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Terence Mullan
I shaved my head again today. I shave it every couple of months to disguise the fact that I’m going bald.
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The Vigorous Fig
But how did you get there? That’s got me perplexed. Oh the wonders of nature, and whatever next?
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Mucky Maureen
A fine poet once wrote… Sometimes we’d go to the Derrisford caff For a bottle of Coke and a bit of a laugh. We’d waste so many afternoons In the...
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Rediscovering Holes
This is a poem I wrote some time ago. Fifty-two years ago to be more precise. I rediscovered it the other day whilst searching in the loft for my...
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Rakia Maria – Part Two of Two
So I said to Priyatelkata ‘Isn’t it lovely?’ and she replied ‘Yes! It’s very lovely.’ Maria added, ‘Life and health!’ in Bulgarian, of course. What...
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Rakia Maria - Part One of Two
I love the month of March in Bulgaria. It heralds the beginning of a four-month long explosion of nature straight off the back of the iciest winters...
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Take Splat!
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
I'm already on it CM. Living in Bulgaria insects, arachnids, isopods and arthropods have become my speciality. I may have even caught crabs from time to time.
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Glaswegians Chapter 3 Verse 8
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
Mmmmh, now that's a good point IPFN. I lived in Glasgow for a large chunk of 1978 and I don't remember seeing a wasp. There were, however, a great number of people turning wine into water.
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That's disappointment!
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
We (Bulgaria) didn't qualify but twelve of our East European neighbours did. That's an unprecedented 50% of the line up for the tournament's finals in Germany. I was convinced that at least one of them would do well. Golden old boy Luka Modrić in...
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Rasputin
Posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2024
Archaic verse from the East tells us this...
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago. He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow. Most people looked at him with terror and with fear but to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely...
Read full commentPosted in Pearly Gates : A Tour of Russia’s Hell by Alfred N.Muggins Part 3
From the depths of a coffee cup
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024
Scenes from the depths of a coffee cup. It's incredible how a world, or even a universe, can be encapsulated in such a still and silent space.
Your words have made me think back to times when I have looked at clouds, waves, trees, cobwebs...
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String
Posted on Thu, 11 Jul 2024
I'm really sorry to hear about your dental ordeal but pleased that you weren't so traumatised that you were unable to write your poem about it.
For future reference a bottle of rough whiskey, a piece of string and a door handle is a much...
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The Swingin' Seventies
Posted on Thu, 11 Jul 2024
Dear Jenny.
I hope you find happy and rewarding times in your seventies. Save a place for me. I'll be in them soon, possibly accompanied by some travelling gypsies.
And whenever it was, I hope you had a lovely time on your birthday...
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Pagan Orange
Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2024
Thanks Paul. Yes I saw it. It brought outrage to the world and his pagan god. A very ill-mannered thing to do but it was only a bit of orange coloured cornflour and I'm sure the dear old henge has known far worse. The stunt gained a lot of...
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Just Stop Many Things
Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2024
I'd say that Just Stop Plastic and Bombs and Rockets Whilst Significantly Reducing the Number of Internal Combustion Engines would be a better name for a pressure group. We need oil for our chip pans and massage parlours.
It's...
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Blood on the Tracks
Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024
Bob Dylan has highs and a few lows for me but Blood on the Tracks is the ultimate high and on which Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts really stands out. It's one of those got-to-listen-twice songs.
Long time ago when...
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