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In A World Gone Mad: Monday 25 May 2020

Monday 25 May 2020 It’s seven in the morning after a sleepless night. Three times in half an hour Arthur got up and went to the bathroom, leaving the...

Enchantment By Greengate

Enchantment By Greengate By Paul McCann We played there under the enchantment by Greengate where some Sunday’s were spent as children dressed in hand...

Tread Where?

Tread softly? Tread where? What stepping stones can take me from this hell? Governments should love. Did no one tell them? I swear I will take my...
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Break the Child: chapter Twenty-Seven: the Next Stage

I’m really tired, I didn’t get much sleep last night and I’m kind of emotional, too. There’s so much going on and everything’s got really bad with...

Many questions about life and trouble at work

Bronwyn battled and rattled about the house searching for the answers to life’s questions. She’d given up on searching for the really big ones. Well...

Kiribati by Theresa C. Gaynord ~A poem on climate change.

Kiribati by Theresa C. Gaynord The sun rose, carrying the burn over the previous night’s black stare. The sea took several breaths as the land...
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Black Forest

There used to be stories in this wood, this malachite forest scented with wet earth
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That Damn Duck Hunt Dog

Some call him a bastard and others call him a cunt. But everybody hates that dog that's on Duck Hunt. When you shoot at ducks but miss, that damn dog...

Early Morning Farm

Coyotes are restless with their calling as echoes of boldness reach our dogs. Misty and Storm sprint to attention aroused from sleep protective woofs...

Finest Hour - A Lockdown Poem

During the Coronavirus lockdown, there seems to have been a renewal of interest in poetry. Perhaps this is a British characteristic – in times of crisis, a tendency to resort to rhyme rather than reason. Whatever! So, although I've not posted on here for some time I thought I'd offer up these few lines.
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She And I

She And I By Paul McCann She came to me one day and in such a brilliant way , I’ll not forget how she and I became we and now I find her there...
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In a World Gone Mad: Sunday 24 May 2020...2

I was allowed to cook on Thursday night. I used to enjoy cooking, I fed two boys who grew to six foot six, I can’t be that bad at it. I am a basic...

Crumbs

Crumbs!
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In a World Gone Mad: Sunday 24 May 2020...1

Sunday 24 May 2020 It was Max’s birthday on Friday. I’m dead against him having this guitar because of the way it was funded and because of Max’s...

A Reactionary Puss

An uncooperative pet.

The Ocean

I can taste the salt coming from the spray of the high tides Ocean as its waves break against the rocks. As I watch the children play, unbeknownst to...

The Divine Exchange

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Memory flashes of happiness gone, now only ashes – dry, dreary, alone. Bestowing a crown, see grace, beauty...
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Break the Child: Chapter Twenty-Six: Me and Little Andy

Chapter Twenty-Six Me and Little Andy I’ve got a boyfriend, even seeing it written down in this diary looks odd. Me, with a real, proper, boyfriend,...

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