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Your Garden Friend
Small but mighty Supreme guarder of territory An alarm sounds immediately Any intruder dares to enter their vast area Shouting so loudly there is no...
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The Bride
she woke up early a 6 am and she could not believe the day had come the day she was going to say i do and become a blushing bride she was so excited...
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Sweet Violet
Sweet Violet you're truly humble...yet wild, with your concealed roots advancing further into the earth; shoots increase in strength where peace...
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Fifteen Years
Julia, was a kind and generous woman who was brought up with the beliefs that she should put others before herself. She was a gentle soul who wouldn’...
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The Horses of Wooldale Road (Part 2 of 3)
You can read part one here: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/horses-wooldale-road-part-1-3 The Horses of Wooldale Road (Part 2 of 3) The...
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Pirates of Privilege & Princess Rescues From Above
Follow me, live in the moment Put a pinch of salt in the palm of your hand Stick your tongue on it Slowly lick your way to the end of your fingers...
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A Lasting Impression
Sitting on the crest of a rainbow gives me access (feels like cool gel smells like floss candy its half-moon shape quivering – colours resplendent)...
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This man is on his way
This man doesn't need honey or jam or syrup from a can. This man doesn't need a thankless job or a till register to rob. This man doesn't need a...
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When I was a Blue Cowboy
I remember when I was a blue cowboy, waving red flags at the marshall. Assigned to shoot my pistol at aliens and strangers. I danced inside a...
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Ugly Puggly 40
I’d a fry-up for breakfast with all the works: mushroom, tomatoes and two potato scones. It was enough to sober me up. Not that I’d been drinking...
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Unthankfulness
I said: Why did you pluck me out? Why did you end my eden, my atlantis – as amethyst wrapped in cotton wool? He said: Did you not want to live? Were...
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Transitions of power, then and now
I wrote this analysis twenty eight years ago, when Newt Genrich and the Conservative Republicans wrested control of Congressional House of...
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Civilization is the principle and the ideal
Civilization which tends toward pacification is the needful ideal we must pursue. Regarding romance, let's say this; Let people live their lives and...
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Juneteenth Ruminations
In most minds, there can be no doubt that modernity's progress has liberated us all to a not insignificant degree; It has liberated us from...
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we the land
we the land it cannot be owned cannot be trapped behind badges and barricades the right belongs to all to celebrate the cycles of dark and light we...
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Dozing With The Radio On
(music ends) And, there. I always have a hard time hearing where that piece ends. That was Rocket J. Squirrel, playing Hahn’s “Mama Said” Etude. From...
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Oh Let me sleep
oh let me sleep i am so tired i can hardly keep my eyelids open and i am yawning as well too much time on my pc and the heat for the fan is getting...
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Life in a Nutshell
At the start it's daunting. A certain amount of taunting. Then years and years of flaunting. Juxterposed with jaunting. Shame it ends with haunting.
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Miss Incognito
Miss Incognito By Paul McCann The girl at reception makes the coffee and answers the calls on the telephone, then after work she’s off to do her show...
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Orderly Re-Union
We are puffed-up-with-pride grandparents watching our little ones in the backyard- full of energy crackling lightning bolts with daring on flying...
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