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Angles by my side
Angles by my side in the light keep me safe today let me feel your warm glow in my heart before you go cover me with your wings like a warm blanket...
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Changing lives
Changing lives you and I what happen to the people we use to be time went on too fast what we were thinking was today soon became the past all those...
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a moment in the dark
standing still in the darkness still in the silence in a still moment of time standing in the dark a sea of smiling faces looking up waiting looking...
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An Unearthly Man-Child
The man ran through the terminal, his coat flapped in his tailwind; his monacle trailed behind him. His clothing timeless yet dated: a monochromatic...
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“Comes A Long A Love”

Kay Starr – 23 rd to 29 th January 1953
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(Teeth Tales) Smiling Underpants
When my father was older he had to get dentures and he hated to wear his lower dentures and never did, unless it was absolutely necessary, like when...
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Using My Head
Using My Head By Paul McCann I said to the teacher I am a poor creature my pen’s run out of ink. I’m counting up my sums with my fingers and thumbs...
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The Forgotten Ones '
The Forgotten Ones ' By Paul McCann During the time I worked with the homeless in the Salvation Army in Blackfriars , London , the Simon community in...
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A Casanova Meets Calypso
Her eyes were music. A melancholic minor key. She’d dated heartbreak, kept its memory. The unkindness of the world rested there, clouding the way she...
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Mother's Day Thoughts

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] “To be a mother – what a task! I need God’s help – His help I ask. No break, or pause, a constant role: I...
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IV. Remains - Part One

The cabinet he was building when Marie died was a white oak sideboard with dovetail joints and a hand-rubbed finish that would take four coats to get...
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The Light 5
Was love the solution to our problems? What did that mean, exactly? Was sacrificial love the solution to our problems? What were we sacrificing? Were...
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“You Belong To Me”

Jo Stafford: 16 th to 22nd January 1953
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The Misunderstanding
They dumped the last of the cardboard boxes on the apartment floor, and stood up. ‘Glad that’s over’, said Sarah. ‘Thanks Holden, much appreciated...
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The UFO Bible 7
"Then there will be a terrible time of suffering unequaled since the creation of the world and never to be equalled again." Crystal's neighbour Suzie...
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steam and track
sea and steam and sea and steam age-old rhyme in rhythm's time wind rushes hush-rush rush-hush steam and scream scream and steam ticka-takka ticka-...
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A Bali Belly
A Bali Belly by Paul McCann The hair of the dog bit my lip and all I could do was just moan felt seedy for a week and a bit I called the doctor on...
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Birthday Blues

It was my birthday, so I could write what I liked. Image made from PD elements at canva.com
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Finders Keepers

I may have posted this before, but I couldn't find it. A bit like some memories I have.
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Cyborgia Haiku Set
legions of light orbit vast cubist skyscrapers; in moats of misunderstanding Data from small talk from libraries, offices form a thought cloud above...
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