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Pad Life 1: Clean Moggie, Yellow Moggie

Both the cats have turned yellow. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Setting Sun

This golden glow Shines silently... Night will soon Spread through Shedding light From darkness, Capture such Essence as Beams Roll out Glowing...
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The Will.
About ten years ago I made a will, a man came to my home and after lots of questions and answers, he left to do the printed copy. A direct debit was...
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Bradley Walsh Shot Dead In Scotland!
Yesterday was a strange day, I put the BBC news on and at the bottom of the screen was the main headlines, “Actor Bradley Walsh shot dead in Scotland...
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Is God alive?

You can’t believe there’s a God who is good? complain he doesn’t do (yet) what you think he should? assume that Jesus just can’t have been what is...
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Innocent Skin
God it hurt to love him. Our love blazed everything and everyone in its path, leaving nothing in its wake but a pile of flattened rubble. The depth...
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The Milkman
The Milkman By Paul McCann Down he comes in the usual way. milk for your ‘Tay , at the break of day he looks around at the empties on the ground he...
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Soft Shoes
Soft Shoes By Paul McCann Walking down in my soft shoes , no one knows that it’s me Don’t want to wake them up now , don’t want them to see, How I...
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QND ELDR
QND ELDR As the clanging of metal grows closer I spread the coarse charcoal across my face I ready my ax to defend honor I run through the door into...
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Aunt Daisy's Son

A Christmas visitor.
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Game of Moans 3: ‘Pub’
The Night King’s phone rang. ‘The Wife,’ it said on the screen. He rolled his scary blue eyes and answered it. “Where are you?,” said the Night King’...
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Game of Moans 2: ‘Hair’
“What can you do for me?,” said Queen Cersei, as she sat in the hairdresser’s chair, considering her barnet. “I can’t do anything about that,” said...
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Flowers

He always gave me flowers. But not in the usual way. Far be it from Nathan to do anything in a usual, ordinary, everyday manner. We’d been together...
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Going Down Below

[This short poem was written, at request, for the Thanksgiving Service for a dear very elderly man who had had a working life as a skilful and dedicated mining engineer, though when asked of his occupation he would simply say ‘A miner’. I remembered Ewan’s writing on a colliery disaster in the 19th century, and thought it good to remember those who worked hard to improve and keep safety in industry.] Deep shafts, black gold, dark collier shifts …
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Second Thoughts

I fell in love with a man's wife. She convinced me to end his life. She said we couldn't be together unless he was dead. I bought a gun and agreed to...
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SMOKY CRACKED GLASS
Hello can someone out there please tell me something Can you please tell me, if you can How many times do we miss what we see And to how many things...
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Angel 60 (Bruno's confession)
The following weeks were the longest Angel could remember. The twins were fractious with the sudden heatwave and didn’t sleep very well. One night...
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Zomville
The dead won’t eat you. Okay, they might, but not if you know what you’re doing. I shuffle and stumble along in the way I have been trained to do. I...
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Talkin' Brass
Uncomplicated Jarrow doodle.
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