Gathered Flowers

It's all Greek to me

Hearts and Flowers

Umm... was going to write a Valentine's Day poem but this is what I ended up with. Picture from Pixabay, licence CC0
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Thimbles

It's not really about thimbles, I have a lisp. You could use three and a pea for the shell game. Does anyone use them now? Image source pixel.com
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Army of Poets

Difficult to write at the moment... anyway thanks to John Wilks for providing the spur to write this, which is at least something... Image authors own created from PD imagery.

Play Pen

A toe in the water... I'd rather you didn't see me drown... Picture source is Freepik.com photographer Rohan Baumann
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This

Image is from publicdomainpictures.net and licence is CC0
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Davy Jones's Locker

It's not about pirates, but you'll work it out... Weren't we all the wonder kid, in our day? Image source is Rossographer on geography.ie Licence is Creative Commons
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Ghost Furniture

Small town vignette, no gasworks... Image: copyright Oast House Archive, licence CC BY-SA 2.0
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Don't Call Me Guiri

Almost crystal in its clarity... well, compared to lots of things that I've posted... haha. Image source is Pixabay.com and licence is CC0
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Can You Remember?

It's my birthday today... a time to look back. I've had a good time on the whole... No regrets. Image is author's own from CC0 Licenced photograph.
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There Is

I have no answers, and far too many questions... Image is copyright Betty Longbottom used under CC BY-SA 2.0
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Shadows and Dust

Ah well, make of it what you like. Image is CC Public Domain from PXHere.com
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Destination: Anywhere

typed straight into the box... free-write... music playing. The Commitments (!)
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A Picnic in Eden

Some say you can never go back, but imagination and memory can take you... Image from Pixabay free for non-commercial use By Julia S.
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Spring is Late this Year

I found this. It was written in 2010. I'd been living in Spain for six years by then. I was doing A363 Creative Writing with the OU. Lord knows how much that would cost now. Aunty Betty paid for mine, part of the resettlement deal when you left after a long period of becoming institutionalised. I can't remember if it was even submitted for assessment. Don't think so. Anyway, it's a late bloomer's equivalent of juvenilia, I suppose. I've put two commas in. Treat it kindly. When the rainy month came in March or April, (there is only ever one per winter in Andalucia) I longed for Spring to start. Pic is used under CC.0 Public domain. Source PxHere.com
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Lunacy

A poem about 18 lines long. Now you know. Image source tumbler. No known copyright issues.
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Stay Silent

What it is, is what it is. Image is from wikigallery.com: free for non commercial use. Artist Andreas Achenbach
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October 1st, 2020

It's National Poetry Day, after all. Licence CC BY 2.0: photograph of the Calder Hebble Navigation by Tim Green on flicker.com
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Enough

The illustration is of Mediocrates' more famous brother, Theocritus. Some of Mediocrates' poetry may have been mis-attributed to his brother, most likely the limericks. Image source is Wikipedia Commons and is in the public domain.
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I Am Tired of Complexity

Well, I am. Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay
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A Kindness

This is my entry for The Walter Swan Poetry Prize 2020 run by Ilkley Literature Festival. You can catch the deserved winners on youtube.com The standard was very high, at least among those who won. I'm not displeased with this, though. Image from pixabay.com free for non-commercial use & without attribution.
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Inter Alia

Oddball, queer fish, guiri, other. I have been all of them. Inter alia is among(st) others in Latin. Image source is pixabay.com and is free for commercial use with no attribution.
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Ask Not

Written by FS Lawrie E A (ret'd) Image by FS Lawrie TY (ret'd) Dedicated to WO Lawrie A (RIP)
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Poem of the week

We Built This City

I was going to call it The Analogue Kitchen, but I got sidetracked. It is this one. Image from Actual 80's: An 80's nostalgia website. No known copyright issues.
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The Visitable Past

The title was coined by Henry James, I'm not sure he quite meant what I've made of it. The image is mine, and the photo I took of it is quite deliberately blurred
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"Pow! Pow!"

