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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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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth" Albert Schweitzer

By Di_Hard on Sat, 12 Feb 2022

we breathed each other's breath. It was enough once you sheltered within me. We were one before fences. I grew to know burning, soon you chose to...

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February Rainbow

By Di_Hard on Sun, 06 Feb 2022

snow cloud's blue, bomb ominous, blooms through beech trees' fragile dark raised bars that seek to cage west's brutal storms rampaging from unbroken...

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BBBB

By Di_Hard on Tue, 28 Dec 2021

In rows, shining stems and identical, (almost) spikey tips, grey. Where could each take me? Their names gave nothing away : HB, 2B, etc pointless as...

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I will need to read this

Posted on Mon, 27 Feb 2023

I will need to read this again. But it struck lots of chords with me. As a child, remember my Dad inheriting a HUGE sideboard from his Aunt. It needed six strong people to bring into the house and was such dark oak. I felt it didn't want to be...

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I don't really understand why

Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2023

I don't really understand why the West has not/is not sending what Ukraine needs to stop the war. Surely keeping it going so long is costing more, in money, and thousands of lives. If China balances this by equipping Russia, more resources...

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you have really caught the

Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2023

you have really caught the wildness I associate with Dionysus. Your poem reminds me of how CS Lewis shows Bacchus his Narnia books

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Enjoyed this very much.

Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2023

Enjoyed this very much. You have characters just right, and their relationship with you.

At present a stray/feral is frequenting our hospitality, to the disgust of the long term occupant, who is a VERY fussy eater. The newcomer,...

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yes! it is almost like when a

Posted on Sat, 18 Feb 2023

yes! it is almost like when a child trying to guess what might be in a Christmas present, guessing what the little green shoots might become

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I am glad you got out to do

Posted on Sat, 18 Feb 2023

I am glad you got out to do some more poem inspirations :0) Hope you continue to feel well with the Spring. I like very much how you weave present and past walks into one poem, also the positive state of your health. Impressed how organised you...

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absolutely loved this :0)

Posted on Tue, 14 Feb 2023

absolutely loved this :0) Thankyou so much for your wonderful memories! You make me think how Life had so much more texture before, I wonder if memories made by young people now will be of playing online in flat worlds created by computer games...

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Enjoyed this. My son has

Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2023

Enjoyed this. My son has somehow managed to reach back into some ancestral gene perfection and has everything I wished I could have had in the leg department, cannot understand why I always wear baggy jeans as he swans about in long skinnies :0...

Posted in These are the Legs I Ordered.

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how interesting! That

Posted on Tue, 14 Feb 2023

how interesting! That something an adult thinks nothing of can effect a sensitive child so much - "I'm afraid to go in that cupboard...It's the baby with a cross on her face" That she sees the basic black and white line image as "she",...

Posted in Worked-up Fear?

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I liked this so much! The

Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2023

I liked this so much! The remembering/transcribing of words in poems, of poet's history, of clay and stone in all their layers. Travelling from present to past, then being on a train ready to travel in a different way. And I liked all the details...