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Home Improvement

With much fussing over plumb-lines and protective cladding The bricks are finally being placed in their course. Our breath held as the crystal panes disappear, their gleam

A death in the family

And why should it be easier to talk to you, now that you are dead? You left a husk, not some empty chrysalid. I do not believe you winged and lovely eating cream cheese sandwiches in heaven

In This Child's Eyes

Ten-year old Jake Corbett was struggling to cope with his ballooning weight.
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Love Is A Teenage Invention.

My first love poem. Tread on it softly, they are my dreams.

showers

short poem

Famous!

ever been teased at school but have a big success in your career?

Dawn in the Poppy Field.

I would not want you anyway but this – a pink dawn Rising across the fields –your footprints small in the Dew on the grass – the first faint stirrings of a fractured
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The Fairly Good Mother

Once, long ago, in the last days of magic, there lived a contented husband and wife.

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