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Swings and Roundabouts

Abandoned play park Moving gently in the breeze Swings and roundabouts
Cherry

How Long Can You Stew For, Before You Fall Apart? (2)

It wasn’t the first time I’d been stood up on the astral plane. However this was different, I was getting, dare I say it, lonely. I’m usually the...

Icarus Unheeded

Icarus Unheeded April 2, 2021 Online Advertisement: Bill and Joe’s Extreme Games presents the next big thing that every thrill seeker absolutely must...
Cherry

The Moomin Tree

I don’t tink God has his eyes on us here in Dundalk so it’s okay for me to sit on dis tree right now. I don’t tink he cares one bit about dis tree...
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Cherry

Why?

I don’t know why I left you. Sometimes I lie awake at night and I think about it. I mean, we were good together after all; we had fun, we connected,...
Cherry

42. Love Shack

Earworm alert. Image source is Pinterest, out of copyright and in the PD.
Cherry

Moth and Crow

Story for younger children (3-7 years).

A Boy of Eleven

A boy of eleven woke up suddenly stretched and yawned. Seven o’clock already! In panic he pushed his cat aside and looked out the window. A huge...

Carrots.

We are all different. Thankfully and that is a good thing. What is important for one isn’t for another. Last Week Tuesday was the last time I went...
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Forgive - sonnet

Forgive I forgive all of you that have hurt me. Some were blind to the agonising harm, Some of your self-loathing thoughts were set free, on to me. I...

Hidden Is The Light - sonnet

Hidden is the light Starlight is hard to find in the night sky, When its covered by clouds, thick and mighty. Life’s hollow. I’m longing knowledge of...

My Younger Soul - Sonnet

My younger soul My younger soul. Excitable and bright, liable to sorrow from a flash flood, was surrounded by dark that dimmed my light. Sharp words...

Rolling with the Punches

Rolling with the punches, was one of my dad’s favorite expressions. Born before the first world war, he lived through the great depression, working...
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Signs of Spring 5)

Magnolia by street light. So strange those waxy, marble tulip-like-orbs delicate, easily spoilt by frost, that emerge from strange buds on leafless...

COVID DIARIES- NEVROUS DAY

21.03.2020 This is our new year. Crimson eggs eaten for breakfast and little presents exchanged. I ask my kids to keep a diary to record events,...
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Cherry

Whispers

Silent streets give you dreams. Picture from Needpix, in the public domain.
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A Reflection on Memory's Dreams

It's about... I've forgotten. Image source wikipedia. It is in the Public Domain
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Cherry

Jungle

I am an inveterate liar but you can believe this – you can believe this. In the jungle you live in perpetual fear and motion. Everything you want to...
Cherry

How Long Can You Stew For, Before You Fall Apart?

“How long can you stew for Before you fall apart?” That’s the little mantra I had going round in my head as I consumed a tin of baked beans. ‘...

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