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Strange Advent

I first posted this work on UKAuthors a year ago, in reponse to the deowning of a young child in the British Channel. Sadly, nothing has changed since then. (Image is courtesy of Roland My from Pixabay)
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I is for Icing and Ivy
concealing sweetness spreads white, on all made before lushly sheltering birds' first food in next year's store
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Alfred N.Muggins : The Man Responsible For Bringing Fact and Fiction Together! (In A New Way) : Remolding and Renovating History Part 2 : Entente Cordial
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If he took the University Lecturers and Students/Graduates back they could seek to improve history. They would, for example, stop slavery in its...
The Pollarded Willows

I look out every day onto a row of four very old willows, which probably grew next to a drainage ditch before it was piped and built over to make the road I live on. ++++ Rachel's trees series inspired me to write about them, but I felt it a bit cheeky to post a poem until they became a subject for the IP ++++ Photo of two of them taken with my iPhone
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Maria and the Bellasis Family 16
A few days later, I made my way back to Florence’s house, again to coincide with her lunch break. I gave her a copy of what I had written, and waited...
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H is for Holly (for sale and for song)
Tied wild tamed by gold spray fussily ossified bright red in gloss green sway where feasting blackbirds ride
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7

7 days in every week – … 7 full musical notes in the scale.: …
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The Journey. Part Two.
Breaking News! Karl Maquinghen, the fisherman who gave the alert of the bodies floating on the sea, has twenty-one years’ experience on the sea, want...
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The Journey. Part One.
Where I live, the culture is strong, families they are large and tightknit, most are not wealthy, religion, politics and traditions, rank very high...
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The automatic is just what happens
I have no say in it I play no part in it I did nt vote on it I did nt join its fan club It just happens And will go on happening “It’s okay to not be...
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Take It or Leave It (with music video)

I first posted this poem on the ABCTales website in November, during the week when our Inspiration Point was ambivalence. Please forgive me if you...
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Dear Dads-
if you only knew how much your drinking shrinks your family’s souls many days of pain and misery are felt and yet they forgive you. Years ago a grown...
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Long John Santa and the Christmasola

Oops, Santa Claus and Treasure Island just got their wires crossed.
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A Guy with a Bonsai

Image: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Author : Sailko
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Trees

Gnarled roots extending, gripping, stabilising the soil branches lifting, spreading leaves to shade and shelter, exchange gases, refreshing the...
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G is for Glitter and Gorse
scattering sparkle specks outlast family trees bully wind's brash frolics fresh gold unfurlings tease
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Andrew Bradshaw Conquers the Fountain of Youth (Part 4)
Richard Morris sat at the head of a cherry wood dining room table, sucking at the end of a jet black smoking pipe. The pipe was empty, but it...
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F is for Fairy Lights and Frost
fossilised Life's dark fires strings of electric sweets skimming crystal empires as blue sky's bright heart beats
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6

6 sides (including top and bottom) to cubes and bricks. And every insect …
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Copse and Robbers

No Bulgar children, women or men Can recall the day exactly when They first strode into forested lands With an axe on a shoulder or a saw in a hand...
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