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Baby Love
Two new eyes Startled; staring out at An old world. Not knowing it's old. Two new lungs Taking their first gasps of air Breathed a million times...
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The Liberation of Stefan and Penka
We met in black and white. Four eyes peircing dirt and spiders‘ webs To escape their world behind the wood pile In the darkest corner of an ancient...
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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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Great words and great rhymes
Posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2024
Great words and great rhymes Rhiannon.
You got me singing...
I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band
Read full commentAnd seen a needle wink its eye
But I be done seen about everything
When I see an elephant fly
Posted in Extreme differences!
Get well soon!
Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024
Oh, no! Pneumonia! I'm really sorry to hear you've been so ill. It's nice to see you back though so I hope your health continues to improve. I had wondered but didn't like to pry.
The situation with our garden (along with our cars and our...
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Mystery
Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024
Oh I love it when I come across a mystery while I'm walking through deserted places. And isn't it always the work of the faerie folk? They're capable of anything, particularly sending our minds off in wild directions. When my Nan was alive. if...
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Maria of the Two Houses
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
It's really sad. There aren't many leaves on the trees and their aren't many birds around since the storm. It's very quiet in a garden normally filled with birdsong. I'm hoping they've gone somewhere else but I have some doubts about their...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
New shoots
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I regret that I find it impossible to justify or forgive Thatcher's actions. Too many destroyed businesses, broken homes, nervous breakdowns and suicides lay in her wake as well her damage to Britain's industry. Then there was her atrocious...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
I can't fathom it
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I can't fathom how she could live with herself at all. She brought so much misery.
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The same wavelength
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
Thatcher was an awful woman but at least she knew what she was doing.
What you have written matters a lot to me too. It's good to be on the same wavelength.
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Brave and brilliant
Posted on Tue, 18 Jun 2024
There's a lot of raw emotion in these words. Good on you for being able to express yourself so well in this brave and brilliant poem.
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Grand
Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024
William Butler Yeats is alive and well and living in Northampton!
Grand words Paul.
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Homeless
Posted on Mon, 10 Jun 2024
In Bulgaria (and in all countries that follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity) Easter fell on the first weekend in May this year so we were virtually guaranteed hot sunny days. Local boys Saints Cyril and Methodius like it that way.
Please...
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