Autobiography
The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 21 'First Date'
The reluctant hero with clay feet...
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Out On The Water
We need to leave this world behind before we can see open space .
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LOVE IS HARD
how would feel if you made a mistake mmmm i wonder
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 20
A modest mountaineer, a German Jew refugee, a favour for David Dimbleby and a guilty admission...
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Cairo, Mine
I wish they could see how You never lost your glory Even when blood ran through your streets And bodies were dragged along your pavements You stood silent And loving
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Call Centre Blues
The coffee is cheaper than the plastic cup it is served in Its taste as bitter as my life For the calls are constant here A barrage that will eventually destroys my very soul
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Saints and Sinners in Margate
my roads less-travelled are signposted Margate, where the saints and sinners dwell...
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 19 Old Boys' Day
This is a serious one, not funny. I am sexually assaulted on a train and I'm so innocent I don't realise what is happening to me...
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies- Chapter 18 'The Evangelist'
Looking forward to holidays at the end of term when I'm stopped by a tramp who turns out to be a pushy evangelist who ties me in knots...
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The Saturday Morning Shit Birds
The Saturday Morning Shit birds
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 17
Back at school, eccentrics, music and films - and reviving the moribund Railway Club
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 16
Back home for Christmas. And will I be invited to Robert's party this year ? And if so, will Topsy be there ?
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 15
My first term and the judgment expressed in my first report. '....he is an independent little fellow....'
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 14
I unravel the mysteries of life at Charterhouse and learn, using my past bitter experience, how to survive.
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 13
First letter home after total unfamiliarity with everything that happens at his new public school.
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The Day I Dared to Wear Lipstick
If you think it is easy to claim state - benefits in this country whenn you are ill, read on......
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The Shadows of a Broken Marriage
I lived in pain for so long The bitter tears of doubt was all I knew It was not you I needed to forgive For I punished Myself every footstep of the way The bitterness swells
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You Can’t Rely On Harry Potter.
He has his secrets ;O)
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digital confessional
I'm scared of the T.V. and I rarely shave. every channel's about depravity and I'm trying to behave. I think I have M.S., at any rate it's hard to walk. I spend my time dialing numbers
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impressions of a moment
these sketches in verse wondering, bored, or terse, they're just impressions of a moment portraits in the sand forgotten in an hour not that long pre-planned just impressions of a moment
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Oh No Not Another Parkie!
I am sure you wonder what it means when you meet a Parkie, what so special about a Parkie and why should she be treated any different to others.
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 12
A very short offering, but think about it. More in it than met my eye at the time.
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 11
In which I make a mess of things - hiding from my tormentors, taking it out on my sister and not coping with a friend's request.
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 10
Life takes a couple of unexpected turns - a new school beckons and one of the bullies offers a surprising peace-offering, but with strings attached...?
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Encounter
yes, we have learned about pain
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 9 'First Love'
The one you've really been waiting for - the love story. Is this still a 'U' or should I move it to a '12' ?
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 8
Worries about a grandfather and a lost trainspotter's book.
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Ink-and-paper waves
I wish that my eyes could stop time when they are shielded from the sunlight the sand stops flowing mid-air suspended and people are frozen mid-step, mid-kiss, mid-sentence
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writers' block
in the self-conscious place competing concepts oil-deep self-doubt tired of poetry tired of life : "the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to" my verse receiving praise
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This emergency hood
The repossession will be executed by something factual – that instinct that does walking without thinking legs move like this. We could all tell sorts of secrets -
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A great man for Shakespeare
A great man for Shakespeare my Dad, "lay on McDuff;" and "Time and the hour run through the roughest day." He'd say. That day I heard him fall. Saw him, face livid, lips blue.
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 7
The school boxing match and the result doesn't go down too well at home...
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 6
My new found confidence is shaken. Familiar certainties tumble. I'm teachers' pet and that doesn't go down well with my peers...
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 5
I start to get too confident - and love of trains replaces (?) fear of butterflies. Then I'm dragged back by my first real experience of death...
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depressive
everybody wants to hear something good, hey it's understood but that's not where I'm at and I'm tired of masquerade, tired of making sour lemonade I don't wanna hear
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i am silly
i lost it my brain has now gone in a corner. hey its that time of the day to go mad smile
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i am tried
i am so tried and this came out lol you got to have a smile smile
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i forgot
i came to write a something on this site and as soon as i long in i forgot so i wrote this lol
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Thoughtless
What do you do when the thoughts don’t come? When you wake in the morn averse to a verse, you want to converse but your mind’s perverse. With no perceptions or immaculate conceptions,
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 4 'Sunday School'
The first stirrings of sexuality and its humiliation...
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wont you listen to me
sometime we all dont here or some peopel see so other peopel try to tell them this
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On Hollyhock Hill...
As a woman, I have learned all there is to know about waiting...
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wings
when you care for someone and you have to let them go do we allfeel like this now and again
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 3
No more butterflies this time - but this school was really as bad as I describe. I was a wimp, but even so...
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies - Chapter 2
The sweat is already prickling at the back of my neck...
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The Boy Who Was Afraid of Butterflies
I really am scared of butterflies. I'm told when I was two I used to chase them. Then something went wrong...
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Unperturbed
With a final drive words open and split when they sap the long winding path to the heart. She'd purge her sins and fix them in daisy chains, whereas his wild roses would fade aspiring
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My Poems
For my lovely husband - who wishes my poems were not quite so miserable!
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Mother of Creation (For Mum on Mother's Day)
This is for my Mum, who is my best friend as well as the person who has always appreciated my writing. Thanks for the creative genes Mum!
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They bring me their ghosts
A friend in need.....
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The Other Railway Children
The story of the founding of the Railway Children charity - supporting street children living on railway and bus stations worldwide.
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Observations of an old lady
For many years I got used to old age by watching her when walking to the shops, past my front window like a great big bag of ripe bananas in her yellow frock:
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Let's get critical
Response to a certain comment! *wicked smile*
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never be
hey you ever get those moment when your in love and you feel like this. a little crazy come in lol
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Look at the day
there that time of the day when look at things and think. and wonder..
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A SPIRITUAL MOMENT AT THE BEACH
This happened on a beach in St Pete's Florida, I shall never forget it.
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Bill and the UFO6
todger and co and summy's dad.
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Some Velvet Morning
Some Velvet Morning We didn’t know the time none of us cared. We only knew it was late - but it wouldn’t end for an hour or so at least. We were where everyone wanted to be
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Middlesbrough has a music scene, you wouldnt know.
The brambles are a shambles, I seen them last week with their tin sounding guitars. Each one of them had ego's as big as the stars, but not an ounce of talent, in a shallow fountain,
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