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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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Copse and Robbers
No Bulgar children, women or men Can recall the day exactly when They first strode into forested lands With an axe on a shoulder or a saw in a hand...
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The Friday Pazar in Gorna Oryahovitsa
Coffee imbibed, strong and black. Old men sit and talk and cough and hack Beneath a fig tree even older. Tobacco smoked, even stronger To blunt the...
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Take It or Leave It
I love to see the sun come up through early morning mist. I quite enjoy a pint or two without ever getting pissed. I like to walk around the town, my...
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Chocolate, Tobacco and Horse Muck
Each day, as the factory whistle blew at noon, he dashed leisurely home from work on his bicycle to have his dinner because dinner was always eaten...
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The Elves
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2024
I can never resist the tales of the raggle taggle gypsies or the faerie folk. Helplessly I'm drawn in by your words.
Great writing Jenny, as ever.
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Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Oh Paul, I was just about to book a flight to England to visit my kiddies and their kiddies but your skilled description of a dsytopian state has alerted dormant brain cells and saved me the £150 that Easyjet were asking for.
Apparently...
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Banitsa
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
I say this with all due respect to Alfred's views and personal opinions...
We can get croissants here in Bulgaria. We can also get baked beans, Yorkshire tea and cans of John Smith's bitter. But we don't want them. We are here to merge...
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It wasn't all grim
Posted on Sat, 27 Jul 2024
It wasn't all grim Di. I'm glad I did it but I'm also glad that I stopped when I did. Though in hindsight it was much harder readjusting to a life back on land than it had been to adjusting to a life on the ocean wave in the first place. I've got...
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A message from Priyatelkata to Alfred
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Priyatelkata (my partner) is French and, like her compatriots, she doesn't do things by halves. Our breakfasts at home to launch a day can be as impressive as an Olympic Games opening ceremony but without the dancers in their ridiculous costumes...
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Optimism
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Thanks L.
My optimism dwindles but will never disappear... that goes for Crado and for the state of the world.
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Water
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2024
feminine and nurturing
masculine force
good or bad
Birth or death... so many contrasting features but water is always part of us.
I love how your words emphasise the extent to which...
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Humans
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2024
Ah, right. The vast majority of my writing is autobiographical and I forget that other people's might not be. So I apologise for this oversight.
Observing human behaviour is something that I spend a lot of my time doing too, though the...
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The Parents
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2024
I get you!
We blame our parents but our parents blame their own parents,and so on. The best we can do is break the mould.
With a drawer full of Flintstones and Simpsons socks, I told my kids to scrap Fathers' Day.
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Annascaul
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2024
Oh, I just love it when I'm wandering Ireland and I bump into an unexpected memorial sculpture. Tom Krean in Annascaul's a great one but my favourite is the statue of Johnny Kilbane who was the World Featherweight Boxing Champion from 1912 to...
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