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Overthinking.
Overthinking. Each month of every year is holiday time. For me, that is no exception. Unlike everyone else, my holiday is different. I go on holiday...
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An ABC… Tale
ABCtales … ('X' yesterday zapped!) ie alphabetical string of words. ( This is a taking up of Gloskat's challenge: https://www.abctales.com/blog/gloskat/alphabet-you-can%E2%80%99t )
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oh near is the sea!
nearer the sea stronger the stream stronger the stream bolder the dream closer the dunes, pale the moon gleams oh loud is the surf great is the joy!...
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Long ago Thoughts
Breathing 3am air, the streets showed hidden secrets as we combed the low walls, initials were carved with no real value, and full moon failed to...
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Kindness from those around us
Kindness from those around us We were attending a production of Agatha Christie’s “Mousetrap,” at the Gulfshore Theater in Naples, with friends Mike...
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The Matchmaker
It's the late seventies, it's the summer, we are young and working hard at having fun and falling in love
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Silences
I don't post a poems for ages then like buses two come along at once . Image is courtesy of Mariusz Rutkowski from Wikimedia Commons
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Noises Off
Image is courtesy of Tom Franz from Wikimedia Commons
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Ghigau 24
24. Monday 17th Lenny set off for the office just after midday. The once lush-green parks had turned the colour of straw, their ancient trees...
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Share It With The Universe
Share It With The Universe By Paul McCann Somewhere out on the sea , is a horizon that swallows the moon. Don’t try to swallow all the ocean , take...
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Whipping Post
There are times when you should drive without music to become intimate with the noises of your vehicle, to recognize when it, as mama and sissy say “...
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Rehearsel
I found a bone in the yard last week that fit my hand too well. I told myself: coincidence. I told myself: the world is full of things shaped like us...
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Some sun in the morning
It had rained all week, but this morning I could see it coming through the gaps between the panels of the blinds. And sure enough, out the window...
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Alphabet You Can’t. suggested by GlosKat
Alphabet You Can’t. A…baby…cried dinner…eat…food gobble…hiccup…indigestion jaded…kindly…loving mummy…nappy…ok possets…quietly…runs stumbles…tumbles…...
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Urmston.
Urmston. She united us. She who has known me all my life. I had never heard of Your name, or anything about You, until She was ill. I thought You...
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Voice From The Pavement
Voice From The Pavement By Paul McCann A songwriter is like someone who observes life from the pavement and tells the world what he can see, I feel...
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Silent Partners
When silence is louder than the commotion of life. Like all new ventures it set off well both partners keen to make the grade by driving the spade...
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Bron-11
Continued from Chapter 10: Bron-10 | ABCtales Chapter 11 Chris reached down and switched off the VCR. He breathed out, in the manner of someone...
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Consented Trauma
The start and the end were clear to see, the situation supposedly familiar; in that, peace is found. The journey through however, the details hazy;...
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Snap Decision
I find her reading glasses on the counter where she always left them, beside the bowl she used for keys she never found again. I find the knife she...
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