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Diamonds of truth
I remember a child (about 8 years old) in Sunday School saying something like ‘It’s a good idea to say you believe in God – if it’s wrong you won’t...
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Sea Angels & Butterfly Kisses
Sometimes a man needs a brutal love rescue, in a tough love way. Then kissed, caressed and loved back to operational capacity. At what degree is a...
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I Walk Among Recordings
I Walk Among Recordings of life’s journal that juts out from shrubs with prickles to shackle you and erase any vanity that clings to you. Suddenly a...
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Ugly Puggly 33
‘Won’t the body start to stink?’ I clutched at my freshly made cup of Tetley’s. Ugly Puggly took his time answering. He was making porridge for...
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Curiosity Killed The Cat : A Day In The Life Of Alfred Muggins In Turkey (He Daydreams of the Rise and Fall of Empires)
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Curiosity Killed The Cat, but the lazy humans, having arrived in Turkey are quite happy to stay inside their compound of the hotel and pool, and the...
The Munro Academy Poltergeist
My new year's resolution was to write a ghost story every month in 2022. This is the fifth.
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Dodgy Betting
Country Parable
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Alienage
Feel my face; feel all too shaken In this state, feel all too naked Feel my roots they're all too twisted Know my fate; feel all too sacred. I fear...
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The Imaginers
written for kids in mind, who should keep hold of their imaginations as they get older.
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Django
Some days only Django will do... Image author's own... fault.
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Ode on the evergreen laurel - a Jubilee poem
Kumbaya me Lord, kumbaya. Kumbaya me Lord, kumbaya, me darlin' Clementine, found a peanut. It was rotten. Common wealth? A wreath. Six foot...
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unclear nuclear
we'll rack up radioactive waste costing billions to dispose of safely. but who has billions to spare when people are dying now, for lack of Health...
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Ugly Puggly 32
Ugly Puggly got four mismatched mugs out of the cupboard, and stepped over Harry’s body. ‘Whit kind of tea you wantin, Camomile or Green?’ ‘I just...
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In The Face Of Danger
Today is May the 30th and it's Memorial Day. Americans are paying tribute to those who fought and died for the USA. 116,516 American soldiers died...
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Dante's Road to Hell
One from my archive - Image from Wikimedia Commons
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Ugly Puggly 31
Jeff put the suitcase he was holding on the table. He edged forward and tapped at Harry’s leg with the toe of his shoe. ‘Fuck sake,’ he said, ‘he’ll...
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If I can just get through the day
If I can just get through the day Knowing I can return to the vessel Where oblivion is docked And I can retreat into silent, Solitary tunnels, my...
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This life is hard work
(or, cogito ergo sum) Free mind, then, free body. Reach body through mind. Grab the pebble from my hand, said the blind man. Just see if you can. And...
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Novel solutions on gun control
I read the news today! Specifically, I was intrigued by the proposed notion of arming teachers in our schools, to prevent future murderous assaults...
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Sonnet 4
And when I see You then and face to face, I promise not to fall and weep ashamed, I want to gaze deep into eyes of grace, I want to hear Your voice...
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