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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (3)

Part two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-2 Marie’s mother was standing at the front door as the car pulled up...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (2)

Part one at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-1 Marie Tudor was a single parent who needed to work to make ends meet...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (1)

Night sounds permeate woods, a nocturnal topography spot-lit silver by a diaphanous moon. Cumulus clouds drift silently, pregnant with seasonal...
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Cherry

The Fox and the Siamese

Life can be pure magic sometimes. The Fox and the Siamese Another rocket hit a building, a mushroom cloud billowing across my television screen,...
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Cherry

A Move to Bleadon Hill

A Move to Bleadon Hill Bleak factories billowing smoke, steel towers industrial sentinels amid seas of concrete and glass; all of this now salient -...
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I know nothing at all about

Posted on Wed, 28 Apr 2021

I know nothing at all about Tarkovsky. (I thought he was a right back for Everton) Super poem that makes me wanna look Tarkovsky's work up.

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Posted in Conversations About Tarkovsky in a Copenhagen Restaurant

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This charming tale of

Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2025

This charming tale of childhood imagination is today's Facebook, X/Twitter and BlueSky Pick of the Day.

Congratulations.

 

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Posted in Dobe Island; My Place in the Sun

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Most of us have been there

Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2024

Most of us have been there but how many have made it back intact?

This wonderful piece is today's Facebook and X/Twitter Pick of the Day.

I've added an image to promote your work on social media. Just let me know if you prefer to...

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Posted in Linkedin Island

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"Contentment is precious, at

Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2024

"Contentment is precious, at peace, with ‘enough’"

We live in a capitalist society where advertisments everywhere are designed to make you feel inadequate. It takes a long time to work out what's important. 'Having enough' is a great place...

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Posted in Never Enough?

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"...an acknowledged war hero

Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024

"...an acknowledged war hero and a humble witness all over the world, to the Saviour..."

A fine tribute to somebody I wasn't familiar with it until I read your poem. I looked up her details via the power of Google. It made very interesting...

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Posted in Remembering Corrie ten Boom

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"A billion trillion raindrops

Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024

"A billion trillion raindrops cling, shimmering to dark grey tracery of beech twigs, each tipped in a fine fawn point, holding the plans for a furl of zingy  green to emerge in April and set the woods afizz."

I was right there with you in...

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Posted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024

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That's another evocative read

Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2024

That's another evocative read. You capture the splendor and history of the sites you visited adroitly. I would say it's unusual for a group to bond so well like that. The tour I went on in India with about 30 or so other people was marred by many...

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Posted in The Gaddafi Effect

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"Is it too late

Posted on Tue, 15 Nov 2022

"Is it too late
to find a purpose …
even now?"

Enjoyed the juxtaposition of photos taken years apart. The question asked in the poem is one many ask themselves. Often the answer is no. A thought provoking piece, for sure. Paul

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Posted in Two Photographs, 30 years apart…

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Ach...it's all kamikaze stuff

Posted on Fri, 23 Sep 2022

Ach...it's all kamikaze stuff. The first moves of the new chancellor does seem to scream "trickle down economics" which, as we already know, doesn't/don't work. We are all party to a huge casino-style gamble with the country's finances. Strap...

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Posted in The State Of The Nation (A New Star Prime Minister Has Arrived!) by Alfred N.Muggins (political and social commentator!)

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Nicely done, Rhiannon. That

Posted on Tue, 19 Jul 2022

Nicely done, Rhiannon. That must have taken a lot of thought with the immaculate rhyming and rhythm. I certainly enjoyed reading it. You are a highly skilled poet. Paul 

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Posted in Any Hard Task

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