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Meeting on the hill
A hand up brother, a free man's gift we can share this summit in a handshake it's barren; nothing to steal here or take, there's no dividing line,...
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Harriet Tubman
She carried those scars in her fractured skull praying to God makes him change his ways, she'd pray simultaneously for the improbable, pray for...
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Apparitions
I'm a breeze in a wandering valley. I'm a ghost who's come to play and haunt I may make you cry or smile I may mean the world to you or the cold...
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18
In Welsh the word for 18 is ‘two-nines’ (deunaw) in the Breton language it is ‘three-sixes’ (triwec’h) …
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The Holly and the Ivy
"Pour me out some tea." Ivy took the tea pot and poured the tea into Holly's cup. "Would you like a crumpet?" "What are they?" "These things," said...
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S is for Snow
light smooths, soothes curves; walk in sleeping prisms' peace sight's a white wall, smell's all, cold's hungry, move or freeze
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Enslaved
“No one is more a slave than he who thinks himself free of being one”J.W.von Goethe Count us over and over, cut us into so many shapes at any time,...
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My outlet in times of trouble
Natures my outlet in times of trouble when I want to get away from the news, that COVID-19 self-isolation bubble, rivers and long canal walk lift my...
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Party games and balloons
There were always three in a corner. And if you were feeling a little bit frisky and naughty you’d-one, large sausage in-betweens two round ones for...
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Hibiscus flowers
What’s revealed inside a beating heart? That projects the light of the universe What is unveiled that isn’t first shown? That transfixes the...
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A Frank Farce Or A Day In The Life -- Part Three
After the zooming of the ride, that seemed to take days, finally became slower, the images in his mind now danced here and there, then settled like a...
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A Frank Farce, Or A Day In The Life -- Part Two
SEE Link to Part One: https://www.abctales.com/story/chris-whitley/frank-farce-or-day-life-par... Within a hour we find our hero standing before his...
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R is for Reindeer and Roe deer
proudly pull Santa Claus in sleek, gift-laden sleigh angled grace, tasting grass -* sound *- Heads lift, they're away!
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Irene.
In life, I think we all meet one person if we are lucky and when we meet that person we think, they are really not like the rest of us, they are...
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First to Return
Scarred slate armour. The leader removed their helmet to thunderous applause. Just outside of the human guests view, The New Cornerstones readied...
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Human Party Hosting
Heart attack over. Pwy’he was a much better actor than he let on. Lore reset his watch to the correct time as the first of the expected cars arrived...
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Exercising Ghosts
I. The city skyline spiked by spires The silence ripped by siren choirs Riding the Marches,walking the Mat Walking forward , walking back II...
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Struggling
In the Seventies I walked with you Down to school Struggling to keep up As I was small. In your Seventies I walked without you Up to the hospice...
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Day before a birthday
It had cheered us up, before. We called it The Secret Beach because always empty, small, down old stairs from the road. That day, we were both scared...
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17
Haiku example: 'Winter life withdrawn, safely shielded from the cold …'
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