Then The Rain Came
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Contrasting Worlds
A poet looking at the sky at night, a boxer looking for his next fight. A starlet looking at her own face, a padre looking for a state of grace. In a...
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The Dream
He’d dreamed a future of wealth and abundance: a world of harmony, where disease, war and famine were abolished. It was filled with people born of...
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When We Shot The Last Rhino
A fabled hunter from Milan or Mombasa or somewhere, raised his arms high and screamed in bloody triumph. A cameraman from Berlin or Budapest or...
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Twenty Years Later
I’ve tried them all: American, Russian, Cuban, French, Turkish, tipped, untipped, low tar, high tar, mild strength, full strength, nub-ends in the...
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I Was There
I was there, a proud Centurion, that time when I stood on parade. I gave my homage to Caesar, then I conquered the land unafraid. I was there with...
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Don't Call On Me
Cold winds blow through city streets as winter’s grip takes hold and grey souls in downbeat worlds retreat to lies untold. Rain-lashed pavements now...
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Her Beautiful Smile
Abandoned by a mind-set that demands healthy sons: loneliness beyond comprehension. Profoundly disabled... physically, mentally, deaf, blind:...
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How To Explain?
They say they'll be there at heaven's gate: the one's who pray and congregate. If we do the same we'll be at the feast, but how to explain a...
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Merlin
A carved wooden statue of Merlin stands in Carmarthen town centre. He's a mythical Celtic shaman who constantly popped up in Britiish folklore...
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