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Roadkill
I wrote this about 8 years ago (the original version), as a bit of a joke for my father. It was based on the melody of Josh Turner's "Your Man."...
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Famine - For Real
The sinking sun is now undone, the sky is fading red and shadows prowl neath cloak and cowl for midnight lies ahead. Beyond the heap, the honchos...
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Musing on a cigarette
Ahem. Ahem. My favourite drug of them all. It came from Mexico to my rolling finger and thumb. To my soft lips. I breathe it in, and out, I give it...
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My Best Mate and I
Chalk and cheese. Adapted from an old poem of mine.(Image free from Pixabay.)
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Jackie’s Judgement
Jackie’s Judgement By Paul McCann He sat on the chair with wires connected around his body to a switch on a panel . The prison officer stood waiting...
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B.C.
My super fit brother William, he goes to the gym many times each week. He eats very healthily, he is also, nice and slim. He has always been healthy...
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Saints by any other name
A comment from a former neighbor and childhood friend got me thinking. She was remarking upon our collective reliance upon the good offices of St...
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dream my dream
love my love dream my dream dream your dream my dream dream hope my hope dream love dream and dream love hope hope dream your dream dream dream hope...
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Fragments Of Life
You swim through vast oceans of sky, drifting between pearly clouds, where oyster shade colours reflect rays of shimmering sunlight, pearls of untold...
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F R I E N D
F orbearing and caring R …
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Sadangry!
Beyond sadness and Anger Lies a place of perpetual, Perpetual, Hunger for justice, before Peace can be made Real. The heartland that knows no borders...
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Admissions Impossible
A few lines scribbled to occupy the time between going to bed last night and getting up this morning.
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Friendship
Short. Image is free for non-commercial use, source flicker.com
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Pigs Might Fly...
The result of a coffee catch-up with a friend in a wildflower cafe. We were impressed with the metal sculpture hanging in a tree and challenged each...
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No more flowers on the wall
No more flowers on the wall they all moving round the hall swaying to the music' hand in hand with some guy and there me all lone the only flower...
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When Love is lost
She look at him with pity in her eyes and wonder what he going to say tonight when she has to say goodbye it has not work out for a long time it not...
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Felis Civitas
I wish I knew, or could, at least, imagine, the circumstance that led her to this state. The crannies I don’t know. The tunnels down below. The...
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The Miracle Of Music
The Miracle Of Music By Paul McCann Sarah was an only child and lived with her parents in a little cottage Ireland . After the famine of 1847 her...
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Borealis
This is a poem posted this week at a weekly challenge on X/Twitter by the account @TopTweetTuesday. Whilst your first love should always be ABCTales...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (5)
Part 4 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-4 Billy pondered the day ahead. He knew a trip would come down to one of...
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