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The Brave Little Tailor
The Brave Little Tailor It was a morning, buoyant and bright, And our tailor sat and sewed. A jovial jam-seller came in sight, And the tale’s seeds...
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Global Warning
1. You are colossal fools to guzzle fossil fuels; the planet's heating up you're gannets eating up 2. The gas and coal and oil, and as the whole...
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Temps Perdu
Gains and losses.
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Ten feet small
You know when you pick up the recycling bag and the bottom falls out of it halfway across the kitchen? Well that’s how my life used to feel every day...
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Poor Rich Man/ Poor Man, Rich
Poor rich man, loved for all his cash … Poor rich girl, clothes and “friends” galore… Poor man, rich in … Poor girl, rich in …
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A nobody walking the night
Night-time encounter
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No Armada
Respect. Image is wikipedia commons and in the Public Domain
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A Life Well Lived
My tour of the English Language Teaching Centre in Damascus was interrupted by an old lady who seemed to know everyone. ‘This’ said Peter Clark, the...
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Grimms81
Lizzie is as lovely as Jaz remembered her, perhaps more so, with her chiselled cheekbones and hair untamed as a burning bush. The room is stuffy and...
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International Relations Today
After fervent consultations, it was good news when our honorable President Trump made only minor changes to the new Cuba policy we in the Obama...
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Boatman's dream 34
A drive across the Levels
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On a pebble
On a pebble in a puddle lived some people, very small. You could say they were so tiny they almost weren't there at all. But the people had a battle...
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Tintinnabulation
1. I hear a chime whenever I'm in your vicinity; a carrillon when where alone keeps ringing within me; a bell in me thats telling me that we were...
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Sundae Ice Cream
I fall from her cherry lips. She has me as her sundae Ice cream, melting In her palm, I'm dripping down her wrist. I lay for her as sublime carvings...
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Freddie Missing
Freddie Missing Freddie left. “I am off to get some milk!” He said, “where is me slippers!” So I handed him his shoes. Then I insisted that he wears...
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The Siege
Based on true events.
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A Lesson by Illustration
A Lesson by Illustration P K Routray Effect of association has its true illustration by fallen droplets of rain, judging the value they gain If a...
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Some
Some newcomers break vows upon seeing white lines. They roll ten pound notes that refuse to find a way back to their pockets, but are shared, lifted...
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Grimms 80
‘What’s been the crack then?’ Del stands at the front door, a cigarette jammed between his lips. A clean white open-necked shirt sleeves contrast...
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Aligators at Night
I turn my fear into a fearsome axe As I walk through the city streets, Knowing that crude fear can only defeat me. I hold my axe by the handle,...
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