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I caught a glimpse of heaven

I caught a glimpse of heaven Tip-toeing on a breeze

Love Struck---------

<----------------------- His arrows of desire <----------------------- Cupid constantly fired <------------------------ But every arrow...
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Jake Mutant - Chapter Five

The good weather continued for the next few days. Jake decided his Grandad needed a helping hand, a bit of support, more than anyone had realised...
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London loves

We had chosen to be free the mattress, sheets bleary with Silk Cut's spoilt-milk odour stalks poking the whelked cement capped by tiny purple flowers...
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The trip - part 5

On Sunday, we decided to go and visit a cavern. We had gone to the Bristol Caverns, quite nearby, last year, and I saw that there was something...

Helpless, Useless, Scarecrow

Sometimes one may feel lost, lonely and forgotten and it's scary and one can run out of ways to talk the self out of it, ways to 'fix it'...

Sweet Hell (Part 2)

“Wake up! Wake up!” his grandmother called, “Nobody sleeps this late. Your lunch is cold.” Ayyea was still dazed. Had lunch and scattered to Women’s...

The Logger's Vision

The title of the story is 'The Logger's Vision', a story about a peaceful woodcutter living in a forest. The land is harsh and people passing through is a rarity. An outsider brings a choice for the logger, one that can change his life forever. In the end, he must separate the essential from the trivial and make the decision.
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The Wind is Isolde

The warden’s bewildered, the keeper’s amazed as the gate gapes behind us, a hole in the haze. Our steps seem uncertain, the cobblestones crazed,...

The Soul Spirit

I like watching people, they change so quickly. For a human, life may seem to take a while but for me time goes past like gusts of wind, feeding me...
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The trip - part 4

Trip – day 4 Abingdon, the little town where I was staying, is very much a tourist trap – with loads of antique shops, gift shops, interesting old...

whisper

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what words are in me my soul is restless people. not those people talk. not about that him. but another him feel. not those feelings please not those...

Unrealistic Stunt Doubles

We wrestle like uncoordinated snakes Hissing and shedding skin Our emotions knotted with Badly rehearsed movements Coated in isolation and tears;...

The Mezzotint Chapter 9 The Mezzotint

Creest woke up in a white world. His ears registered a bleeping noise like a satellite beaming signals back to earth. ‘Maybe I’m beyond space. Is...

Sweet Hell (Part 1)

‘When the ships put in, the crew marry; when they intend to leave they divorce their wives.’ wrote Ibn Battuta, the historian traveller from Morocco...
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Stepping Stones (Poetry Monthly)

...blew a kiss, as they hit the open road...

Sideways haiku set

"Confusion is king: the talk of your town. Confusion is king: the talk of my town." - Elliott Smith mad as a hatter, strange, driven to abstraction...
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quickie

I’d a bad night. The guy upstairs had a burst pipe on Tuesday, which he didn’t know about. Next thing it’s Thursday, the ceiling comes down, and I’m...
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RADIO DRIVING

i'm driving to the radio it's sometimes fast and sometimes slow i tend to let its tempo set my pace . sometimes i'll hear my favorite song and i'll...
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A Victorian Gentleman and the Steam Age

Surplice Dingleberry was the third and youngest son of the twelfth Lord Dingleberry, the renowned inventor of the steam-driven top hat dispenser. As was the tradition at the time, young Surplice was destined for a life in the church. However, he was – like his father – fascinated by the wonders of Victorian engineering and the possibilities inherent in steam power.

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