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On my laptop I'm tapping (Rhyme)
On my laptop I'm tapping while the flowers are flapping and the butterflies happily play. And I take such delight in just sitting here writing I...
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One is green; one is blue (Song lyrics )
1. There is something so new and so right about you that put my point of view so beautifully askew. 2. It's your eyes that I mean; sweetest I've ever...
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A'm No Gaun.
A’m no Gaun! Whit the hell urr yie staunin there fur? ya durty wee parasite. Wie yir heid inside yir hoodie, and yir boots aw covered in shite. Can...
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Chapter 13 Children of the Moon
Chapter 13 Children of the Moon Had it not been for the backdrop of black sky Kian would have easily thought he was walking down the sidewalk on...
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To what is happening
I dreamed I woke up. I heard the peachy waves hitting the metal parts of cargo ship. I heard the carnal cries of sea gulls in a spiritual space. A...
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If You Don't Pay, You Don't Stay
You haven't paid your rent even though it's over due. I'm going to get a new tenant after I get rid of you. You sneak out the back every day to avoid...
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Transformation (Read downwards and upwards)
a bird flying into my heart transforms it
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Poem for August 6th
Open skies are deceptive, Their bland innocence hides The falling speck; becoming A scar decades raw. Under the same sky A new world slumbers, Blooms...
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Is it sexist to say there are differences between the male & female brain?
Some educationalists say that boys are more interested in computer programming and computer engineering than girls because of conditioning by parents...
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Summer's Tent Folds
Summer's creep has ended: searching tendril tips have reached their zenith borne their dividend; the repast enjoyed remnants cached pruning hooks...
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EBOLOWA 16
16 Harry drove back to Castile’s place, pulled up in the shade and took the envelope out of his pocket. The address, a PO Box in Douala, was typed...
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The Wanderlust Lady and the Door to Door Salesman - 17
Stockport Times September 12, 2012 New evidence in the search for the name of the unidentified body Police report they have had an anonymous tip...
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Moonstruck
Casting a tent under the pale moon my tawny fibers her bleached strands wrapped in a silver cocoon flung into orbit-- earth's baser elements soaring...
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on air
One thing that really winds her up is me talking about the illu. She just can’t get her head around it, reckons things happen naturally. We’d had a...
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beatnik house haiku set
Shiva pulls the strings that make this city grind and smoke in near chaos mad suits hold the mikes and permeate the countless screens that fill the...
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Breaking the Code
It was the summer of 1963. The Stones were in the all-important charts with Little Red Rooster. It was banned, by my dad, in our house. ‘Sexual undertones’, he reckoned.
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Soft Men Don't Stay
He is a pillow of a man. I touch him and he is soft. He looks at me and I feel comfort; it is nice – enough. I never wanted to leave him. I could...
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Iterations of 26
26 girls over three years tried to guess where I was from and failed all of them with no exception it didn't matter in those pubs in those old beds...
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The Channel Changer - A Short Remembrance
When I was a child, the channel changer loomed large in our household. It was a treasured family tool that was valued above all others. Lose the...
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August
continuing the series on the months inspired by Eifion Wyn’s series in Welsh : … harvest gold … tired greenery … birdsong hushed … holidays
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