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Long ago Thoughts
Breathing 3am air, the streets showed hidden secrets as we combed the low walls, initials were carved with no real value, and full moon failed to...
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Kindness from those around us
Kindness from those around us We were attending a production of Agatha Christie’s “Mousetrap,” at the Gulfshore Theater in Naples, with friends Mike...
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The Matchmaker
It's the late seventies, it's the summer, we are young and working hard at having fun and falling in love
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Silences
I don't post a poems for ages then like buses two come along at once . Image is courtesy of Mariusz Rutkowski from Wikimedia Commons
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Noises Off
Image is courtesy of Tom Franz from Wikimedia Commons
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Ghigau 24
24. Monday 17th Lenny set off for the office just after midday. The once lush-green parks had turned the colour of straw, their ancient trees...
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Share It With The Universe
Share It With The Universe By Paul McCann Somewhere out on the sea , is a horizon that swallows the moon. Don’t try to swallow all the ocean , take...
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Whipping Post
There are times when you should drive without music to become intimate with the noises of your vehicle, to recognize when it, as mama and sissy say “...
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Rehearsel
I found a bone in the yard last week that fit my hand too well. I told myself: coincidence. I told myself: the world is full of things shaped like us...
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Some sun in the morning
It had rained all week, but this morning I could see it coming through the gaps between the panels of the blinds. And sure enough, out the window...
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Alphabet You Can’t. suggested by GlosKat
Alphabet You Can’t. A…baby…cried dinner…eat…food gobble…hiccup…indigestion jaded…kindly…loving mummy…nappy…ok possets…quietly…runs stumbles…tumbles…...
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Urmston.
Urmston. She united us. She who has known me all my life. I had never heard of Your name, or anything about You, until She was ill. I thought You...
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Voice From The Pavement
Voice From The Pavement By Paul McCann A songwriter is like someone who observes life from the pavement and tells the world what he can see, I feel...
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Silent Partners
When silence is louder than the commotion of life. Like all new ventures it set off well both partners keen to make the grade by driving the spade...
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Bron-11
Continued from Chapter 10: Bron-10 | ABCtales Chapter 11 Chris reached down and switched off the VCR. He breathed out, in the manner of someone...
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Consented Trauma
The start and the end were clear to see, the situation supposedly familiar; in that, peace is found. The journey through however, the details hazy;...
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Snap Decision
I find her reading glasses on the counter where she always left them, beside the bowl she used for keys she never found again. I find the knife she...
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Python
Mrs Helen Sattar, the Community Member of the Parole Panel listens. Writes messages to herself, but until now remains silent. ‘How do you feel about...
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The Silent Majority
The worm can turn. (Image from Wikipedia= Photo: By Michael Linnenbach)
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Silence, or quiet?
When the kids are jabbering nineteen to the doszen or quarrelling … when the … we long for … I used to be puzzled by the television being on in the Old People’s Home, not very loud …
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