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I can hear the cry
I can hear the cry I can hear cry oh lord I can hear the cry i can hear the cry when I see children with tears ruining down their faces I can hear...
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Think about us
Think about us this is just us you say I am insane but you don't think that your just saying for a matter of fact that you want to avoid what this is...
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03.5 Photographer
Marina climbed down the stairs under the pergola sharp at four. She wore a pleated figure skimming tennis dress, white shoes and a bag on her...
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The Poet's Ear

Flash fiction (300 words)
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502 Kilometres

502 Kilometres Just up the road from my wife and me A fire’s burning constantly Folks just like us are in the street No food to eat Nowhere to sleep...
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The other half
He stared out from behind the glass of a small frame, the picture taken 22 years ago as he stood on a beach, the sea behind him beneath a cloudless...
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Junk Jewellery
Come upstairs with me, I’ll show you my junk jewellery. Overflowing from a box which looks like leather. Gold and shiny, sparkling, like something...
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A Day Trip

An old poem from my poetry collection "Cherry on Top" - (Edited)
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Putin Times : More Thoughts by Alfred Muggins
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27/2/22 Putin should be exiled to Pluto in my opinion, because then he will have little prospect of returning, like Napoleon from St Helena to...
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May you live all the days of your life

This is a piece is one I wrote in 2017 that I have revamped and hopefully made better. picture from pixabay May you live all the days of your life...
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War makes insomniacs and bad poetry

I woke up and 4 am last night, my stomach in a knot over the news of the last week. This poured out of me on the Notes app on my phone. I always turn to poetry when I'm anxious, I find it unfiltered and visceral. It's neither good nor reasoned, but that's okay, it's one of my best therapeutic tools.
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03.4 Photographer
It was the end of the fasting month and the visitors celebrated Eid according to their Islamic practices – a day for merry-making to mark the break...
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A Pact of Sorts

“You’re a murderer!” she yelled at him. “I told you. He isn’t dead.” “It’s the next best thing.” “He did the same to me.” “Without knowing. This is...
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Florida Keys
Wed. March 2, 2022- Estero, Florida. We had arisen early, on this sunny Florida morning in Winter. We were headed south and east to the Florida Keys...
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Nil by Mouth
I don’t want the blood to flow I never want to see it Feel the pull inside Grasping claws, organs entwined Just an apple and an egg Lemon water, a...
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Lily of the Lamplight

She admitted me to the hospital that night at reception I believed it was an emergency people get that way with anxiety, like they can't breathe and...
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Flowers
There were flowers In the window Of the house you once lived in Llillies half fainting Craving sleep I walked on by Thinking what could I keep From...
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Miracle Birth

Sophie abruptly woke as Otis, the German Shephard, barked into the darkness. She found this strange because Otis never barked unless he had something...
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03.3 Photographer
Jamal had one more trick up his sleeve. He bought two bottles of vodka and drove to Avenida Mozart, not too far from his lodge. On Lugones bend, he...
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Observations at the Tenth Hour
March, 2022.
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