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502 Kilometres
502 Kilometres Just up the road from my wife and me A fire’s burning constantly Folks just like us are in the street No food to eat Nowhere to sleep...
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Her Troubles
Her Troubles Tuesday’s fish supper grease still lingers On grubby stubby stiff little fingers Cracked by cold and each one bleeds From overuse of...
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Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls
Elisabeth and the Bonbon Girls Alone, I walked along the dusty path that led away from the termite-ravaged back gate of the small French colonial-...
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Maglic Moments
A piece of writing I did a good while back for the travel company, Exodus Travels. Neither the trip nor I were very glossy but they were very happy to include it in their glossy promotional literature. The Green Visions Travel Agency in Sarajevo used it too. And no, there isn’t a typo in the title.
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Lady Danube
A photograph of a green wooden hut beside a river. But the river is none other than the River Danube (known locally as the Dunav / Дунав) taken on my phone a few days ago from near the town of Svishtov in Bulgaria, approximately 80 kms from where I live. I love watching rivers flow by but the might of the Danube (the second longest in Europe, after the Don) is extraordinary. Its beauty and the folklore and mythology that accompany it compelled me to write this poem.
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Fields of rapeseed in flower
Posted on Sat, 20 Apr 2024
Fields of rapeseed in flower always look utterly beautiful.
My in-laws' house in Lincolnshire was often surrounded by acres of it and we decided that it didn't smell very nice and the small black insects that it attracted were also...
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This is a lovely, uplifting
Posted on Tue, 16 Apr 2024
This is a lovely, uplifting poem Jenny.
I read it to my cats. They're salivating like Pavlov dogs.
I told them not to be so rude.
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Biden
Posted on Mon, 15 Apr 2024
It helps a little that even Biden seems to be dragging his feet this time.
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Despair
Posted on Mon, 15 Apr 2024
If any nation should know better than to do this, it is Israel. Their actions in Gaza are beyond belief but it seems that a bit of local genocide isn't enough for them. They are dragging us all into the Book of Revelation.
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Horror and mistrust.
Posted on Sat, 13 Apr 2024
The causative inept police force, the horror of the event and a government intent on a cover up. It all stinks.
I've read a lot about this. In previous semi-finals at Hillsborough fans from Tottenham and Leeds had felt that they were going...
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Seeing things
Posted on Wed, 10 Apr 2024
Maybe if you'd spent the £20 on another bottle of the strong drink you'd have seen stars.
An enjoyable read. I'm glad it finished on a positive note.
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The length of a stork's life
Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024
The length of a stork's life depends upon what you feed it on. They seem to have a fondness for butter substitutes.
There's an absolutely ancient one here with a Geordie accent that mutters on constantly about pink/purple hair, painful...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale
The streets of Malki Chiflik
Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024
Ah, that's great news Drew. There'll be dancing in the streets of Malki Chiflik tonight.
Thank you very very much.
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale
Papa was a soothsayer.
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024
Aren't all fathers soothsayers with the words 'told you so' poised on the tips of their tongues even if they hadn't told us so? I think my kids might say I'm guilty of that myself.
An entertaining look at the Gilded Cage. Nice one Jenny...
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And Smokey sings...
Posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2024
And Smokey sings...
Now, there's some sad things known to man
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown when there's no one around
When I was a kid clowns made us laugh but these days their...
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