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Terence Mullan
Down the years I have lived in many places and I have done many jobs. Now I live in Bulgaria and the only work I do is tending to my lovely garden when the sun is shining and scribbling away in my big book of writing stuff when it is not.
I may have left it too late in life to become a famous writer or celebrated gardener but I will persevere anyway. These are the things that occupy me in a seemingly effortless and satisfying way.
My stories
Lady Danube
A photograph of a green wooden hut beside a river. But the river is none other than the River Danube (known locally as the Dunav / Дунав) taken on my phone a few days ago from near the town of Svishtov in Bulgaria, approximately 80 kms from where I live. I love watching rivers flow by but the might of the Danube (the second longest in Europe, after the Don) is extraordinary. Its beauty and the folklore and mythology that accompany it compelled me to write this poem.
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Poking James MacGuigan’s Pig
There have been many doors in my life, some real and some metaphorical, but on a quiet little farm in one of Ireland's beautiful Glens of Antrim, one in particular stood out and the memory of it will stay with me forever.
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I Fought the Law
Apart from having a wee behind a bin down a back alley in Middlesbrough when I was eight years old and a tiny bit of embezzlement around six years...
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A Hot Little Model from France
The kitchen took on the appearance of an overfilled Greetings from Murmansk snow globe as the door flew open and in gushed a torrent of winter’s...
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For Yer Women, the Women
All the year they scrub the homes From Skibbereen to Portglenone. They work their fingers to the bone, Afraid to pause to moan or groan. They milk...
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It's terrible that you and I
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
It's terrible that you and I can see what's happening and what needs to happen but world leaders can't.
Read full commentPosted in Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...
Good words and good thoughts
Posted on Tue, 19 Apr 2022
Good words and good thoughts Rhiannon. I can't for the life of me understand why people in the world don't seem to want to change their approach to hate and war.
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When I worked with elderly
Posted on Mon, 18 Apr 2022
When I worked with elderly people I often used to think I could tell as much about a person's life from their hands as I could from their face. Hands that when touched for a second or two would make an old face light up in an act that might be...
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Doing nothing makes it easier
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
Doing nothing makes it easier for the aggressor. Sending weapons will prolong the war and cause more death. And what we are watching is not the only war, it's just the most newsworthy one for the time being.
How can the world ever get out...
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Our lives are never as
Posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2022
Our lives are never as straightforward as we might wish them to be but they would not be as interesting and colourful if they were. We all need our prism to help us appreciate the wonders that surround us.
An excellent poem, I enjoyed it...
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Does blackbird care?
Posted on Thu, 14 Apr 2022
Does blackbird care?
I strongly suspect that the answer is no. All the birds are too busy at this time of year to think about what's going on in the world. I can't imagine that they spend as much time watching us as I do watching...
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Hello Rhiannon.
Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022
Hello Rhiannon.
I'm just back from a couple of weeks in England so I saw a lot of my two grandchildren. It was brilliant. I try to communicate with them via skype but nothing beats real life for picking up their characteristics and...
Read full commentPosted in When One Is One
Your lovely words brought out
Posted on Sun, 27 Feb 2022
Your lovely words brought out the empathy in me. I struggle on with my travelling though I'll never manage the great treks and cycle rides that took me all over the place as recently as ten years ago. Wanderlust these days, I find, is not...
Read full commentPosted in Brief Moments To Imagine
Beautiful words Rhiannon. I
Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022
Beautiful words Rhiannon. I love this.
We heralded our spring a while back but since that moment of heralding we've had a fortnight of snow. Ah well, we'll just have to herald it again when it's made it's vernal mind up.
Read full commentPosted in Warm welcome
Good words about a terrible
Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022
Good words about a terrible situation Paul.
I hope we see brick walls daubed in belief again soon.
I was interested to read about your son. I hope he keeps safe and well. Not all Russians are mad war-mongering dictators.
Good...
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