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And We Move On

How it is. Image by storyset on freepik
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Sweet Contemplation (Part 2 of 2) (IP)

I knew what Ben had been thinking. He was thinking it was his job now, his inheritance. I hadn’t gone near the vegetable garden after the night I saw Mum.
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Sweet Contemplation (Part 1 of 2) (IP)

We’ll never know why Dad went out to the vegetable garden. Maybe to see how the cabbages were doing, or to plan the next crop. Maybe just to think. He used to say that being out among living things just quietly growing was a good exercise in contemplation.
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Summer's Creation

Softly thinking... remaining in hush; needing to understand complexity of waiting, bringing suggestions of impressions to surface; allows me to...
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I Sigh, You Sigh.

I sigh He sighs. I sighed, he sighed, it was almost in unison. I sleep, you sleep. He can be happy; I can be happy too. I can feel pain, so can he. I...
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White Van Man

White van man Ripping up the tarmac With cat guts in the tyre treads And tiny scattered wings Clinging to the wind shield Drill drilling in his ear...
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Leaning to skip and other attempts to address the lifespan/healthspan gap

It was 10 years ago this month (February 2013) when my eardrum burst. I was 54 years old. I'd had a cold and my ear began to ache on the way to work...
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Godot's Ghost

I've read Waiting for Godot about half-a-dozen times and seen it twice on stage many years ago. I can never make up my mind if Godot is God or death, or if Estragon and Vladimir are in Hell or Purgatory or in a care home near Clacton-on-Sea. Anyway, this isn't really about Didi and Gogo. [Image from PXhere.com]
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At the Tate, St Ives

Old lovers (well dressed) fossilise a kiss in the discreet galleries, among the abstracts and cathedral quiet. Captured on the CCTV, nobody would be...
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Loud Mouth Up A Ladder

In the 90s I used to go clubbing ....a lot. So much so some dates times events all blur into one and it's really difficult to remember who what where...

I Won't Buy Beer For You

You want me to buy beer for you. But that's something I will not do. You are only 17 years old and you are too young to drink beer. I won't buy it...
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A Vicious Circle

When did centrism become such a bad thing? Why? Image is PD from PD Vectors.

Welshman’s caviar (bara lawr)

I have good memories of freshly cooked laverbread brought home by my mother from Cardiff market.
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Poem of the week

Triptych

The rock face became my confessor/Water became my crystal/Earth became my altar.
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"The Coffee House Spy" 7

Emily had fed Sir Harry his breakfast when they returned from their walk in the park and brewed a fresh pot of coffee. She’d just placed her filled...

Priorities for prayer

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] 'What shall we eat?' and ‘What shall we wear?’ ‘God, be my Saviour’, be my first prayer. Worrying can’t add...
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The Lord Says Go North 3

Gary and Matthew arrived at the community house in Glasgow. They sat in the kitchen with their suitcases, drinking two cups of coffee, with Gerald...
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