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Trail Of Thought

A poem written to the sounds of Jazz, and inspired by the Bohemian and Beat Generation. Afternoon Lounge Jazz - Relaxing Jazz Music for Work &...
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On Being ‘Alone’
A death at any age, if it could and should have been avoided, is a death too soon. The life of a person with no children, parents, siblings or...
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We are Family
Times have changed. The three gods stood silently in the void. Lore contemplated their life and how their decisions had led them to being offered a...
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Another Country

I wrote this in May 2015. I have crystal balls. I do not know this past, save through the prism of books written at the time they're supposed to be depicting. For it was not like any past I experienced first hand. Nostalgia is seductive, reductive and contains the nationalist propagandist's biggest lies. Image created from CC0 original.
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Into the heart, out of the mouth

…your eyes, your heart’s door … Direct the attention of ears to what’s good … Not nosing out dirt … mouth trained not to hurt …
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butterfly moment

truants of moonlight soft as forgetting wings, pale, delicate flicker in arcs then fold, as hair-fine feet cling, taste star white wild garlic...
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Grand Opera
When Grand Opera isn’t. The Magic of a successful, grand opera is a mystical experience. It is a poly-euphony of melodious orchestral pieces, the...
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Tumultuous Times
Once the sun kisses an edge of horizon new adventures begin- a raucous wind stirs the pot with a mix of sound and turmoil lifts an eagle into layers...
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Ugly Puggly 17
We balanced plates of linguine dappled with parmesan on our laps in the living room. Ugly Puggly sat in his armchair across from us and sipped green...
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Curiosity

Imaging you are 103 year old. You are still alive and kicking, You still like playing marbles, eating too many pieces of cake on your birth day,...
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A Theft

I have set myself the challenge of writing a ghost story a month in 2022. This is probably more wierd fiction , but my challenge, my rules.
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The mothers line
I want to know and understand the secrets of the past who now lie hidden to the world My great grandmother I only knew in myth and a single faded...
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The Infinite Lore
Ringing, endless ringing. Their vision was blurry, their back ached and to top it off there was an unexpected hand in their face. They grabbed at it...
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The Du’Walles Cometh
The room emptied. Lore was alone with Reality. Neither of them knew they had less than an hour to prepare. “You stared into infinity when we created...
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The Dramatis Personae
Lots of people. Lore had forgotten that fifty two Reapers did not translate to just fifty two people. Alarms wailed as more and more of the newcomers...
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Magical Mystery Tour Part 3 : Back in The USSR of Liverpoool by Alfred N.Muggins
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True to form it began to rain heavily for a while as they skirted Manchester on the motorways, but then stopped and returned to sunny and pleasant...
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Ugly Puggly 16

Hands deep in my pockets, I whistled Come on Irene for some reason, as I didn’t even like the song when it first came out. The pavement was speckled...
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The Medium Has a Message
Jeremy and I knew that it would be a charade if not an outright con but we agreed to join the séance to please grandma Edna.
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I Wished For You
, I Wished For You By Paul McCann Never ask me why I fell in love with you , I looked up at a star , as dreamers often do and closed my eyes in...
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A Blindworm’s Revenge

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