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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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Meeting on the hill
A hand up brother, a free man's gift we can share this summit in a handshake it's barren; nothing to steal here or take, there's no dividing line,...
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Harriet Tubman
She carried those scars in her fractured skull praying to God makes him change his ways, she'd pray simultaneously for the improbable, pray for...
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Apparitions
I'm a breeze in a wandering valley. I'm a ghost who's come to play and haunt I may make you cry or smile I may mean the world to you or the cold...
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18
In Welsh the word for 18 is ‘two-nines’ (deunaw) in the Breton language it is ‘three-sixes’ (triwec’h) …
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The Holly and the Ivy
"Pour me out some tea." Ivy took the tea pot and poured the tea into Holly's cup. "Would you like a crumpet?" "What are they?" "These things," said...
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S is for Snow
light smooths, soothes curves; walk in sleeping prisms' peace sight's a white wall, smell's all, cold's hungry, move or freeze
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Enslaved
“No one is more a slave than he who thinks himself free of being one”J.W.von Goethe Count us over and over, cut us into so many shapes at any time,...
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