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JohnDiamond
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I have been writing for many years and strive to write to professional standard. I live in Ohio, and am an ExPat Brit. I am myself a avid editor of my own works, and often note where a good poem can be made a better on with constructive advise. My main publisher are forums on the Internet but soon I hope to publish a small amount of my output.

  February 2021     3 years ago

Submitted Poems 12 total

Love on the Farm

Mucking out and milking, we are curds in the churn.
Our house is a blooming belly brimful and snuffling,
feet planted in the green rubber of muddy...

by John Diamond

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Living with Carpenter Bees

They are dug in under the screen door
where my foot swings, where concrete...

by Jon Diamond

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Woman in Dark Colors

She cooks fish and rice,
her unfolded hips
pushing all into place.
The marl of her hands
turns bowls of smoke
Into oils and aromas,
lemon and...

by John Diamond

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The Rain Ends at Dusk

Thunder walks away on carpet slippers,
wet leaves cockle and whisper.
A backwash of sound lingers,
a rustling of mulch
as if a mouse were nibbling a...

by John Diamond

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Incurable

He studies the dinner card,
ticks off the boxes for Jell-O
and fruit cups; anticipates a deliciousness
that he will later swallow mechanically
on a plastic...

by John Diamond

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