Opinion
The Awkwardness of Life
I’m not comfortable with the awkwardness of life I can never decide If all the things I see in front of me I should or shouldn’t hide I’m not crazy...
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A Tale of Two Marys
I chose my Christmas gift 25 years before I was born. I chose wisely. On that day, Mary Keenan, who had just arrived bag and baggage in Rochester,...
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Breathing In Life
Sunday 18 th August 2019. Sarah's birthday barbecue. Enjoying need For inspiration As hearing caw Of crows, Deep thoughts turn To northern winds,...
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Mark My Words
The words just came out of my mouth...
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Commemoration For D Day
Commemoration For D Day Thousands of soldiers flung onto the North Coast of France. Normandy here we come! Young and malleable, dutiful and primed,...
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King
"...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Well, so wrote John Donne. Maybe he was right in his day. Maybe not so much in 2019.
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To Mary (a train of thought on a dark night...)
Dark nights, writing by the light from my desk lamp, fuelled by a glass of Laphroaig. I could not be in a better place. If any of you are unlucky enough not to have read Mary Oliver's Wild Geese (to which in many ways this poem is a sort of homage), you are truly missing out on one of the 20th century's greatest poems.
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Faction is the New Fiction
As our president demonstrates each and every day, alternate truths are just a click away. Trump has already presented more than a thousand versions...
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Pied Piper
Pied Piper Pied Piper, Nigel Farage, Mirage Man – now you see him, now you don’t! Where will we see him next? Will he really be there? Or is he just...
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Periods Of Joy
Saturday 10 th August 2019 Dear diary...at last beauty can be viewed from our conservatory, able to see adorned limbs interwoven, roses climbing up...
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