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The Merry Moth of December

I think that in a previous life I may have been a moth. Although I’ve never eaten a woolly jumper or bashed my brains out on a car windscreen, I can’...
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Rising Waters and Fear of a Great Flood

Rising waters that we are now seeing after three days of heavy rain falling all across the country, stir fears of a Noah-type flood, of isolation,...
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This Christmas Season
This Christmas Season, I wish my parents were still atound. But they both died in 2013 and they're buried in the ground. The last Christmas I spent...
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In Jail For The Holidays

I was so angry that I wanted to give my wife a slap. She went to the mall and a baby was kidnapped. She kidnapped the baby because we couldn't have...
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V is for Voices
spark of carols' joining memories, every age robin's song - day's shining swarf curls on night's sharp edge
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20

… But now I’ve reached 20 – I think that that’s plenty!
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Corona Log Entry 20/12/21
Corona Log Entry- December 20, 2021 It is a humid and sultry 80 Degrees (F) in SW Florida today. We are expecting sweeping rains and a cold front to...
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Elf and Safety

Humphrey, the elf in charge of planning and logistics, was fuming. No one had listened to his warnings to act sensibly within the guidelines
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19

‘Straightforwardness’ is a word that …
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U is for Under the Tree
island in rush-before where mysteries gather arched hush in storm's furor gives small creatures cover
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The Black Bitch.
What is wrong with people! We are living in strange times. It seems from last year to this, what we thought was impossible, has actually happened...
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Etymology and the Meaning of Hamlet
Once the stone is thrown The ideas come like ripples Hamlet via Joyce via Shakespeare through Irish , Icelandic , Norse and Gaelic Musing on the...
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T is for Tinsel and Twigs
plastic starlight glinting galaxies on a thread buds on tree-tips hinting wild faith in Spring ahead
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Images from The Venue
Stiff black suede From alkie spillage Crepe soles stick On beer soaked floor. Black clad denizens Obsessed by darkness Dance to the death To the...
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Musical Choice
After your wake I sought silent solace Home alone. Recalling Cwm Rhondda Sinatra or Doris Day Lead Us Heavenly Father Sung in your inimitable way. (...
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Smoke on the Water!

In which Josiah fumes and Archibald rocks!
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The Adventures Of Miniator -- Chapter 15 Sabotage

15) Sabotage The day before Miniator's brain storming session, onboard the the bridge of the Hool: Luden Lodo was talking to his Number Two, Plo Voom...
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A Fairy Tale of New York

A Fairy Tale of New York Silvery snow fell on unwashed decks, emigres sailing from an emerald isle, huddled masses yearning to breathe, dreaming...
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The last day at Hill Cliffe

Everything is open now, h ere in the twilight hour This is our forever moment a nd how do I speak for us now? How do I tell the world a bout the...
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In Bethlehem, long before …

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] A stranger poor, she could but glean, on charity dependent, her faithful kindness had been seen, received...
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