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Sophie…Her History in Short Lines.
My name is Sophie…I doubtthat you’ll have heard of me.I grew no beard you see…I wore ...
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Plastic Gloves.
We peel them from our handsso carefully,And then discard of themIncautiously.
We bin them here and there.with no ideaof what ...
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This poignant little study hits the mood.It’s lovely…but it’s also capturesCovid gloom. Those roses look Pandemic…evil grin.The leaves are wilting ...
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Piet Mondrian: Born1872 in the Netherlands. Died 1944 in New York.
1892: After a strict Protestant upbringing, Mondrian studied art in ...
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On Leaving Northcote, N.Z. for Ireland….Age 11.A Short Story in Short Lines.
Lying in that creaking Rathgar bed beside those dusty ...
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Soufflé
The days, the weeks,The months have passed,and still the Irish Sea is there,Growling before my very eyes.
We hear about aGreat ...
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My family.I was not the same as them.I was not the same.
I had green eyes…lean limbsand I could jump and ...
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My Bed.
My bed was long and narrow,Made of wood.My room was small and cold.No heating then…Three blankets, patched up sheets,and ...
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My Back Yard :
When Autumn comes...applesfall from trees.They called it gravity...but...we All KNEW this before Science had a name.Why credit ...
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What A Day For a DaydreamThat… Marriage of Figaro to Carmen was.
Everyone was there.Maria. The Sultan of Swing,Jolene,Rigoletto , Delilah. ...
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Love Poem..not Keats. but Jack.
I’m sitting here picking my teeth,And thinking of you.I’m sitting here scratching my crotch.And thinking of ...
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InvictusWilliam Ernest Henley - 1849-1903
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, ...
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In a Sea of Green….I dream of Saving Elephants,Orangutan, Giraffe.
‘Your garden with its trees and leavesbears down too heavily.I feel ...
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I loved that small womanin the hills…By ‘loved’…I meanthat she enlightened me.By ‘small’ I mean her bones…And not her luminance.
I ...
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Covid19
That’s it….the lock is on the gate.The bird is on the wing butwe are not.The rules are strict…The message now ...
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The Black and Tans(later with a sprinkling of impoverished Irish men.)
The Black and Tans..Those economic migrantsfrom a hostile land….
That brutal ...
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ArcadiaThe Fall of (sir) Phillip Green’s Empire
Mr Green is in the Red. The Fates have cornered him,With vengeful piety..they calledCircle ...
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Amazing Grace
1984:I walked into the little haven,White walls and hanging vine.A furry coil of sleeping cat,Where the canary sang .
Another ...
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A Year of Covid19.
Empty vessels make most sound…and boy are we inundatedwith the blundering tomfoolery by the likes of Boris ...
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A Journey of the Mind.
From the foothills of the Fragrant Slopes,Far from the algorithmsand the data governing me,I journey on ...
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I've no bus
I've no bus to catch today.No cab to hail. No time to keep.
Nothing to do at all.
Nowhere to ...