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On Vaping
Vapers seem like charming pipers. Vaping makes a snake like hiss; vapours coiling up like vipers with, like snakes, their poisoned kiss.
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If an isthmus there is...
If an isthmus, there is, between Heaven and here then it must be in this; in your arms, with you near and the bridge that there is between both of...
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Beth Tree and the Elgars 7
It wasn't long before The Variations on a Theme that Mr. Elgar wrote with the codes to say who the dedications were for became generally known as the...
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Bastille Day, 1987
This isn't about 'storming the battlements', but the mention of Bastille Day, brought this tale back to mind …
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RSI
Running through streets With face masks To filter filthy air. Cars speed up For pedestrians to scare them from Screens. Headphones Silence ambulance...
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Strike A Light - Part 4
Strike A Light - a play by Paul McCann Part 4 . Alice and Mr French still locked in converation . Mr French -"Alice I loved you even before you...
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Strike A Light - Part 3
Strike A light - Part 3 Pitch turns off the radio . There is a silence in the Davis home . A silence that has been in place for a long time now in...
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Strike A Light - Part 2
Strike A Light - Part 2 (Pitch continues to groom Mr French in conversation) Pitch-"Are those still your own teeth ?" (Winding him up like an old...
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One's war
It seems forever, Since this war began They allow so little rest I can scarcely believe, That this enemy, When they first attacked, Seemed such a...
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A fishy tale (Nursery Rhyme)
Once, a cod, I caught to cook. It took the bait but ate the hook then ate the line; then ate the rod and so I ran from that old cod.
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Bring back the colour (to my world) - Song
1. The rose, without you, is not red nor blue, the great sky overhead; the world's a blur of black and white without your love to paint it bright. 2...
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The Enchanted Man
One day I was helping my silver haired old neighbour Mr Carpenter* to move some boxes from his attic when, taking the lid off of an old tin that was...
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a poem for my first love's death
in an unsuspecting instant the living can depart pain-the uninvited guest will settle in the caverns of our tender heart meanwhile death competes...
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Savor.
Savor. via Daily Prompt: Savor She was as sweet as pie, but she had to die, that was just the way it was going to be I cut her into slices, really...
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The Picture Ranch 33
Some holes there is no getting out of... image created by author, from PD photo.
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a sort of green
in autumn small, three-toed green, lizard dry stampedes down the steps' side dark green cloaking concrete with rustling possibilities or, lushly...
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The Kindness of Kevin
I am currently in the middle of writing a short story based around random acts of kindness so it felt both timely, and heart-warming, when I was the...
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A Meeting with Kindness (Part 2 of 2)
This piece has been inspired by the recent (at time of writing) terror attacks in London and Manchester, and acts as a general response to terror and those who would cause us harm as a whole.
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A Meeting with Kindness (Part 1 of 2)
This piece has been inspired by the recent (at time of writing) terror attacks in London and Manchester, and acts as a general response to terror and those who would cause us harm as a whole.
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Book Review: Beneath The Ashes
Beneath The Ashes Jane Isaac (LegendPress, 2016) A young woman wakes up on the kitchen floor, the house she’s in has been broken into and her...
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