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Home help
"you can prune the roses,...
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Nature's Alchemy
In January she scatters her wares: the white confetti of winter, the sugary ice-moons that reflect the afternoon sun. She falls from the sky, mixing wind and rain, transmuting
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The Photographer's Daughter
I'd been at the bar for about forty minutes and was getting a little fuzzy. A man three stools along was droning on to the barman about some gallery in Amsterdam when the girl came in and fainted.
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My Father
My father had a clock that used to speak A brush that painted foam upon his chin A pipe that smoked whisky breath on a Friday A dog that watched and lived a long, long time
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The Guinea Thief - Chapter 8 - Rosie and John Get Married
it does what it says on the tin.............
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Scissors I.P.
Written a while ago but the result of a Zen writing workshop which inspired my suggestion for this week's Inspiration Point.
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Ellipsis
I lie in a foetal fold, Still born, still as a pillar, A cold heavy stone, Unmoved by my existence
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I almost lost the stars...
That girl walking on the other side of the road - do you see her? She’s my favourite memory. And she’s ruining my life.
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All the Young Dudes (I.P.)
Heed my warning or proceed at they peril!
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Infestation
I warned you about the danger of letting poems into the house. Now we have verse everywhere, sonnets asleep in the kitchen and bawdy ballads in the bedrooms.
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December day
When the silence of the world seems to be saying something
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Before the Radiotheraphy
Everything's trivial now, except this.
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The Late Train
"The vast windswept hillsides that stretched for miles around had sunk into the gulf. Their invisible presence witness"
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Four stages of Manic Depression inspired by Jimmy Hendrix
To read more of this story, buy My Baby Shot Me Down, a Blinding Books anthology containing work of new women writers: http://blindingbooks.com/?page_id=350
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Boys and Girls and Music
Heavily scented and bunched together like perfume-heavy spring blossoms,
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Union Cottages Revisited
Bedlam Lane and the gasworks, and a freight line running through. Red terraced houses, two-up, two-down, with the sound and the distant view
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Daguerreotype III
Nope, still got no idea what this is about!
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Castle In The Clouds, Chapters Nineteen and Twenty
Chapter Nineteen
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Waiting for the Thaw
They tell me guilt is normal...when things like this happen.
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SHE SHUTS HER EYES…
She shuts her eyes, an image comes An image comes unbidden, Pictures play inside her mind Of things she's long kept hidden. He shuts his eyes, no image comes No visions plague his mind,
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