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The Extraordinary Child

The Extraordinary Child By Paul McCann The long night slowly passed to the silence of the morning light, and he lay there in bed looking up at the...

Drunk

Have you ever been drunk, and submersed in a funk, as if trapped in a trunk but then asked to write junk in a poem which stunk though your mind has...

A school

A school building is on its own its busy during the week kids running down it corridors, being cheeky as kids can be the men who built this school...
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Bus Pass [and BPL] are Together Again

Bus Pass often thought of themselves as ‘Patsy’ to BPL’s ‘Edina’; constantly by her side, encouraging prodigal ways. Bus Pass sometimes prayed to...

Weather App. Haiku # 20

Mostly cloudy then? At least there is no snowfall, No wind outside today.

Pollution

Starburst days Ultraviolet blip careens into pumpernickel haze Cozy Commuters Neon polluters transit bridges Plumes of carbon waft over rivers Foamy...
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Blind.

I recently heard, that some older people refuse to drive at night due to the brightness of the car lights, on coming and behind them! My daugher is...
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Tales of the Unconnected

yeah, well, sometimes explaining won't do. Image is from wikipedia... and appropriately unconnected with the poem.

That's OK Then!

A Father batters his ten year old Daughter with a iron bar when she was close to death, hits her again and again with a cricket bat, while she is...
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The Last Night Chapter Three 3A.M.

Chapter 3 3 A.M. 8 Other than the subtle but persistent presence of what Ariel assumed were the Greys orbiting her just beyond the reach of her...
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What's up dude?

When Ted got back from the factory he found his wife on the sofa in a very nervous state, “What’s for dinner love? “Ted. I’ve got news.” “Hell that...
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The Cinnabar Moth

I’m a Yorkshire girl, born and bred. When my marriage broke up I was happy to c o me back to my childhood home ; l ife is slower-paced up here than...
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Boško’s Clouds

You never know what might happen when you delve into an old plastic ice cream tub.
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The Cunning Plan

After kicky boy scratched and stabbed the newly painted wee weird door, thought about many things. Mostly vengeful fantasies. Stringing him up by his...

Contempt of Spoils

Swimming in the past Breeds the new hell that I’m living in Now, it’s so vast Recounting spells, rehash Gratitude musings We can make it last I hate...

As i sit here

As I sit here and my sadness falls why did I leave oh time is funny when you look back you see you were wrong you remember every time you hear that...
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The Tale of the Housemaid’s Knee

My contribution to world events during the second half of October 2024, again described at the rate of one hundred words per day.
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Bright end of autumn

Blue sky after dark days of cloud and rain and foggy haze, but now the golden sunshine glints on the few remaining shaking leafy tints, and red and...
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The Noble Silencer

The Noble Silencer By Paul McCann Everyone present heard them say “ Oh look what crawled out of the sewer and came for breakfast “ The words had...

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