celticman
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grimms6
Light shimmered and shed its hat of cloud and shadows. Snowfall drifted down setting the world to white. Our street was smaller and larger,...
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Grimms5
Most folk in a room and kitchen round about here envy us, because there is only me and Da. I guess even Pizza Face, if he ever thought about anything...
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Grimms4
Pizza Face ducked his head down when he took a drag on a fag and hid it behind his leg when he wasn’t smoking. He’d stolen a dout, almost a full...
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the three wise men + one
I was coming back from the Dropp Inn and I met the three wise men, standing in the lane outside The Tasty Spot , at the fence, broken glass at their...
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A gift at Christmas
Years ago, when Christmas was still Christmas and I was just a wee boy stuck in my room in the attic because of the asthma, and everything else that...
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alter's head. is that a play
Posted on Fri, 18 Jun 2021
alter's head. is that a play on words or do you mean altar? Both works, but in different ways. Enjoyed.
Read full commentPosted in A Feast of Bells
Yes, we are all in flux.
Posted on Tue, 15 Jun 2021
Yes, we are all in flux.
Read full commentPosted in Cherry Tree
a loud whiisper is an
Posted on Fri, 04 Jun 2021
a loud whiisper is an oxymoron. But I know what you mean. Choose whiisper or loud. Not both.
moonlight doesn't trickle.
great start, plenty of foot-to-the-floor action. And the question of what they needed to steal and why remains...
Read full commentPosted in Don't Look Back
Blade Runner was certainly
Posted on Tue, 01 Jun 2021
Blade Runner was certainly better than the book. They tended to be prescient, but shit. Brought up o a diet of Star Trek, this is one of the great monolgues (not in the book). I'm rambling. Great poem.
Read full commentPosted in Roy Batty (Tears in Rain)
a happily unhappy story with
Posted on Sat, 29 May 2021
a happily unhappy story with an unhappy ending. Here's were we say, older and wiser, but life as you've shown is rarely that simple.
Read full commentPosted in The one that got away
bowl of fruit analogy works
Posted on Fri, 28 May 2021
bowl of fruit analogy works well.
Read full commentPosted in Alternatives
if we get the truth, then
Posted on Thu, 27 May 2021
if we get the truth, then that's win-win. Certainly doesn't happen in politics, but maybe in cat patrol.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 10
you gave me the jitters. I
Posted on Tue, 25 May 2021
you gave me the jitters. I thought Trump was back, no longer barred from Facebook and Twitter and returning to the land of his mom's birth. Thank god it's fiction.
Read full commentPosted in The Sure Yank Redemption
I'm never sure when a poem's
Posted on Mon, 24 May 2021
I'm never sure when a poem's a poem, but as an elegy to the past- yeh, love it.
Read full commentPosted in When We Were Young
it's funny who we are is what
Posted on Thu, 13 May 2021
it's funny who we are is what we are, your mum in bloom as a flower lover.
Read full commentPosted in Capturing Garden Memories
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