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The Black Dog

Jet fuel and petrol are ethanol, that is ethyl alcohol. It is highly combustible and surgical alcohol is generally used for disinfecting killing...
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Even Father Christmas blown over …!

Grey ‘air-ship’ convoy clouds lumber across the sky, trees shake and bend traffic-light pole sways leaves skitter about (and something sharp hit my...
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Love Lost

Love Lost by Paul McCann There is one drink call it an endless want for something you can’t have that makes you take a sup but beware my love because...
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far dust

far dust we each leave far dust, star dust, on each other, human bumps and scrapes and knocks, like asteroids at bounce our dust of origins –...
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Mother Of Bethlehem

Mother Of Bethlehem By Paul McCann Mother of Bethlehem shadows of angels all through the night Seemed to be dancing in the moon light . Mother of...

Its that Crazy Time Of The Year

Its that Crazy Time Of The Year By Paul McCann Kangaroo jumped, the pigs went grunt , the skunk went stinkity poo . The cows all mooed and the owls...
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Albert and Perky

He put the book down and turned to his model railway. Pictures of locos were stuck to the wall around it. Feeling for the control box from his bed,...
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180 Years Old

There is a biting wind coming across the salt-water loch. The waves are up and the smell of the brine and seaweed is strong. Snow-capped mountains...
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The Colourful Room

A flame centres an otherwise barren grey room, accompanied only by a flock of birds barely maintaining flight above. The flame struggles to remember...
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Rain in Kalgoorlie

Reading some of the poems, and just walking around our village, reminds me of how much we associate rain as a winter condition; that prompted me to find this old poem, to give an aternative, where rain (as I well remember) is a god-send. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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Children of the Absolution

A recollection of thoughts I had during my childhood in the 1960s. I intended writing them down long before now but I was always terrified to death at the thought of the potential consequences.
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A night at my work, a journal like entry

Written: 06/01/09 (I worked in Norwich printing newspapers from 1999 to 2011 – this was a typical night) I was too knackered to cycle tonight and...
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Clatter

Bikes clatter as they pass beneath pools of lamplight which sporadically fall, warm circles revealing cobbled streets, while shadows cast long. Late...
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Give and Take

They had debated at length and she knew that he was wrong but did not worry. Ended the argument sIghing and saying "yes, dear". Was certain that...

A Christmas Rainbow

There was a rainbow monday afternoon there was a rain shower I went outside and there it was. I was surprised I'd only vaguely hoped. The full...
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Charms Of The Season

Enchanting fairy lights flooding Christmas cheer, as I amble down garden path exposed in December's chill. Spruce tree brings countless blessings;...
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By the Candelight of Saints

By the Candlelight of Saints The chill of church pews where St George is a martyr, silence staid by solemnity, ambient flames flicker cobalt; moments...
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The Adventures Of Little Sham - Chapter 9 (Part 2)

The Adventures Of Little Sham A Novel by Paul McCann Chapter Nine The Singing Tree Part 2 He out on his soft shoes and went down the stairs in a...

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