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Cassiolta - 2
It was Cassiolta. She broke it all. I was wild with the jealousy only a child of not-quite-nine can know. I thought she was a conniving witch, a...
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Cassiolta - 1
I used to imagine that I was in love with him. A strange target for a young girl to choose. We who are supposed to set our sights on handsome princes...
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Mummy
mummy the sun is shining today can we go out and play yes we can my darling come here and hold my hand mummy that was a good day you go to sleep now...
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03.6 Photographer
Jamal returned to his lodge and poured a vodka orange as he ran out of tomato juice. He felt those itches heavy on his nape. He had not worn a...
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Freedom
This is another revisited piece from back in 2015. Picture from pixabay. Freedom Locked up like a prisoner, she cries. Dressed in nothing but pyjama...
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If at First
It was raining. Minutes ago, the sky had been perfectly clear, the sun in the sky, but then Reality came and created a cloud and that cloud had...
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Paradoxical Paper Tigers
“What a rush.” The same thought echoed through all of their minds. Lore had never felt this sort of power. Sixty two entities now sharing the same...
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War! : More Thoughts by Alfred N.Muggins
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6/3/22 Apparently the Great Leader has pronounced that War is no longer to be called War? Many millions of people across Ukraine, in particular, and...
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The Storm
As the rain pelted against the window, I listened to the wind roar. The sycamore sapling outside the sitting room window was almost bent at a ninety-...
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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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