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Highly Seasonal Being
I am a highly seasonal being. Seasonally Affected- Disordered- (SAD). What’s the point of winter? It only breeds grey melancholy Which itself sounds...
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Reflections of Mother’s Day as a Motherless, Childless Woman
A couple of Sunday's ago my evening viewing was upset a little by the chosen format for that night’s edition of The Big Painting Challenge (BBC One,...
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Basic Need
We've been together for over a year. Something told me he was special or better said, he would captivate my heart by pretending to be different. Guys...
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Words, Words, Words.
In the beginning there was logos Said Heraclitus. In the beginning there was word Said the Bible Sticks and stones Or words said The sadistic...
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CYANOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS
CYANOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS Ideas nascent In shades of blue. Blue is the fruit of knowledge tree. Blue is the complexion of a noble lady: Phantom both in...
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America And Me
America And Me - by Paul McCann I ventured out on the highway , a guitar in my hand to sing my songs on the corners of many different lands . I tried...
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With thanks to the Morphine
With thanks to the Morphine Writing poetry is not an easy thing Reading it can be even more challenging I sit down with pen in hand Trying to think...
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Farewell Jane
Last month my neighbor lost his wife of thirty-three years. Her friends and family are grieving and shedding tears. She was sixty-three years old and...
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Sam
Sam. smoky dingy café, workmen shout and curse. She floats among the tables tending like a nurse, pauses when she sees me, breaks into a smile then...
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Dance with Me
Pinterest has some great images for inspiration, this is just one. https://es.pinterest.com/pin/436427020110513587/
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Three to Twenty-Two
The seasons have flipped sudden as a switch. When I clocked in, it was three degrees By clock-out, twenty-two. Thumbs through backpack straps...
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UNDISCOVERED BLISS
we boiled beneath the blazing sun and shivered in the night alone, afraid a dark parade with no strength left to fight . when down to our last shred...
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OBVIATED
In my dream I was obviated Said the grandma My story telling was replaced by iPads My colourful buttons and patches Replaced by Primark My wisdom was...
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BREAKING AWAY
BREAKING AWAY I say I saw our future together. It was charred. His speech was electronically charged. Did he hear my plea? My memory is cascading...
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The Gull
This morning as I walked to work sipping at the idea of solipsism and the perfect spring morning I couldn’t be sure of a Hove gull breached what I...
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Grimms48
Rab cashes his Giro the next day and agrees to meet Jaz and the Tash back in the pub. Jaz sits waiting, nursing a warm pint, the Tash beside him...
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Pt. 4
Change of Mind “Hey dad…can I still go to that school” I asked “What the fuck is wrong with teenagers they always change their mind!” my dad said “...
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Spring has sprung (at last)
Daylight lengthening, sunlight strengthening, weakening winter’s grip, but temperatures dip … shout spring has sprung!
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Two Ships
She bought 40 cigarettes Two lottery lucky dips I imagined her on the oceans edge Looking for one or two ships To come on home She lives alone with...
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