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Memento
You can hear San Francisco from this garden - the din of its morning stretch is an unfurling Spring bud. The traffic lights over on Main Street...
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My Tacoma Bridge Moment
We ‘upgraded’ to the suburbs when I was 7 years old. The school I left behind was an austere Victorian building with separate entrances for boys and...
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Four Years
It was four years ago tonight when Dad died. He couldn't beat cancer even though he tried. Dad died four years ago tonight at the age of sixty-five...
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Willoughby Wallaby
Willoughby Wallaby went to have tea with the king of the kangaroos. Wibbly wobbly jelly had he and the kangaroo king did too. By a long billabong...
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What happens near Rome
On Sunday I went to a wedding. It was lovely, by a beautiful Italian lake. The food was magnificent, so much of it, and great wine, and then many...
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My Least Favourite Things
- with apologies to Julie Andrews Posers and wannabes logged on each day, Uploading selfies so trolls have their say; Foolhardy millennials following...
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Pray you, My friends!
Pray you, My friends! P K Routray With fading power to see and hear, no tooth to aid to pronounce clear, me, my weak memory and fancy whim delude as...
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The Urn With a Box of Lucky Srike
After receiving a letter a man decides to take a walk to get few cigarettes. During the walk he gets lost in past memories
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In a better world (Believe) - Song
1. Envy has a shotgun; tries to shoot hopes down but envy hasn't got one once a hope gets off the ground. 2. Greed is counting his money in his...
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Words are the birds
Words are the birds that we keep in the cage of our heart. That's why I write; to give the birds flight; to set the words free; to let the world see...
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End of term challenges
Thursday. Two of my students took me for a surprise breakfast this morning, for the last class of the academic year. It’s an important time in...
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the independent cluase
Head filled with different kinds of wrongness rightness and onscreen brightness squared aye by large numbers two points resistance to three points...
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Matinee
As we walk through the theatre doors into the neon lit foyer, the coffee bar where the festival folk gather, you sigh for those other visits here,...
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Broadway Windows
A stroll down Broadway. Picture Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/architecture-bridge-broadway-2178694/
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Statement : In Defense and Explanation
With what little time I likely have, my desire is to protect my family and family name by helping others to understand my story, our story... to...
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Pussycat, fussy cat (Nursery rhyme)
Pussycat; fussy cat doesn't eat mice. She only eats pudding thats made out of rice or raspberry jelly that comes from a jar. Oh pussycat, really, how...
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When Louis Armstrong landed on the moon
When Louis Armstrong landed on the moon, he played the moonmen all a ragtime tune and blowing on his cornet, he did swing and all the moonmen crowned...
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The River of Time
The River of Time The River of Time keeps on flowing along, is probably a song lyric someplace. I have just forgotten where. I had pause to think of...
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Clouds
Clouds, soft and white, float, through sunlight, by. Clouds, big as whales, float, slow as snails, by. I lay and I laze and I gaze at the sky with my...
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More Home Thoughts from Abroad
*/ Just been to visit my parents. They've lived there for 40 years. I lived there for five.
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