Cherrypicked stories
Jojo's Blues
A man who has to get away from what he's let himself slide into
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- 878 reads
Y Poem - In Nerja With Ladies
Travel, Love, Friendship, Spiritual
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- 822 reads
Juvenile Tuna
interesting creatures...
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- 1193 reads
SOMETIMES I GO LOOKING
Quell my dreams someone I'm losing balance here Dancing rope to bedlam South of madness Rambling under sodium stars A mustard jazz parade French...
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- 1713 reads
A TOWN CALLED BASILDON
There are no short cuts. I'll be quick. Very quick indeed. Basildon was conceived and built in the late forties along with other such devastatingly...
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- 9804 reads
Which story is more successful&;#063;
A comparative between Edgar Allen Poes 'The Black Cat' and 'Lucy Blue' by David Almond
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- 1733 reads
Monkey's Christmas
Christmas time for a domestic, but angry, monkey
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- 918 reads
Cucharacha Hyperanthropos
Glassy-eyed dawn weeps majestically as it subtly Courts the mountainside Luminary embrace Craggy rock faces jut out to greet her Echoing the...
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- 957 reads
Whitman's Staff
The trials and tribulations of this lifetime you speak of subtly Nature's harsh cycle of life can you bear witness to... Oh casualty of the galing...
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- 778 reads
Hotel Metropole
The question is: Where will they meet this week? At the Hotel Metropole of course. Its central location and high-ceilinged rooms, despite having...
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- 1951 reads
Discretion
I look at you- unsubtly, lips suggestively pursed. Pouted over a glass, and I sip. A glass of juice that tastes of you. I can still feel
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- 942 reads
And the next please
on certain days i tire of speaking to people i meet and want to withdraw into another place but something stops me from making that trip and i will...
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- 1701 reads
Pacific Beach (San Diego)
Footprints fade.
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- 2065 reads
Doing the maths and logistics...
Tongue in cheek view of Bush's fundraising from kids.
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- 1731 reads
On Losing My Keys and Regaining My Sanity
the meaning of life
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- 3754 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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- 948 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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- 969 reads
It Started On The Bus
I think someone saved me a seat for this ride.
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- 1804 reads
Life During Wartime
One person's war.
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- 794 reads
Michelangelo has finished the chapel wall
The greatest interior decorator of them all
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- 1089 reads
In Trepanning
I struggle to find the words-...
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- 1066 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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- 753 reads
Journalism Junkie
Addiction doesn't always mean substance abuse...
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- 1094 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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- 1183 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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- 955 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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- 743 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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- 708 reads
Angst Poem Wanted
Tongue in cheek poem about the adolescent work we hide in boxes under the bed
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- 1128 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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- 1155 reads
Vinyl Magic
Dedicated to all e-woccies and my mother.
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- 1092 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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- 882 reads
And The Shaman Sings On
Once you enter the Shaman World you may never get out..
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- 976 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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- 1636 reads
Crocodile tears
Private grief, public interest
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- 2266 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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- 1029 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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- 969 reads
Praise the Lard
T'was in the Flour of My Youth
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- 1774 reads
Death By A Thousand Poems
Is writing poetry a variation on Chinese torture&;#063;
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- 737 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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- 1238 reads
Spectre of Grim Professionalism
Real Life Horror
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- 1819 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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- 942 reads
Smiling
Ever had the feeling you are being followed&;#063; How would you know&;#063;
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- 628 reads
Japanese Maple
How sad is this...&;#063; A poem about my favourite tree... :o)
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- 945 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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- 1116 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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- 1014 reads
P = chapter sixteen
his new sexy persona had been a miracle to him
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- 1054 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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- 950 reads
Observation
I watched a black and yellow turtle explore my walled garden this morning. He checked out all the possiblities and met the stone likeness of himself...
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- 756 reads
Nicotine
Nicotine Nicotine won't let me go, I loved her once but not anymore. I've tried to break up with her many times. Only to be choked by her craving...
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- 1021 reads
What you Said
Jake struggled with his hangover. The tequila had seemed like a good idea at the time but now&;#8230; He shook his head, realising it was a...
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- 807 reads
Phoenix riding on a fire flame
Phoenix Riding on Fire Flame Look, I'm the clot lipped devourer, I reveal myself to you. Don't speak, I'll eat your tongue, spit hit you with buried...
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- 747 reads
My wretched muse
My Wretched Muse I wanted to be better, She saw I looked down. I wanted to be special, She watched me sparkle. I wept "I loathe her She should know...
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- 750 reads