tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31396960843922726222024-03-14T11:48:53.629+00:00HyperCRYPTICalhyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.comBlogger394125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-30810346640788619962021-11-19T12:20:00.001+00:002021-11-19T12:33:10.193+00:00Small Print<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVRavq5xJjXar0c7DtHJWXmlLErRNTVX8nMmlrH7XMmR3c3JMYP7Irbgoo5ZecX1ueG-SS9fUMxMZKWj2pPT6vG2ax3Lcmsbd29hZUyYmHkiWCeBAFn9jdwUY4KcG4hnjaTRHVmjtASMa/s800/Falnau.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVRavq5xJjXar0c7DtHJWXmlLErRNTVX8nMmlrH7XMmR3c3JMYP7Irbgoo5ZecX1ueG-SS9fUMxMZKWj2pPT6vG2ax3Lcmsbd29hZUyYmHkiWCeBAFn9jdwUY4KcG4hnjaTRHVmjtASMa/s320/Falnau.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">Look at the small print,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">look at it just look at it. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">No need to read</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">between the lines,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">it is there in black and white.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">Addendum to diary entry:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 8pt;">I love him I love him I love him!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 8pt;">I am so tiny tiny tiny</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">Why can’t I think </span><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">big?</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">Why can’t I say:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">I love you I love you I love you.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 8pt;">I am so tiny tiny tiny.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">Oh if only I could sprout</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">the wings of a bird</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">I would fly to him,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">fly to him</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">and gather him in my skirts.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">Say: See here,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">look at the small print: </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 8pt;">I love him I love him I love him!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">Instead: </span><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 8pt;">I am tiny tiny
tiny.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">I have the wings of a moth</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">forever searching for the moon…</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""\"Liberation Sans Narrow\""" style="font-size: 10pt;">Anna :o]</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">An oldie, resurrected.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I still have writers block –
although that is probably untrue.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I have
become idle and no longer attempt.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
have slipped into lethargy and my creative juices have dried up/evaporated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">That said, in the past year I
have been inspired to write once, sad words, and although done, I am not quite
ready to publish yet.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I think I probably
will early next year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the interim I will
endeavour to visit here often, become inspired by the prompts and finally write
(regularly) again.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Shared with </span><a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/11/friday-writings-3-different.html" style="font-size: 11pt;">Poets & Storytellers United</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, hosted by the lovely Rosemary - cheers Rosemary!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Image:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Courtesy of </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Falnau.jpg" style="font-size: 11pt;">Wikimedia Commons</a></p><p>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Photographer: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kookaburra_81" title="User:Kookaburra 81"><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #faa700; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pierre Dalous</span></a></span></p>hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-62239383887155454642021-02-14T08:48:00.001+00:002021-02-14T08:48:49.598+00:00Orca<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfyJ8S-6IdOLk_4f2enhpMw9aqnHxkTv-nnk1ucM61iqiN2UsH2Ud7X_EQT83olMkbwOZeKlLHUGy726KjaDjnhjj-NyHomvni1mY3uXtPZKjND8yWQCPqGP5TpGDAfysVmsiUb-R4DAHV/s1024/Orca.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfyJ8S-6IdOLk_4f2enhpMw9aqnHxkTv-nnk1ucM61iqiN2UsH2Ud7X_EQT83olMkbwOZeKlLHUGy726KjaDjnhjj-NyHomvni1mY3uXtPZKjND8yWQCPqGP5TpGDAfysVmsiUb-R4DAHV/s320/Orca.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Flashing crashing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">through the waves <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">striking diving <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">into the deep <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">great and wonderful <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the orca whale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jamie (aged five)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxAUYvSkBPFXOINmq407rZUWaDN-Q6BYZ5DYihdC-XHgrIge0EmIHVSd33jSfMtvizto15jzdSgnP2mYrCnK5wfkZ3zjZ-b3ZQsK-I6pIH3SS77cUEjBczlA_vOFnlLZZ0oomI8q-056fE/s1599/WhatsApp+Image+2021-02-11+at+13.13.47.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1599" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxAUYvSkBPFXOINmq407rZUWaDN-Q6BYZ5DYihdC-XHgrIge0EmIHVSd33jSfMtvizto15jzdSgnP2mYrCnK5wfkZ3zjZ-b3ZQsK-I6pIH3SS77cUEjBczlA_vOFnlLZZ0oomI8q-056fE/s320/WhatsApp+Image+2021-02-11+at+13.13.47.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As I am still suffering from a severe case of writers block,
my lovely grandson Jamie has stepped up to fill the void.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Thursday, his teacher sent him a picture of an orca whale
and asked him to write a poem about it and above is the wonderful result! Well done Jamie!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I asked Jamie if I could post his poem here, and thrilled he
said “Yes!”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Jamie and a big Hello to my other lovely grandson and your lovely brother Theo!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shared with good folk at <a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/02/writers-pantry-57-infinite-variety.html">P&SU's Poetry Pantry</a>, hosted by the lovely Rosemary –
cheers Rosemary!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Image:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Courtesy of
Flickr <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/58004707@N08/14085261476" target="_blank">"Orca
