Turlough
Primary tabs
I have 240 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 986189 times
and 342 of my stories have been cherry picked.
992 of my 3,431 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1076 votes
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
It Being December
Dulled A mind follows a rainbow Seven shades of jet In hope to find A faerie shoemaker In wee black jacket and cap Tap-tapping at the soles Of...
- Read more about It Being December
- 15 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4378 reads
Hotel Mediterraneo
Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
- Read more about Hotel Mediterraneo
- 9 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3410 reads
Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon
Caught in a lull between two storms, I’m stuck in an uneasy stay-in-the-house kind of frame of mind, reluctant to open the back door even though the...
- Read more about Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon
- 15 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4104 reads
Take It or Leave It (with music video)
I first posted this poem on the ABCTales website in November, during the week when our Inspiration Point was ambivalence. Please forgive me if you...
- Read more about Take It or Leave It (with music video)
- 14 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4495 reads
Copse and Robbers
No Bulgar children, women or men Can recall the day exactly when They first strode into forested lands With an axe on a shoulder or a saw in a hand...
- Read more about Copse and Robbers
- 23 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 21420 reads
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.
Read full commentPosted in Sean Happens 14
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...
Read full commentPosted in Explained.
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...
Read full commentPosted in Rain at the Forest Cafe
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...
Read full commentPosted in Extract!
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...
Read full commentPosted in Holding Onto My Desires And Dreams
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...
Read full commentPosted in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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...
Read full commentPosted in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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...
Read full commentPosted in Juke Box Jive
Embarrassing
Posted on Fri, 05 Jul 2024
Priyatelkata is half Algerian. She will haggle over the number of corn flakes in her breakfast bowl.
In market situations I feel half proud and half embarrassed. When I try to haggle she just laughs.
Read full commentPosted in My Döner and Chide
Pages