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Each Precious Day

I know the sun will shake off shackles of morning dew and allow its shine to pour over me. The first person I see should smile ‘cause I need that...

UNRAVELLING (for all those who are thinking to start a new life)

Thinking about unravelling my old life is the hardest. All those broken knots and promises thread-bare! Row after row must go, heartbroken oh so...

The Soiree

Dede was hosting her infamous Saturday soiree in her spacious back garden for the first time in what seemed like forever, due to covid. Dede was glad...

Keyboard Addick

Aren't social media great? The Addicks is the nickname of a London-based football club. Picture is of a Spoons called - appropriately enough - Spouter's Corner Image source is from flicker.com: the licence is CC-SA 2.0 and, by a charming coincidence, the photographer is one Ewan Munro.
Gold cherry

In The Stillness Of Late Years

Dear diary...a poem remembering day trip along coastal path while on a single parent holiday retreat in Devon. June 1985. Struck by father time, as...

Bombs Away!

It's easy to misinterpret things in mental health care. For example, older people are often considered to be in the early stages of dementia if they...
Cherry

Spilled Ink

This will not cheer you up. Move on. Image source is flicker.com Original artwork by Joyce Ballantyne. flicker.com has it licensed as CC-SA 2.0. Hmm...

True Love

“There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza, there’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, a hole.” “Well, don’t look at me, dear Henry, dear Henry...

The Slap

This is a very controversial story that some may find disturbing! Margaret, or Mags as she preferred to be called, was at sitting alone at a...

The surname and the nickname

The surname and the nickname With growth and exposure experiences blessed and bitter bring man’s personality to fore and he shapes it to score as its...

Infernal Combustion

They told me that my daughter kept a young lover in the loft, gagged and bound willingly, on a bare mattress, waiting in the nude, on stand by for...

A helpful tongue

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … How good to hear a timely word to calm or cheer or guide …

On The Death Of A Friend This Afternoon

Last night the candle swayed and danced. I gazed enraptured and entranced. It filled the room with joy and hope, And cast away the dark. The candle...

Mom and King Solomon

This article is about my late mother and King Solomon as well. My mother turned out to be a better person than King Solomon. When Solomon was young,...

Ward Round

Penelope, an intimidated twenty-seven-year-old woman, entered the sizable, sparce, clinical looking room which housed two long tables placed side by...
Cherry

Novice to Death

The churchyard hems the novice in. The earth is cool, the grave is deep. Is she asleep or listening? The wooden casket feels her pain now quiet but...

Stand Up Comic

These days people just want to charge their batteries all the time for the rest they spend their life intensely “on your smutfone or tablet” whatever...

Bou! Punish me.

Bou! Punish me. Bou! All your kith and kin feel grievously guilty within not being able to be with you when the last sigh you drew to bid you a...

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