Love

when these sour days are ended

when these sour days are ended we who have met, but fleetingly, and are kept apart will meet we who dare not speak of love forged in late night calls...

This Christmas

This Christmas - by Paul McCann Each Christmas comes and each Christmas goes and all we have are those twenty four hours to celebrate and fill our...

One of my father’s carvings

Relaxation from a desk job, one of his hobbies was carving. I think the occasion for this one was probably his parents golden wedding anniversary...

I Give You My Heart

I give you my heart To wrap in glass Stash it safely on the roof Let it freeze Let the wind toss it Like flotsam On a gravel beach Carry it in an...

An Historical Rendezvous

Beside a gathering of clouds – a finger of escaping light disappears into the twilight leading my imagination on a magic journey- it is a time for...

Potential

Baby growing in the womb destined to die, but not too soon, life to live, to do your bit – who knows now who will benefit when you arrive, contribute...

An Unreconstructed Man Repents

I'm going up tut top twenty. I've thinking to do, aplenty. I'm bloody sick of t'virus. So I'm going to think on Iris. She looks reet grand in wellies...

Daddy's Little Girl

. Daddy's Little Girl By Paul McCann . Little baby girls grow up and some even change their name , Some of them never grow up , they're Daddy's girl...

a grand day out (tanka)

grand day out Jack liked the horses, spent all morning reading form two quid ‘round robins’ were his usual flutter, sometimes, if flush, a yankee...

That Lady

in the chair is my rocking mom who once was Commander-in-Chief of our family and still driven as a person of great respect: always teaching us proper...