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Boatman's dream 23
Discretion is the better part of valour
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The Oak Tree
Four hundred years I've been in the ground So much I have seen as the seasons come round The rook or the raven planted me here An acorn so small but...
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Summers Red Skirt Endings
The scent of the lilac, rubbing shoulders with the apple mint and golden thyme before arrives the late of summer's days. With the bowed boughs, of...
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On the Stiperstones*
Craggy rocks along the crest, short pull up to walk the ridge, or clamber on each ‘dragon’ pile. In sweeps curtain of fine rain – mysterious now the...
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Totally Talentless
A voice in his ear tells Vince he is 30 seconds from going back on air. In the background a trailer is being transmitted to televisions all over the...
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The Girl With The World At Her Feet
The Girl With The world At Her Feet By Paul McCann . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Do-bPEiw4&feature=youtu.be . Hanna Howard was born in a...
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Glorious Dead
Where is the glory? Who gains?
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Ring of roses
Mum cut raspberry jam sandwiches into triangles and put them into Tom's satchel, along with the wooden pencil case grandad had made him, and added a...
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One Fine Day 1
I like to gamble. I like the sound of the cards as they fall on the table. I like looking into the dealer's eyes as she looks at one of her cards. I...
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There Is A Place
When you’re in the doghouse for having stirred the loo. When your language skills are mean; lacking harmony. When you’re confused and troubled, just...
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Two Roads
I was in aTenovus writing class and was asked to use the first line of "The road not taken" by Robert Frost to write a poem. This was my eventual...
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Statement: Debt
Statement: First of all, warm greetings to all my friends and colleagues. Now, regarding the subject of debt, the truth is that I've been on a...
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Who would you Pledge? (Part 1)
When i was a boy, I used to go witch hunting in the woods across the road from my house. It was one of my favorite activities, witch hunting. I would...
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My Mother and I aren't Talking and Other Tales.
Thank you all for feedback and comments- going to work on this for submission.
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Well
Panic welling up inside fed by many rivers, limbs and brain s l o w e d by the water, treading dumbly and direction l e s s Quelling an incoming tide...
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Radiant.
A story of someone who's happeniness was stolen.
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Dusk
This poem has a special meaning for me as my wife's cousin was a Heroin Addict and died of an overdose. Dusk wraps the town in its dim embrace Alleys...
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Acclimatizing Pill
Acclimatizing Pill P K Routray With heat and humidity at peak, power supply playing hide and seek my brain and my frame frowned upon my soul to...
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Mr Octopus
Mr Octopus puts on a puppet pantomine; playing 8 sock puppet parts and all at the same time but, when all the little fishes come to watch his play,...
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Bo-Bo Has A Barbecue
Bo-Bo Has A Barbecue By Paul McCann . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBp3XEp6FdM . It’s a long way from Belfast City to the place where the Brumbies...
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