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Chemo2 - session 3
Chemo 2 - session 2 - day 5 I had the scary day in my cycle last night, as it was the one last time where I had the bad reaction, But this time I had...
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Dark Night
An acknowledgement of a famous poem by Dylan Thomas
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To see the day of light
They do not seek each other out. And yet they meet every day. At least during working days. She is dressed in silk navy blue blouses, moss green...
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Analogy Of Adventure
Casanova would have loved Those Italian mountains With their masculine well Built peaks, that seduced The rambler in me with Their tempting rugged...
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I'm Still Waiting (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 42)
Not everyone finds waiting patiently all that easy, particularly not Frankie Knight!
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Lea(r)ning
Not about much. I did the drawing. You can tell, can't you. [BTW can you see the face in it?]
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May 4th (chapter 4)
Does the first date go well? or was it a mistake?
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Hope
Time has made me a realist But I miss that part of me that was a dreamer I have to keep that part of me alive with in my son To not let his heart...
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Love Story 21
Da groaned and leaned on me as he lowered himself to the floor and shut his eyes. ‘Don’t die, Da,’ I wailed as he sucked in each breath in and blew...
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Anxiety
It pounds at the walls of your skull, it beats, beats, beats against the cage. Your body holds, strong, keeping it within. Being realistic it’s...
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Love Story 20
I wore my smartest clothes and shined my shoes before we set off to the Police Station at Hall Street. Nobody else hurrying along the canal in the...
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Love Story 19
I piled my shirt and trousers on the chair beside the window and crept shivering into bed with my socks on. Tossed and turned. Yawned, throwing my...
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Parcel for you....Part 8
The doorbell rang briskly, the sound of it unique, unmistakable. Vanessa felt her heart drop. Shit, she thought, that’s my mother, as her cheeks...
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Breath
My first Tanka poem, which follows a strict 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern
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This time of year
The light stays dull all day at this time of year, but at 6am it might as well be midnight. Eyes adjusting, finding focus, most of the time, on you...
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The Aging Business
There are four letters Elis Morgan really hates with a vengeance: I, K, E and A. The Swedish store has turned his world upside down. Now in his early...
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Eastern Sky
Eastern Sky Fractured skies. White lightening Lights up buildings. And for a moment We are blinded. Everything is shrouded. Cordite… Monochrome...
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I Never Kept A Diary
I Never Kept A Diary I never kept a Diary, Relying on memories instead Images and voices Stored inside my head I always trusted recall To fill in all...
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children of the coming apocalypse
[Playtime] Close your eyes Cover your ears Don’t look for a reason To have reason And we’ll be in the clear We’re children of the coming apocalypse...
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