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A Place in the Sun

This is an old poem, 11 years old, in fact. I had been in Spain for 8 years at the time I wrote it. Nothing lasts forever and I think I knew it even then. Anyway, not much of interest here. Image Wikipedia commons.
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Poetry of the Soul

Poetry of the Soul When the gardener unfolds its landscape. Layers of the mind. Captivates suspense by having cultivated metaphors that come together...

Another Word That Is Disappearing.

My kids have not heard the word. My young colleagues, they haven’t heard the word either. For 100% comfort, my favourite shoe brand is Pavers! I wore...
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The Dance Halls We Once Knew

The Dance Halls We Once Knew By Paul McCann It started with the hop and ended as discos’ Kids on the streets of my town were kept on their toes We...

19.1 Water Gate Inn

TWA Flight 705 from Heathrow touched down at 13:25 at John F Kennedy International Airport, originally known as Idlewild and renamed on 24 th...

Sir Kier Starmer Superhero – Sir Kier and the climate emergency

“Oh no, we’re doomed.” “The planet is overheating.” “The ice caps are melting causing floods, and the intense heat is causing crop failure, famine,...
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The Silence at Penwarna

The was a stream one would assume was dreaming, until you see the bank side sign that warns it's polluted with arsenic. The poison a remnant of long...
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On Certainty

On Saturdays we get a Guardian delivered it's always through our door at 8.55 the regularity makes us feel good that someone is in a routine their...
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only when

only when poised at the edge of dimension, awaiting a safe day for first contact, they see – a hideous hardcore refusing to welcome children in boats...

18.3 An Astronomical Twilight

Soon, they were seated around the vintage table in the corner office. “Samvel Salazar from Armenia brought this case to my attention with your...

No ghost – living Saviour!

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] He was no ghost – he ate the fish, … Why do so many this dismiss, clear evidence ignore? And yet seem willing to believe in tales of things bizarre, that have no benefit to give, and very dubious are. …
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Passion Of The Drums

Evidence charged in midst gathered; rhythm pulsating, tempo building – echoing far and wide. Waterfall cascades in the dance, as lake fish and...
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Not Yours (version 2) Chapter One

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The sun flickered through the trees, sprinkling sharp blinding flashes through the car window. Oakley’s eyes closed instinctively and disorientated...
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Miracle of Love

You believe what you believe, and I'll believe what I believe. Image wikipedia commons under CC licence.
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Spitting image

The moment he steps onto the small stage. This is always a mixture of his deepest disgust. And his greatest desire. Those first seconds where...

18.2 An Astronomical Twilight

When Tyler arrived in Tbilisi which was another air force base, they put him on a ‘Coke’ transport plane, the Antonov An series but a different...

1:4:10 Crait (Part 2)

Red lights flashed throughout the ship; sirens wailed in their wake. All of the Lores appeared to be moving to their action stations, including Sam...
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Footloose ('Dead Reckoning' series - Part 4)

In which D.I. Wood dislikes the health advice he has received and Archibald muses on mice and...elephants!
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to the end

A short poem
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Jesus was a Rebel

A personal reflection at Easter. That for myself the truth that Jesus taught is still relevant, even after organised religion squandered it.

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