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Way Of The Ivy

By skinner_jennifer on Tue, 23 Sep 2025

In the shadows retrieved, wandering ivy leisurely weaves, obsequious to its ancient behaviour... only the weak are moved to protest, those towering...

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Would the real 'Rap God', please stand up?

By McMedusa on Tue, 23 Sep 2025

At the height of rave and acid across the pond in Britain in the 1980s, LA discovered a new movement called ‘gangsta rap’ , as coined by the media at...

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Weather App. Haiku # 35

By mark p on Tue, 23 Sep 2025

Grey clouds loom above The sun is trying to shine Autumn around us!

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Dancing Days

By josiedog on Tue, 23 Sep 2025

It all changed for Hans when Big Toby made the offer. “You wanna come on the turnip run?” “Yeah! But wait... what happened to Little Toby?” “Plague...

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Above Such Things

By D Marie on Tue, 23 Sep 2025

I lay on the grass to look at the sky.. Photo is my own

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Glass House

By brandon_the_don01 on Tue, 23 Sep 2025

Never enough, yet too much Pain too loud, yet nothing said Your open bottle emptied your arms And your jaw unhinged to spew guile and scorn As your...

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Please laugh in her face

By mcmanaman on Mon, 22 Sep 2025

I'm not going to tell you that April phoned. I know what you will say. 'Of course she did, and I bet you answered and I bet you didn't make any...

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Envelope, compass, egg

By mcmanaman on Mon, 22 Sep 2025

You wrote to me and I kept meaning to reply but I never found the time. I wanted to be at the kitchen table with the nice writing paper you gave me...

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Above The Fireplace

By mcmanaman on Mon, 22 Sep 2025

It began with a silence no-one could explain. The silence that makes you touch your necklace or reach for a jumper, anything that has texture. It is...

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A Picture Of Her

By mcscraic on Mon, 22 Sep 2025

A Picture Of Her By Paul McCann She appeared in the corner of my room and stood there before me . A light was shining around her and she never spoke...

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Ancestors were immigrants

By jxmartin on Mon, 22 Sep 2025

Immigrants like our own ancestors More than 150 years ago, many of my ancestors emigrated to America, seeking a better life for themselves and their...

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The jewellery box

By Caldwell on Mon, 22 Sep 2025

The jewellery box was my gateway. When I lifted its clasp, the music — Für Elise, but thinned and sharpened by the tiny pins and teeth of the...

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2000ad

By valiswaverider on Mon, 22 Sep 2025

2000ad I ll be 27 years old in 2000ad that’s ages away I am only 11 I love comics dr who and Dan Dare But my current favourite is Judge Dredd He has...

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Homicidal Spreadsheet

By Mark Burrow on Mon, 22 Sep 2025

Hannah bent a pink paper clip out of shape. She knew the Spreadsheet sensed her sky-high levels of stress. A report was due and nothing added up the way it was supposed to for the management meeting.

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