Cherrypicked stories
Your Smell
When I wake you are gone, but I already knew this would be the case. You are always gone when I wake, always, and each and every time I see the place you should be but are not
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The Undoing
Ben seemed ok but the EMT insisted on calling a second ambulance just to make sure. You don’t take chances with head trauma, he obliged, especially with an infant.
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The Old Days
Bikes that had engines concealed in our lips, Or cards held to the spokes with 'Cellotape' strips.
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Southwold Revisited (The Sound of the Sea)
A walk on the pier in the pouring rain, not her best idea.
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A Window on Madness (part three)
Steve returns to the psychiatric unit after his night out(and wishes he hadn't). The mysterious character 'Llewelyn' is introduced.
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The Son of All Fears
Quite odd, really...
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An Age Of Difference
She is beauty made ugly by place and circumstance
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Love, Dies Not!
Only life ends; love is forever!
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Vanessa
My blue dress is still hanging in the wardrobe. And today, as I turned the corner onto Maryoteya Road, I thought of you.
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I lost You.
I lost you... Among the brick and stone the cotton and the soul, You slid beneathe the cracks of patterned tile, You flew between the dust and air. Someone said they saw you,
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High on Snow (Inspiration Point)
High on Snow (IP) (13th March, 2009, 20.49pm) Edgeless precipice; you look down, precarious, high on snow. I watch you. Naïve, I stumble in the light, troughed in some unbefitting,
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Soliloquy in Yellow
you lick the smoke from your cigarette and grin; your musings are an abstract to me.
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Weary - An Imperfect Pantoum
I've been reading about different forms in poetry and remembered a Pantoum I'd written some time ago. I thought I'd post it here to see what others thought of the form.
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Et in Arcadia Ego..
Utopia?
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Burlesque - 1
Snaking and fizzing, acidulous neon throbs; an elevated heart rate. An invitation.
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Esher Girls
He makes great coffee, so ... can I complain?
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Free Write
What it says...best way to tell your dreams, I reckon.
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Beam
05 Childrens' Poem...of course, I joined in :-)
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Lost in New York - Pt II
Fut-fut-fut-fut-fut-fut go the pigeon’s wings slapping the walls of its tiny concrete airshaft by my window. I sit up in my mattress and rub my eyes,
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Monkeys Stole Their Balls
(Being A True Account of the Invention of Miniature Golf)
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