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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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Child (Work in Progress)
Everything was different, then The way the leaves turned to dust Even the copper hues of all those Near-bare branches The crunching in the wind Of...
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Janie (Work in Progress)
[Audience enters to music by female artists – Christine and the Queens, Anna Calvi, Adrienne Lenker/Big Thief, Arlo Parks, Low Chimes. Janie sits on...
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The Ballad of the Patchwork Quilter
Come listen and I’ll tell you Of the quilter with no name She lived a humble life indeed And never found her fame She sewed these quilts together...
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Orphan Boy
awakes from a fanciful dream sits up and places bony toes on the floor. The sun shines too brightly into morning eyes- takes a moment to think. A new...
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Topaz
Topaz a sunshine towpath early evening waiting for the pub to open watching a pair of swans at swim in a world of my own until a pinstripe stranger,...
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The Old Man from Far Away (4)
"It's a brilliant hiding place, nobody could ever find it here. How did you get it here?" The old man laughed inexplicably. "I crashed." "You crashed...
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She's Crushing My Heart
She's Crushing My Heart By Paul McCann She’s got her eyes on him and there’s nothing I can do, every time he is there I’ve lost only love I knew ...
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Out of the overflow of the heart …
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Whatsoever things are lovely … fill your mind to say and do what you know would please your Saviour – mind will influence behaviour.…
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