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Spider Sestina

I see a web a spider's weaving and, hanging on that silken web are, bound up, little creatures, living from whom the lifelight slowly ebbs but their...
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The Essence of the Rose.

Tiers...perfumed tincture of its central perfection, a mystic beauty. The maidens dance morn and noon, faeries jive the pale-faced moon. Rosa shines...

The Incapability Argument - Another ontological argument and the best one yet I think

Premise 1: What must be is Premise 2: If we can imagine something it is either real or not real Premise 3: If something is incapable of being the...
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Story of the week

The Thirteenth Floor

I was sick in bed with the flu when the police came. Something about a missing woman, routine enquiries they said, with rain running off their hats...

How I learnt to stop worrying and love Facebook.

Earlier this year there was a news story about Salisbury cathedral having to move a statue because dozy tourists glued to their smartphones kept...

Mom Thought I Would Be A Girl

Mom thought I would be a girl back in 1971. She was surprised to learn that I was a son. She was surprised but she wasn't disappointed in the least...

Window 21) The message to Joseph

Joseph, betrothed to Mary, was puzzled, but fair – an angel appeared, to tell him too, in a dream that the child was conceived by the Holy Spirit to be the Saviour, of his people – Jesus – Immanuel, which means God with us. [See …

FLIGHT

Beneath blue skies You take your route In haste you reach out To help the helpless hand One of our selfless souls That still roams our land Beneath...

COMMUNE

My community never sleeps Day and night time They know of the stranger who weeps My community never sleeps Guarding and never missing a thing They...
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Swimming Against the Tide

Lucius Malfoy enjoys a Muggle pastime, and contemplates the line between his old and new life. This text is a piece of Harry Potter fan-fiction. All character, locations and concepts are the intellectual property and copyrighted material of J. K. Rowling.

Santa Clause And His Rock And Roll Band (Seasonal Rock Song)

1st Verse: Dasher bashes on the drums. Donner on a guitar strums. Prancer on piano plays while Blitzen picks electric bass. 2nd Verse: Comet, cupid...

The Cowboy Santa Clause (Country and Western Seasonal song)

1st Verse: With his red ten gallon hat on, he comes riding through the snow wearing spurs that jingle-jangle just like sleigh bells as he goes. 2nd...

To See The Newborn King (Christmas Carol)

1. We're Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar. We're three wise men who're following a star. We're following a star to Bethlehem to see the Newborn king. 2...
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Poem of the week

Kiss

The painting is by Caravaggio...

Authorisation required

‘Authorisation required’ the screen said. He tried to scan the next item, but it wouldn’t let him. ‘Bloody auto-tills’ thought Johnny. He never used...
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the three wise men + one

I was coming back from the Dropp Inn and I met the three wise men, standing in the lane outside The Tasty Spot , at the fence, broken glass at their...
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The Night the Christmas Trees Cried.

Hans and Gerda treating their kinder, blow on roasted chestnuts from red hot cinders. Fairground organ pipes up carolled tunes, Silver palmed Romany’...

War

War It's a war No, not like the others There is no fighter, I am the king I am the soldier. It's a war I have to win, I have to fly Though I have no...
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Sherlock Holmes and the lost tiger (1)

“Really Lestrade, this is not a case I can help you with.” “I thought it was right up your alley.” Lestrade’s moustache twitched when he was thinking...
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I Remember...

I remember my window, spattered with sleet, the phantasm-feral mist, hovering voodoo flares. A diamond flamed moon... She brought stone-cold nights,...

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