Trigger warning. Once upon a time, children pretended to play with guns... Image source www.picturesofengland.com Photographer ED, No known copyright issues.
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Atomic City

The Futura was a concept car, but there are images of some on line. Many say the original and best Batmobile was modelled on it... but that's no more mad than taking a trip out to to watch atomic bomb tests, is it? Collage made by me from CC0 items.
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Rolling Thunder

I love a good storm, except if I'm 30,000 feet up in a long metal cigar tube with wings. Brontal is a nonce-word, made up for the nonce by me. A back-formed adjective from the prefix bronto- meaning "thunder". There, can't even say you were sorry you asked, because I told you first. image is CC0 Public Domain from PXhere.com
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Unlike Others

Not many layers here. image source: pxhere. Licence CC0 Public Domain
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Marginalia from a Self-Help Book

Good luck finding the book, I haven't written it yet. Image created by Author.
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Rat Racer

Another sixteen lines of clumsy metaphor Image source SnappyGoat.com : free for non-commercial use
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Zills

It's not about anything much. image taken by Judy Gallagher. Licence CC BY 2.0 Source: Wikipedia.
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Everything Which Burns

No-one is always pessimistic. Not even me. Image created by author from PD elements from wiki commons.
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Benches

Nothing to see here... Image PD fiddling author's own.
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Self-Portrait

Boring, I shouldn't bother if I were you. Image (unfortunately) is author's own in more than one sense.

Quadripartita Ratio (or Saturday Night at the Disco)

It's not about rhetoric... Image is from DeutscheFotothek an archive of photographic material from the former DDR licence CC-SA 3.0 Germany
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Tower

No, I'm not explaining this one, you'll work it out. CC-SA 4.0 Original Image by Krzysztof Golik

Maker's Mark

What a fool believes...
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Steinmätscher (Muddier of Stones)

I learned something from @LevParikian (Twitter's premier Twitcher if you're interested in birds) this morning. So, as is my wont, I went off on a tangent and wrote this. Image licence is CC-BY SA2.5 source Wikipedia photographer Andreas Trepte.
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Impressing Miss Axelrod

Ahh...nostalgia. It's always the music, isn't it? Image author's own, as for its subject, Go Ask Alice...
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9 Wanderers

Planet comes from πλανήτης meaning 'wanderer' Image by Sage Ross CC-SA 3.0
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Marvell-ous

You're probably thinking how dare he? And you're probably right. However, I don't care. Image source is Wikipedia... In Public Domain.
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Memory Box

for my mum and dad. Image author's own
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If I Write...

It's... Oh it's just... You'll work it out. Image created using photofunia.com by me.
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You Must Remember This

A short poem about things that happened two-thirds of a lifetime ago... image source picclick.com no known copyright issues.
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Anemoi - Winds

Bank Holiday walk on the Northumbrian Coast. Image source: geography.co.uk. Licence CC- BY SA 2.0 photographer MikeatSeahouses
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We Are Electric

About nine lines. Shocking, isn't it? image used under Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) photo by Richard Mortel source, Flicker.com
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Walking the Dog

If you don't know how to do it, I'll show you how to ... Not about anything really. Image (and dog) author's own.
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Here is Movement

about nothing much. image used in acc. w/ CC2.0 by SA source Flicker Image still capture from video by P K
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A Coin for Belisarius

Belisarius is the name of a Roman general... the appropriate myth concerns a blind beggar Image is from wiki commons no known copyright issues.
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A Toolkit For Happiness

One of those desiderata things. I made the image at canva.com (I know, quality design, eh?)

Naming Names

You don't know ____ Image is from Wikipedia commons. Originally posted by Gon on fr.wikipedia. Licence is CC-SA 3.0
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Faces

We wear faces, until they wear us. Image created from PD components by author.
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Woodland Walk

Um... fairly self-explanatory, no? Picture taken by me when out walking the dog.
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There Will Be Dust (A Wedding Feast)

Going to a wedding tomorrow... Every gets soppy, even me. Image free for non-c use source: clipart.com

Struthio

Not the name of a minor Shakespearean character, but the genus Linnaeus first applied to ostriches, which once upon a time was applied to the Emu and later not. Escaped common ostriches in Australia have established feral populations. Image from pixhere.com and doctored by me.
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Strictly For The Birds

Odd what you think about when you walk a dog. Image is from Elland C.C. website. I've asked them and they don't mind.
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Gentlemen and Players

Over a very busy weekend, I managed to attend an exhibition match which was held as a tribute to a former comrade-in-arms, a fellow rugby player, who died recently. Servicemen are sentimental, and so are rugby players. Anyway, I wrote this for me, and for anyone who was there, in body or spirit. Picture is ©Garlands 2021
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And...

