Autobiography
19th Hole
Tried golf I never really understood the rules, except for the 19th hole but always got a high score. It's a senseless pastime I was more into...
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Time (Clock of The Heart)
‘That one’s five hundred quid mate, but I could probably let you have it for four eighty,’ said the very gaunt looking man pointing to the clock that...
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Happiness
One day soon he might call me grand pappy. He's a little man who's a real cheery chappy. He doesn't mind at all filling his nappy. Because he loves...
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The Merry Moth of December
I think that in a previous life I may have been a moth. Although I’ve never eaten a woolly jumper or bashed my brains out on a car windscreen, I can’...
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Rising Waters and Fear of a Great Flood
Rising waters that we are now seeing after three days of heavy rain falling all across the country, stir fears of a Noah-type flood, of isolation,...
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Pad Life 17: So Here It Is
Season's Greetings from the Pad. Picture copyright free from Pixabay
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Fantasies of Enya (with music video)
I'd like to be the owner of a butcher's shop in Newry. I'd like to shake my hips about and sing like Billy Fury. I'd like to be a cosmonaut like...
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Hotel Mediterraneo
Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
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Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon
Caught in a lull between two storms, I’m stuck in an uneasy stay-in-the-house kind of frame of mind, reluctant to open the back door even though the...
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Take It or Leave It (with music video)
I first posted this poem on the ABCTales website in November, during the week when our Inspiration Point was ambivalence. Please forgive me if you...
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