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Peach trees blossoms

Peach tree's blossoms look so fair, like pink ribbons in her hair or butterflies rose tinted wings that flutter away with the Spring.

Boatman's dream 4

Time for a pint.
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Freaks' Gallery

These are the noises I grow up with, a child of the circus: the giant scraping sound of metal against metal as the squids bring our ship into dock...

Issues of the Day

Climate Change: I support the Paris Agreement and feel that if it's imperfect, we should re-negotiate a global 'global warming' treaty as pollution...

Longing

It is especially dark tonight ribbons of ebony twisting slowly around a small amount of light the twinkling diamonds are few but vast in their beauty...

Essay: North Korea

As a public intellectual, I'd like to offer my advice. First of all, in trying to get what we want from North Korea, we should talk to them. We...

The Captains Table - Part 2

continued.. The Captains Table by Paul McCann Part 2 Policeman –“Thank you Doc. Could you look after things for a brief moment I need to inform the...

The Captains Table - Part 1

The Captains Table Part 1 A play By Paul McCann This play is set around a dinner table on a cruise ship out on the ocean in a place somewhere between...

pondering on nationwide adverts...

A building society jingle - a group of carol singing old white bearded men in trilby's...singing!

Boatman's dream 3

The stranger makes landfall.

Parallel

A poem.
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The birth certificate problem

It may seem strange to conventional mainlander types, but it wasn’t until I was 33 that I even realised it was unusual not to know who my father was...

Lenny Mass's Branhal School Diary - Saturday 22 November

Saturday 22 November Mum, I know you think I've been staying at school, because you got a letter from the Branhals telling you a fifth year...

Nobody's Son or, Another Delinquent Boy's Betrayal (Part 2)

[CHAPTER THE THIRD] THE OLD CODGER AND HIS PUPILS Despite this ‘dark spot’ in the official version of events, certain pieces of information,...
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Nobody's Son or, Another Delinquent Boy's Betrayal (Part 1) REVISED

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil rather than to have good imposed upon him?” – Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange [1] . For Eleanor. [...

In Witness Of A Dream (Part 5)

Three days later Kaola came across coquette on the chat in the midnight. “I know you,” he typed. “Tell me,” coquette returned. “Sophie Nadz.” “No.” “...
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Poem of the week

The Wall

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Stage Fright

She untucks the strands of hair from behind her left ear. They are brunette curtains of curls and locks that her almond eyes carefully peek through...

Silhouette

The cool breeze ruffled up his hair a bit, and he instantly smiled at nature's gesture as if acknowledging it. Taking solace in nature's lap he felt...

on Psalm 16

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series, a day early this week, as I can't post for a few days ] O keep me sheltered safe, O God, my refuge and my...

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