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A Language So Old
These hands have been fists all day. Clenched around the pallet jack, the edge of a box that weighed what a small child weighs, and then another, and...
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The Light 4
I looked at her as she meditated. She was deep within herself like a turtle in a shell. Had she solved the problem of suffering? Could one really go...
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Weather Watch Haiku
March winds are blowing, Neighbours talk- weather watching -blue bright skies today
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Best Purpose
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series — posted a day early this week!] Humankind, both men and women – for what do we all exist?? what’s the...
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How Terribly Strange to Be Seventy - A Short Ramble
I read a magazine article that told me we develop ‘old people smell’ by the age of 70. Granted, the article was trying to sell me a fifteen dollar...
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The Language of Flowers
Say it with flowers.
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Birds do not exterminate
It started nearly fifty years ago, but I remember it so clearly, it was so unexpected, so significant. “Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!” With...
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Teeth Tales - The Miser’s Guide to Molars
I swear on my eye teeth that not a word of this is true.
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Bron-20
Continued from Chapter 19: Bron-19 | ABCtales It hadn’t been a bad morning’s filming, thought Chris. At least, not bad by recent standards, and not...
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Tough Chews & Teeth Tales
Say little but say it well; the mouth that speaks not is sweet to hear A soft answer turns away anger; a shut mouth is a whole mouth Drunkenness and...
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Pretty Girls Make Graves
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 7
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I wonder
I look at you as you stare into thin air I wonder do you feel me there in the cold light of day sometimes I feel I want to escape but I can't fine...
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Round of the Floating Choir
Something so intimate, something so delicate, starts slowly and full of hope; its over in a moment. Condensed in a single point, all it takes is a...
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Mother Of Gentiles ,Mother Of Jews
Mother Of Gentiles ,Mother Of Jews by Paul McCann Mother of Gentiles , Mother of Jews hear my plea as I fall down on my knee I am not guilty , come...
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Teeth Tales - Woohoo Thirty Two
I agree with ScoZen and Luigi we need some more entries for this challenge. So in the interest of quantity over quality here's my second one. Inspired by Blur's Song 2. (And yes, hampsteads really is cockney rhyming slang for teeth).
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Revival
Revival Your birthday in May, such happy month, breeding apple blossoms out of the dried brown branches, mixing sleep and awakening, stirring tangled...
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My Time In A & E ( PT 2 )
Dear diary... Still waiting in A & E It was now the middle of the night before another doctor came and spoke to me at around 3am in the morning...
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Did you hear
Did you hear the one about the plastic surgeon with a Parkinsons's shake? His client went in for a nose job, came out with a vasectomy.
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"Love will Keep Us Together"
NEIL SEDAKA 1939 - 2026 He's always been and will continue to be a HERO of mine! Thank you, Neil, for all the love expressed so beautifully,...
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Blue Moon Dream
From our gauntly utilitarian porch, the tawdry majesty of Modernia, the city of dreams, stretched and sloped out below like a pleasant suggestion of...
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