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Chinese Water Deer

Glancing around in silence, extreme weather at start of evening under strange winter sky; that's bruised in colours blackberry and gold, hiding...
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Ivy

The curse kicks in every September. I wish my family had warned me but they don’t like to talk about it. Maybe they’re ashamed – our dirty family...
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Guard!!

Fire, fire burning bright in the forest day and night damaging the national park – from where came igniting spark? … ( with apologies to William Blake)
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Good Morning c/o Hurricane Fiona

It’s quiet. 5 am. I had a good sleep for the 7 th night. Power still out in our apt. A disaster they say with thousands of trees fallen in our Town...

Humans. Part One.

From teething to growing pains. From severe acne, to hormones. There is worry, stress and ulcers. Arthritis, tennis elbow, and clicking fingers...

Life and Times of a Priestess : Ch.14 : The New Lovers : Part 3

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Priestess Danella and Wealthy Industrialist Valery encourage their friends to further exploration in traditional Dumis, the capital of an Empire without a monarch. This is set in an alternative world, not dissimilar to our own, perhaps a century or more before now.
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Wildflowers

"There are too many of them growing. They're in the wrong place. If you aren't careful, they'll take over." Resilience and strength are ignored...
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Wealth

The water doesn't matter And neither do the trees The earth is ripe for fracking Who cares about the bees? Don't worry for the future We're living in...
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Poem of the week

Legacy

One day the room you are in will be here And you will not. The tidying you have not done will remain, A reminder that no-one dies with a completed to...
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in extremis

and always diving deeper, there came a morning when the light splintered on the diamond shapes of the day and knowing it was beautiful but using ever...
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Carry on

don't go back move on forget about all of that it is not worth it they took your heart but they were no good just pick yourself up and carry on you...

I found a letter from you

today when I was cleaning out an old draw i found a letter from you and as re-read your words i am reminded how I felt about you each letter you...

Joe Biden and Other Democrats

Joe Biden and other Democrats claim that if Republicans are elected tomorrow, our democracy will end. That's one of the craziest things I've ever...

Isolated (Interlude)

I lit up a cigarette and watched the amber highlight her features. I told her that everything is going to be okay but it didn’t seem to remedy her...
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They've Closed the Road

Have you heard, they’ve closed the road. Black ice reflections deep, like a mirror from the archives. We don’t want to see ourselves like that. There...
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THE TRIALS OF AN ANGEL Part 12: Noises in the Woods

Everybody turned out to see them off on their venture into the woodlands and beyond to scare away animals. Jess and Alan carried the guns. The young...
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Bronte's Inferno XXIII (The Full Vincent)

Balsa wood? The man's obsessed. Image CC0 PD
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November 5

Fizzing fireworks brief and bright red and orange, gold and white, rocket, catherine wheel and candle, silent sparklers – carrot handle for the metal...
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Freedom In A Magical Land

Freedom In A Magical Land By Paul McCann Far out in space somewhere there’s another horizon , on the edge of the universe where no one has gone ,...
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Runaway Mother chapter 7

Delighted Zach has seen sense and isn’t going to blow the remainder of our money looking for a woman who doesn’t want to be found, I suggest a family...
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