Roll"</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/58004707@N08" target="_blank">Matthew_Allen</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 2.0</a></p><br /><p></p>hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-22265288599576236722021-01-31T12:24:00.002+00:002021-01-31T12:35:20.437+00:003 Across (cryptic)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxcyMy0QcAd748Hfofq-rOzHA6qhh2hNloMgxmyZXcSYolIM2im4qn-U7vnTY2_FRboMc75XqXV35o8cnMeX1vW6b2cTFYC791e5AX_tEFaByHIrqnW_8NAf9VZxNl6S5Tx60DKucVywkT/s600/Anxiety.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxcyMy0QcAd748Hfofq-rOzHA6qhh2hNloMgxmyZXcSYolIM2im4qn-U7vnTY2_FRboMc75XqXV35o8cnMeX1vW6b2cTFYC791e5AX_tEFaByHIrqnW_8NAf9VZxNl6S5Tx60DKucVywkT/w400-h265/Anxiety.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have paper </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">weighted down by coffee cup </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as autumn winds </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">seem intent on catching it, lifting it, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">giving it the gift of flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am stuck on 3 across</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(and will marvel at its genius </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">when it finally falls-into-place) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and then I see him (all screwed up) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">peripheral</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and wonder what demons he does battle with.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A wasp alights to feed on sugar </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">blown by breeze to strew the table, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am not frightened of it, of its sting – </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">my fears lay elsewhere (lay with him). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Will he leave or not? <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My fear is that he might stay… </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(I am still stuck on 3 across.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(I marvel at it (the wasp) – tiny, perfect,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">life compact in black and yellow skin.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He unsettles me, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">something I-cannot-quite-put-my-finger-on.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is angst communicable ‘cross café tables?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He lights a cigarette, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">takes one puff of it </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">then snaps it, throws it to the ground.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With anguished moan he lights another </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and sucks at it, sucks at it as if there is no </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">tomorrow.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He has that leg thing, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">right leg jerks up and down </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">causing chair to rattle. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He groans as he wraps head in hands. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A backfiring car elicits </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">startled wide-eyed response, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he panics, half screams, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">slams fists down heavy, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">shattering plate and peace.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He sees them (and me) voyeuring, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">shouts “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What the f**ck
you looking at?”<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">stands, upturns chair and table </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and with one loud “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">F**K
YOU!</i>”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">storms off into his private hell.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(I am still stuck on 3 across.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anna :o]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Having (hopefully) temporary writers block (again), I have
dredged up an oldie and tweaked it a little.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a true story.
I worked nights for years and after my final shift, I would meet my
friend most Wednesday mornings for breakfast and then go shopping, even if
mostly window shopping and then often go to another café for a mid-day meal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The words are an account of what I viewed whilst sitting at a
pavement table, while doing a cryptic crossword as I awaited the arrival of my
friend. I love cryptic crosswords. If memory serves me well, I wasn’t stuck on 3
across, but whichever it was, it didn’t have the right ring to it, so 3 across it
became.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shared with the good folk at <a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/01/writers-pantry-55-dance-break.html">PSU Writers' Pantry # 55</a>, hosted by the lovely
Rommy, cheers Rommy!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Image: Courtesy of
Flickr <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66814335@N00/3241975525" target="_blank">"Do we have enough clothes?? Is our house safe?? Is it
difficult to change diapers?? Will I ever sleep the next 18 years???"</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66814335@N00" target="_blank">zetson</a> is
licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich" target="_blank">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a></p>hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-14584447915297682812021-01-21T21:05:00.001+00:002021-01-24T10:54:39.568+00:00The Significance of Birds<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvCNxdpCRxX9zGMQXiBRAyPGK_KPRmElzLu7Ep3VaMmg1hQjpql4JGdQk8jbOufS9pYx_yMwAvEq0Ua4eiZPZvj62dN9-ZfKhpbR-Qp2ppDIiw_muXHCwVsVrcTzBRAVaWerl5F4VbjBBY/s1024/rows.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvCNxdpCRxX9zGMQXiBRAyPGK_KPRmElzLu7Ep3VaMmg1hQjpql4JGdQk8jbOufS9pYx_yMwAvEq0Ua4eiZPZvj62dN9-ZfKhpbR-Qp2ppDIiw_muXHCwVsVrcTzBRAVaWerl5F4VbjBBY/w400-h300/rows.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Death comes in threes </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">she says solemnly as if somehow</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">mere utterance of these words </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">will cause the Sword of Damocles </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to hang teetering, teetering over the head </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of some soon-to-be-dead<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unfortunate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We do Last Offices; </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">lay him on the purest whitest sheet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">First stage (Clinical), </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">turn him and he groans </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as last air expels from lungs </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and watch horrified </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as blood spills in rivers through his lips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Can you now understand
my pain?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">his dead body asks.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We lay him prostrate </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as if in reverence to his God </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and cleanse all that is corporeal, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">gently pull his legs apart </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and place padded pants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh the indignity of
