Diane Foster

Joined December 2024

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I’m a professional writer, proofreader, and all-round online entrepreneur, UK. I’m married to a rock star who had his long-awaited liver transplant in August 2025.

When not working, you’ll find me with a glass of wine, immersed in poetry.

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The Compass in the Stone
This poem speaks from a version of myself I know intimately — the part that finds comfort in small order, repetition, and the belief that care and control can hold the chaos at bay.
By Diane Foster8 months ago in Poets
The Best Is Still to Come
Hello everyone, Thank you for inviting me to speak — I have no idea who messed up the email chain and thought I was qualified to give a commencement address, but here I am with lipstick on my teeth and a heart full of sincerity, so let’s go with it.
By Diane Foster8 months ago in Critique
Bride of the Bitter Root
This poem is a Gothic lament told through the voice of a bride who becomes both victim and vengeance in the garden that was meant to celebrate her.
By Diane Foster8 months ago in Poets
I Am What the Lock Remembers
At its core, this poem explores how power is preserved not in display, but in silence, in what is hidden, hoarded, or forgotten.
By Diane Foster8 months ago in Poets
Queen of the Unhinged Clock
This poem explores a queen who refuses to be contained by tradition. Her creations are not just machines, but extensions of her will: elegant, terrifying, and completely hers.
By Diane Foster8 months ago in Poets
The Rose and the Servant
Through the symbolism of red — scarlet, cherry, flame, and rose — this poem explores how ideals once held dear can erode over time, leaving behind only quiet resignation and a hunger that refuses to fade.
By Diane Foster9 months ago in Poets
The Traveler Who Never Stays
This poem explores the deep contradiction between the desire for tenderness and the compulsion to stay untethered. Softness becomes the thing most endangered, as time rewards detachment and punishes hesitation.
By Diane Foster9 months ago in Poets
What Tea Does Not Give Freely. Top Story - May 2025.
This poem explores the insatiable side of desire through the voice of a greedy merchant who no longer seeks tea for comfort or pleasure, but for control, power, and hidden knowledge.
By Diane Foster9 months ago in Poets
At the Door of Almost Gone
This poem holds the quiet violence of unshared emotion and the desperate desire for signs, for chance, for something — anything — to bridge the space between two people who once knew each other.
By Diane Foster9 months ago in Poets
The Tenderness We Didn't Choose
The cocktails arrive like promises spoken in velvet. Amber, crimson, citrine — they swirl with insolent beauty, each glass holding a small apocalypse
By Diane Foster9 months ago in Poets
The Whisper Between Joy and Sadness
Through the dreamy repetition of "life finds a way", I wanted to express how even the most tangled and confusing emotions push forward, growing quietly in the spaces between knowing and longing.
By Diane Foster9 months ago in Writers
I’m Not Perfect, But I Like Me Anyway
Some days, I surprise myself with how well I know myself. Not in the "I know exactly where I left my glasses" kind of way (spoiler: I don't), but in the deeper, quieter ways. The ways that whisper, when nobody's listening, that I'm doing better than I think. And that I shouldn’t put myself down.
By Diane Foster9 months ago in Humans

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The Compass in the Stone

The Best Is Still to Come

Bride of the Bitter Root

I Am What the Lock Remembers

Queen of the Unhinged Clock

The Rose and the Servant

The Traveler Who Never Stays

What Tea Does Not Give Freely. Top Story - May 2025.

At the Door of Almost Gone

The Tenderness We Didn't Choose

The Whisper Between Joy and Sadness

I’m Not Perfect, But I Like Me Anyway

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