Cherrypicked stories
On Losing My Keys and Regaining My Sanity
the meaning of life
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- 3677 reads
E is for emotion
Things cannot be so bad as I think - I shall not sink if I can write: words are the skin we hold emotion in.
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- 910 reads
Down
I would give like water to your touch, feel I know every curve of you inside out, fit in your life like a jigsaw piece without a crack between sea...
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- 924 reads
It Started On The Bus
I think someone saved me a seat for this ride.
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- 1730 reads
Life During Wartime
One person's war.
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- 712 reads
Michelangelo has finished the chapel wall
The greatest interior decorator of them all
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- 1023 reads
In Trepanning
I struggle to find the words-...
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- 989 reads
This scar
This scar on my right arm Is not from a fearsome battle, Nor from a sporting accident, Not even from racing on a circuit Or from a marshal bout in a...
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- 710 reads
Journalism Junkie
Addiction doesn't always mean substance abuse...
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- 1031 reads
C) Ice Cream
Ice Cream You would have to see the photograph, but we are both eating choc ices, my sister and I; there she is, intent on the wrapper, wrapped...
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- 1127 reads
Does your TV addiction really harm others&;#063;
Does your TV addiction really harm others? "Please turn it off" He said with a cough Just before you realised that he was half way through hanging...
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- 900 reads
SmashinFruit
Smashing Fruit Vine barren after the hard winter, licked warmly by spring rain, bud burst promising fecund joy. Daily fragile delicately- webbed...
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- 677 reads
The Wheel
The Wheel The fire's dull light flickers. A gentle humming wavers then begins anew. There is a spinning wheel softly creaking. Fingers, brown and...
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- 635 reads
Angst Poem Wanted
Tongue in cheek poem about the adolescent work we hide in boxes under the bed
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- 1037 reads
A Turkey for Christmas
Father Christmas was tired. He had been up all night delivering presents to children all over the world. He put his reindeer into the stables for a...
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- 1058 reads
Vinyl Magic
Dedicated to all e-woccies and my mother.
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- 1011 reads
Good Things Happen to Bad People
The three main characters in this story are Frank, Harry and Sam. Those aren't their real names but they are real people. For that and other reasons...
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- 841 reads
And The Shaman Sings On
Once you enter the Shaman World you may never get out..
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- 907 reads
X - The Big Leap
It was after his third successive failed suicide attempt that Joseph truly began to believe he was immortal. His first two bungled attempts had led...
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- 1517 reads
Crocodile tears
Private grief, public interest
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- 2163 reads
Melted evening
Early evening has melted into lamp lit night Intermitted hours mingled in complimentary shades Have deceived the sluggish machinery of my perception...
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- 927 reads
Birth of Jerry Holiday
The Birth Of Jerry Holiday one morning jerry woke up and found that ambition had snuck in through his window during the night so he put on a pair of...
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- 908 reads
Praise the Lard
T'was in the Flour of My Youth
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- 1721 reads
Death By A Thousand Poems
Is writing poetry a variation on Chinese torture&;#063;
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- 671 reads
Balaklavas At Alma
Ponders End circa 1968 - now if that doesn't entice you, I don't know what will.
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- 1172 reads
Spectre of Grim Professionalism
Real Life Horror
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- 1741 reads
Glove
I lost a glove in the snow You lost your temper The cooling pattern of January's sky born gifts Melted prematurely on steam poached thoughts...
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- 873 reads
Smiling
Ever had the feeling you are being followed&;#063; How would you know&;#063;
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- 577 reads
Japanese Maple
How sad is this...&;#063; A poem about my favourite tree... :o)
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- 891 reads
Merrilee
The whine splits open my melon head, Which is green in the window-field light. She sags in crumbs and crying, Whinging and whining. One second is all...
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- 1050 reads
You are fireworks
I am black viniyl sky year round unbroken record of silence this is bonfire night when Heaven hisses crackles: bangs bloom in spangles, falling I...
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- 970 reads
P = chapter sixteen
his new sexy persona had been a miracle to him
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- 993 reads
Antfarm
a n t f a r m ? I remember as a child watching an episode of Macgyver, which featured rampaging killer ants. Marching on some human stronghold...
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- 853 reads