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Linda Blair
Waiting for the bus after ‘ The Exorcist ’ . Your flour caked cheeks, my first scabbed nicks. Then we licked our salty lips, from saveloy and vinegar...
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Pat Powell 1936—2014
Pat Powell 1936—2014 My da was over ten years older than Old Pat, but I asked my da if he knew him, and he gave a shake of his head and glowered. He...
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The Wet Afternoon of Ravilious

A picture on Twitter stirs up memories of a childhood loss
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Craven Unraveled

“What’s with the limp, Mr. Danger?” Craven stopped at Betty’s desk and yelped into his closed fist. “That rotten McDougall kid kicked me in the shin...
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Education
First day at school. Quiet as a lamb. The process starts. Ram, jam. Homework riddles. Where's mam? Exam worries. Cram, cram. Knowledge is power. Sham...
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Chasing After Duckies
Chasing After Duckies By Paul Mc Cann I'm rowing in a curragh boat a mile from Inishfree . Look I can see a little duck that's swimming out to sea ...
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Jumping Fences

Jumping Fences by Paul McCann My friend loves jumping fences you can’t tie him down to one spot , He likes to gallop and canter or he’ll even start...
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The Girl With Horse Common Sense

. The Girl With Horse Common Sense By Paul Mc Cann There’s a quiet country girl who works at the stud . She’s gifted with a horse sense, it’s there...
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Corona Log- Jan. 18, 2021
It is a chilly morning today in SW Florida, at 46 degrees. It is even colder up north. A wintery blast is sweeping through the northeast, dumping...
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She Who Would Valiant Be - Episode 1

Picture: Saffron Blaze, via http://www.mackenzie.co You know how sometimes you have some dialogue running through your mind and it drives you nuts until you do something with it? No? Oh well, it's just me then! Well, anyway, this dialogue has been occupying my mind all day, so I had to do something with it. Now it can occupy yours :-)
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The Little One
She’s third on the ladder of life made her way from the mountain couldn’t have another doctors said this one was the last- no complications brought...
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Hessian Sack

The demons hessian sack He’ll reach into your heart find all those pieces torn apart and bring em back. The good and the bad battling for the surface...
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A Welcome Visit
Lucy and her new family are welcomed back to a childhood haunt.
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Dear Dad 4*

Dear Dad 4* I’m wondering what you would have thought of the present world difficulties. We were born just after the second world war finished, and...
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Excerpt from Eagles Hunt Wolves: An appointment in Seville

1946 Seville, Spain Thousands of brightly lit paper lanterns adorned the tent city beneath the swaying shade of cooling stretched canvas. The colours...
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A Geordie Hero on Distant Shore

A Geordie Hero on Distant Shore Gan canny Colly lad Bony’s boys await Horatio a dying hero Up to you to seal their fate As Hardy hugged his Lord Game...
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-ingly (a tonal drawing written in poetic form)
*-ingly (on into one another) you are here with me long before you come and I am holding onto you so close the warm moisture of your breath is gently...
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My Place Or Yours
. My Place Or Yours By Paul McCann . A place where we can feel . A place where we can heal . A place where we can see . A place where we are free . A...
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They Piled Up At The Whitehouse Wall
. They Piled Up At The Whitehouse Wall Paul McCann . There’s a cruel rank and file during this present time About who was elected and who actually...
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Christmas In Cork
, Christmas In Cork By Paul McCann It was Christmas night in Cork and snow turned into sleet . A crowd all walked together along Great Patrick Street...
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