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A Valentine from a False Friend
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Red Roses Are For Lovers
Once I was sanguine. Sanguinary? One of those.
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Persephone's first day
I came from darkness into darkness from walls of Earth, veined halls seeping mesh of fresh water down, along, down sought and silent-supped by...
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Human life
Human life Life is a never a highway without humps on the way with prior indications to caution not to deviate from the mission. it has curves and...
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Friday Night at Zhivago’s
Stolen from him at the college disco under a neon moon and Tainted Love. The dance floor became a crime scene. For here was the kiss of the century...
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The Esoteric Few
Whom Byron claimed one of his poems was written for. Not this one, because it's mine, but it's still for the esoteric few. Image author's own
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nothing more than saltwater
nothing more than saltwater at school i was told, with cudgel control by those claiming to educate all the things that make britain great: a common-...
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No-one Found
Nowadays we need closure. In the past, it might have been a long and lingering grief, we have forgotten what it is like not to know, which must make it even harder to bear. Image is PD, YAY!
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The Speech Writer Pt. 6
"Mara stop joking around! If I don't get to work on time I'm going to lose my job!" Pearl laughed. Mara was holding onto her leg as she tried to...
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Working title
Rain poured from the sky, soaking through the leaves and wetting the grass, turning flesh to dirt and dirt to mud. Bootprints vanished, washed away...
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Non, je ne regrette rien! (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 4)
In which Archibald revels in foreign parts and Josiah makes a stand!
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SNORE
I love to hear my sweetheart snore This may sound odd to you But as my baby saws away I'll tell you what I do I'll regulate my rhythm Till our...
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Is this what you wanted for Valentine's Day?
Sometimes metaphors can create communication problems.
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wOr d S
what it s a ys Image created by author at canva.com
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Mr Smith
This came out of nowhere; but I imagine it was Stevie Smith's influence.
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For The Love Of Village Life
Dear diary... From heart of Shire where I was born, no rush to grow away from black and white memories; those sinuous lanes I knew well, are now...
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Any Old Jerusalem
On the laps of our beloved smoking mothers –
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Why Should Summer
Why Should Summer have all the fun sunny days stretched with rays of warmth lakes slapping wet trout poking at surfaces moose bellowing in their land...
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kiss of light
‘How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! ’ ‘A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon ’ Song of...
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I Thought I Told You...
A faulty handbrake - but that's not all...
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