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In Search of the 'Snoz-Wanger'!
My grandson had to create an imaginary creature for his remote English school work. In this exercise he had to describe the creature and explain its habitat and habits. This made me wonder what his two dogs, Packham and India, might make of it...
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Them's The Breaks
'This is the last time, Jimmy. It's getting a bit iffy, you know what they're like?' He threw it onto the table. Wrapped, discreet in its work-a-day...
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Hearing Voices
A soft-centred morning. The spongy surface of day, where ideas graze on crusts of past imaginings. New life flirts amongst old dreams, stirring cold...
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Insecurity
If you could rub a magic lamp and make a wish,..
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Timor Mortis Me Conturbat
Warning! Contains Latin with which I have taken a syntactical liberty. Although strictly speaking, the verb is generally at the end of a Latin period,this is merely a phrase. It means 'fear of death disturbs me' Image is by the 17th century painter Philippe de Champaigne, I don't think he'll mind me using it.
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Isolation Island 4 - Not Matilde
After the Colonel left, the Librarian continued with my induction. “If this is a library, where are the books?” I said. “There are no books on the...
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Broken Dream
When a country boy met a city girl.
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Aaron’s Rod (Mullein)
Striking spike shoots up from the woolly furry star-like pile of leaves on the wasteland floor … surprise and laughter among the scrub and stones!
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Hold On To Your Hamsters
Ending a Story Cycle
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this is how love is made
this is how love is made the next one, the one I marry, will have eyes of silver moon threads, we’ll wrap ourselves tight in memories made of hot...
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in guano
in guano arriving aromas of all the world paint travel onto wistful winds human nostalgia chargrilled on hot coals as tiny skyward fingers follow...
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M-e-m-o-r-i-e-s
During radio listening nights long ago Orphan Annie and other family programs such as I Love Lucy meant sharing pop corn giggling and a bowl of ice...
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Stolen Ford Truck
A jerk thought he was being smart when he stole my Ford truck. But he didn't know that it had no brakes and he was out of luck. I removed the worn...
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Isolation Island 3 - the Overseer
We walked outside. "This is the village," the Colonel said. He gestured to the surrounding circle of wooden buildings, all of them identical to the...
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Candid Camera
The camera never lies.
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My Son's Jaguar
I shouldn't have given my son a choice when I bought him a car. He could've chosen something cheaper but he wanted a Jaguar. He was reckless when he...
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Lake Musings
This was a poem I put on under the name Featheredwing in 2018. Inspired by a weekend spent down at lake fishing. I often wonder! How flies Heron...
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Isolation Island 2 - Dream Archaelogy
I dressed. My clothes were on the back of the chair at the foot of my bed. Grey boxers, grey tracksuit bottoms, grey T shirt, grey cardigan and black...
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This year's walk...(08)
UKA is closing. Nostalgia about - something to do with memory...and Spring walks. Was a poem I fell asleep in a chair writing... tooo long on and on ..a few polaroid verses here, more prosey .Still to long! but, for the record, Hail! Spring! (08) Comment: "It's a bit boring...." Comment: "I told you I fell asleep writing it!"
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