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The Cobbe house iii The dreams
I recall running for our lives, out of that damned house. Down the narrow woodland path and onward to the safety of home. Looking back, perhaps we...
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Bible Punching
They see you coming from a mile. It is often really really hard to break loose once they have their grip. They are wolves in sheep's clothes...
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Home Is Where The Beach Is
I picked a girl from Yogi Bar Waiting for a customer We lodged in a loft at Siggy’s place Sitting by the window glaze Under the lights as midnight...
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- 460 reads
Happy Birthday, Mom - Part IV: Precious As A Flower
It was wonderful to have a mother who was so great. If you hadn't died, today you would've turned sixty-eight. When you became ill and died,...
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2. Sheds of Fate
[Continued from Fear Looming] My story of woe began on a backpacking trip to Nepal. I had always had a phobia of exercise, but had decided that...
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The Forsworn
The streets were filled with people rushing to safety. Unfortunately, that was in the opposite direction he was running with the palace guard to face...
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Yachta Mache - 13
My sister, Judy, came to visit in June, and as she was very nervous about the whole thing, she talked one of her friends into coming with her. They...
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BUT ME ?
some people fish for hammerhead some people fish for trout but most will fish for anything their little poles pull out . some people fish for halibut...
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Joanie's Poem
Joanie's Poem It comes, whispered, it lingers, sensed then swells in tumultuous surge it forms... ...a thought fanned, in tumbled letters spin, set...
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At Danny's Place
At Danny’s Place Tumbling dice follow an inertia of flicking wrist adding conversation to its limit. My numbers override yours as family-contestants...
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Winter Birches
Ash fell like snow. Or the snow like ash. The winter mixed with the burning of her city; there was no real telling them apart. Both of them fell...
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Silent Kill
Darkest eyes in blackest night Daggered irony to quench her light Still her breast with thorny heart Crush all hope before it starts Stem her words...
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Poor Tom Cat
Tom Cat once thought he'd caught a mouse but when he looked it was a grouse. A great, big grouse with feathers, red that pecked Tom Cat upon the head.
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Who Followed The Pied Piper? (Song)
Who followed the Pied Piper? A little girl called Jean. She followed the Pied Piper all through the forest green. Who followed the Pied Piper? Two...
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The Secretary Bird
The secretary bird unlike a parrot cannot speak. It types all of its words on a typewriter with its beak. One hundred words per minute it can type...
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IN DEFENCE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN (DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE?)
I’ve not actually spoken to Sir Philip Green since I last saw him in 1973, when I left my job in Old Street, City of London for the heady heights of...
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Feeling at Home with Savages (Competition entry LONDON)
There are threads that bind me to London. Some are thicker than others but they are all strong. I didn't’t know they were there at first, now I...
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The Passford House Hotel - Leave Left Retrieve Right
The Passford House Hotel for eating at is one of those rare gems of hospitality that is worth mining for in the lanes and byways of The New Forest...
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Arborglyphs
Lonely shepherds carved on aspen ******* A young US man called to war promised his new bride as he went he’d carve their names upon a tree at every place that he was sent … 60 years later …
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The George on Holyport Green and a special Landlord
I first met Ray Binding when I went into his pub, The George on Holyport Green . He was a small man with a cherubic face whom his daughter likened to...
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