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XANADIAN RHAPSODY
Samuele is a composer from Milano, whose bells and cymbals carry delights from the Orient. A saxophone’s malleable core sound flows into Alph the...
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A Nation of Caners*
No copyright on titles. *Del Amitri on the Writer's Den Musical Time Machine this morning. So I've nicked a title of a song from their latest album (I know, I thought they'd given up too, until I went to see them live in September). And we are... So, not about very much. You're welcome to pass by... Some of the pubs have had their names changed... And I like them all, really Image is from whatpub.com
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Bone-White
Bark-less and shivering yet perfect for an eagle’s perch- this tall tree a pillar of strength within an independent view of bone-white amidst a...
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7 years ago
I cried to my mother today, the moment my voice shook she asked me what happened and I couldnt control the stinging feeling in my eyes. Tears rushed...
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A Lorry Load of Sleaze
This is part 5 in the satirical series at https://www.abctales.com/collection/pandemic-tales-bojo-and-co A Lorry Load of Sleaze “Oh do shove over...
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Victim and ringleader
I stood up. I nudged her right arm a bit to make way for myself. Yet I felt the stiffness of her body. She didn’t move.She seemed determined to block...
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Inspired Walk
Remembering our walk on Wednesday 3 rd November 2021. I love when autumn gives way to winter's brisk freshness – even scatter of birds are drawn...
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namaste
namaste he has returned to the vibrational harmony of the light to the songs of Source resting now, tucked in tight living gifts remain mellow,...
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Heroes
Even when I was in, I thought the Greenham protestors had a right to their protest. I remember it as being mostly peaceful. It went on a long time and they did win in the end. The length of the protest was probably why. Patience is a great weapon. Tempus omnium edax rerum. I shudder to think how it would have been in the age of social media. Anyway, this isn't about Greenham. It's (all) about me. Image author's own.
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 25
Chapter 18. After I finished packing I got Zara to call me a taxi. When it came I made it stop at the bank as it was opening up. Zara and I had set...
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Afterlife
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(Another piece on the subject of heaven, although this time it has nothing to do with Islamic State) :- Characters leave our world of life in the...
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The Aftermath 2
“Do you have any other health conditions?” “Not that I am aware of, why? Is there something else except the lung?” “No, physically you are absolutely...
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The Aftermath
I was absolutely sure that I overslept, did not hear the alarm, which is highly unusual, but then how come the microwave was beeping? Or the...
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Elise
Did you ever notice how the more things change, the more they stay the same? Take the moon, for example. It waxes and wanes, dances across the sky,...
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I Dare Not Forget
I wrote this in such a way as to pause on every letter of the word.
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Memory Priorites
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Remember the Babe born in Bethlehem, remember his death in Jerusalem, remember he ordered the wind and waves, remember he’s God and he hears and saves. Remember some times when oppressors sought …
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 24
1971 "I love you, I love you, I love you." Agnes slid out of bed naked and did a kind of pirouette. She was no ballerina and tumbled down onto the...
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Reckoning
Police sirens wail through air, puncturing the otherwise moderate fibre of the day. They come from different directions, carried to your ears on the...
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Shuffling
Life is growing older rhythms muscles diminished skin loosely divided and grey in the uppermost- yet his shuffling in the far corners of a nursing...
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Bygones
They bundle us intae the back ay the jeep, Zander just aboot greetin, ‘Whit aboot the Beemer? Ah’m tellin ye the noo, that better no have as much as...
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