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We Are Seacroft!
With my folks, I lived on top Of the North East Gas Board showrooms shop In a row of flats called Parkway Mews From which we had outstanding views Of...
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The Condemnation of Darkness
Hello darkness my old friend You're here to drive me round the bend As sultry summers meet their end You pounce upon my fear and send Me screaming...
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Devil Gate Drive
Between our village, Malki Chiflik, and our capital, Sofia, the road cuts its way through the Balkan range of mountains, assisted by several lofty...
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Mother Bulgaria
As Lenin looks down from his sombre pedestal Concrete erupts from a bleak landscape like The broken teeth of windswept peasants Drinking homemade...
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Betty Lewis Eyes
A teapot on a tray she brings. Digestive in each saucer. Horrific tales of war to tell But only if she’s forced to. She’s angelic, prim and ninety...
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Inverness
Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024
Sometimes when people waiting on tour buses have shouted at me to hurry up and get back on the tour bus I have taken great delight in stopping and taking a photograph of them and the bus. A photographer can always justify the need to take one...
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Your Cat Island sounds a bit
Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024
Your Cat Island sounds a bit like our house. Could all these beasts that beguile us in our kitchen every morning be the spirits of children we didn't know we had?
A good read Paul. I very much enjoyed it.
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Many thanks Ewan for the
Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024
Many thanks Ewan for the cherries and for the great comment.
I think if I was categorising myself I'd probably go for any old shite. It would be nice to be part of a niche market.
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Exhausting but rewarding for
Posted on Mon, 15 Jan 2024
Exhausting but rewarding for the farmer and the sheep. The need of a lamp to see it through adds to the atmosphere without revealing which age it might have been in. Your poem describes the event extremely well.
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Thanks very much for your
Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024
Thanks very much for your encouragement and support Di. The short answer to your question, I'm afraid, is that I can't be bothered.
Two things make me want to write. One is that younger generations of my family will have something to read...
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I admire you for taking a
Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024
I admire you for taking a crash course in Japanese (or was that just in the story?). A Chinese friend of mine here in Bulgaria tried to give me a crash course in Mandarin but in the end (well, after thirty minutes) my brain crashed.
Your...
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I love this bit...
Posted on Mon, 15 Jan 2024
I love this bit...
Heavy cloud in fashionable grey spread from horizon to horizon leaching the colour out of greens of any remaining foliage and reds of brickwork.
It contributes a lot to creating the scene.
And...
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It was the Farsi word for
Posted on Sun, 14 Jan 2024
It was the Farsi word for farcical that had me beaten.
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A terrible story, a sharp
Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2024
A terrible story, a sharp reminder and a well written poem.
Nice one Luigi!
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Optimism
Posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2024
There's a lot of hope in your well thought out words Paul.
I hope the hope comes true.
Good on you!
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