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Autumn Things
Autumn things are not at the beginning, but the winding stream that leads to an end, the clogged up water course filled with the gold of leaves and...
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Maria and the Bellasis Family 7
I was quite keen to get to the part of the English convent life of Mother Connolly, so Sister Francis decided that we would go to that now. “I want...
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When the Time Comes
This is for all the gang in Jersey who kicked the proverbial out of it last weekend, as we always do. image under licence Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) image from https://www.flickr.com/photos/94775792 @N00 Daryn Nakhuda
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Disenchantment 42
***** Touching the River Styx had almost felt orgasmic, yet it was much more than some insignificant physical pleasure. The fear that Floyd had felt...
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Light
A poem written about my anxiety and dysphoria and hope!!!!
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Rampton - Chapter 3
John Mitchell sat at the old mahogany desk in his cottage outside Cauld Village, he was working on his latest tale, one very much in the vein of M.R...
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Jam over Toast
I spread my love like jam Over toast without butter Covering the burnt bits Rhubarb and vanilla linger You pick out the pips I jab at crumbs with a...
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Pawns (Part Two)
* * * Two Weeks Earlier The street’s quiet when we arrive ootside ma bit, just a delivery driver drappin aff rolls ootside the coarner shoap further...
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Pawns (Part One)
Ah think ah’ve goat everythin. Two boatles ay ginger: wan, Irn-Bru , wan, Garvie’s Orange ; three packets ay biscuits: Toffeepops, an two ay mint...
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Fall: Jardin Ennui
Sunflowers. Some as tall as nine feet. With bird-feeders on an abandoned clothes-line post nearby, which has rusted to a beautiful semi-gloss. I’m...
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Strangers on a Street
A fleeting acquaintance can be memorable but will it be remembered? Strangers on a Street Rain cascades in near horizontal sheets, neon light dances...
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Masquerade
It's a masquerade and we all dance to a melchonic melody driven by fear as it parks We're all walking around With heavy hearts In the streets...
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To a Donkey
To a Donkey On my initiation to English lesson a language, alien as an addition to mother tongue to climb the rung up on the ladder to classes higher...
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The Godfather
An old piece rehashed for this week's Inspiration Point
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Fool To Cry by Mr Alfred Muggins
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At difficult times of tiredness or exhaustion, or just mild depression, Muggins was one of those people who would take refuge in music. It kept him...
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The Face You See
Oft written about. How I sometines present myself and what people actually see may not be as well hidden as I think............
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part 10
Mary jumped back from the hole and went to Wong, always keeping that hole in the web in sight, as if the Monster would burst through any time. "Wake...
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To know but be unknown
Facebook smiles and ‘touched-up ’lives – charade. Out and about, ‘on parade’, masquerade: …
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Guises and Disguises
Masquerade. (Image from Wikimedia Commons)
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