Autobiography
That's Life ( Pt 5 )
It was nearing the end of February 1983 and I'd been at the refuge since the beginning of January. Because my son was born with a soft cleft, which...
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That's Life ( Pt 4 )
Dear Diary...this was a particularly hard part to write about, due to one memory that almost tore me apart. I don't want the readers to feel that...
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Writing It Off
I sometimes wonder what I'm doing writing all this drivel, troubling others with problems that should remain dignified and private. Why bother when...
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The Last Third Thursday
Last one.
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That's Life ( Pt 3 )
After taking the pram apart and placing it in the boot of her car, I climbed in the back seat with my son, explaining how nervous I was to my health...
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That's Life ( Pt 2 )
There were few people in the park to my great relief, probably because although it was sunny, it was far too cold, also being a Monday morning most...
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That's Life ( Pt 1 )
Dear Diary...life can never prepare you for the black clouds that can gather, leaving you feeling sad and alone, where no one understand the...
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November Arboretum
… murky and dark, a splash of blood-red, a pattern of peach … … yellow stars outspread on a background screen of conifers’ drab
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Fireworks In Store
Happy Un-Bonfire Night!
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Good, Sports!
This seemed appropriate for today and is also a good example of what I mean by 'nostalgedy'
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Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 5
There Was Once a Long-Vanished England There was once a long vanished England; Of well-spoken presenters Of the BBC Home Service, Light Service, and...
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Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 4
See That the Summer’s Come Babe, where's your smile, Don't be a melancholy child, Can't you see That the summer's come? Stuck in your room With your...
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Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 3
London as the Lieu Until recently, I had the impression Of decaying Along with the moral standards Of contemporary Europe, With London as the lieu To...
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Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 2
For Something I'd Done I was in a tawdry bar, Or public house, Being threatened, For something I’d done. Darting furiously… Through city streets,...
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Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 1
A Cambridge Lamentation This place is always a little lonely At the weekends...no noise and life; I like solitude, But not in places Where's there's...
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On the Mynd
Bright, crisp, gingery bracken, bilberry clumps, and heather, spread of fields below, folds of hills beyond, fringe; net of sunlight beams fan out...
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I Still Love
Love's still here; I thought it had died and disappeared, it's hard to believe with what I've seen, heard, and lived. Nope, not easy to explain how I...
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Leggings - the film, and the unrestful spirit.
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“I've had,” I stated emphatically, “A week of designing knitting, and making 1940 toilet ware – knitted poodles for your spare toilet roll.” Kitty...
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The Struggle
my life done had some ups n downs left me lonely on the couch a true parent i aint been drowning misery and sin wanna come up cant git up i give up i...
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Every Third Thursday
Penultimate
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My Rise and Fall (I am a road) (Poetry Monthly)
…to signal direction, and make a connection … I came and I go
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I - WAS - NOT
I did never give in. Never. I soldiered on, I stayed. They bullied me, excluded me. They all led me to think I was worthless. I was Not Worthless...
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In ver ness (Poetry Monthly)
It's dark no-one can see you in your nightdress- shisssh cosy in; there’s a blanket, yes like little mice I know it's cold - it’ll soon warm up, feet...
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Lost! (Poetry Monthly??)
or how to add 3 miles to the end of a short walk …
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Like a Baby
A poem from my son
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Never meant to be together
Your Marlboro Light smokescreens brought tears to my eyes
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Beautiful Failures/Poetry for No-one
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Improbable Me
The human genome consists of 20 000 paired genes… about… During meiosis, gametes are generated by randomly swapping genetic material… let's shout… 2...
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Boy
Going through old recordings ...
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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...
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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...
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the Trip - part 3
The trip part 3 The next day our plan was to go to Gem Mountain in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. I had no idea what this would entail, but Jenny had...
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Hypo or the Journal of a Hypothyroid Male - Part Five A Post-Diagnosis Journal 2014
To a Christian Source 03/01/2014 1. Hi. Ever since I became a Christian over 20 years ago, I've had an easy ride I'll admit it; good health, minimal...
