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Take Heart, For Hope: A Wish

I am confused and I am angry, my heart left so unsoothed. Yet there remains that light eternal, an imperishable flame. It is Hope. Something better...

Go To The Light

. Go To The Light By Paul McCann On a straight white road in the middle of the night I was driving along, singing a song that I picked up on the way...

Gathered people of God

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Last Sunday was Pentecost Sunday, regarded as the birthday of Christ Jesus’ church (‘church’ referring to the gathered people of God, not the building) Tired of godlessness and spite, longing for the place of light, …

The dinner guest

Personality acrimonious, Attitude brusque, He arrives dishevelled, Why the hell us? His birthday forthwith, The arsenic is out, This former soldier,...

The letter

Hiya lovey, I hope you are keeping well. You were sorely missed at Paddy’s funeral yesterday. I know you couldn’t make it because of covid, but I...
Cherry

The one that got away

When I was fifteen, instead of drinking cheap alcohol behind the community centre, or smoking weed in the shed next to the school, I was at home, in...

Don't judge a book by its cover!

She sits down, Everyone stares, Her big, red nose, Her chin with the hairs. She talks on the phone, Her voice like a banshee, Loud and opinionated,...

Cougar Heart

Cougar Heart By Paul McCann Although she’s almost three times his age all she ever wants is him , The way she looks , the way she talks , the way she...

Long Lost Cache

The sun shines pale on this place I knew so well Tinged with grey, this cold winter’s day Bizarre flashes of long lost caches My history throws our...

Mad in America

Jeans and whiskies; Tanks and tank tops Hollywood visions and multi-national coffee shops; Celebrated liberties and new, rational deities We have...