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Me and My Muezzin
When I was a lad I worked on big ships. Here I describe the Suez Canal stretch of a sea passage from Quebec City in Canada to Colombo in Sri Lanka round about 1977. Our ship was loaded with a bulk cargo of poverty relief grain financed by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Some of my writing is an embellishment of the truth and a little bit of it is the result of pure imagination, but this poem is as near to the truth as I could get whilst attempting to remain poetic.
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Love Story 5
Her underactive imagination had me thinking for both of us. How we should behave since we kinda agreed not to get formally engaged until I could...
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The Sinisterish Milkman
The Sinisterish Milkman (For Halloween) The sinisterish milkman from the world's end dairy has a glint in the eye that makes you wary and clinking...
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Prima vista
This morning started in a black hole. Of course I tried with some candles and piano music to create with might and main the right atmosphere It didn'...
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Nkosi Bayete!
As he passed knocked my friend on the head from behind, no time took him down a much bigger guy, Rooikat (lit “Red Cat”) the youngster pumping like a...
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Celia's Song of Peace
I wrote this several years ago for my wife Darcey. We were hoping to create a book together. Hasn't happened yet, but I'm hopeful. I strum for peace...
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Alien Murmuration - Chapter 20 - Summer 1992
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Just another gig! I look out over the crowd. I wonder ‘how has this sight become ‘just another gig’?” Turning to the others, I smile as Rod tickles...
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Storm in a Teacup (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 40)
In which Chantelle comes to a decison, Frankie remembers his pills, Archibald sulks and Josiah fears for the future!
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LookTok
Rant. Nothing to see here Sharp-eyed readers will note that the graphic is a mirror-image of the tiktok logo, So it's not the tiktok logo... If they try and complain, I'll remove it. Simples.
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MALIGN INTENT - Teaser Chapter
Crowe drove out of the dry, vacant city, heading north through Drumcondra and onto Griffith Avenue to the Office of the State Pathologist. August...
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Tide
Tide We are watching football. Bellingham skates on Wembley ice. Our phones bleep with news and more news. Italy score, but we own the tide. There is...
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An evening in my village
An evening in my village Comes an evening with its crimson-colored painting over the horizon and the sky picturesquely captivating to the eye...
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The Buried Treasure (2) - Ill-gotten Gains
What lay beneath the soil? (Image from Pixabay.
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'Parcel for you..' Part 3
‘Well, he’s done a good job of the lawn. I think you need to be careful not to confuse him, he's fresh out of the box, Vanessa. Play around with the...
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The Hall of Glass Coffins
THE HALL OF GLASS COFFINS Every winter in Rome, one of the starlings migrating to the Mediterranean from the northern hemisphere detaches itself from...
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The Other Side of Paradise
The Other Side of Paradise I can still remember standing at the side of a dirt track, a sodium-coloured sun high in the sky. The heat made the air...
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The Buried Treasure
"X" marks the spot. (Image from Wikimedia Commons in the public domain)
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Risk Averse
Or risk a verse... Cartoon by Russell source Flicker.com artist Russell. Licence : CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed
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Lacking a Home, Not a Soul
I’d like to share a lesson it’s taken me years to learn. That homeless people are people too. That may seem odd to you if you’re in another nation,...
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