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Excuse Me Was That An Angel?

It took me a long time to learn of someone's true identity...
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Why I Dislike PBS

PBS and CNN are my two least favorite networks. A few years ago, I was channel surfing. When I stopped channel surfing, the channel landed on PBS...

La vie en rose

Image: from Wikipedia Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
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No Doggerel

Contains Doggerel.
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Poem of the week

October robin

cold air's become a glitter ball with falling leaves its swirling lights as trees dance round their disco hall in fearful thrill of frosty nights now...
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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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Story of the week

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...

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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