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“This night I will …”
“I’ll stay awake and keep so quiet and see them bring …
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Smashing pumpkins
“The problem is that people don't want to listen to each other.” Next to me in the queue is a tall man with a turtleneck and glasses that look like...
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Goody Two Shoes
It’s hard to find something to give up if you’re doing nothing bad in the first place.
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We’re all made of star stuff and angel dust .....
This country is hurting right now It’s off-course. The politics and in fact the emotions and spirit of the whole country are polluted, oily, and rank...
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Burning Love (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 48)
In which Josiah and Chantelle kick their heels, Samantha loses her cool (as will Frankie, shortly, apparently!) and the Detectives prise themselves into their pursuit vehicle.
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Slipping into the Water
Our close friends now have to live with early Alzheimers; and he is suffering as much as she, while we look on and do all we can to help and support.
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1:4:7 Solutions (Part 1)
Blinking. The suns burnt high in the sky and without the nebula to block them out, they were blinding to the unprepared. There was scaffolding...
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Broken Ability Part 1-4
“Come.” Elder Reffics set off at a run towards a large building at the bottom of a gradual slope that appeared half a mile off. Rose and I exchanged...
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Blakes 7 - the flawed but awesome BBC Sci-fi series from the 1970's
Written on 22 December 2019. Edited 03 Dec 2021 & 28 Dec 2023 There was a series back in the 1970's on BBC TV called Blakes 7. It was horribly...
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Lingo Bingo
An explanation of the labour of love of my life that may have started out a long time ago as a labour of clinging on to my life.
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Broken Ability Part 1-3
That night I lay in bed awake for the first time in months. Unknown monsters lurked in the darkness, hunting my father out in the wilds. With a great...
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A Home For The Soul
A Home For The Soul by Paul McCann . Two people eye to eye , talking all night . There’s place for you and I , out of sight , where silence is ours...
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Pound for the guy
listening to the tutor talk about Pound and wet black boughs I think of Yoda levitating at the South Bank (2016)
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Death on a tricycle
They didn’t realise as they gave me the bumps that I desperately needed a shit The resulting fall changed my life We opened the café on New Years Eve...
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Jungle
(This poem is based upon my experience in Ecuador 2011) Sweat bees cling to our faces and get in our ears as we cut large leaves to sit on placed...
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Blue-Jay Buddy
His shriek-y voice is raucous – poignant in its delivery this outdoor star not only carries his sleek blue colours proudly emblazoned on his trim...
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Exit Wound
What an awful day it is outside. A good day to sharpen the pencil and get scribbling. This one is about love...
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The Nature of Truth
The fundamental questions we must ask are: What , How , Why ? “What?” concerns physical observations and experiments, and records kept, consisting of...
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Evergreen Forest
Your Majesty, you are old, and fresh as the newborn day, swathed in green and brown, sun-kissed. The snow, cold at your feet. Your shoots shall bear...
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The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris
This is the twelfth entry in the satirical series at https://www.abctales.com/collection/pandemic-tales-bojo-and-co The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris...
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