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king for a day

In the nursery hours, bright sway of May
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Four Stanzas in Search of a Poem

What it says. Image is by Carl Spitzweg and is in the public domain because he's been dead quite a while.
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14.2 Ven Conmigo
When she stepped on Santa Monica Avenue, it turned out to be a sublime cool afternoon. A setting sun shed rays on the avenue, shone low over sunset...
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen

An old one: probably written in the summer of 2014, which was hotter than usual in The Frying Pan of Spain, the Guadalhorce Valley. image source flicker.com photographer Beppie licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Bad Objects

I'm sure you'll figure it out. Image created by me at cooltext.com
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WebWorld (4.4)

“‘Any chance I could meet this Karen?’” Tristan hissed at me as we were led through a series of narrow, wood-panelled hallways. “What?” “ Meet her?...
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What did Jesus do? 4
Peter the Apostle brought a more to life than life attitude and his faith was like flying fish. He couldn’t sit on his arse for a minute. We lit a...
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Old Owl
Old owl am I, sat in the steeple, roosted in the belfry, oblivious to the bells that pull and hope to rouse me from decades of deafness. I leave the...
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Wind Chimes on the Boardwalk

The smell of cotton candy and hot dogs was most welcome on this warm summer day strolling along the boardwalk; it evoked past days of summer as a...
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Sleepy Time
I spy upon a forest with such delight – especially during its finest showing – at twilight colours coating their attire with pluck and style in a...
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It Is A Sin To Kill A Quetzal

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14.1 Ven Conmigo
“For Christ’s sake! That is a damn short dress!” uttered Diego Cavanes as Natalia entered the conference room in a long sleeve crotchet mini dress...
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Back to Square One

A Cabal in Kabul?
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Swimming Snake

The grass snake purls water, spreads ripples across the canal’s slow-undulating surface. A miniature, muscular wave roils shadows of heaped summer...
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World Burning Down (Turkey and Greece, California and Oregon, and Afghanistan!) by Alfred N.Muggins
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With so many important and historical parts of the world burning down this year, and Mother Nature on the run, Alfred Muggins juxtaposes (or mirrors) the wanton/negligent/reckless/hapless/treacherous 'burning down' of the Afghan State, which so few were prepared to fight for in the end, and compares it with ancient times!
What did Jesus do? 3
My dad used to tell everybody how smart I was. He used to show me off, tell me to memorise things like long poems that rhymed. (And that was no crime...
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Kabul Airport

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/afghanistan-latest-kabul-a... https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/08/children-orphaned-as-their-parents-cr...
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Mixed Metaphors

This definitely was not what little Sis and I had in mind. Our taste buds were yearning for something along the lines of marzipan, sugar-dusted...
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13.2 The Country Squire
Next day, Natalia stayed in the room. Telephone on the bed. “Beep…beep…beep…” she dropped it again. Every time she dropped the handset, a teleprinter...
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From Rochdale to the Stars

It's about... well, you'll see. Image from publicdomainvectors.org
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