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Swimming Snake

The grass snake purls water, spreads ripples across the canal’s slow-undulating surface. A miniature, muscular wave roils shadows of heaped summer...
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World Burning Down (Turkey and Greece, California and Oregon, and Afghanistan!) by Alfred N.Muggins

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With so many important and historical parts of the world burning down this year, and Mother Nature on the run, Alfred Muggins juxtaposes (or mirrors) the wanton/negligent/reckless/hapless/treacherous 'burning down' of the Afghan State, which so few were prepared to fight for in the end, and compares it with ancient times!
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What did Jesus do? 3

My dad used to tell everybody how smart I was. He used to show me off, tell me to memorise things like long poems that rhymed. (And that was no crime...
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Kabul Airport

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/afghanistan-latest-kabul-a... https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/08/children-orphaned-as-their-parents-cr...
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Mixed Metaphors

This definitely was not what little Sis and I had in mind. Our taste buds were yearning for something along the lines of marzipan, sugar-dusted...

13.2 The Country Squire

Next day, Natalia stayed in the room. Telephone on the bed. “Beep…beep…beep…” she dropped it again. Every time she dropped the handset, a teleprinter...

From Rochdale to the Stars

It's about... well, you'll see. Image from publicdomainvectors.org
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WebWorld (4.3)

Short answer: it was. Of all the places for a cake stall. But it was. It actually was. Tristan and Greg were stopping the car, and I stopped right...
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Poem of the week

jormungandr

Some things will never change. At Summer's height bright as a plastic butterfly, the Fair unpacks on the Prom.
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An Appreciation Of Life

An Appreciation Of Life - by Paul McCann . Pictures of life , captured in a world like this , with music and songs , and the work artists . absorbed...
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The rats

Rats, an infestation, chewing wires I'd left exposed

Faces

Faces city streets reveal life's stories painted on blank faces soft warm shades aglow with hope a child gapes at new places a wrinkled canvas aged...
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Love Letters From The Past S.W.A.L.K.

Words stand alone...some framed in brackets, billions of islands only connected by dashes and hyphens that bridge gap between right way and wrong;...

13.1 The Country Squire

“He was black,” thought Natalia getting up from bed, “Chocolate mix…a blend.” She pushed aside the files and stood up to correct her white dress in...
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Writing in the Sand

Under the early sun and clouds salt the sea and beach, splashing the shallow waves little friends play and shout with glee happily looking for shells...
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Strictly For The Birds

Odd what you think about when you walk a dog. Image is from Elland C.C. website. I've asked them and they don't mind.
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80

I'm happy to go at eighty. Two of my friends, both called Matthew died in their thirties and maybe if they hadn't shared a name it wouldn't have hit...
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