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Goodnight, Elvis

Auntie Martha didn’t want me in her place from the get-go.
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Forbidden Love In Bloom

. Forbidden Love In Bloom By Paul McCann Up above in a crinkled sky sunset colours fly Down on the ground, wild flowers had been found in the place...
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I need to sleep.

A poem written from the grey numbness thats been affecting me.

True Crime

True Crime They walked into the woods, flashlights searching over the area and police dogs moving with haste and barking loudly. Finally, with the...
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Maple Tree Den

A poem about our Maple Tree that overhangs our garden den. Another photo I took. Once naked in winter, sleepy growth is revving up now spring is here...
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Estragón Sur La Plage

Found this in an old book, curated by John Wilks from one of his old contests from 2012. I've often thought there are more comfortable places to wait for someone than a crossroads. image created at Kubist.io from pd photographic image.
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You learn about the sunshine

First you learn about the sunshine Long, blue sky days Beneath the boughs of trees Leaves flickering, lambent The sun is ever loyal It burns in...
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Ray's Memories age 19

October 1976, North London no more - I escape to Scotland!
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The wonderful wild bells!

… deep hue, glowing bells gently waving, … (so unlike the Spanish burly, sturdy, stand-up stiff and straight garden ones …
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A Final Message From Moscow

A Final Message from Moscow When Putin’s tanks rolled into Ukraine on 24 th February 2022. I was inundated with messages concerned about the welfare...
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S T Vasectomy Clinic - 7

'Is everything okay?' ‘Yes,’ he nodded, ‘I just had a…..dream that’s all.’ ‘By the way Solo has been sick in the night, there’s bright yellow bile on...
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Elytra 7

Friday 21 July 85AGF 3pm It came at night. It came every night, entering his mind and sniffing around his unconscious, confident that this night...

Finding a Reason

“It’s not that I don’t love you anymore, I’m serious, that’s not it. I didn’t mean it that way. It’s just… I’m not the same. I don’t feel anything...

You're the Reason

You’re the Reason for my wings. A lit up lady with fire in your eyes and the energy of a lightning bolt that races to its destination- carrying me...
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Ugly Puggly 20

Ugly Puggly’s garden may have been a death trap with all that broken glass running down the slope, and the turning frame of a windmill, but the...
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Yew

CW, death, mental health, a little dark.

The Gulls on the South Pier

The gulls on the South Pier are unruly bastards. They swoop down and steal chips out of young children’s hands. The North Pier gulls, on the other...
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Non, je ne regrette rien

‘It won’t be long now’, Belle hears the nurse say as she drifts back into the darkness. She knows she is dying. It’s fine. She’s warm and comfortable...
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The visit

Shutters creak open across the coast, petals in the spring sunshine revealing lives that exist only for months. While sun makes long shadows that...
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It's A Gift

. It’s A Gift by Paul McCann When I saw her walking down the street , I looked over and I said , hey how are you feeling today and she smiled and...
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