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Enchanted
Love is lost on you As winter enchanted flowers... Wait for Spring Carelessly swinging in the wind Kissing each snowflake as it falls Love is lost on...
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60s Tea and Oranges
Dear Leonard, Let’s set the record straight—you’ve painted me as some mystical gypsy, weaving together odd brews and riddles, but let’s be honest. I...
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Bus Pass on a Secret Trail
“Come on, Bus Pass”, chirped bus-pass-lady, “Let’s go to Portnockie”. “Not for the open-air swimming pool?”, said Bus Pass, with a worried, side-eye...
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It Is That Time Of The Year Again. Part Two.
Over the years, we have all been made aware of different kinds of Poppies for different kinds of people and animals. There is the poppy that is known...
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It Is That Time Of The Year Again. Part One
I have bought mine. I bought four as I always lose at least three of them. A lot of people don’t know that you can put any amount in the tin, it hasn...
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
For Halloween 2024 Who Wants to Live Forever? Fritz Erlinger was a name that came to haunt me, torture me as my life unfolded. Yet, in the beginning...
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The Faceless Goddess of DIY
She is fearless, she is tidy. When she’s not DIYing, she’s making bread and chutney. She has exquisite taste in paint colours, (although she ‘bead...
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There’s Never Enough Love
There’s Never Enough Love By Paul McCann There once was man , Stan was his name and he drank sweet sherry every day . at work until he could no...
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The Luckie Duckie Of The Happy Forest
The Luckie Duckie Of The Happy Forest By Paul McCann The Luckie duckie woke up happy beside the riverbank in a soft garden bed, surrounded by a...
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Echoes of the infinite
Listen, can you hear it? A symphony formed, each note a soft breath from the shadows of lost lives, the myriad of worlds that have come, then slipped...
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the Captain's Constitutional
The Captain’s Constitutional 2025 Staging / FX Simple staging, light to follow Capt. Salter. FX: Music / street cries /traffic tape or cast members...
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To kill a fly …
That irritating buzz from somewhere nearby when nearly time for sleep – sounds like a mozzie/fly. He skulked around with swatter-bat but nothing...
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Confession is Good for the Soul (The Bible)
October may not be over, but I am so over no-spendallying. Was it worth it? Actually, it was invaluable. (Notwithstanding ever-increasing guilt at...
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Weather App. Haiku # 18
Sun dazzles brightly, The leaves are almost gone But the sun still shines!
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The Holy Land
The Holy Land neath hammer blows - is this what Jesus prophesied: when sad-sack’s hanged like mistletoes the sightless see a suicide; when tho usands...
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The Speed Of Dark // Eclipse
No clock can measure, no hand can stay, The speed of darkness eats the day. Like Magritte’s sky of feathered night, It swallows sun, eclipses light...
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Letter to Paul Simon from Cecilia (circa. Feb 1970)
Dear Simon, I’m writing this because, well, you keep showing up at my door with that same sad look, and it’s time we get a few things straight. It’s...
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After All These Years
After All These Years By Paul McCann Johnny and Chris first met by chance in a music shop . They both were looking for a new set of guitar strings...
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DetermiNature
Last Tuesday’s striding out in the fresh air was more a scramble in the bracing sea breezes, over the pebbly moonwalk landscape that is, Spey Bay...
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Ghost Story
Ghost Story I don’t believe in ghosts. At least that’s what I’ve always said. Memories can be fragile. I should be lucid and know exactly what I’m...
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