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My Sister
When we came home from school we two to the kitchen we headed without further ado. Unbelievably peckish I remember we were, our hungry stomachs all...
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- 889 reads
B: Lonely people 2
Morning in London awaiting the rush
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- 681 reads
Paul's Prayer to a Bear
My other surviving childhood poem (I still like it!)
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- 536 reads
The cupboard
The Cupboard. "The cupboard could do with a lick". You said. We dug out the paintbrushes from The cellar, If only things were so simple. The...
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- 668 reads
My Grumbles
I wrote this when I was 9 (and I haven't improved much!)
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- 547 reads
B: Week two
My life as a parent Dylan has developed a fixation with nipples and tails this week. He's convinced, although all the evidence points to the contrary...
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- 589 reads
10 perfect fingers and 10 perfect toes
cold white light and in the haze ten perfect fingers and ten perfect toes eyes forever closed mind screamed in corner cower and hurt huddled breaking...
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- 1453 reads
A - Chapter One
It all starts here...
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A: Week one
My life as a parent I'm settling into the horrible realisation that I am not going to be able to drink myself under the table on my 30th birthday. It...
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- 631 reads
Hand of God
I blew out the candle with nervous breath. We have been waiting so long for a son Or daughter. My Will, he clasped my hand under the blanket As we...
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- 942 reads
Dust to Man
So, here I am, standing one day. On a street. On a parched pavement. I say. It is hot. It is Verdant. With sinews green and tangling Torsos brown and...
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- 946 reads
November Mourning
A teardrop seed Of a painful Sorrow Planted in a heart Overwhelmed, and Weeping I still reflect your Presence in this November. In grief, my heart...
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- 628 reads
Stones Over Sand
The concrete swirls of Beige and maroon marks Of mendacity; in being Plush and plutocratic, With the whispers of Sea-scented breath In paradoxical...
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- 665 reads
Asylum
A Shade of Inevitable muteness of an asylum; The cause of the Iniquity Blanketing all over. In solitude, I smile with tears of hesitation. In this...
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- 653 reads
Solutions at midnight
Everything is clear when the world sleeps.
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- 695 reads
Early Flowers
Early Flowers Clare chatted inanely to the girl in the next seat, as strangers do when forced together. She told her that she was flying over to see...
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- 586 reads
Clockwork Executive
Life in the fast lane - not
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- 696 reads
Just play that tune
Whoever holds my life strings Up there, miles high Or down there, deep in fire Flutter your fingers As though playing some great piano Touch the...
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- 945 reads