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I have 3252 stories published in 19 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1560022 times and 67 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Paul McCann

I like writing songs and won first prize in the Billboard music song awards in 2008 for a song I co-wrote with Robert and Wendy O'Hearn .
The song is called Lost Sons Of Erin and is on a CD called Sonicarious by Robert O'Hearn .
I present and produce a radio program each week .
I have worked in aged care and community health since 2005 .
Soccer ,Writing Songs , Playing my guitar , Going to church , photography , Art ,Writing Plays and short stories ,

My stories

Backdrops Of Blue Gums ( A Rubai )

The Rubai (plural rubaiyat) is a quatrain rhyming sequence a-a-b-a- Edward Fitzgerald the great translator of Omar Khayyam wrote it in iambic pentameter .

The Leaving ( A Ballad )

Poetry structures have a set of rhyming patterns, metre, grammar and imagery.

The Wheel Of Life ( A Tanka )

The strength of poetry is having both the knowledge of structure and the ability to adapt these structures to create new forms .

The Guardian Angel Song ( A Pantoum )

Poetry is a disciplined expression of the written word and the use of structures provide the tools of trade of poetry writing.

Using Your Head (An Epigram)

A useful way of writing in a concise manner .

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