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Dear Paddington
Master Paddington Bear c/o The Browns 32 Windsor Gardens London England Dear Paddinton You were on TV you are a celeb now a trendsetter! Nice navy...
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Watching Through The Tines
When the evening news is right before your eyes. You may be multi-tasking, eating otherwise. Watching those whose every act you wish to countermand...
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Autonomy Pt 3
Squeeze the fruit a little more
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Cats and Cuddles
Thirty-something years ago during a weekend of hosting friends I entered the kitchen early on the Sunday morning where a longtime friend of my then...
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Brightness without burning
Sitting sheltered in the shade, Leafy filters cool the skin, soothe the eyes, and thoughts within …
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Breaking Away
BREAKING AWAY I say I saw our future together. It was charred. His speech was electronically charged. Did he hear my plea? My memory is cascading...
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Gone to the dogs
Gone to the dogs she must be, hacking her graveyard cough behind the closed front door where her stumbling greyed and matted old dogs whimper and...
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last grin
why would I ever write, for the need to hold my mind, together? while there is no smile and no angel feathers... to bring back the love for death,...
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Oh God, I Love You
You picked me up like the leaves in the wind The leaves never asked for it, really But they've got nothing else going on You fell into me, like the...
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AFTER
Since this Homeless man left Afghanistan long lean years ago he steps softly on the wrong side of sidewalk’s downtown busy place where white concrete...
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I Have to Pee
Women’s I push the door and beyond I see The female eye Spec-ula-ting They see my rejection My pierced tongue My speed To fall into the category -...
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Z
When I picture you, I see a little Girl, black-haired, chewing her lip. Serious, working to create A password to open up the world-- To recognize you...
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Stolen Stop Sign
Many injuries have occurred because of this stupid son of mine. My youngest son is so ignorant that he decided to steal a stop sign. I went in his...
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That One Big Role
Jamie settled into his seat on the tube train. As always, he'd chosen the middle one of the bench seat. He plugged his MP3 player's headphones into...
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Road Rage
I saw two cars up ahead of me the other day and it was a terrifying example of road rage as each fought to be first.
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All I Want For Christmas
All I Want For Christmas By Paul McCann There’s a fog that’s over London and a mist is in my eyes , for its coming close to Christmas and I’ve no one...
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St John’s (after Van Morrison)
Cerys plays tunes this morning on my radio birds chirp the trees of St John’s and I’ve fine coffee from Guatemala the sun streams through and a...
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Prepared for danger
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Wise words to treasure, hoard – keys from the Super-Lord: keep constantly in thought life-tools to use as...
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BOYHOOD
There goes that Gene Autry song once more – Back in the Saddle Again on a hit parade of memories when boys sought out a hero or two with Roy Rogers...
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Contagious smiles..
It's the small things in life that to me are the most significant... how one simple moment can make the most difference... Driving alone,...
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- 352 reads