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Spontaneous
It was a Schiaparelli pink day. Briar roses and campions deep pink against the dove-grey sky. Thunder wanting another roll with us. North wind...
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The Collection Plate
The Collection Plate By Paul McCann There were two collections back then by the confraternity men, with their wooden collection plates. Standing...
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Celia
She swam in a lake of cliches Repeating tired phrases Whilst looking up to the moon She laid on a bed of daises Looking up at the sky She always...
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Pulp Fiction
A pile of CDs in the bedroom of the house that you still live in, in your dreams. The first wedding you go to as an adult, You look at the bride and...
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If Only
The bombs that never went boom The aeroplanes that couldn't fly The bullets that refuse to fire Because no one wanted to die The war ghouls of landed...
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Bill or Bob?
If William Shakespeare and Bob Marley had a fight, who do you think would win? There’s only one way to find out…
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That's Lucky
Yesterday I picked a few hedgerow plants to use for cyanotype images. A dandelion clock, buttercups, ground elder, grasses, cow parsley. The more...
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Choices
Will you choose a veggie meal, or will you choose the meat? Will you choose the savoury, or no, preferring sweet? Will you choose to drive, or will...
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Oiled
All the while I'm holding back From drinking From eating From loving Heart beating Breathing Running I'm holding me back A Spring oiled Baked, coiled...
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"...Sometimes...You Get What You Need"*
Movement births ideas. Heels down, breathing in and breathing out; ‘Get up earlier, walk first’. Sparked a notion, for a woodland walk. Wrack wood,...
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The Grandmothers Wish
The Grandmothers Wish by Paul McCann The taxi came and she stood in the path as they carried their suitcases to fly away . She looked at them all and...
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On top of the world again!
(Hergest Ridge, west of Kington, Offa’s Dyke Path, 23/5/24) Cold and overcast, but clear – blustery, blasting … northward humps and dips of mid-Wales – a bit of light catches the new bright-greening fern fronds emerging,…
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The Experiment
Trying something new - Image from Pixabay
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Wild
Rainy Sunday, the chilly haar crept back. Suits me fine, I have been getting things done, enjoying that particular pleasure of scoring them off the...
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Walk a mile in my Shoes
Keep on Walking Come, sit with me awhile. I’ll let you walk half of a mile in my shoes. Don’t judge me because you got a pass two, These words are...
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Praying to St Lou Reed
Lou Reed snarls at the opening syllables of beseechment, the skinny boy's prayer. Nobody told the boy to beware this saint. 'You only came to me...
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Lucrezia Borgia
A medieval femme fatale. It was rumoured that Lucrezia was in possession of a hollow ring that she used to poison drinks.(Image fro Wikimedia Commons)
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Miles Henderson Lived here (2)
The next day Whitcome arrived to find Skelton waiting for him at the Innesville Tourist Office. “Skelton! Not like you to leave Outersville. Are you...
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The Campaign For Terrence Oblong - Peter Buckley Hill and the Free Fringe
Peter Buckley Hill was an aspiring comedian who decided to become an international star by hiring a venue at the Edinburgh Festival. His act mixed...
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Miles Henderson Lived here (1)
“And this is the very rock that Miles Henderson once sat on,” said Whitcombe for the ten thousandth time. He never tired of it, he was proud of the...
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