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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I like the rushing feeling

Posted on Thu, 06 Nov 2025

I like the rushing feeling the rhythm of your poem brings, just like the swift changes - in colour, and how many leaves are left, and temperature every day at this time of year. And your words are wonderful, too - I love "crisped by breeze"

Posted in Farewell Glows

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I feel sorry for him, too,

Posted on Fri, 07 Nov 2025

With your great writing, I feel sorry for him, too, though? It must be really hard to know there's a way to stop feeling old, but he is going to be too tired and sore even to try soon, swallowed up by the inevitability of time falling suddenly...

Posted in The Leaf Blower - Part 3

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This is Poem of the Week!

Posted on Wed, 05 Nov 2025

This is Poem of the Week! Congratulations!

Posted in Put The Sword Down

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This wonderfully rich prose

Posted on Thu, 06 Nov 2025

This wonderfully rich prose-poem from Rask Balavoine is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

the image is from here :
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Posted in Three sips of foaming wine.

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I love that comment, Rich,

Posted on Sun, 26 Oct 2025

I love that comment, Rich, made me think of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, only for people with ghosts in their house, needing to get brave enough to "show them who's boss" and an alternative meeting at the same time, of their ghosts listening...

Posted in The Other Side of the Attic Window

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Hold onto Halloween magic a

Posted on Sun, 26 Oct 2025

Hold onto Halloween magic a little longer by reading this brilliant story from Hudsonmoon, which is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

Posted in The Other Side of the Attic Window

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Being so small and fragile

Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2025

Being so small and fragile but building huge intricate yet resilient structures seemingly out of thin air, spiders make me think of super intelligent aliens, of things we don't, cannot understand. As you say, "more to this world than what we are...

Posted in Mysterious Veil On All Hallows Night

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Ohhh! Now I am wondering if

Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2025

Ohhh! Now I am wondering if the scarifier will have a different effect! This could be like Game of Thrones before we know it :0)

Posted in The Leaf Blower - Part 2

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i like this one very much,

Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2025

i like this one very much, too. You are brilliant at weaving essential experiences together, making something deep and thrilling

Posted in Winter refuges

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Sampling the variety of

Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2025

Sampling the variety of sideways rain here, today, good to settle down (damply) and compare :0) I loved the last sentence in your Dally, and how you two always find something fun to do. That cross is amazing. The Reformation must have been...