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Terence Mullan
The toothless old widow who sits beneath the pomegranate tree in the square confided in me, ‘Snow and ice in April will hurt the tender shoots of our hostas but they’ll return even stronger under the Balkan sunshine’s healing rays.’ The old man sitting beside her with a cigarette lodged neatly in one of the gaps in his front teeth casually added, ‘Hosta la vista, baby!’
My stories
Nellie the Devilment
How smiling eyes and a Derry accent can get you almost anything you want.
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Poking James MacGuigan’s Cow
This is an old bit of writing from the days when I was still nervous about farm animals. I’ve done a bit of the digital remastering because I was never really happy with it and I thought that while I was fiddling about I would change the subject from a pig to a cow, thus meeting the dictates of this week’s Inspiration Point. So you’d better read it because if you don’t I’ll set James MacGuigan on you.
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Trip of a Lifetime
A poem inspired by a terrible incident my partner and I witnessed on the four kilometre journey into our local town this morning.
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Scorn Not His Djezve
A tongue in cheek assessment of the misnomer that making good coffee is complicated.
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Water Under the Bridge
Crossing chasms to the past whilst not going out.
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Memories
Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024
Hello Jenny.
The first couple of lines of your poem brought to my mind Cher's song 'If I Could Turn Back Time' and the video that accompanied it, so I imagined you dancing around in your cozzie with two thousand American sailors on the...
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Resting places
Posted on Wed, 15 May 2024
Isn't it lovely to have a special place like this? A place to sit and unwind and take in the wonder of the things that surround us. I don't know if it's an age thing but these days whenever I plan a journey, either on foot or by other means, I...
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An unexpected adventure. It's
Posted on Mon, 13 May 2024
An unexpected adventure. It's funny how a satnav can make us braver. It's good to know where we are especially if it's not where we expected to be.
When I lived in Wiltshire and my kids all living in Greater Manchester and Lancashire were...
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Flying
Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024
Many of my dreams are about going back to work at one of the many jobs I've had in my life. Potentially nightmares but they seem to be happier than when I was there in real life.
Priyatelkata has built a website about dreams. She's no real...
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Behind flickering eyelids.
Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024
It's incredible the weird and wonderful places that dreams take us. Sometimes they take me to places I've been to in the past and sometimes they take me to places I've never been but which I've dreamed about in the past.
I wish there was...
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I too am a migrant
Posted on Sat, 04 May 2024
I too am a migrant
They soon let me in
See I have my visa
In the form of white skin
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Trees
Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2024
The most uplifting bit of human optimism I have ever witnessed was when I was in Madagascar and we visited a forest where baobab trees were growing. They had specimens that had been growing there for more than six hundred years. One tree, they...
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The David Bowie gig you went
Posted on Thu, 02 May 2024
The David Bowie gig you went to must have been amazing. He must have been doing his 'The Man Who Sold the World' sort of stuff which is a wonderful album deserving far more credit than it ever got. I don't know anyone else who ever saw him in...
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A poor tree in poetry
Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2024
I love trees and I know the upset that losing one can bring. We have a couple of very very old walnut trees which I love but always wonder if they will survive the next storm. If they were human they'd be in a home for the elderly.
So I...
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Brave
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024
We all have to be brave when she's working in the kitchen!
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