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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.
My stories
Betty Lewis Eyes
A teapot on a tray she brings. Digestive in each saucer. Horrific tales of war to tell But only if she’s forced to. She’s angelic, prim and ninety...
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Crucial Moves of Fantasy
Sit back and watch the sea above Where images of waves and whales and fish and ships Collide and slide and get mixed up Until it is a sea no more But...
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A Hot Afternoon in Malki Chiflik
Nothing moves. There is no breeze. No birds fly by in the cloudless sky. No creature has the will to disturb the cruel tranquillity. Not even bees...
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Frosty the Snowman
I was going to go out to the garden and build a snowman but then I remembered that I needed to put some fat on the cat’s abscess. I haven’t been...
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There's a lot of thinking
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024
There's a lot of thinking going on here, and wondering. Involuntary thinking, perhaps. I like the way the raindrops dictate the rhythm of your morning.
Read full commentPosted in New year
Very best wishes to you.
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024
Ah, 6th January... Women's Christmas in Ireland. I hope all goes well for you and Siobhán and you both have a great time then and long after.
It's good and brave of you to share your story, problems and personal thoughts with us here....
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If ever I form a punk band,
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
If ever I form a punk band, with your approval, I'll call it A Box Full of Kale.
I'm glad I was on the right track.
Flogging Molly are a great band, by the way. Here I'm still mourning the recent departure of Shane MacGowan.
Read full commentPosted in Smashing pumpkins
I’ll put a knobbly lorry
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
I’ll put a knobbly lorry under me in bed …
An effective measure but maybe a bit drastic. I'd have probably gone for a couple of bits of Lego.
Nice poem Rhiannon... entertaining and amusing.
Read full commentPosted in “This night I will …”
Having formerly lived in
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
Having formerly lived in Wiltshire for many a moon, I would have calculated from your words that you had set this poem in that part of the world, even if you hadn't told me.
Superstition, antiquity and mystery; this is the stuff of the...
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Chez Ó Maoláin
Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023
Yes thank you Di. All is rosy at the moment chez Ó Maoláin.
I hope you are fit and well yourself and you got your son and his illness and his sick note sorted out.
Read full commentPosted in Lingo Bingo
Fiction, yes, but more
Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023
Fiction, yes, but more believable than what some people claim to be the truth.
Nice one Paul. Very enjoyable.
Read full commentPosted in The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris
Sorry won’t be enough...
Posted on Tue, 26 Dec 2023
Sorry won’t be enough... exactly!
Their thoughts and prayers worth even less..
Read full commentPosted in Even Croesus Had To Sleep
Snake belts...
Posted on Thu, 21 Dec 2023
I'm often told that I write like an eight-and-a-half-year-old. And I did indeed have a snake belt, but I didn't tell anyone because they were considered sinful.
Many thanks indeed Ewan. I'm delighted.
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Nice words Paul. Good on you!
Posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2023
Nice words Paul.
Good on you!
Read full commentPosted in By the Candelight of Saints
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