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Solace
There was wind enough to push the clouds along, moody blue shadows slid across the lawn over the treetops. Daybreak followed close behind - duly...
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New Year's Eve 2017
New Year’s Eve It is the 31st of December in the year of our Lord, 2017. As I contemplate the beginnings of New Year, arriving in a few hours, I...
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Up Yours 2017
You may agree when I say… 2017 has been the plug to the barefoot, The scooter to the ankle, The shirt you can’t iron out every crinkle. The red sock...
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American guru stole my mind
American success guru stole my mind Tell you been getting comments, looks down in dour Cardonald Every time I open a door I bring joy to the room...
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Then Morning Came
Then Morning Came Twisted in my mind, Trampled memories Half- vision, half nightmare Return to taunt me. Why when I seek her Does she elude my...
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One New Years Eve
It was the 31st of December, 1900 when a very serious young man who was a successful accountant decided to stay in his office and work late into the...
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Is the Truth out there?
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … all-knowing, willing to make known what we as people on this earth needed to know of life and death, of …
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The dragon and old father time (Westernization of A Chinese New Year Myth)
Once, it is said; long, long ago, New years Eve was not a time for celebration or joy but a time of great fear, panic and despair. That is because,...
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The Garden of her Life
Weeds. If you summarised the garden in one syllable, that’s where you’d be. They were everywhere, woven through the garden and spilling over the path...
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An Automaton Like Us: Why I Believe In God
We say Nature cannot be god because it appears random, because it has no free will and because it appears to have no mind so it is not a person. But...
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Blessed
As Charles pedaled between lines of perfected manicured lawns, he wondered if today would finally be the day. The boy on the mountain bike knew that...
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Due Deliverance
"I'm tired of people." He could hear his mother's voice in the back of his mind as he turned down a dark stretch of Route 718. Looking out through...
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The Neery
There once was a little creature called a Neery; a kind of winged fairy that for 364 days of the year was invisible to human beings but that always...
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In High Maroc
I sat on a roof in the mountains of Morocco Drinking mint tea, speaking bad French. I read some novel of dubious note When a goatherd approached my...
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Speak Softly Love (After the Godfather) 1
Speak softly love, let love ne'er enter your heart. All the moments of your life to ne'er start. Life is not love, beauty is not truth... all heart...
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Who Cares About New Years (Song lyrics)
1. I hear the racket of rockets in the sky I hear the New Years midnight bells But I look back and it only makes me cry. It hurts my heart more than...
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Is It Tonight Lord
Is It Tonight Lord? A child once chased a kite through this playground used to be a school here too. Now only blood remains soil defaced-- where an...
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Gogol
Check out the newspapers today... It says Gogol, there is no copyright issue, or have they "copyrighted" coloured writing?
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Retirement Options for Tube Trains: #3 Cadnam, New Forest
Stippled with mould it lies at the foot of a lawn by a greenhouse where earthenware pots lie cracked like the summer soil.
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Barcelona Attacks 17/8/17
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Barcelona Attacks 17/8/17 What would it be like if they came here? Islamic State, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Al Shabbab, or Boko Haram? Decapitations in...
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