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Hypo or The Journal of a Hypothyroid Male - Part Four A Post-Diagnosis Journal 2013
To a Christian Source 4/4/13 Please, please pray for me for thyroid disease (hypothyroidism); severe sleeping difficulties; depressive issues;...
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The Trip - part 2
The Trip – part 2 “You must be Barbara Day,” said the lady at the motel as we walked in. At first I thought that I was special in some way – to be so...
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Remembering Molly
This is from a series of prose vignettes I've written, all of which tie into one story. All entries from the series are semi-biographical, this one in particular reflecting a real situation and based on real people, one of whom was me and the other, a prostitute named Molly. It's rather long but I couldn't split it appropriately so bravo and thank you if you make it to the end!
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Bars of Light
Evening sunlight in recumbent ribbons lies dappled on soft curves of southern downs. Our quick-witted boys gambol always just out of touch or reach...
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Hypo or the Journal of a Hypothyroid Male Part Three A Post-Diagnosis Journal 2012
To a Christian Source 4/1/12 My dear friends in Christ. Please pray for me for healing from thyroid disease (hypothyroidism), anxiety disorder...
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The Trip - part 1
My son left home 18 years ago – and has only been back for a long weekend once since. So his 28 years of accumulated junk has for the most part...
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A Little Biit Less
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My Trip To Torquay The End Came Too Soon
This had been all I'd ever wanted for so many years, an experience like this only comes around once in a lifetime, so I was in heaven. I just had to...
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My Trip To Torquay Taking The Plunge
By now everyone had adjourned to the lounge, it was becoming packed, I watched as people stood around chatting and getting their photographs taken...
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A Trip To Torquay A Night To Remember Continued
Dear Diary...this was a once in a lifetime experience for me, so while floating around from room to room on cloud nine, full of exhilaration, I was...
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A Trip To Torquay Continued A Night To Remember
As I lay there slithering further down the bath, I suddenly awoke with a jolt as my mouth and nose were now submerged beneath the freezing cold water...
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A Trip To Torquay
Dear Diary...here I am, some forty nine years later, sitting in front of a screen and typing, still feeling like a fourteen year old when I think...
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My Very First Visit To Wembley
Dear diary...so on Saturday July 1 st 1967, with our fifteen shilling tickets, me and my friend were given a lift by my dad to Cannon's Marsh coach...
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As Good As Marmite
Dear diary...love it or hate it, I was just twelve years old when I discovered marmite...no just kidding! What I'm really trying to say is; that back...
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A Child's Week (IP)
— synaesthetically
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Unexpected Harvest (2/9/15)
Picking early blackberries, rain drifts in, tumble into car, explore a maze of lanes. See a new path … the rain has stopped a-while. … ‘Shouldnt we...
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The Child
A true story. Photograph by Sergio Maistrello
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Songing - (a poem for hudsonmoon)
For Rich who is so kind.
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The Weight of Snow
We started talking about nappies today...how he'd been such a dab hand at folding them...
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Margaret
An unexpected phone call Much to the annoyance of anyone trying to get hold of me by telephone, I've stopped answering these days. It's become a bit...
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A Not-So-Busy Day
Busy men, lazy men! Here, they repair their motorcycles. There, they won’t even move a muscle. The roosters that crow are even more diligent Than the bored trees doing nothing but rustle.
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Leggings - 3rd Night.
Night 3. "You all did love him once not without cause." William Shakespeare. We have sleep interuptuous. Which isn't all that its said to be...
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Leggings - the game intensifies
Their game is approaching a match point. They have located some individual who wanted to get married and are about to present him. So to be fair I have to be awake to be spoken too.
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Feeda (a prose poem)
Cat Pass me your cup, and look at this Picasso I have. No, this is just where nature didn’t meet up with industrial waste. I wonder where the next...
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The IV Waltz
For Bee (with love)
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STASI - Part two
Sometimes these sessions could be short, or sometimes the sessions would stretch out interminably. They could last for hours and years. They would...
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