "away". They conjure up ripples and movement

And I...

Posted in Night River

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I sympathise with you about

Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2019

I sympathise with you about seeing your forest cut down, it is soul wrenching! I hope it will not be a large chunk..

I liked the idea of sunsets being ancient, the sun has seen everything

Posted in Canadian Woods

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Enjoyed this very much

Posted on Thu, 21 Nov 2019

Enjoyed this very much

Posted in Mars

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It is so strange how memories

Posted on Tue, 19 Nov 2019

It is so strange how memories from long ago can suddenly be the central subject of a dream, as if sleeping is like a fruit machine and the memories are the fruit, some stay the same, like where you are from, but others can whizz round and round...