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and when we should have felt like strangers

and when we should have felt like strangers we met, drum-called and thirsting betwixt the curling of flames and a woodland heavy with tears i found...
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It Being December

Dulled A mind follows a rainbow Seven shades of jet In hope to find A faerie shoemaker In wee black jacket and cap Tap-tapping at the soles Of...
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Saints and Sinners - A Christmas Fable (Part One of Two)

Saints and Sinners - A Christmas Fable (Part One of Two) Bill Doherty rocked gently on a bar stool, squinting at bright, neon lights and staring at...

The Seat Belt.

I had heard about a lad who had violently attacked another lad, and then drove off at speed with the police chasing him, within a few minutes, the...

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… the number of players in football or cricket teams.…

L is for Letters (to North Pole) and Lichen

wishful lists, neatly made, flame posted, undefine slow creeping, bark borne jade filaments, mist slick, shine this picture is from Wimedia : https...

Pandemonium is a Natural Affair

Once the sun kisses the edge of the horizon new adventures begin- a wind stirs the pot with a mix of turmoil as it draws from a nest of furor shoving...
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Are We Family

Ten long years. It was Pwy’he’s tenth birthday, eleventh if you asked Char and the house was in full swing. Given the differences in the human and...
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10

Two figures represent 10. the crab that walks sideways …
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Blueprint

Bulbs rustle in paper bags, pale corns, rhizomes, tubers to breathe new life into a barren corporate patch. Husks, tipped with green shoots, become...
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A man with no peer

A man with no peer At my fontanel reverberates a yell that Kali is an angel not a man, mortal sent with a mission as a man common to demonstrate for...
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Hotel Mediterraneo

Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
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Newsflash: Update

Usually I contribute a little bit of fun to the Abc site, but this time I ask you to consider some serious questions. Virologists have often made the...
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Great Horton Swan Song

From high up upon their sacred hill. They’ve sat watching me twist mad, thin and ill. Because I’ve felt horrors that they’ll never conceive. Away I...
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K is for Kings and Knapweed

gifts for fraught future brought - gold, frankinsence and myrrh purple crown much bee-sought turned finch seedhead sceptre

J is for Jingle Bells and Jackdaws (another go at this)

bright sound from high, cold night of promise drawing near dusk; like roofs' slates took flight with joyous jew's harps' cheer

Playlist: For a Road Trip in Spring

A playlist that takes me back to my youth.
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9

… We ring 9, then 9 again, and 9 once more on a phone if there is a …
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THUS SPOKE CHORKIE WALKER - Chorkie's Discourses (first part)

THUS SPOKE CHORKIE WALKER Of the Three Metamorphoses ‘I name you three metamorphoses of the miniature teddy bear: how a mass-produced toy shall...
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