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A Walk Through A Village From Another Time

A Walk Through A Village From Another Time By Paul McCann If you could paint you a picture of my village in North Belfast , from another day and...
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A Fistful of Rials

The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Two.
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The shed smells like shit.
As a child my parents took me to Butlins holiday camp, maybe a few will see this, will have seen this. The shed smells of shit Its not a shed its a...
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We're in this together... Ha!
Sometimes having just enough is plenty Especially when your pockets have been empty. In fact thats pretty much how you’ll learn By walking the...
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MR MANN (Work in Progress)
MR MANN Mr Mann just landed For talks in Tel Aviv, To speak to leaders trying out their new bombs in the streets. And Mr Mann is adamant That he’s...
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LILI
Lili Clouds across the Channel come from deep inside her lungs. The newly born mum, with an uncomplete son. “He won’t hug me, he can’t love me like I...
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IVAN
IVAN She’s out there somewhere, in the carpet. A broken thread, just like horse's hair. I think of her from time to time And that little boy: my only...
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One Night, in Berlin

A very dark night.
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out of the loop

out of the loop there was a time when our homesteads quietly gently soothed, as they curved around us we made circles for the flame hearth huddled...
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Ever changing moods

Nothing about him is right. His ears are too crooked, his eyes too blind, his hair too wild, his head too big, his body too narrow, his words too...
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1:4:7 Solutions (Part 3)
The towers of The Slingshot loomed overhead. The First put themselves between The Slingshot and their party before checking to make sure they were...
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A Drama And A Crisis

I don’t know. You take a week off to have Covid and return to a world where the Post Office has grown horns and a tail. The arts strike again.
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Look Through Any Window (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 50)

It's always the same, when you're hoping for a fast and trouble-free getaway, someone or something comes along to spoil it, and Josiah & Co. are no exception!
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Sun - Shines

The sun is probing morning’s shabby looking grey-mist a movement of sunshine emerges here & there provides enough colour brings gladness to the...
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Two Rainbows
Just now after a summer shower we saw a rainbow it was very low because it was still early afternoon. It was beautiful the sun was still quite high...
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Lost Horizon

This will be self explanatory for UK members; otherwise please google Mr Bates versus the Post Office. I dashed this off last night, after watching the ITV show; not good poetry but heartfelt. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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kettle
The kettle whistles, ear piercing, punching through. Violence amid the silent afternoon. It reminds me of you.
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Drifting Away To Another Time And Place
Drifting Away To Another Time And Place by Paul McCann When I saw her walking down the street , I looked at her and said What about you , how are you...
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Ticket to Tehran

The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part One.
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Another Picture Of A Place In Another Time

Another Picture Of A Place In Another Time By Paul McCann In the village I grew I recall the gambling that went on around the back alleys and spare...
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