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Empty Bed
The pillows and the sheets Ironed stiff and tucked in tight I can smell her perfume in the air And see her brushing her hair It's been awhile since...
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Sparkly Little Paula
I wrote this for International Women's Day but as often, I'm too late for the IP. It's based on a true story of my school friend, Paula Dale.
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More Elaines
Elaine and I barely spoke to each other but memories of this gruff, no-nonsense woman have stayed with me for fifty years.
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Doctor, Doctor ('Dead Reckoning' series - Part 2)
In which Josah's spell as a patient is testing Archibald's patience!
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Elizabeth, Mary’s relative
Given a child when past age of hoping – her child would prepare people for the coming Messiah. At six months gestation, her baby leaped for joy in his mother’s womb* when Mary …
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More n'24 <freestyle>
Here we go in 2024… Tried to scribble one down got a little confused read’n around, read it out loud just to hear the sound… A bit a fear Got a man-...
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Falling
Falling I am no one . White walls washed by sodium light was all I could see. There was a certain kind of claustrophobia that went with the room, a...
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The End - part 2
I am on my final countdown- 6 weeks or less, although I am still feeling pretty good. Two weeks ago I went to the hospital for an MRI scan - and they...
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12.1 An Abyss of Bitterness
As the sun rose next day, that shaman woman entered the room holding a tray of hot soup and a roll of bun. Tyler Friesen opened his eyes and almost...
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Cancelled in the afterlife
Maybe now she’s seen me in my own juice sat about picking my nose swearing at the news she doesn’t want to know me. The other year I bumped into one...
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11.3 Sibir of Siberia
Fourteen men climbed the motorboat, VRD-516, a project 376 Yaroslavets survey boat, and assembled in the forward hold by the guards wearing leather...
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Paint me a Rainbow
Guns and knives Slaughtered lives Blood spilled Hope is killed How did we stoop so low Where did humanity go Needles and drugs Heart string tugs For...
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Mary, the mother of Jesus
A simple honest girl, probably a teenager, imperfect like us all, but with faith and trust in the saving God was shocked when an angel came to call...
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Looking
No explanations. Image is PD.
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11.2 Sibir of Siberia
Dorothy and Schmid were picked from Metropol by an In-Tourist transfer vehicle and taken to Yaroslavsky Railway Station by seven and they embarked...
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A New Bar in Town (Time Tunnel Tale #3)
The Bar had just opened. It was 1983 and the infectious synth-pop of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ played on the bar’s sound system, and all around the...
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The Veteran Speaks ( Time Tunnel Tale #2)
I am a seasoned veteran of the office wars, like Mike Moorcock, or was it Nik Turner, used to declaim, on that old Hawkwind album ‘Warrior on the...
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Love Returned
An example of a Tanka, a Japanese poem of five lines in 5,7,5,7,7. I like the form as it requires brevity within the confines of its structure.
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In a quaint English Town
In a quaint English town with cobblestone streets and a pub like The Crown strange things occurred, as if out on their own… A surreal streak,...
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In a quaint English Town
In a quaint English town with cobblestone streets and a pub like The Crown strange things occurred, as if out on their own… A surreal streak,...
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