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The Oil Refinery
Posted by love_writing on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
You drive past the oil refinery on your way to work. It’s hard not to notice it; you can see it for miles from the motorway that curves round past it. Even if you try to look the other way, say at the Kelpies; the two domineering steel sculptural horse heads wriggling in their silent agony as you pass, your head still automatically turns back like a magnet to the refinery.Read morePoem of the week
time travelling
Posted by Di_Hard on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
at woods' edge
shadow-silt nestles
lumps of amber air
floating ballrooms
where midges dance
brief lives away
since before words
on one side sun warm
reed beds rough
hedgehog pelt
under an unseen warbler's
silksong rippling
the clearing's still
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This is My Rifle . . . This is My Gun
Posted by TJW on Mon, 21 Aug 2017
What do you most fear in war?
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