Cheery stuff. Image free for non-c use from wallpaperflare.com

Don Diego

Inspired by a visit to the Prado on my 50th Birthday. Image source wikipedia commons Such a beautiful thing to be in the public domain...
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these are the lines

well they are Image author's own.
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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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By No-one's Rhetoric

I always write something on National Poetry Day. This is this year's. Image taken by Humphrey Bolton, source: Wikipedia, licence: CC by 2.0
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Innocents

Nostalgic, twee and sentimental. No, you're quite right, best ignored. Image is free to use: created by Ixan Sinsuke, source pngitem.com
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If I Should Leave

I have no intention of floating away...
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Old Soldiers

I thought about explaining this one, but no, I'n not going to. image from pxfuel.com free for non commercial use.
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A Pocketful of Marbles

No, it isn't really about marbles Image source; David Dalgliesh Sr, via pinterest.com permission sought https://pin.it/78umPum
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Agate

for more than a friend.
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Pencils

...and this one isn't about pencils. Image author's own
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Space Guitars

A poem about guitars. That's it. This guitar is an Eastwood Saturn 63 Image source Pinterest no known copyright issues
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Poem of the week

Looking Down and Up

About nothing at all, really. Image source wiki commons. licence CC-SA 3.0 photographer Noer kyani
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Here Are Dark Things

here are a pome Original image source pxhere CC0 fiddled with by me using GIMP.

And The Wind It Blows

I say it's all just wind in sails Image is free for non-c, yay!
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Musical Things

Ha... for lots of straight guys, THIS is the love that dare not speak its name. The irreality of it all is what makes it... well, great. Image author's own created with canva.com
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Poste Restante

No, you'll have to work it out. Image is from Wikipedia commons, licence CC-by SA 2.0
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We Used to Tell Ourselves

Well, I did. Picture Author's own. Of the day when I thought it really was over. L to R : Me, Anatolij Kvotchur Russian Test Pilot, American pilot of B2 Stealth bomber at an Airshow in 1993. I was Kvotchur's interpreter.
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Sleeping Stone

Call me Fred. Image source Wikipedia. CC by SA 2.0
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Yorkshire Location Shoot

Hullen Edge (also Hullenedge) is named after the holly prevalent along the ridge/escarpment/whatever. Image is from here Permission requested
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Wishes

yes, wishes. image source pixabay.com
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Poem of the week

These Hands

We have all seen these hands, sometimes on the end of our own arms. Or our mothers'. Image free for non-commercial use from Pixabay.com
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Sticky Wullie

Gallium aparine : Bobby Buttons, cleavers, catchweed, whippysticks: so many names. Sticky Willy is my favourite. I spent summer once with cousins in Govan. We did actually see the countryside, it was a bus ride away and guess who got "sticky wullie" stuck on the back of his jumper. Other than that, I made it all up - but you knew that anyway. Image is PD from wiki commons.
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Acrobats at Rest

It's about... whatever. Can't use the picture used for inspiration, so I made my own from available pd elements

Memory Games

For my Dad, who won't know...
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Poem of the week

All the Diamonds Raining

We bet, Pascal and I, all the d i a m o n d s raining on Jupiter and Saturn that something is out there. He glories in uncertainty, I in its opposite...
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Time Crystals

Recipe: Ingredients 1 x Magazine article with click-baity title 1 x Completely unrelated memory 1 x obligatory Schroedinger's Cat Reference Method Free write. Break up the lines, arrange them on paper or screen in as allegorical a scheme of shapes as possible. Half-bake only on Regulo 3 and a quarter until it starts to smell bad. Image created by author from PD elements at canva.com
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The Grey Danube

a visit to Budapest Image author's own, created from PD elements...
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Poem of the week

The Forest of Discarded Raiment

It's a puzzle, alright. Image is CC-SA 3.0 from wikicommons and taken by @Ershilipu
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Night Creatures

Title is the that of an old BeBop Deluxe song. You could do worse than look them up. Bill Nelson is a Yorkshireman. Events in this poem are invented, as all the best ones are. Image free for non-c use source pexels.com
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The Book of Love

Did you write it? I don't believe in him upstairs either. Whatever the book says. Image created at canva from pd elements.
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Sic Transit Gloriana Nostre

It is what it is. Image is author's own fault

In

Umm... no point trying explain, I suppose. Anyway. In. Image author's own fault.

