"Checkout"

Teashop - Two sets of customers, for us to eavesdrop on their conversations!

Letter from the war (Part 2)

Project about my father’s 1945 letter given to me a while after his death,– an ordinary young soldier’s war-time wanderings, and occupations from late 1941.

Spectacles. I.P

Spectacles and laughs

Book Review: Gently Go Man

A review of a classic British crime novel of the 1960's.

Enchanted One

A poem of Enchantment

The End of the War.

After the fighting has finished...

finger hooks

finger hooks wrapped strapped and tied... threads hanging By a whisper of a dark hinted appetite yet to kindle... all resting In the humming of a fly...
Cherry

Tombstone Tower Blocks

Tarnished tombstone tower blocks Stand stark against the sky, Tags tattooed on cold grey walls Invasive to the eye; A weed-grown, worn-down walkway To a door directs my feet,

Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful

That's the title of the new book of poetry by ABCtales member Swep Lovitt - known on here as bosch. Swep has longed to publish this book for a while and now his time has come. The poems in the slim volume take us on a personal journey through the break-up of his marriage and divorce. It's not bitter but it is sad. The poems have been carefully honed. The work on them shows through time after time. You realise that every word has been considered...

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