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After the Snow
After the Snow Sun sets over a sylvan skyline, birdsong fades on bare boughs, vulpine tracks of hunting paths, life crawls post Yuletide sprawl...
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The Mole (A Sonnet)
The Mole (A Sonnet) Jennifer Pickup, 26.01.2024 I’ve been hiding in the dark for too long, Seeking refuge in ground’s eternal night – A haven in...
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Ashes to Ashes (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 52)
We're at the gates of the crematorium and time is definitely running out for Frankie, but there's a shock in store for Samantha, too!
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Forgetting something? Just say London Bridge.
Any number of times during a normal day, I reach into my memory banks for some fact, figure or past memory of a place or event and find only a blank...
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Moon Over Armley
Moon Over Armley An angry cloud converses with the lunar. The sixpence sphere will always rise above. In Armley prison darkness arrives sooner. A...
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Cheers
Another gone. Per Ardua Ad Astra, Blue skies.
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Oppositions
Oppositions By Paul McCann Oppositions left and right some up ahead and out of sight They stand ringing a warning bell Don’t come here , we don’t...
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It’s A New Day
It’s A New Day by Paul McCann . Hey , I wake up , it’s a new day , and the dark night has gone away the birds are singing in the trees there’s a...
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Not Far Away
Not Far Away By Paul McCann So there was I in a terrible place , calling out for help everyday , but something told me it would be ok because God was...
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the E L E P H A N T in the room part three.
Professionals. Unemployed. Upstanding Citizen. Low Life’s. Famous. Unknown. Rich. Poor. Pious. Criminal. Successful. Peaceful. Hardworking. Neighbour...
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the E L E P H A N T in the room part two.
The elephant is still in the room. It is not like it is a gnat, or a flea, an elephant in the room can Not be ignored! I have seen elephants at the...
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I MIGHT MARRY RHEA
I MIGHT MARRY RHEA I might marry Rhea: she’s got something in her smile, Life between her teeth, Acrobats inside her eyes. I might marry Rhea, but it...
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'A bump of originality'*
… an unexpected twist, insertion, a catch in the rhythm a …
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Los Danis
Found this in an old notebook today...
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Silent Mystic
January 25 th sees the first Full Moon of the year, colloquially known as the Wolf Moon. Silent Mystic Silver light cascades on a tree-lined panorama...
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Just Deserts
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Seven.
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the E L E P H A N T in the room part one.
It is awful when something is seriously wrong, and even worse than that is when some people are not aware of it. Years later the shocking details did...
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New Directions (5)
The tea arrived on a small silver tray which looked like the ones that get experts excited on endless antique TV shows. If the tray excited them, the...
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Literacy
When I was young, we had a picture on our refrigerator of a young girl named Katarina held up by a magnet. She was about 13 years old with long dark...
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Parcel for you..Part 16
Spencer pulled away from Pat and began putting the finishing touches to the table. ‘It’s nearly ready to eat,’ he said flatly. ‘Good. Please sit down...
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