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Lethe

By Di_Hard on Fri, 02 Mar 2018

Forgetting things is so scary like standing on a bank a river is eating away at. My Dad died of dementia unable to talk. My son hates that I want to...

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It's all about bread

By Di_Hard on Sat, 24 Feb 2018

It is important to be able to look down on your enemy. Though they are not enemies rather bread and butter. That sort of spongy white pap I wouldn't...

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By Di_Hard on Fri, 23 Feb 2018

Invisible the air is cut and sewn when whistles, chirps and warbles sweetly shear off from the rolls of space, as silk ribon freed catches light,...

Sol Monath (mud month in old english)

By Di_Hard on Wed, 21 Feb 2018

frost a cold kindness makes scars of passage reopened each day numb, unhealing. New sun brings back feeling warms clenched stone knuckles and knee...

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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

Posted in An Autumn of Leaves

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this is lovely. If ever I got

Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018

this is lovely. If ever I got to choose where in the world I'd like to visit, it would be those maple trees when the leaves turn, I'd love to walk under them. Your poem makes a beautiful picture to help my imagining. I love "cradle of colour"...