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10. Political Shipping Forecast

Chain #10 The first words are the last words of the preceding poem. Image is US Govt Departmental and as such is in the Public Domain.
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9. Polytheistic Litany

Chain #9 The last words of the prev... Do I need to keep doing this? Image created by author using PD image of bomb and CC-ASA 3.0 licensed picture of religious symbols from Wikipedia commons.
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8. Reprise

Chain #8 The last words in the preceding poem are the first words in the next chain link. This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship . (perhaps like the poetry it accompanies).
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The Painted Sails
There once was a boy who loved to draw and paint but his father was a sailor who wanted him to be a sailor too and so he refused to buy the boy the...
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Anorexic Girl
In a job I had, this kid called me every shift for about 4 years, then disappeared off the radar.
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Autumnal Haikus
1 The trees are now bare and the wind so dark and cold and you are not there. 2. Nature's paintbrush paints all the leaves of the Autumn. My brush...
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Grimms 101
‘How are we gonnae dae it?’ The idea feels jaggy, sticking in Bruno’s gullet. He shakes his head, wets his mouth with saliva and begins again. ‘I...
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Claustrophobia

Image from pixabay free His eyes wander not surprising this gathering increasing, apologizes for his intrusion, still no eye to eye contact, his...
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Abuse of Media Power and Its Dangers Today
The mainstream cable channels are pretty tough on Trump, as is The New York Times. Some times this is a positive balance of power, but when it comes...
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World of words
I It was at dawn, one day in May; dark birds in the low light crossed wing-beating in the breath of a new day. You counted the precious moments, when...
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Home Alone
I don’t plan on getting out of bed much today The peacefulness soothes me, wrapped down deep hidden from view. Though who am I hiding from is not...
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7. Mogul

Chain #7 Last words to first words in the wink of a jaundiced eye. Picture is: shared after edit/merge with other public domain picture from wikipedia commons (in PD due to age of image), under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International; original image by Mark Funk
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6. All and Sundry Stories

Chain #6 And the last shall be first (You get it, I know). Picture is for use under CC0 license and comes from maxpixel.com
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5. The End of All

Chain #5 The last words/line of the preceding poem form the start of the next. Image is in the Public Domain, set free to roam there by Wikipedia themselves...
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winner takes all

Roz was the kind of mum who thought everything happens for a reason. When flicking through her IPhone first thing in the morning her eyes...
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The Swift Prince
Once a queen named Catria became pregnant with a little boy but an evil fairy called Mizbeth cursed the child, saying, "He will die when he reaches...
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The Grand Narrative
AI: thanks for the lesson.
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sometimes

Sometimes it’s forgetting, like it’s nothing like it’s silence. Just blank recollection. And then it comes back, an attack of red wine, a droopy eye...
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You Can't Pin Me Down
You can’t pin me down I will slip away from your fingers For I am a free thinker. Ideas, I accumulate My imagination is flamed By my tots untamed...
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The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 4 of 4)

Diane cast her spell, like casting a boulder in a pool of Reality and causing it to ripple. The force of her will made manifest.
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