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Felonious Tongue-Twister

First and fleetest ran the fleecers as the sheriff’s ambush fell flushing gamblers from false gaming – fake their loaded dice, the fleeced now...
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The Past, Passed #2
It's strange the things that are remembered. The arbitrary slice of a mind dismembered. I always loathed the slippery prune. Never got around to...
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Drugs - Where's the harm? - 2

After 12 years out of hospital and leading an independent life in the community I went down with post-covid psychosis and had 4 weeks back in. I have...
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A Farmer's Man
George was old enough as he was of age- time to decide son daddy said to be a college man or a farmer’s man. Being the oldest of eleven made it easy...
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Corona Log- 3 May, 2022- final entry
Corona Log- Tues, May 3, 2022- Final Entry It is a sultry 92 degrees (F) here in SW Florida. I had started the day out with a congregation, of...
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Ingerland My Ingerland: The Prime Ministers Who Made Me
How lucky was I in life's lottery ?
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sleep gently
sleep my gentle my dear my treasure sleep my love my miracle my own freely easily darling bliss and peace sleep sweet my dove mine alone slumber...
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I Will Ride

Anybody see Boris's bus crash interview with Susanna Reid? Unbelievable. image wikipedia commons.
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Acrobats at Rest

It's about... whatever. Can't use the picture used for inspiration, so I made my own from available pd elements
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Ugly Puggly 18
Ugly Puggly was doing something with broad beans and peas, boiling them to death. ‘Whit have you got in the oven?’ I smacked my lips together, after...
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Trail Of Thought

A poem written to the sounds of Jazz, and inspired by the Bohemian and Beat Generation. Afternoon Lounge Jazz - Relaxing Jazz Music for Work &...
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On Being ‘Alone’
A death at any age, if it could and should have been avoided, is a death too soon. The life of a person with no children, parents, siblings or...
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We are Family
Times have changed. The three gods stood silently in the void. Lore contemplated their life and how their decisions had led them to being offered a...
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Another Country

I wrote this in May 2015. I have crystal balls. I do not know this past, save through the prism of books written at the time they're supposed to be depicting. For it was not like any past I experienced first hand. Nostalgia is seductive, reductive and contains the nationalist propagandist's biggest lies. Image created from CC0 original.
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Into the heart, out of the mouth

…your eyes, your heart’s door … Direct the attention of ears to what’s good … Not nosing out dirt … mouth trained not to hurt …
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butterfly moment

truants of moonlight soft as forgetting wings, pale, delicate flicker in arcs then fold, as hair-fine feet cling, taste star white wild garlic...
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Grand Opera
When Grand Opera isn’t. The Magic of a successful, grand opera is a mystical experience. It is a poly-euphony of melodious orchestral pieces, the...
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Tumultuous Times
Once the sun kisses an edge of horizon new adventures begin- a raucous wind stirs the pot with a mix of sound and turmoil lifts an eagle into layers...
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Ugly Puggly 17
We balanced plates of linguine dappled with parmesan on our laps in the living room. Ugly Puggly sat in his armchair across from us and sipped green...
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Curiosity

Imaging you are 103 year old. You are still alive and kicking, You still like playing marbles, eating too many pieces of cake on your birth day,...
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