Di_Hard

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April shower

By Di_Hard on Thu, 07 Apr 2022

Sun is shattered by dark tree branches, splinters glint scattered on twig tips, diamond- dusting downy oval honescuckle leaves' warm green-blue,...

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Win

By Di_Hard on Thu, 24 Mar 2022

this meeting of trees and rushes glows, peaceful as a holy place warbler songs shimmer warm blue air where speckled wood butterflies dance from spine...

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Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...

By Di_Hard on Tue, 22 Mar 2022

Reporters list atrocities suggesting which might qualify as war crimes, while Western leaders' words slide over blood, too afraid of falling in to...

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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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Phew, I thought now Ewan was

Posted on Fri, 29 Apr 2022

Phew, I thought now Ewan was being eaten up by the mysterious monster. It is like a detective story in its own right. Write

Posted in Sticky Wullie

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I don't want you to change a

Posted on Thu, 21 Apr 2022

I don't want you to change a speckle of Ugly Puggly,he is perfect, an absolutely brilliant creation.I wish so much he existed. Even though he isn't real, I feel a bit better about all the things worrying me all the time, just imagining he is on...

Posted in Ugly Puggly 8

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I have a TERRIBLE memory,

Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022

I have a TERRIBLE memory, but very good writing, sticks :0)

Posted in Don't Look at the Sheikh

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Those poor mothers, they will

Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022

Those poor mothers, they will be feeling so guilty! I did not understand from the article if the children were still to be put in care? It sounded like the police were unsure what to do, to stay on the right side of the law. What a horrific thing...

Posted in Het Bonhe

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It begins with the quiet

Posted on Mon, 07 Feb 2022

It begins with the quiet

of an owl's wing, mist muffled,

of river breath hushed

this is so magical. Perfect. I like the timeless feel of the rhyme of bone and known, and the cast of birds waiting in...

Posted in The Quiet of An Owl’s Wing, February

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I don't understand why it is

Posted on Mon, 03 Jan 2022

I don't understand why it is ok to eat meat. But as Lena raises there is something worse in a way, how life is stripped of any dignity in polystyrene trays and clingfilm, exchanges the wires of a cage for the lines in a barcode and never knows...

Posted in (This Life) Part 3: The Butcher’s Wi(n)dow

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I felt colder reading this!

Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021

I felt colder reading this! Very glad to be inside :0)

I liked "scrawny" with "stark",

and "shake" at the end of the line with the added buffets of repeated "a" sounds in "gale" and "lashing".

And then you end with an echo...

Posted in Turn of the year ’scape

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This is wonderful :

Posted on Fri, 10 Dec 2021

This is wonderful :

Sultry and still the sweet night air.

Latin music. Crickets chirping.

Like a favela in Rio or anywhere

But for the sound of Geordies burping.

and :

And the cards are...

Posted in Hotel Mediterraneo

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I cannot imagine how

Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021

I cannot imagine how indigenous people from forests must feel, the woods are so important to me, but it cannot possibly be the same as for them. This is the appeasement stage, where those in the know are aware there's something terrible out there...

Posted in Drilling Out Blame

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Have just read this aloud as

Posted on Thu, 30 Sep 2021

Have just read this aloud as was irrisistable :0)

I can imagine children loving it, particularly

"Anaconda large and long
with a squeeze that’s very strong"

It is such fun to say all through!