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New Directions (2)
I’d seen Dev Mullur around at the auctions. We were on nodding terms. I could see by the properties he bid on he had a pretty long list. Never going...
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Give A Little Thought
The road to righteousness is not rhetoric, the path to freedom is not fighting. The mother of all battles grieves for her children, the father of...
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Like One Of Your Flowers
LIKE ONE OF YOUR FLOWERS Will you press me Like one of your flowers, And keep me inside your little book? If you get lonely And you're running on...
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Kali Yuga - Brave New Year

A wee bit late, both for Brexit and The New Year; but as I've revised this old poem I though it might still make a point - nothing changes! I should add the Jester here does not refer to King Charles, but a certain politician! (Image courtesy of Christoph Sholz from Wikimedia Commons)
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New Directions (1)

Although almost midday the inside of the car was full of dark shadowy corners. I could hardly make out the shape of my shoes resting in the spaces...
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Night Help

Slowly, silently, the lamplight falls here and there as the farmer strolls back from the barn where the soft beams lit the struggles as ewe and man...
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Ghost Of The Waste Ground
Ghost Of The Waste Ground By Paul McCann People used to live on the Bone as it was called, in a place called Savage Row which had been an area of...
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Fed up.
The British are a stupid race of people still sticking like slime to feudalist barons boots. We are a race of people who are constantly conditioned...
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So long Nick.
I had a lifelong friend called Nicky. He drank hard from an early age, his parents letting him drink at fourteen, he had no chance. As a young man he...
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i had a long go

i had a long go at poems that don’t make sense fireworks poems but poems with hidden meanings but i find confessional style poems work best (this is...
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PEACE.
Last year, December on the 4th I suddenly noticed a thick black dot in my left eye. It moved when my eye moved. I decided to ignore it, I was not in...
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BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS: CHAPTER ONE

PREFACE: My name is Sidney Bolivar. I am the grandson of Henry Justice Bolivar (1898 – 1981). He was on the front lines when Allied troops marched on...
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BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS: CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER 2 On December 1, 1916, I was drafted into the 42 nd Black Watch in France. I landed at Le Havre aboard a troop carrier. I went directly to...
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"Turn Down the Noise"
Turn down the noise Power off the blue light Disconnect the media Ignore the frenzy Step into the forest Contemplate the lake View art in the clouds...
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Who's Aldo? (my new novel) audio extract
Hey everyone My new novel Who's Aldo? has been receiving glowing reviews. Also, ABC Tales did a wonderful and very kind review of the book. This is a...
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ADAM & STEVE
ADAM & STEVE We're running out of firewood And we've only got the Holy Book left in the pile - It's been there for a while. Through windy streets...
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How to transcend the body in ten easy steps
Stop gazing at yourself in the mirror. Avoid all dogma like the plague. Ignore bad news unless you can help to resolve it. Eschew vanity and all vain...
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The Monster Bigot
The Monster Bigot By Paul McCann For about a hundred years in Settlers City a monster known as Bigot lived underneath the city streets, unseen and...
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Working together

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Youth with strength and fresh new vision, ready, speedy hands and feet. Those grown older, tired and slower cannot with their speed compete. …
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A Walk Through A Village From Another Time

A Walk Through A Village From Another Time By Paul McCann If you could paint you a picture of my village in North Belfast , from another day and...
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