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Window Of Light

Dear diary...as Summer Solstice arrives on Wednesday 21 st June 2023, I decided to celebrate with a poem. Softly solstice will arrive, sustain me...

Another Person's Shoes.

I have heard many times, to try to understand, “What is it like to be in another person’s shoes.” Sometimes that is easier said than done. If I am...
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Amongst The Shadows

The short winter day was giving way to night; the time to hunt would soon be hers to savour. For now, she slunk into the corner of a drinking hovel,...

Life on Repeat - A Reflection

Friday 17:33 A student sits in the campus bar amidst the throng of other students. She is on her own reading the instructions for her first lesson...

Ashes

Middle-Age survived rising within stake pyres. I come from fire.
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Carapacic Nights (Insect Dreams)

Not sure what happened here. One minute I was behaving like a pompous poet, next minute I came over all Gothic. Anyway, I read this to my 5-year old Granddaughter as a bedtime story and for some reason her mother's had me issued with a restraining order. There really is no pleasing some people. Though I suppose on the bright side I don't get roped into to anymore last minute babysitting duties.

The Demise Of Delgado

He was a talented actor who died fifty years ago. He was British and his name was Roger Delgado. He starred in eight episodes of Doctor Who as The...

4.2 Reef Blowing

In the morning he spread out on a jaunt heading up Irshad Magu with red hibiscus flowers blooming over the low boundary walls. He caught sight of the...
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Kit Handsome and the busy day at the Big Hotel 8

“Sorry guv, and other guv, but we’ve got new on the prints. We’ve found our killer.” “So who is it?” asked Anderson. “His real name is Dirk...

Are You Like Your Father?

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Am I like my father? did he help or fail? was he wise or foolish, strong or weak and frail? Lazy, or hard-...

Child Of Mine

Child Of Mine by Paul McCann. Child of mine . part of me is part of you , and no matter where I go , or whatever I do I can never forget you Child of...
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Kit Handsome and the busy day at the Big Hotel 7

Back at the hotel, Anderson had set up an incident room set up where the breakfast room had been. The room was a hive of activity, with Anderson’s...

4.1 Reef Blowing

A renowned practitioner from the capital visited Thora on Friday. It was announced on a megaphone and organised by Sunlight Club to serve the entire...

The Masked Ball of Geometry

Dark days. Dark poem. Couldn't be bothered with poetic form or rhyming pattern. Played fast and loose with the vocabulary. It's more important what you say than how you say. When people stop standing up and saying things, bad things happen. Picture is licenced from adobe stock.
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Odd Sock Lament

Odd Sock Lament Where do all the odd socks go? Paired for life They leave in strife Leaving neatly folded rows Maybe by the washer eaten Or buried ‘...

Hide & Seek

Up there in the top 10 of lost and fouind is the humble wallet.
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Time lost

I know this is a bit outdated (probably two years) but thought I'd post it ! Why did I do it? I can hear you saying, didn’t you know, didn’t you...

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