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Making Hay On Triple Time
Making Hay On Triple Time By Paul McCann I get a little bit back , some taken away in the business of life everyone’s got to pay but as long as the...
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'Neath the Willow Tree
Typed out on November 2, 2017 (partially written before) ’Neath the Willow Tree (Verse 1) Far away from the cities and dwellings of man Is a green...
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- 467 reads
2018
Months became eons Never ending An unrelenting whirl of seasons One bleeding into another The line between reality vague and irresolute A cacophony...
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Juggling
Juggling (07.01.19) Flying firebrands, caught by practised hands; I watch the skill he wields - he understands where the spin will end, when it’s...
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3am soul-searches
What does it feel like to belong? Somewhere to rest your head along with your rain-soaked coat; a smile, a hug, or a hand to hold; or a gesture of...
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hard and fast and shiny
we make our faces look plastic like dolls we had as children, un aging if we can afford to pay in plastic. Package fruit so it won't go black as air...
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Frost Bite part 1
"I can't go back to yesterday- because I was a different person then." -Lewis Carroll The storm was getting worse, and I still had no shelter. My...
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He Got His Name Into The Book! Part Two.
There are many people we read about in history, which happens to be my favourite subject at school. There are famous villains, hero’s, people who...
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scar tissue
scar tissue you used to fight crime nowadays you fight sunday grime hosing down a retirement land rover whilst indoors your wife no longer bends over...
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The Midnight Rambler
The Midnight Rambler By Paul McCann I’m talking about the midnight rambler who comes out when the sun goes down. If you see the midnight rambler tell...
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The Gypsy Girl and the Accountant's Brother (3 of 5)
And then the Winter Carnival came into town. Simon was coming down hard from the high of being with Jodie. He was finding it hard to get up in the...
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He Got His Name Into The Book!
This morning I was reading a book about a fabulous Man! As I read about him, he was feeling insecure, worried, alone, even frightened he was given...
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A Family Christmas
Jon walked along the street with his head down against the driving rain. The rain had started three days ago and hadn't stopped since then; it seemed...
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Small Bedrooms
Did I love you yesterday? Will I love you tomorrow? You were the same as you will be. Strands of darkness will still strafe your face. And your...
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February
February No verses do you inspire in me Nor are you quite January The tail end of the winter that you may be Alas you are the month of miscarriages...
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Embers
“We can’t keep a student like him here,” Said Principal Wexley. “If child protective services find out we have a minor attending our school who is...
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Blessed Rapport
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] We know about so many folk, acquainted with so few; many who read about you, Lord, … don’t personally know you, for that fellowship is something more…
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The Gypsy Girl and the Accountant's Brother (2 of 5)
Dirk had a job. He’d been applying for positions in half a dozen accounting firms, and today he’d gotten the letter in the mail, gold embossed, with...
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Come With Me
Come With Me By Paul McCann Come with me where the sky is so blue with the sound of the ocean calling to you . The music of the water has no spoken...
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