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Three O’Clock Sheep Club

A crowded but lonely place.
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Love Story 6
I vowed to God I’d work hard and turn myself around and no longer look at the stuck-together catalogue pages even if they were just sitting there...
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Fifty Cornish Sunsets

We are called upon to come here, to cliff, to strand, to hilltop, summoned to the coast to make the most of sundown. With hundreds silently watching...
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Old Movies.
Many of us have memories of rainy Sundays and monochrome films. The black and white world of westerns, swashbuckling adventures and kitchen sink...
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The Dinghy - A Ned's Tavern Tale

Max and Stinky sat in the dinghy and cracked open two beers. “Tuna sandwich?” said Stinky. “Sure. It may be the only kinda fish we’ll see all day.”...
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Transcendental Journey of Meditation

A poem for my night insomnia. When restless thoughts intrude on sleep, I would devour diversion; receiving time with mantra...alert, yet eyes are...
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Little Nancy Guru
Little Nancy Guru ‘By Paul McCann Little Nancy guru how did you know all the things tomorrow brings and the right way to go . Its as if you’ve seen...
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Blagdon Lake in Winter

For Louise Glück Blagdon Lake in Winter Silver skies. Ephemeral light glints on Blagdon Lake. The geese are gone now. I hear echoes of wind chimes...
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Why is there still a church?

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] How come there’s still believers found who love that carpenter? Though long time’s past they still abound –...
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15.1 Luna Mar
Next morning, I woke up around four and had a fast breakfast on bread and jam, two eggs and coffee at my kitchen-office cubicle. I turned on my...
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Season of the Cool
Before the day glows with favour & my eyes begin to show movement the wind is soft upon my face. I can smell apples from the tree above me...
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Mother-tongue

Mother-tongue. For B Maria, mother, best friend all five languages surgically removed. I transcribed your tongue-tied signs, desperate to comprehend...
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Me and My Muezzin

When I was a lad I worked on big ships. Here I describe the Suez Canal stretch of a sea passage from Quebec City in Canada to Colombo in Sri Lanka round about 1977. Our ship was loaded with a bulk cargo of poverty relief grain financed by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Some of my writing is an embellishment of the truth and a little bit of it is the result of pure imagination, but this poem is as near to the truth as I could get whilst attempting to remain poetic.
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Love Story 5
Her underactive imagination had me thinking for both of us. How we should behave since we kinda agreed not to get formally engaged until I could...
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The Sinisterish Milkman
The Sinisterish Milkman (For Halloween) The sinisterish milkman from the world's end dairy has a glint in the eye that makes you wary and clinking...
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Burt Young
He starred in many movies because he was talented. Millions of people are sad because Burt Young is dead. He starred in all six Rocky movies as...
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Prima vista

This morning started in a black hole. Of course I tried with some candles and piano music to create with might and main the right atmosphere It didn'...
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Nkosi Bayete!
As he passed knocked my friend on the head from behind, no time took him down a much bigger guy, Rooikat (lit “Red Cat”) the youngster pumping like a...
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14.5 Lockdown
And there was somebody on a bicycle stopping by my motorbike as I turned around. “Kawla!” he negotiated, “Is it you?” “Hi!” I returned blankly. “It’s...
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Right or Wrong
The weatherman meant well using knowledge & modern calculations to be sure conditions would be right for today’s activities - so many depending...
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