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The gamechanger
My dream scenario!
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A Gift
What would you do if gifted an hour? Watch two episodes of your favourite soap or the first part of that Netflix series that everyone is talking...
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Superstition
Superstition Jennifer Pickup 04.04.2024 I always believed in the old wives’ tales, Blamed them for every one of my life fails: You didn’t perform the...
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20.1 Just Another Non-Existent Terminal
Tropicana is officially closed for demolition since Tuesday.
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* Silver Spiral Stairway *
A dweller on the threshold Strange Places Out Patients The Doctor A full force gale Nkosi Bayete! ~ Precious Time Living Alone Private Psychiatric...
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80,s suburban living room
We were the first family in the street to get a video recorder. Dad knew someone in the dr who appreciation society who got me copies of old episodes...
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Above Peterchurch, east of the Black Mountains
30/3/24 Clear lovely views of the Black mountains as we travelled west to Peterchurch [in the Golden Valley – the river Dore, thought of as D'or, 'of...
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Son of My Father
What's this one about? Fathers and sons, old age, what awaits us all... and loads of other things, you decide. Image in PD, source Look and Learn.com, Odysseus and the sirens.
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Walking the Streets
Walking the streets in Aberdeen You’ll never guess the things I’ve seen I’d no idea that I would find, My imagined Back Wynd of the Mind. Walking the...
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19.3 Water Gate Inn
John F Kennedy was ringing loud in his ears like Salazar’s bells though he wasn’t conscious about it as he drove slowly up Garret Avenue towards The...
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Black Hole
Another old one. I treated it to some punctuation and one word change. So now it's a completely different poem, isn't it? Picture is from wiki commons. Used under CC 4.0 licence
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Letters from a Daily Mail reader - letter to the National Trust
Dear National Trust I was disgusted during a recent visit to a national trust property, to find that there was no dead squirrel sticking out of the...
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Haiku Forecast
The Scottish weather Like four seasons in one day Is this the Springtime?
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Back In The Village Before It Progressed
Back In The Village Before It Progressed By Paul McCann There once was a time and a place in our town long before progress had come along , when a...
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Poetry Commotion
And this is the oldest thing I could find today. It used to be on an earlier incarnation of UKA, in 2010. image made at canva.com
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Before Good Friday In Belfast
Before Good Friday In Belfast By Paul McCann’ I was just a lad when things turned bad in Belfast like a lamb at the gate in 1968 . There were too...
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Radio Galaxies
Very old poem, written 2011. I like it, but you don't have to. Image created using canva from elements provided.
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19.2 Water Gate Inn
It took them three hours to breathe some air and the bottle was half empty. They ordered brunch. “Who could have killed Howard Tuner?” Adams looked...
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How far in an hour?
In an hour from now this car should have gone 30 miles if we carry on at the speed we are going, but, hey, how far will our world (and us on it) have...
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