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A Song for Prince Charlie
A Song for Prince Charlie Oh Charlie! You razzle and dazzle us with your Harley. With your gold stashed in an Offshore haven And multiple servants to...
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The Golden Lion
The world of men lay between the warm kingdom of light and the cold queendom of darkness and the queen of darkness wanted to slay the Golden lion who...
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Peckhamist
Peckhamist In this fair vale of Peckham; A rill ebbs and flows; Sometimes crystalline And sometimes murky! In this fair vale of Peckham Daddies in...
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Under The Blue Roof
More for "Days Like These"... walk on by... Image is from the British Museum and is in the public domain. I suggest you read that poem instead :-D
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The Lord will lament
The Lord will lament P K Routray In the Himalayan terrain despite immense physical strain the saints wander to be wise. The nature acts as their...
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Waiting For Santa
...with sherry and mince pies.
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Come With Me
Of birds that call me wild and wing above your water’s edge Allow me, that I shall fill myself full on the summers of your misted sea scent. To tread...
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on Psalm 56
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] They hotly pursue with slander and lies, they press their attack, proud plottings devise. When I am afraid,...
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A Millennial Syllogism
Thinking of the 90s is strange: those images echo back like an ambulance siren curdling against brickwork
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Getting Ready (and other fun pieces)
Woven together in the depth of the womb, expelled in due time to a sheltering home … Aghast if a child left to flounder unfed, don’t leave them to blunder in the world, unled.
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Politicians and Daisies
Destroy not the common man’s daisy on this pleasant afternoon for when the lawn is barren banality and greed shall parade itself to centre stage...
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The Cave
The Cave It was aphotic, they said Light proof- the sound of the bats Deafening. Alas, she ventured into the cave. Eeriness was her game. Psyches and...
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Time, Tide and Thunderstruck
Teenage Kicks?
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The Touchstone - Part two
The Touchstone by Paul McCann Continued Part 2 . The man in the suit smiled and then he looked at the stone . ”How much do you want for that stone in...
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Campfire
A pocket-sized elegy for driftwood.
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The Touch Stone- Part one
The Touch Stone By Paul McCann . It was a cold Saturday evening in the prison cell and morning was a long time off . The jingle of the prison guards...
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Autumn/Winter Haiku's - 2
The bright Autumn moon reflected in the water. .noom nmutuA thgirb ehT Rising sun behind rooftops blanketed in snow; a child awakens. Sunset, red and...
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Autumn/Winter Haiku's - 1
Through bare black branches of an old peach tree I see blossoms of sunrise. Golden Autumn leaves as Earth is slowly turning fairylike with frost. The...
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Consistent Comforters
The dolls were a gift from the man that ran me down. It was my own fault and I didn’t deserve the present. I was playing out with friends from across...
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The King Of Pennsylvania Avenue
Never sure whether to laugh or cry... Image from Pixabay, no attribution required. Licence CC0
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