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No Go

By Ewan on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

Read "Bagpipe Music" for the first time in many years today. So I wrote this. That's no excuse you say, and you're absolutely right. Bagpipe Music is by Louis Macniece and the following isn't.

Miscellaneous

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Our Florida Trip

By skinner_jennifer on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

Dear diary...visiting Florida for the first time back in 1990 was an experience I'll never forget. We'd put our three cats into a cattery the day...

Autobiography

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Icar us

By stevepoet on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

I am here under your bla zing sun. Your heat still burns my skin and I imag ine your finger tips find ing paths along my arms, swooping over my...

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Cailleach

By Melkur on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

She is the last of her sisters standing, now. Once there were five, to face the major southern moonrise in alignment. The last of the standing stones...

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Compline

By Melkur on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

They were two walking shrouds, cleaning the altar. Their long white robes covered them head to foot, obscuring their faces, speaking of lives they...

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Bitter Blue

By Melkur on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

The edifice in the distance was unfinished. It rose as others fell. ‘What do you think?’ said Forsyth, sucking on his pipe. ‘What should I call it...

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Ice Cream Man

By well-wisher on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

I saw an Ice cream man. He drove an Ice cream van. It was a long, hot, sunny, Summer day. But then that van and man just like an ice cream can in the...

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El Perro (The Dog)

By nbeinn on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

El Perro felt as though he had dug every hole in Paradise. He doubted there was a hole in the world he had not dug. If it could be digged, he had dug...

Little People (Whimsical, Smurf-esque song)

By well-wisher on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

Chorus: I believe in little people 'cause I see them when I am so high above. Ho-ho-ho I believe in little people I believe that little people can...

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Testamant: arrival at luminace base.

By alphadog1 on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

The Jackson 09:45 S.E.T The sleek battle cruiser, came to a silent stop, above the tiny planetoid known as “Luminance base”. Its silver hull,...

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Baobhan Sith

By well-wisher on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

Five deep red horizontal lines upon white stillness surrounded by a darknesss I within a circle and a horseshoe; a golden sphere vertically rising...

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Clockwatching

By Kilb50 on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

Tick tock.

Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

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Two mornings

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

[first morning:] Veil of mizzle, myopic vision, hemmed in, dozy … oppressing, depressing. [next morning:] Shell-blue sky, all’s a-glitter … de-stressing.

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ANTICIPATION

By Linda Wigzell Cress on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

We-ve-all got a tale to tell - This is mine, so listen well. I laughed with joy, Ant-icipating That my beloved would be waiting By the gnarled old...

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Sliver Moon Haiku Set

By seannelson on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

Return I to clay in a 'tobacco halo'... all that might have been Pears pass for breakfast, and prayers and poems console the lost ghoulish hours

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Nature's warm heart

By TonyC25 on Mon, 12 Sep 2016

Visit wood or beach, nature's treasures are in reach Escape life's constant chatter Spy squirrels skittering up leafy trees, strutting robins fluting...

Nature

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Dust and Echoes/In the Immediate Distance - Chapter 2 (pt. 2)

By CacophonyofVoices on Mon, 12 Sep 2016

Luckily for Brandon Cailan, large and shady corporations attracted a cloud of young Bounty Hunters with very fast ships. Of course, there were always...

Science fiction