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Haiku Forecast

The Scottish weather Like four seasons in one day Is this the Springtime?
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Back In The Village Before It Progressed

Back In The Village Before It Progressed By Paul McCann There once was a time and a place in our town long before progress had come along , when a...
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Poetry Commotion

And this is the oldest thing I could find today. It used to be on an earlier incarnation of UKA, in 2010. image made at canva.com
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Before Good Friday In Belfast

Before Good Friday In Belfast By Paul McCann’ I was just a lad when things turned bad in Belfast like a lamb at the gate in 1968 . There were too...
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Radio Galaxies

Very old poem, written 2011. I like it, but you don't have to. Image created using canva from elements provided.

19.2 Water Gate Inn

It took them three hours to breathe some air and the bottle was half empty. They ordered brunch. “Who could have killed Howard Tuner?” Adams looked...
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How far in an hour?

In an hour from now this car should have gone 30 miles if we carry on at the speed we are going, but, hey, how far will our world (and us on it) have...
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A Place in the Sun

This is an old poem, 11 years old, in fact. I had been in Spain for 8 years at the time I wrote it. Nothing lasts forever and I think I knew it even then. Anyway, not much of interest here. Image Wikipedia commons.
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Poetry of the Soul

Poetry of the Soul When the gardener unfolds its landscape. Layers of the mind. Captivates suspense by having cultivated metaphors that come together...

Another Word That Is Disappearing.

My kids have not heard the word. My young colleagues, they haven’t heard the word either. For 100% comfort, my favourite shoe brand is Pavers! I wore...
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The Dance Halls We Once Knew

The Dance Halls We Once Knew By Paul McCann It started with the hop and ended as discos’ Kids on the streets of my town were kept on their toes We...

19.1 Water Gate Inn

TWA Flight 705 from Heathrow touched down at 13:25 at John F Kennedy International Airport, originally known as Idlewild and renamed on 24 th...

Sir Kier Starmer Superhero – Sir Kier and the climate emergency

“Oh no, we’re doomed.” “The planet is overheating.” “The ice caps are melting causing floods, and the intense heat is causing crop failure, famine,...
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The Silence at Penwarna

The was a stream one would assume was dreaming, until you see the bank side sign that warns it's polluted with arsenic. The poison a remnant of long...
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On Certainty

On Saturdays we get a Guardian delivered it's always through our door at 8.55 the regularity makes us feel good that someone is in a routine their...
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only when

only when poised at the edge of dimension, awaiting a safe day for first contact, they see – a hideous hardcore refusing to welcome children in boats...

18.3 An Astronomical Twilight

Soon, they were seated around the vintage table in the corner office. “Samvel Salazar from Armenia brought this case to my attention with your...

No ghost – living Saviour!

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] He was no ghost – he ate the fish, … Why do so many this dismiss, clear evidence ignore? And yet seem willing to believe in tales of things bizarre, that have no benefit to give, and very dubious are. …
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Passion Of The Drums

Evidence charged in midst gathered; rhythm pulsating, tempo building – echoing far and wide. Waterfall cascades in the dance, as lake fish and...
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Not Yours (version 2) Chapter One

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The sun flickered through the trees, sprinkling sharp blinding flashes through the car window. Oakley’s eyes closed instinctively and disorientated...

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