Di_Hard

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I have 167 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 307462 times and 256 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1174 of my 4,485 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1203 votes

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trying to photo the woods I write about over a year, began first Wordpress site in July2022,

https://skeochand.wordpress.com/ 

and https://woodsclosetomepart26.wordpress.com/

 

 

My stories

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Z is for Zing

home's in coming, going and holding time between in mud's dark-under, Spring rememberings begin image is by Boris Drenec off Flickr https://www...

Y is for Yule log and Yew

wood many suns' knowing, felled, burns through year's fear wall bird sown life outgrowing religions' rise and fall ~ this photo is byJonny Andrews...
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Poem of the week

X is for xxx

kisses at message end when words run out of sense writing from sky to land in lines of bird footprints
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Cherry

W is for Wrapping Paper and Wind (another go at this)

concealed within patterns every present holds hope high, invisible turns of air change how lives shape
Cherry

V is for Voices

spark of carols' joining memories, every age robin's song - day's shining swarf curls on night's sharp edge

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1174 of my comments have received 1203 Great Feedback votes

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This made me think of the

Posted on Thu, 09 Feb 2023

This made me think of the women in Iran braving the morality police and burning their hijabs and cutting their hair, but I do not find witches empowered, or role models. They were about men (sometimes women) scared of what was in themselves and...

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Posted in The Shadows of Birds

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one of those times only a

Posted on Wed, 08 Feb 2023

one of those times only a poem can do the job, and those cobwebs got lucky with you! This is WONDERFUL

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Posted in Silver Path on the Green, Green Grass

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vivid as a film! I wonder if

Posted on Tue, 07 Feb 2023

your writing here vivid as a film! I wonder if storing dreams will seem as commonplace as photographs on day

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Posted in The Edge of Heaven

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Particularly loved :

Posted on Mon, 06 Feb 2023

Particularly loved :

"Through soil wherever you

need to go, slight curious

impressions advance; roots"

and 

"new shoots

are the blood vessels of

life in spring"

really evoking how Life is...

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Posted in Secrets Of A Green Man

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I really love how personal

Posted on Wed, 01 Feb 2023

I really love how personal all your poems are, growing from your soul, enriched by your experiences through life. as if they are flowers themselves

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Posted in England's Harmony

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wonderful, have come back to

Posted on Sat, 04 Feb 2023

wonderful, have come back to read several times and it always makes me happy. Your poem sooths the ache of losing someone close

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Posted in Us

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this is fabulous, but I have

Posted on Thu, 02 Feb 2023

this is fabulous, but I have some spelling questions? 

"saying how glad he worse his scarf"

"who voiced it out of demntia or unease,"

"(but really meaning gow lost),"

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Posted in Gentrified

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Perfect sense! Thankyou so

Posted on Wed, 01 Feb 2023

Perfect sense! Thankyou so much for explaining :0)

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Posted in planet go boom

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I know the phrase "monkey see

Posted on Wed, 01 Feb 2023

I know the phrase "monkey see, monkey do" but didn't understand how you were using it in your very strong poem, so looked up in Wikipedia

"The saying refers to the learning of a process without an understanding of why it works. Another...

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Posted in planet go boom

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Scary, surreal and with a

Posted on Mon, 30 Jan 2023

Scary, surreal and with a brilliantly named cat, this darkly funny prediction of a possible future is Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day! Please do share and retweet if you can

the image is https://...

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Posted in The Dream Tax

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