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‘Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing’
In her book All About Love bell hooks includes a chapter entitled Values: Living By A Love Ethic . She is writing with reference to America but I...
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A biography

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The baby born in stable stall and grown to be a carpenter, respected by his siblings all and parents,...
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reflections on immigrant knowing
the process of trying to get to know each other is fraught with contention with the promises and liabilities that come from being a complex person in...
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Vapid?
These young folk are all bling and vapes. We made do with three bruised grapes. A mile to school we did traipse But still time for jolly japes.
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Craven Gets Addressed

“You’re shoes are too tight.” “”What?” The janitor ran his mop over Craven’s shoes and stood his ground. “And they’re awful dirty.” “Hey! Are you...
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Pulsars, Truth and Science
First it has to be understood there is a difference between theory and reality, and a model or explanation and actual facts. There is a difference...
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Deadly Dish

A sexist man was allergic to shellfish and he ended up on a slab. He ordered chicken at a cafe but the waitress served him crab. She knew about his...
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Grace
I held out a fish supper, warm in my hand, still in its wrapper. ‘Here, yeh want this?’ Local Joe was standing in George Square, emptying a black bag...
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1:3:9 Ascension (Part 3)
They were immediately hit by the stench of urine. Stale urine. Mauve reassured them that most of the smell wasn’t from the indentureds but actually...
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What winter left behind
The weather’s made a notch toward warm. The sun’s more evident. Mosquitoes nowhere near a swarm. Winter came and went. Thinner clothes are coming...
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meltwater

meltwater today, the wall talks in water, a patois of wet light snow moss and wizened lavender the hands that made this wall, long since earth desire...
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seep
seep a jagged, early palette pierced needle blue, bends around the moon flint fingers of lilac haul back the night as splintered gold, stirs trees...
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Cherry Tree

My first attemp at a classical Haiku
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Red Bicycle 11-12
Alexander begins the task of repairing the damaged garden - and a visitor makes an unexpected offer. Parts 11-12 of 22.
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Spring Skies (After the Dogs of Winter)

For Skye Spring Skies (After the Dogs of Winter) Winter months since passed, spring promises warmer days, bee-silk daffodils sing ballads, cherry...
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The Garden of Songbird Charm Part Two
Soon the day would come to an end. Tomorrow Ned would visit to do the garden and it was also Robin and Claire's Mum's birthday. She was forty, so it...
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The Garden of Songbird Charm
In the garden of songbird charm Robin and Claire were doing some bird spotting. Robin had recently acquired a pair of folding binoculars, and he had...
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The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.2 by Alfred Muggins (himself)
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6/7/21 (15/2/23) As Alfred prepared to ‘swop’ places with Henry so the Great King could be saved by modern medicine, Alfred was ‘trained up’ by Henry...
"Oh!" (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 8)

In which both Amber and Archibald have a surprise, for very different reasons.
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Old cynic in the grove
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