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A Tailor Bird’s Song To A Spider

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Sick Leave
You just need a rest To feel better soon Go back to bed In a quiet dark room Sleep and recharge Close your eyes and relax Take deep calming breaths...
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Fly Away
. Fly Away By Paul McCann Why did I never see before how those wings could make you soar high above the ground with a love that you had found and...
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Next Door
Summer is loudest, their windows fly open, voices vault fences and enter our house. Screaming at children, beer bottles broken, cursing and knocking...
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iShoot
iShoot we were shooting stars i ain’t chatting gunning down john lennon or some blinged up rapper with a drive by we were orbiting the sun with our...
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A Kindness

This is my entry for The Walter Swan Poetry Prize 2020 run by Ilkley Literature Festival. You can catch the deserved winners on youtube.com The standard was very high, at least among those who won. I'm not displeased with this, though. Image from pixabay.com free for non-commercial use & without attribution.
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The Falcon's Regret

As a peregrine, I have but one regret: I should have listened more in school And learnt a trade Or sprouted affinities In maths or music technology;...
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The Pub
Now then lad, let's go for a beer. There's a barmaid there and we can leer. We can drink six pints and piss 'em out. We can talk for six hours and...
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the good old days?
the good old days? let me make this very clear Chris and I are not voyeurs but we like watching vintage TV especially ‘Challenge’ and The Price is...
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Anyway
Anyway, there is a fine line between being scrupulous and shrewd and being suspicious and paranoid, it's like the difference between cats and dogs...
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Airedale gig
Peace in the country
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The Red
in October soaks up my spirit as falling leaves unmask the armour of maple trees in the sunlight and I gasp in awe at the tumbling array of shapes...
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PAPER MACHE TOWNS
Paper Mache Towns Moulded paper. Unfolding in vivid colours: Mauve skies jewelled With brilliant white clouds A town we imagined For our offspring!...
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21/10/2020
21/10/2020 Another rainy day: the weekend seems now far away. Impromptu modeling for a handsome content producer against an autumnal tree (never...
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Scattered Shades Of Springtime
. Scattered Shades Of Springtime By Paul McCann The colours of spring are a wonderful thing, they scatter my troubles away . Everything is out in...
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A Glimpse Of Dolphins
. A Glimpse Of Dolphins By Paul Mc Cann Can you see the dolphins? Can you hear me scream? Just beyond the breakers on a silver sun skimmed gleam ...
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One-sided

< 150 words Phone not on loudspeaker
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Anyway
Anyway, in the republic of Ireland they have volunteers who risk their lives to save others, we have the same thing in the UK,it's called the RNLI,...
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A Retiring Lady

A shy type. (Flash fiction - 200 words)
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In Our Heart
. In Our Heart By Paul McCann Written words that come straight from the heart always sound so true , especially when the reader there feels the same...
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