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Kintsugi
Kintsugi touring the Gaeltacht in a clapped-out Morris I was pretty much lost but that was fine by me - I’m one for serendipity as evening settled, I...
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Slamming It Down
. Slamming It Down By Paul McCann I was walking down the street , with my finger up my nose, I was telling everybody. hey this is how it goes. Gimmie...
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A Casual Fling
As long as no one gets too serious He types to me Devoid of emotion A wipe-clean relationship A friend with benefits Weekend sex A hangover spoon Is...
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Cloudy going home
Lisa gave me her perfumed hanky to stem the bleeding. But I clutched at my hand when we came out of the door of the pub. The girls had no coats. They...
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I Name that Shoe....
I’m not particularly fussed about footwear these days but as a child it’s difficult to describe how shoes made me feel. It was as if the shoes on my...
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half a lifetime ago
half a lifetime ago half a lifetime ago I found god or god found me unexpectedly my wife was hostile to my faith so I said goodbye and walked a...
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Symphony of The Sea-Nymphs:
Symphony of The Sea-Nymphs: The sea ebbs and flows Murky; Not crystalline nor blue! Poseidon emerges out of a phantom Ship! Not taciturn today; He...
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Anachronistic Ways
Anachronistic Ways Trespassing lizards still use The same route! Camouflaged, mute! Yet the German-Shephard barks! “It is the smell”, the shepherdess...
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13th
13/October It is not pleasant out there. Not pleasant at all. Raining and raining non-stop. In times of plague, the damp weather is depressing...
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House Ghost
I've been watching The Haunting
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Retraining
Remedying the situation.
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Jobs
Some bring riches … some easy … exciting … wearisome and undervalued … cries for extra workers … to earn enough … support family … discreet charity … unappreciated and labour arduous, tough.
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Florida Bound
Florida bound Friday, October 9th, 2020 We started out from Amherst on a sunny, cool afternoon. We had chosen to drive eastward, on the NY Thruway,...
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Cloudy still at the bar.
I grabbed my glass and guided them to a table on the main drag. Santa’s little helper and Santa, Lisa and Jane, should have been sitting with the...
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Closing the Wound
I ripped my soul To show you Where my heart is I tore deep Clawed flesh Pulled wiry strings From within Seams that can’t be sown Carefully together I...
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Alf Ramsey – My Part In His Triumph
Around the time Cup Finals were first shown live on TV and towers were erected overlooking our back garden with the lawn striped and manicured just...
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To Be or Not To Be A Poet
In choosing my career I thought long and hard.
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The Hitman - Chapter 7
. THE HITMAN Chapter Seven Paying The Dues Forty thousand feet above the sea Harry sat in the seat of a jet bound for America . He felt like a bullet...
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rainy sweet sleep
friendly tip-tapping your window hear far the rumble calls the wind heavy drops drumming the roof little streams running icy cold misty paradise of...
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I Can’t
I can’t Do this to myself again I can’t be that girl The 6 week girl The ‘this’ll do fo now’ girl Pain upon pain I’m fine No honestly, it was just a...
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