Cherrypicked stories
Treat
A day out where nothing is quite as it seems.....
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- 813 reads
Old Man Said To Me
We DO It To Ourselves
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- 1242 reads
Night we watched the stars (The)
How closely do you need to look to see clearly&;#063;
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- 925 reads
Morecambe Mania
Sex and sausages in a B &; B
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- 1031 reads
Space Walk
In space as in hell, there's no one to watch you die. Four lads who have never been in space look d
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- 890 reads
Abergele
Originally a pantoum challenge set by Chant, this is the slightly different, original version of one of my favourite poems from the book.
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- 1369 reads
S) There's no fleas on me
Diary Wednesday 21st August 2002.
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- 758 reads
Juice
the old man drew to a halt wiped his brow leant against a stone wall shielded eyes from an unforgiving sun he had walked far today out of his pocket...
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- 1943 reads
O ~ Set their tights alight
Rejigged earlier collection of reponses and observations and the like
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- 1230 reads
Retirement
His success was stamped neatly on his business card, and champagne flowed freely in the conference room transformed with banners and balloons.
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- 1830 reads
Luiz the barber
A visit to the barber gives an eye-opening view into the life and loves of a central American town
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- 587 reads
The fat girl
The stupid jeans won't fit, I hate these Goddamn thighs. Looking up, i see a fat girl passing by the window, and I get momentarily distracted.
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- 1318 reads
I am the Raven, the Walrus and the Carpenter
My poetry mixes the best of Poe, Lewis Carroll and John Lennon. Here's the proof.
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- 1283 reads
The Bliss of Solitude
Surreal Speed Poetry.
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- 1387 reads
Shaved Grass
On shaved grass he lies under bleached sun flicking pages like wasps the dullness of late August tires and twists hope in this manchild waiting for...
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- 1569 reads
Ware abouts
A contribution to Andrew's request for writing about somewhere we know
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- 1150 reads
First Solo
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Chipmunk
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- 639 reads
On choosing material
I like this but try to see it through your eyes The material's rolled so I can't tell the whole pattern how will it end? Someone told me orange is a...
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- 776 reads
Fishing Lesson
Wisdom is a slippery fish.
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- 1388 reads
One per cent
Without Air Traffic Control......
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- 570 reads
Brotherhood
Making friends in unlikely places
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- 616 reads
Splash - One Tanker
An evening spent as a warrior!
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- 1020 reads
Rubber covered brake unloaded castors
Sorry for the reappearance. Massively updated version afoot.
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- 1301 reads
E - DIARY PAGE ? 11 AUGUST 2002
DIARY PAGE - 11 AUGUST 2002 August 11 2002, Sunday. The shrill sound of the alarm clock woke me up from my sleep. With my eyes still closed, I sat up...
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- 1023 reads
Ants nest
On the grass outside the vegetable patch Dad had put the baking potatoes to dry in the grooves of a piece of corrugated iron and now they are bagged...
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- 851 reads
Dear Diary : September 11th 2002
Dear Diary, As I sit here at my computer, sucking away at my fake cigarette, trying to ignore the gut wrenching cravings of my nicotine addicted body...
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- 953 reads
Miss Twenty
Lyrics from 'Fatal Summer' by Joe Kender, kindly reproduced with the permission of the artist We are old, we are older Never quite caught up, wiser...
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- 1573 reads
My Last 20 Bucks
An extremely pointless but slightly insane story -- my entry for the competition.
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- 1354 reads
The Kindness of Ravens
A bird of ill omen, not all that it seems&;#063;
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- 616 reads
Ultimate Puff
Ultimate Sacrifice for Love
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- 1140 reads
Z - Norwich and the Mercenary
Andrew's Global Challenge, plus Henstoat on Robinson
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- 1221 reads
Courting December
Much edited before publishing.
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- 1414 reads
Everything's All Right in the Middle East
What's really happening in the Middle East
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- 1615 reads
Dumb&;#063;
Communication without words
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- 345 reads
Playing Games
endless blah of the diary sort
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- 1592 reads
My Last Twenty Nights at The Royal
Competition entry - A disgraced TV presenter check in at The Royal
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- 635 reads
Q) Global ABC: Hit The North
Hit the North. "The city as we imagine it, the soft city of illusion, myths, aspiration, nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city...
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- 2287 reads
Almost Twenty-twenty
Why a Bookie's runner's keeps running.
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- 707 reads
G ~ Idiots roam the papers
What to do with humanity: the answers. Ha!
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- 1067 reads
Dogballs - Chapter 1
Dogballs It all hinges on them. Dogballs. Shiny black eggs. "He's disgusting," Anne says. The dog is lying on his back, a pinned out frog ready for...
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- 1870 reads
Democrats need to question war.
Political opinion
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- 626 reads
An Act of Indecency
An observer's view of sexual taboos. For some this will be a very difficult piece.
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- 577 reads
C ~ Hey! You across the street!
A sestina
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- 1334 reads
On A Humdrum Town
still wittering diarywise
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- 1863 reads
A ~ Taming the comet
A man returns home freshly broken from trying to live up to expectations
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- 1251 reads
Twenty Years to the Day
competition entry
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- 1468 reads
Might Do A Course, Might Not
more of that diary stuff
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- 1484 reads
Unfinished Tales
To those who don't stay...
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- 588 reads
Y ~ Fugitive punk
This was heavily reworked and cut into two separate poems for the book.
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- 1085 reads
Letting the Mice Out of the Bag
diary back by unpopular demand
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- 1620 reads
E). When The Fire Froze
Sonnet
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- 623 reads
Coated lungs
Smoking may kill you. but I don't care
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- 661 reads
C). That Winning Smile
Poem
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- 673 reads
Keep Your Head - August 01 2002
Lose Your Heart
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- 889 reads
The Rime of the Four and Twenty
20 Competition
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- 438 reads