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Women are too strident in their advocacy.
Women Are Too Strident In Their Advocacy I have seen this canard foisted often in the public arena. Women are deemed “strident” if their advocacy of...
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HEATWAVE
Hot hot hot Squinting eyes aching head; Sweat runs down my neck Between my breasts. I'm a wreck! Is my skin turning red? Hope not! I'll soon be sore...
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Grimms87
Rab finishes his pint and follows Jaz out of the pub. He feels woozy, as if he could lie down for a lunch-time nap. A few minutes’ walk through...
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Inconsequential Events
Inconsequential Events Today I woke up. No chain of events. A diversion from the norm? Exasperation like copper coins Overhead. I bake to forget...
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Dad's Home?
So, The dynamic has shifted, Right as I have been gifted, With this miserable curse that just cannot be lifted. Though I’m trying my best, To get it...
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The Prince And The Poisoned Jewel
Once, a Prince named Edvar, set out to find a fabulous, legendary jewel for his princess Sarahlina called the Star of the Sea. And finally, after a...
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Thanks y'all.
Thanks, Y'all ! Grazie Mille is Italian for “Thanks a bunch.” It is a sentiment that I often express here on ABC Tales for the many readers who take...
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The devil And The Lord
The devil And The Lord P K Routry A tale, I must tell as me it appealed most. I could not but for you here I post. Once a poor needy lady over radio...
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Waving Across Space
Mysterious waves so energetic
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Dad was "Old School"
Dad was “Old School.” You know what I mean by that? Well, he was a man of his time. Born in the thirties, just a kid during the war, a teenager in...
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A SEPIA TINTED DREAM
A Sepia Tinted Dream Silent Sea Sailors are blooming: sepia tinted, a billowing mist. Salient in minutes. In miniature details. an assailant in their...
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Paper Doll
Paper Doll She was two dimensional at first Laid flat Then folded, eyes drawn with black Lips pale pink Fragile legs took shape then speed She ran...
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To my unknown love
This poem is based on Helen Dudley's poem "To One Unknown". I have adapted it to give it a Welsh twist. I have often walked and thought of love I...
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Tautogram on F
fragmented fantasies falling, fading to ferocious fervor, finger frenzy frantic feelings for fatal femininity feeling fingers fingering frontal...
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A Tale Retold
A Tale Retold P K Routray A story from a master to glorify that truth can harm never even when caught in a tricky situation to protect it, if the man...
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Shoes Off!
Gigi threw her shoe out galloping one morn, Shane shied away 'cause it kicked him on the bum. Rearing up he neighed, 'do you mind, you filly there...
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Stephen And The Star-Stealer
A wizard once put the moon and stars into a magic sack but then, because he'd made the night so dark, he couldn't see. "Let us out", the moon and...
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The Picture Ranch 39
Up at Bill Hearst's place... Image was PD, treated with Photofunia...
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Sunshine
Generous rays of sunshine bursting through my window in the morn Golden, optimistic: Almost a smile. It is difficult to imagine it a star: A glowing...
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Always There
I see you everywhere. Hinted at in windows, Lurking in alleyways and beneath stairwells, Breathing too loudly. I know you. You’ve stolen my face,...
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