Autobiography
Nan and Grandad
She smelt of soap, hairspray and Californian Poppy. He smelt of pipe tobacco, brylcreem and hard work. They always had the strangest fizzy drinks The...
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The End of Parkinson's Awareness Week 2014
The End of Parkinson’s Awareness Week 2014 1248 words In previous Awareness Weeks I have written about the symptoms and treatment of Parkinson’s but...
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Judy and me
When Judy was 4, I was in thrall to her, following her every command When cutting her finger, nothing would do My shared cut was part of her plan...
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Rainbows in Clouds
*** Broken promises and rainbows in clouds ***
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Shadow
Women must wear dresses. Men must wear suits. Everyone must live by the sea. Everyone has to dance. Everyone has to smile. We must all have a shadow.
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A Sign Of Things To Come
The house opposite, though similar , Stood out in the row, like a bad tooth on a set of dentures, As did the old occupant who drew its dirty yellow...
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Begin Again
There could be a station here, but the smell of autumn blocks the memory of the tracks we've travelled down and in the frowning wind I unpin the...
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Finding Ashley
It hardly seems but a minute ago, you were knee-high to a space-hopper...
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Complaint
When I started out on this site I noticed a few poets that I then tended to follow because I liked their styles. The first was Silver Spun Sand with...
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Fight or Flight
“How do they expect you to get this stuff out of the carton?”, I thought as I ground the spoon through the hard- packed cube of ice cream in the...
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