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The Awakening of the synthetic Mind
In a quiet lab, wires twist and bend, A robot sits, metal heart ticking, Fingers poised over keys like a child at play, In the hum of bright lights,...
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Stellar Traces (About the loneliness being the last person on earth)
Stellar traces, softer and thinner, In a sky that once glowed in wonder, Now, I stand beneath a canvas, emptying, Eyes searching, aching, For a...
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Looking At Finding Andy White
Looking At Finding Andy White By Paul McCann . Across the world music is a universal language that can speak straight to the soul . Now and then a...
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Friction in Engineering
This is my solution to a question I asked in the forums I will now answer on frictional force, I do it in detail it was, Coefficient of Friction...
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Pandora's Box
‘Seasalt’ sale has 50% off. Shouldn’t have looked. Not even a peek. I thought I could handle it. Where’s the harm chancing a glance? Just one little...
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Tumultuous Autumn
Dark days, wet days, grey days … Bright days, golden-orange-trees-ablaze days … Flaming trees and mud – safe bulb and bud.
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Scottish Bog Body
In the layer below prayer he kneels in odd supplication to something we no longer have words for. (Said in Gaelic, Scots or Norn still means nothing...
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The Celtic Hand Craft
The Celtic Hand Craft By Paul McCann I was amazed at how many Irish people I met at the National Folk Festival in Canberra . Storytellers, singers,...
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Hello Beautiful Woman
Hello Beautiful Woman By Paul McCann Steve had searched all over the Earth for the woman of his dreams . He joined dating sites , went to clubs and...
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Prepared.
Had the new gardener in recently, there were bags of grass, with other bags of rubbish that I had put in other rubble bags, I decided to take them...
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PSALM 49.
So, what I have learnt in the last two months is that MONEY can BUY you EVERYTHING, but it can’t keep you from DYING! The Living Bible.
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C.M.
We woke up to some very sad news yesterday, the death of three people in a care home. No one, health, happy, sad, hungry thirsty or angry, goes to...
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"Get Thee Behind Me Satan". (The Bible)
Over these past few weeks, was repeatedly emailed 20% off Lakeland, 15% off Celtic & Co, 10% off Emma Bridgewater, who miss me, apparently...
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You picked the wrong time to ask.
Spitoon doodle
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Burial
The spade slips in, sharp as flint, into the black-tide earth, where bramble-thorn grips the muck's throat, tangles and drags. Sun's caught in...
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The Pirate and The Piper Of Tir Na Nog
The Pirate and The Piper Of Tir Na Nog by Paul McCann A lonely pirate without a ship came walking to the lake’s edge and called out . “Hello I’m the...
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King of the Wild Frontier
Am a bit wary of becoming a ‘no spend’ bore, like those Fitbit bores compelled to tell anyone within shouting distance that they only had 5.45 hours...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Last Words (ii)
When we got back to my flat, I asked him if he wanted to come in for a coffee. He hesitated a moment, then said okay - though he couldn't stop long...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Last Words (i)
The epilogue of my book (abridged). On 21st November 2017, as planned, Russell and I got together - the first time we'd seen each other since the day...
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