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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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It Being December
Dulled A mind follows a rainbow Seven shades of jet In hope to find A faerie shoemaker In wee black jacket and cap Tap-tapping at the soles Of...
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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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Walking free
Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025
It's nice to think that humans could walk as free as the untamed creatures. It takes a lot of bottle for us to turn our backs on the superficial trappings that deter us from it while for many there is no choice.
Strong words to describe a...
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Kirschkuchen
Posted on Mon, 31 Mar 2025
A few years back I was at the Olympiastadion where Hertha play. It's a fascinating place to visit even for those weirdos who don't like football as it oozes history and style. At first glance it looks like one of those modern all-concrete...
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Light Showers
Posted on Sun, 23 Mar 2025
Hello Jenny.
Since the destruction caused here by last summer's giant hailstones I'm all for the words of your poem, particularly the let light showers descend more slowly bit.
I'm sorry I didn't read this sooner. I've been...
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Mud
Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025
I'm sorry to hear that Di. In such situations the feeling of a loss if dignity is sometimes as hard to take as the pain. But well done the kind man and I'm glad you're feeling better now. And if it was only mud on his posh coat then surely it...
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Good health and life
Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025
Zdraveh ee zhivot (здраве и живот, meaning good health and life) is a phrase that Bulgarians use every day Jenny, in a sort of 'all the best' way. So I can see that you're into their way of thinking.
Priyatelka's back is fine now. I've...
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Things you see on a wall
Posted on Sun, 02 Mar 2025
Or leaving the piss, perhaps.
Ta very much Di.
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Bob
Posted on Sun, 02 Mar 2025
Hello Jenny.
The Bob Dylan film is excellent but I think it might be best appreciated by people who are already fans. Priyatelkata wasn't as thrilled with it as I was. However, a fan will spot a few inaccuracies (aka artistic licence) but...
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Car boot commodities
Posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2025
It is indeed a car boot sale commodity Rhiannon, apparently changing hands at three or four times the price of what it would cost in Asda. The immigrant Marmite runners understandably have to make it worth their while.
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Flimsy legs
Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025
If pond skaters took to drinking whey protein shakes they could become our planet's dominant species. I think it's worth a try.
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And without skates.
Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025
And without skates too, which is just as well because they'd struggle to fasten them up.
This is a great poem. And I like your choice of song too.
Nice one Jenny!
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