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The Peace Plan
.\ The Peace Plan By Paul McCann The peace plan . To talk and understand To share and to lend a helping hand . To accept , to change , to tolerate To...
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Broken Windows
The grass was scary, on account of how it might have rats sequestered there amongst the blades and ready to leap out and attack. And the word ‘blades...
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Eating brie again
I'm watching all of Stanley Kubrick's films, in order, because that's something that's possible, without leaving the settee and we should take...
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Ode to a quince
O, so there’s this quince tree near our house, yeah? and the kids think the fruit’s some type of pear and I wanna tell em that it is cos they ask all...
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- 713 reads
Walking the beach
Wave portraits on the sand When we walk along the golden length of the beach, the feeling of sun and wind on your face and the feral sound of surf...
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13.3 Rahne Mari
Sayye Saeed switched on the lights. Seated separately on three cane seat wooden armchairs were Prime Minister Virgo, Defence Minister Rock and...
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Eccentricity
I suspect that 'eccentric' appearance or behaviour these days is often manufactured to create an effect, but my childhood experience of these things...
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from P. in Tangier to Sally B.
from P. in Tangier to Sally B. god, how I miss you, your fragrance lingers everywhere haunting darkest cobweb corners there’s no escape I open a...
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A Kind Awakening
. A Kind Awakening By Paul McCann I hope when the morning come’s I will find a kind awakening as I open my eyes at the new day that has come , and...
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Too Late To Change When We Are Gone
. Too Late To Change When We Are Gone By Paul McCann As the seasons of our lives change , a gradual acceptance of tomorrow comes to one and all . We...
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Its A Lonely Sunrise With You
. Its A Lonely Sunrise With You By Paul McCann When I wake up in the morning , I wake up alone . I check if you sent me a message there on my phone...
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Autumn Leaves.
When I was younger, I didn’t like Autumn, I didn’t like the dark nights and not been able to see what was under my feet. It didn’t make any...
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Topsy-Turvy
Wake up sleepy eye-balls blink-blink and I lurch to my feet placing them on morning’s chill hurrying along a laminated floor before new icicle toes...
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Play School Windows
Nostalgic recollections fun house named Play School, teaching Sophie entertainment could be educational, glancing with Big Ted and little Ted through...
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13.2 Rahne Mari
HMS Strategy shadowed the trawler, observing surreptitiously on its periscope and grabbing ground. It dived deep and passed the ship to surface on...
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Stardust
. Stardust By Paul Mc Cann There is a little angel who sweeps up heavens floor. She gathered up the stardust and threw some round my door . I needed...
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The Desk
The classroom was virtually unchanged from when the school was built in 1905. Pairs of oak desks ascended in tiers like a small lecture theatre. They...
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Mr Muldoon
. Mr Muldoon By Paul McCann It was said the man next door got caught up in the gloom and doom . This world will never see again the likes of Mr...
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New Year's Day 2021.
Recently I’ve been thinking to myself, things that I will start doing next year, on January 1st 2021A.D. and this morning I thought, why do I and...
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ALL lives matter.
My Son Daniel came home for dinner on Sunday and he told us this story. “This happened recently, I was in Fred’s car he was giving me a lift to work...
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