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Don Quixote Was Right
1. Old Don Quixote was right after all. The windmills were giants; giants, but still small. 2. For their children would dwarf them clutch the world...
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John 15:1-2
John 15:1-2 There he was again. With his straw hat and his worn-out brown loafers. His plain grey shirt and faded blue jeans soaking up the early...
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Grimms43
On the second landing, Jaz can’t wait. He nips into the cludgie and pulls the door over, stands leaning, left hand splayed against peeling paint of...
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Eternal
There's creaks from the floor There's chills down your spine A sense of foreboding It's the end of your time There's frost in the sill And ice in the...
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The border of earth
Little has been written which impact hairdressers have on the lives of human beings. That's remarkable. Hair style is one of the most striking...
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Your Face
Your Face by Paul McCann Your face is like a distant horizon I drift away as I look in your eyes . Your face it glows like the sunshine and I love...
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The Dying Rose
The Dying Rose - By Paul McCann . You left me out in the cold , Things were out of my control , I was alone and exposed . No one sees the dying rose...
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A Better Nurse
A Better Nurse - By Paul McCann . Its a hard old job and sometimes it's enough to make you curse . So you study hard and you try to become a better...
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Wednesday Night Poetry Club
An age old question, it finishes "in times of strife?" I don't know the answer. I don't think Hoelderlin did either.
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1500 Paces
Sometimes I can work best late at night and sometimes I can work at my best early in the morning. This one day was one of those early morning days as...
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A Letter To:
Dear you, I write this from a fairy-lit bedroom, a fusion of static noises from a television and blue lights reflecting on moistened skin. I am older...
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The Girl Leprechaun
A fairy girl, I met, from Éire with emerald eyes and fiery hair but near the rainbows end I let her go and then the fairy, into air, disappeared...
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Puppy Trump
I have a puppy who loves to run and jump. I have a Chihuahua that is named Trump. He was born on the 14th of January and he's special indeed. I now...
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grimms42
At 11.45 am three masked men burst through the door of the Linen Bank on Dunbarton Road, stocking masks over their faces. ‘This is a stick up,’...
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AND SO TO SLEEP (for World Sleep Day)
I find it difficult to sleep, sometimes, Increasingly more often than not. There are reasons, excuses, explanations, As a ‘woman of a certain age’,...
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The Songwriting Machine
1. In the future, yet unseen our new songwriting machine will make music that the people love to hear. 2. Though it doesn't have a heart still they...
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Paris in November
The Eiffel Tower looks lonely when viewed from The Louvre, its silent stance in contrast to the swirling voices around the glass pyramid Camera...
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I Cherish To Tell
I Cherish To Tell P K Routray Seven decades of observations on social practices and traditions with which I was nurtured and grown as a child, as a...
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Cytomania
Rebecca Weinstein, a psychology professor, lay gagged and bound to a bed in what looked like some kind of military bunker surrounded by the people in...
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