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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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Holy Forever.
Holy Forever. On January 17th 2024A.D. something popped up on my Instagram it was of two little boys one was on a homemade drum and the other was...
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Undercover Agent 2
“It’s a parrot with perfect recall,” Denton told his boss. “Word for word.” “How does that help. We’ can’t use a parrot in court, we’d look...
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Undercover Agent 1
“Armed police,” someone shouted, and a dozen or more armed officers stormed into the room. They surrounded the table, at which Linton and Hilya were...
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Cat Nation
Mrs Simpkins had stuck little A4 posters on every lamp post , bin and tree in a one-mile radius of her small garden flat in the quiet end of town at...
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Wonky wants become wise
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I’ve freedom to do what I want, empowered now to do what I would – for as I now know, love the Lord, I value...
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If I Could Live My Life Over Again .......
If I Could Live My Life All Over Again. I have said, that SO many times. Even more so last year. What does that really mean? Usually, I say that when...
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Domestic Help
“You’re out of milk, down to your last egg and there’s something green and unpleasant on the top shelf. Is it something I said?” My fridge sends me...
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In This House
It was the wind outside which finally roused her. If not for the storm, cascading sidewards in howling waves, she’d have remained in slumber. Perhaps...
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The Can Guru Lectures #314
One day the earth will be blackened rubble. Even now, it's nought but a bubble. Gurning youths with simian stubble. Owt for nowt, at the double. No...
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In A Troubled Land
What lies ahead shows incessant consternation by the hour; Fleeting moments grieving, yearning lips crave romantic lover, for a maiden needs...
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The Bank Manager
News item from the Bounds Green Advertiser 22 nd December 1941 BUNGLED BANK ROBBERY ENDS IN TRAGEDY Abi Gale, Crime Reporter An attempted bank...
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The Old Village Parish Priest
The Old Village Parish Priest By Paul McCann So there you would see him standing amongst them in between all the bigots filled with hatred who all...
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Envy
Canary confined: … Lady longing to be …
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Dad's poet society
“I wish I had never put myself in such an awkward position!” he muses desperately. “If I only had given him some instructions. Just a few tips. Like...
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Emptiness
[Emptiness] Swell with volatile anticipation; Into obscurity, this known vacant cold storage looms with drudgery. A chilly melancholy refuge where...
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