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Etymology and the Meaning of Hamlet

By mark p on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

Once the stone is thrown The ideas come like ripples Hamlet via Joyce via Shakespeare through Irish , Icelandic , Norse and Gaelic Musing on the...
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T is for Tinsel and Twigs

By Di_Hard on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

plastic starlight glinting galaxies on a thread buds on tree-tips hinting wild faith in Spring ahead
Poem
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Images from The Venue

By mark p on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

Stiff black suede From alkie spillage Crepe soles stick On beer soaked floor. Black clad denizens Obsessed by darkness Dance to the death To the...
Poem
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Musical Choice

By mark p on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

After your wake I sought silent solace Home alone. Recalling Cwm Rhondda Sinatra or Doris Day Lead Us Heavenly Father Sung in your inimitable way. (...
Poem
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Smoke on the Water!

By philwhiteland on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

In which Josiah fumes and Archibald rocks!
Humour
Other Fiction
Story
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The Adventures Of Miniator -- Chapter 15 Sabotage

By Chris Whitley on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

15) Sabotage The day before Miniator's brain storming session, onboard the the bridge of the Hool: Luden Lodo was talking to his Number Two, Plo Voom...
Children's
Story
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A Fairy Tale of New York

By marandina on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

A Fairy Tale of New York Silvery snow fell on unwashed decks, emigres sailing from an emerald isle, huddled masses yearning to breathe, dreaming...
Romance
Poem
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The last day at Hill Cliffe

By poetjude on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

Everything is open now, h ere in the twilight hour This is our forever moment a nd how do I speak for us now? How do I tell the world a bout the...
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In Bethlehem, long before …

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] A stranger poor, she could but glean, on charity dependent, her faithful kindness had been seen, received...
Spiritual
Philosophy
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Meeting on the hill

By Mark Heathcote on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

A hand up brother, a free man's gift we can share this summit in a handshake it's barren; nothing to steal here or take, there's no dividing line,...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Harriet Tubman

By Mark Heathcote on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

She carried those scars in her fractured skull praying to God makes him change his ways, she'd pray simultaneously for the improbable, pray for...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Apparitions

By Mark Heathcote on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

I'm a breeze in a wandering valley. I'm a ghost who's come to play and haunt I may make you cry or smile I may mean the world to you or the cold...
Love
Poem
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18

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 18 Dec 2021

In Welsh the word for 18 is ‘two-nines’ (deunaw) in the Breton language it is ‘three-sixes’ (triwec’h) …
Children's
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The Holly and the Ivy

By hilary west on Sat, 18 Dec 2021

"Pour me out some tea." Ivy took the tea pot and poured the tea into Holly's cup. "Would you like a crumpet?" "What are they?" "These things," said...
Romance
Story
Certificate 12
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S is for Snow

By Di_Hard on Sat, 18 Dec 2021

light smooths, soothes curves; walk in sleeping prisms' peace sight's a white wall, smell's all, cold's hungry, move or freeze
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Enslaved

By Yutka on Sat, 18 Dec 2021

“No one is more a slave than he who thinks himself free of being one”J.W.von Goethe Count us over and over, cut us into so many shapes at any time,...
Spiritual
Poem
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My outlet in times of trouble

By Mark Heathcote on Sat, 18 Dec 2021

Natures my outlet in times of trouble when I want to get away from the news, that COVID-19 self-isolation bubble, rivers and long canal walk lift my...
Poem
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Party games and balloons

By Mark Heathcote on Sat, 18 Dec 2021

There were always three in a corner. And if you were feeling a little bit frisky and naughty you’d-one, large sausage in-betweens two round ones for...
Poem
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Hibiscus flowers

By Mark Heathcote on Sat, 18 Dec 2021

What’s revealed inside a beating heart? That projects the light of the universe What is unveiled that isn’t first shown? That transfixes the...
Poem
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A Frank Farce Or A Day In The Life -- Part Three

By Chris Whitley on Sat, 18 Dec 2021

After the zooming of the ride, that seemed to take days, finally became slower, the images in his mind now danced here and there, then settled like a...
Miscellaneous
Story
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