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Rest In Peace, Hazel - Part II

Some Chihuahua dogs are hateful but you weren't hateful in the least. You were a very special dog and it's painful because you're deceased. Just one...
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Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp.
Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp. Reeva Steenkamp Foundation, they aim to be Reeva’s Voice. The Foundation continues her work in educating and empowering...
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Pick Up The Pieces (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 49)

The Undertakers are 'under starter's orders', as are the Detectives. With everyone in their respective vehicles, we should be off and running now, shouldn't we?
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The River

An older poem I've dusted off; having reflected on what Jack commented on my last poem. It is the age old question - what constitutes us? This poem comes as close to the Buddhist view as I can manage; and of course there may be another truth. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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1:4:7 Solutions (Part 2)
They found the kitchenette’s fabricator and ordered two cups of tea with a small pitcher of milk and a saucer of sugar. They grabbed one of the two...
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Mr Pinkertons Garden Of Visions

Mr Pinkertons Garden Of Visions By Paul McCann Buttermilk and honey dewdrops glistened in the morning sun on the leaves of spearmint trees . The...
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Bermuda Dreams Chapter 2 Part 2-2

"Cool. Well, gotta get goin'. Have to meet a protegee in Hamilton. But we'll train with my jet ski soon. It's the best there is, even comes with...
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Bermuda Dreams Chapter 2 Part 1-2
Chapter Two "Wake up...wake up fool!" Tom awoke to find Big Roy hollering at him from a seat across an aisleway. He felt a bump of turbulence, pops...
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Bermuda Dreams Chapter 1

Chapter One Tom dreamt of golden triangles. They flew at him in flashy arrays, lighthouses at their tips, framing seas below. He didn't want to be...
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Things Fall Apart

A follow on from my previous poem 'Slipping into the Water', an attempt to put the condition into words. (Image is courtersy of Pixabay)
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Untitled at the moment. Chapter 1 maybe?
His heart is clawing against his ribcage, trying to find a gap big enough to break through. The pain in the depth of his neck suggests he has slept...
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An outrageously slow and peaceful homage to the stone age, sotto voce
A time before, when slings and arrows and rockets and missiles made fortunes for a few. Even, tribal wars were unheard of. Silence, save for the...
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Expands
The landscape expands, rushing over undulating roads it is hard to appreciate the shades of blue, the sparrows silhouettes, the tree's claws grasping...
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This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B

Stand aside Tristram Shandy, this is The Life and Opinions of Turlough Ó Maoláin, Gentleman. Compiled during the late part of December 2023, at a rate of one hundred words per day.
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I MADE HIM A BEGGER
The car turned the corner and I could see an old man with a long beard , bare bodied perched on the median seperating the two lanes on the highway...
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Neuschwanstein Castle

(2015) I never knew about this castle until 1992, though I had seen it on telly many times without realising. In 1992 I took three weeks or so...
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The Darlings
The Darlings So, I was seeing this woman for a while who was in and out of the music business. She once married a man who was in a band who will...
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Cernunnos

He wasn’t really a Reverend; he was a god- botherer who could out-bible any trained-up taker of the cloth. We just called him that. I found him...
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Storm

Wind battering, rattling, howling, thunder growling, rain pounding, ground flooding, shelter shaking, hearts quaking, loose tiles lifted, breaking,...
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