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Embrace
Embrace Your inner peace, now smothered in flames, Of anticipation; the unveiling of a virgin bride. Kindle in volcanic ashes. Causes chaos to riddle...
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Holding The Country To Ransom.
Jane’s car failed its MOT, so it has been taxis to and from work. Her taxi is £12 to work and £12 back. Sadly her car has been in the garage for over...
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Pastries with Pattie
Pastries with Pattie For the last dozen years or more, we have made it our custom to stop by the Panera Bread Company, in the Coconut Mall Complex in...
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Another Year
More odes from the crypt... It's about... 6 lines too long - or short, I don't know. Image is from pxhere.com
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Mirrors for Princes
(Brunellus and) The Mirror of Fools is a satire written by Nigel de Longchamps sometime around the turn of the 12th Century. What is this about? Hold it up to the mirror... it won't help. More old stuff. Image is PD
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Eclipse
Eclipse Clouds in a dawn sky seen through stoical eyes can sometimes seem like ethereal carriers of innermost angst. Maybe there is a silent...
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The Rag Doll's Clothes (I Am Not Invisible)
Photograph is from wiki commons - unfortunately - taken in 2006, I wonder where this woman is now? Is she even alive? A large proportion of the UK's homeless are ex-military personnel. Licence cc-by-sa-2.0.
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I READ THE BABBLE
my occupation ? minister many weddings I have led "I now pronounce you, man and wife" so many times I've said but late in life, I must confess...
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Undercover Agent 3
I moved into the boy’s room. Denton had warned me that this might happen and had given me clear instructions of what to do, there was no point my...
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Managing Political Campaign
Managing Political Campaigns Over dinner one evening, a friend asked me what all of this “campaign stuff” was all about. They had apparently been...
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Beachcomber
I remember a time, thirty thousand years ago, when I felt something.
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This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale
Words of comfort, words of peace. Words to fend off angry geese.
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Death Is Constantly Seeking You
Death Is Constantly Seeking You: So what are you waiting for? The sands in the hourglass have now begun to evaporate; Running on empty: pressing to...
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Good Neighbours
It has almost become the norm now, the doorbell goes, I go to the door and it the post man asking, “Can you have this parcel for number three?” I...
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The Haunted Coffee Machine
A short ghost story (with apologies to Margery lawrence)
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This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - L'ouverture
Words in papers, words in books. Words once sung by Elkie Brooks.
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Never Give Up To Waves
Searching for a place to not just escape, But belong, my rose garden. Big roaring grey angry waves keep bashing me against Cold wet walls that try to...
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The Gift of Life
The Gift of Life Knowing god’s will is life's treasure; But doing God's will is a life of pleasure. Searching out god’s will is life in the word: And...
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In This House II
She needn’t search for a bump on her head this time. The aching pain let it be known. In the coolness of the room, she could feel a trickle of warm...
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