Bus Stops

Nothing of any great interest. Move along. Photo author's own.
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Victoria Mills, West Vale, Elland

It's a real place. Part of It's where they shoot that daytime TV programme with Nigel Havers and the antique experts. Image - author's own.
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Tom's Swiss Cure

No clues, I'm afraid, except the image. If you do figure it out, you might say to yourself "how dare he?" And I would not argue with that. Image from Wiki commons.
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On Ainley Top Looking Down

Please don't post anything controversial by way of comment, I shan't reply.
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Witch's Mist

Morning walk. Image author's own
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It Rains

Well it does rain, quite a lot. I did the image.
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Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

The Woman on the Other Side of the Screen

I wish I didn't have occasion to write this. It is a companion piece to "The Man on the Other End of the Phone" Image is a screenshot
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A Dream in my Pocket

Throw it on the track, you don't want it back. Image created by me using canva.com with pd and wiki commons elements.

Us to a 'T'

I'm going to a Squadron reunion, this week-end. I always said I'd never do these things, but nostalgia is a powerful thing and I've been to a few now over the years. Anyway this one is for anyone who I ever served with, whether I liked them or not. Image is PD
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Poem of the week

Hereafter

On the other side of the sky, at the back of the north wind, but together, wherever. Image author's own.
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Whistles

It's not really about whistles. image source wiki-commons: licence CC BY SA 3.0
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Play the B-Side

You know it. Image source wikipedia.org and used under fair use terms.
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Ghosts in the Machine

An old friend died a few days ago. Faceache sent me a friend request from him. He was already my friend, so I knew it was some hacker. I took the appropriate action. (No, not write this poem). Image authors own created at Canva.com
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Our Town

What it says, I suppose. Anyway, not original, not much, but there are hundreds of towns like this all over the country. Image by ME Audio available
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For As Long As

For my parents. image is PD.
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Click-Track For A Life’s Movie

The click track was sufficiently useful as a synchronization tool that it became part of standard recording technology, whether for films, radio or other sound recording and the click track was applied to one of the tracks on a multitrack tape recorder. From wikipedia.org
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Let's Dance

Go on, let's image source: James Vaughan, flicker.com Image Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

wOr d S

what it s a ys Image created by author at canva.com

No-one Found

Nowadays we need closure. In the past, it might have been a long and lingering grief, we have forgotten what it is like not to know, which must make it even harder to bear. Image is PD, YAY!
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Don't Ask

So many people in the Armed Forces back in the day - before don't ask don't tell - were living a lie. I'm glad most of them are still friends.
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Godot's Ghost

I've read Waiting for Godot about half-a-dozen times and seen it twice on stage many years ago. I can never make up my mind if Godot is God or death, or if Estragon and Vladimir are in Hell or Purgatory or in a care home near Clacton-on-Sea. Anyway, this isn't really about Didi and Gogo. [Image from PXhere.com]
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Poem of the week

Thrift

image author's own
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Before I Was Old

Based on a #NaPoWriMo Prompt "Start with a lie..." Had a bit of a fiddle with this. (I can count on the number of fingers of scotch in Dorothy P's tumbler how often I do that, I churn them out and leave them. Now I know why.
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Over The Bones

No, you'll have to work it out yourselves. image credit Dagmar Hollmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0> , via Wikimedia Commons
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Iconoclasts

image from pixabay
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Pick A City

I dare you. image created at canva.com by me.
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Except For Ulysses

One day, perhaps, I'll finish the only book I've started that I haven't... finished that is. Image licence CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wiki commons)
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Don't Blame The River

Well, don't. Image is owned by RichTea and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Source Wiki commons.
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Poetry Makes Nothing Happen

Nope, not explaining this one. Image made at canva.com elements used under associated licences.
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Cheers

Another gone. Per Ardua Ad Astra, Blue skies.
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Son of My Father

What's this one about? Fathers and sons, old age, what awaits us all... and loads of other things, you decide. Image in PD, source Look and Learn.com, Odysseus and the sirens.
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Do Not Come to My Funeral

Another fallen comrade younger than I. Image created at canva.com from pd elements.