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Saplings ( Westburn Park, Aberdeen 1976)
Saplings (Westburn Park -1976) Stretching skyward Stick thin saplings Chickenwire covered Spiky as punk. Used as goalposts Makeshift coat hooks As we...
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Nonsense Poem
We’re gamboling to Jupiter We'll stop for tea on Mars We might go on to Uranus If we don’t think it’s too far. We'll roll around in Rimini And dance...
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To the Moskva River
People won’t die, but it’s going to be bad. The press and Vlad will humiliate her and Donald. It was only a little peepee though, just a dribble, but...
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Praising Creators
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Admiring paintings: … sublime music moves us – we honour the name … On beauty excelling all else, we should gaze – the Author, Designer of nature then praise: its complex construction must awe and amaze …
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Upstairs Headroom
Upstairs Headroom By Paul McCann I know its hard forgiving, but I think that its worth a try Instead of hanging on to grudges Why can’t we let them...
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At the Open Mic
At the Open Mic I felt like Leonard Cohen, An old guy at the feast An old and ancient rhymer, A preacher and a priest. These are the new bohemians...
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Struggling
Struggling In the Seventies I walked with you Down to school Struggling to keep up As I was small. In your Seventies I walked without you Up to the...
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Trick or Treat?
I was rather taken with the characters of Peregrine and Prudence in You'd Better Watch Out and I wondered what would happen if they took a similarly analytical approach to other holidays and celebrations, hence this
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Gift: A Son's Story (Signs)
The day following my mother's funeral was also the three-week anniversary of her passing - at 7.22pm on 26th April 2017. My brother and his wife had flown off on holiday that day, and I was continuing with the clearance of mum's bungalow. It was a time when reassurances were needed. And they came in strange ways...
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Sidhu, we are with you
Sidhu, we are with you P K Routray In our very first year, all were awestruck as we remember. Our professor Srivasta Nanda acknowledged in the class...
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So ManyWords in a Row - Now with Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/hudsonmoon/im-a-great-big-beautiful-mess-sometimes I’m a great big beautiful mess sometimes Don’t know which foot to put out...
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THE YOUNG AT WAR
with drugs. And booze and everything not so nice. How appropriate the songs for today’s folly and good times. He was a boy in a man’s desire to shock...
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dawn chorus
Light, you arrive as if invited... (Image rights: my own)
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I Give Up!
My local Tesco is open 24 hours, it is huge, it has a Café, Pharmacy, Car wash, Opticians, Max Spillman, Clothing section, Tesco mobile, Electrician...
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Pandora's Diary
A parody of the well known character created by Sue Townsend,
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Rooms Beyond The Sky
Room’s Beyond The Sky By Paul McCann There’s flowers on the wall in the house of the rising sun , It’s the perfect place to go to , And you can talk...
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I SHUFFLED
a deck of cards and one spilled onto the floor reminding us of our loner-child who lived on his own terms in a sad state of torment misbehaving--...
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