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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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Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon

Caught in a lull between two storms, I’m stuck in an uneasy stay-in-the-house kind of frame of mind, reluctant to open the back door even though the...
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Santa in Therapy

Santa lets loose in the psychiatrist's office.
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8

8 legs on a spider – 4 on each side (4 and 4 makes 8); 8 tentacles on an octopus (like arms) An octagon is a flat shape with 8 straight sides ‘octo’...
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The Last Room

Don't take room 217, they told me But that was the last one left 'First right, then wrong ', said the receptionist. 'Don't you mean left?' , I said...

Stress

The demon called stress skulks in the darkness of our minds behind the backlogs and bulk of unfinished work left and unsigned 'til the following day...
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Upperkirkgate, Sunday

Evidently drunk on Life, the bottled kind, a streetcorner Pavarotti remixes arias, Oblivious to the masses, shopping blind, hands held high, his Ave...
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Strange Advent

I first posted this work on UKAuthors a year ago, in reponse to the deowning of a young child in the British Channel. Sadly, nothing has changed since then. (Image is courtesy of Roland My from Pixabay)
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I is for Icing and Ivy

concealing sweetness spreads white, on all made before lushly sheltering birds' first food in next year's store
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The Pollarded Willows

I look out every day onto a row of four very old willows, which probably grew next to a drainage ditch before it was piped and built over to make the road I live on. ++++ Rachel's trees series inspired me to write about them, but I felt it a bit cheeky to post a poem until they became a subject for the IP ++++ Photo of two of them taken with my iPhone
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Maria and the Bellasis Family 16

A few days later, I made my way back to Florence’s house, again to coincide with her lunch break. I gave her a copy of what I had written, and waited...
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H is for Holly (for sale and for song)

Tied wild tamed by gold spray fussily ossified bright red in gloss green sway where feasting blackbirds ride

7

7 days in every week – … 7 full musical notes in the scale.: …
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The Journey. Part Two.

Breaking News! Karl Maquinghen, the fisherman who gave the alert of the bodies floating on the sea, has twenty-one years’ experience on the sea, want...
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The Journey. Part One.

Where I live, the culture is strong, families they are large and tightknit, most are not wealthy, religion, politics and traditions, rank very high...
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The automatic is just what happens

I have no say in it I play no part in it I did nt vote on it I did nt join its fan club It just happens And will go on happening “It’s okay to not be...

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