Cherrypicked stories
Who's John?
Now I don’t do this often But before I move on There’s a man here in spirit Sorry madam – who’s John? I’m being told John And a connection with Paul… If I said the name Dave
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- 1600 reads
The Bastard - He Doesn't Exist
Work in progress - inspired by Sam
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Loneliness is a language
What could I do or say? Would pain smooth out under my perfect words? Would it even listen? Winds soothe and refresh. Green shades in the land please the eye, and sitting by the water
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Out beyond its depth
Next to the railway line, this house, resentful of being looked at, painfully holds itself up straight, ashamed of its gawky gables and blind windows, embarrassed
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- 3151 reads
Writing Home
IP: Red dress and Spider I curse it! Just another whore in a red dress on any street corner.
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Intimacy versus Intricacy
An acrostic poem.
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Pub Banter! (East End Style)
“Where was you, when manners was handed out?” “Round the corner, having a fag. Where was you?” “Round the other one, shagging your Mum; there was a queue!”
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Teachologue
An insight....!!! Tearing hair out? Me? Never!
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The Story of the First Eclipse and How the Stars Were Born
A very long time ago before there were people on the earth, the Gods were sitting in their palace on high, and out of their boredom they created the Sun and the Moon to fill up the empty sky.
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- 609 reads
Bright like Quartz
The white points of her knuckles are bright like quartz sticking out of heather where she’s holding on so hard and I think about her little skeleton underneath that rosy flesh.
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Peter Pan Poems
They are Peter Pan poems; they refuse to grow up!
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dddk 4 - plums and bums
The rise and fall of Dame Nellie...
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- 976 reads
Your Country Needs You
The Great (or not so great) War
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Morpheus (Roman god of sleep and dreams )
Incubus (a male demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women)
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- 4268 reads
Etching The Surface
04.
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- 2572 reads
Keeping up Appearances
Inspiration Point...spider and a red dress....
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Greenwood Tree : Prologue
Pagan gods don’t walk away just because you stop looking at them. The Gronny Patch sleeps; perhaps it dreams. Let it . .
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- 1231 reads
A Cup of Tea
You were forewarned and when you are lost Remember the tragedy I promised.
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3 boys
Three boys tired to sell me a Christmas tree for one pound, As I walked along black ground in January dusk.
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- 686 reads