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I Exit The Night
Aberdeen, your streets are empty and dark And hey my poetry mojo’s back! Your floodlit buildings look majestic and bright, As I walk home from an...
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Doing Days
Couple of ‘doing days’. Little chores outside the home to get done, buy Christmas stamps, return boots (not the millionaire boots, other ones), buy...
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CHRISTmas is Cancelled. Part Four.
Many Years ago, I cancelled Christmas gift giving. I wished I had done it sooner. It was one of the best thing I ever did. We still have a lovely...
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The Last Night Chapter 13 Home Again Home Again
The Last Night Chapter 13 Home Again Home Again 38 It was dark outside. The sun was still buried deep behind the horizon. Four-year old Wyatt Faraday...
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A figure in the vast landscape
Walking out into the great silence Stills the mind It is not empty But stills to a more natural pace Observations , thoughts and feelings Can come...
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Nothing New.
There is nothing new under the sun. I heard this week about two very different men, who don't know each other, but they are famous in their own field...
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Jupiter Energy
Farring absolutely Niente is all very well, but there comes a point where a gal just has to get out into the fresh air. If only to buy more fat balls...
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God
God By Paul McCann The smile of an innocent child . The calm in the storm that’s running wild . The humble heart that understands . He’s got the...
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A Tale of Two Balkan Cities
Described at the rate of exactly one hundred words per day, this is what Turlough Ó Maoláins do for entertainment during the first half of the November month.
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Free Bird Fly
Free Bird Fly By Paul McCann The bird has found a home and a new day has begun to an open sky , music rises with the sun . The songs of life we hear...
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A Christmas Wonderland
A Christmas Wonderland by Paul McCann Well I had just put all the kids to bed and went to bathroom to brush my teeth and get ready to go to bed...
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silent as need be
Rain battered down. A give-and-take. They walked side-by-side, silent as need be. They crossed Kilbowie Road, watching for traffic, listening for the...
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Grandma
I saw a old picture today in a black and white frame hung on a wall of me being held in my grandma arms when I was six months old its look like I was...
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Bus Pass [and BPL] Go Off to Camp
Bus Pass and BPL were running out of Enid Blyton ‘Famous Five’ titles to blatantly plagiarise for Bus Pass adventures. Several tricky ones were left...
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Waiting, in Candlelight
Candles flicker many an hour: gales so strong, supply of power broken …
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The Last Night Chapter 12 Behind The White Fire
Chapter 12 Behind The Fire 37 Disembodied floating free against a starless backdrop of infinite emptiness. They gravitated toward one another...
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Shower song
Is that you, whispering in the walls again?
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I lit a thin green candle
I remember when my half-sister came to stay, seven years older than me and full of energy, like a whirlwind dropping into the quiet rhythm of our...
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