death <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">his dead body oozes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Second Stage (Aesthetics), </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he now supine, gazes </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">with unseeing eyes </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as we again wash away his life, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">trim brows and beard, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">anoint him with essential oils, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">dress him in his Sunday best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am at rest now </i>his
dead body whispers, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am ready </i>and we
usher in his family, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">leave them to their grieving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My best friend wants me to lay her out I say </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as we both drained, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">clutch at warming coffee cups.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Y’know she says<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">on my way into work today </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">there were magpies, four strutting confident. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Four for death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do you think…?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just as I mean to tell her she is stupid </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I see crow and catch my breath </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as he tap tap taps upon the window.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Caw, caw, caw(pse) he advises </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as he views me with his beady eyes, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and one not prone to superstition, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">nevertheless, a chill shivers down my spine.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anna :o]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An oldie shared with the good folk at <a href="https://dversepoets.com/2021/01/21/open-link-282-live-edition/">dVerse OLN</a>, hosted by the lovely Sanaa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cheers Sanaa!</p><p class="MsoNormal">Also shared at <a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/01/writers-pantry-54-new-dawn.html">PSU's Poetry Pantry</a> hosted by the lovely Rosemary. Cheers Rosemary!</p><p class="MsoNormal">Image:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Courtesy of Flickr
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/80992738@N00/3854908879" target="_blank">"Crows"</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/80992738@N00" target="_blank">In Memoriam:
Mr. Ducke</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 2.0</a></p><br /></div>hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-17558397277364608282021-01-01T21:47:00.000+00:002021-01-01T21:47:49.415+00:00Fox: Winter Feasts<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu7E7OhL8322Yi_CqIP5Sja7S4Gfs2BUlf3ED9JsvmKl8nqiV06U1KKV5ww2XctF6BNDq9NeN7kUIkaq_mWc0p1gxiS6tmYaBRbeQD6nRRIN9GVYr7d5VLOEhRmo8e6auZG5vM3o2YMIz6/s1024/Winter+Feasts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu7E7OhL8322Yi_CqIP5Sja7S4Gfs2BUlf3ED9JsvmKl8nqiV06U1KKV5ww2XctF6BNDq9NeN7kUIkaq_mWc0p1gxiS6tmYaBRbeQD6nRRIN9GVYr7d5VLOEhRmo8e6auZG5vM3o2YMIz6/w400-h225/Winter+Feasts.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Stripped bare </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by autumn’s theft, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">skeletal now, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">her frigid branches </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ache </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to touch the warmth </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of rising Sol.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dormouse, dormant, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">curled deep in winters sleep, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">scratched out </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by Hungry Fox -</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">opportunist he, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he watches, waiting</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as Redbreast bobs</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">through evergreen </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">bearing seasons berries.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And she, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">distracted </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by her luscious feast </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of rich red rubies, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">becomes easy fare, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">feathers </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">on his winter table.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anna :o]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An oldie, extracted from the tomb of the long-ago written
and almost forgotten, as tis the season...</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wishing all a Happy New Year - it has to better than last
year, hasn’t it?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shared at <a href="https://earthweal.com/2021/01/01/earthweal-open-link-weekend-51/">earthweal open link weekend #51</a> hosted by Brendan –
cheers Brendan!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Image: Courtesy of Flickr</p>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Author: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/62586117@N05/8489778095" target="_blank">"Misty
Morning Sunrise."</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/62586117@N05" target="_blank">Neil. Moralee</a> is
licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich" target="_blank">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a></span></div>hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-61276974951365179492020-12-06T09:34:00.001+00:002020-12-06T09:38:36.746+00:00Storm Brewing<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZCwqjNdIOA-NnJY9ITG7haoj40L2M2EdE2lxKWH3hdC3dNtU0f1aIFcm_jsdsUDJYW8YRBsUh1nTSELzHoa7BsmMpW-Ygj18OXTvxYuBbj0EpNoyg9uQiSOKItzh6wngvWaoiqodMF1X/s500/Storm+brewing.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZCwqjNdIOA-NnJY9ITG7haoj40L2M2EdE2lxKWH3hdC3dNtU0f1aIFcm_jsdsUDJYW8YRBsUh1nTSELzHoa7BsmMpW-Ygj18OXTvxYuBbj0EpNoyg9uQiSOKItzh6wngvWaoiqodMF1X/w200-h200/Storm+brewing.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">Rain streams </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in never-ending rivulets, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">blurs </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">obscures vision.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The unremitting </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">rhythmic wurr </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wurr </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wurr </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of wiper-blades </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">irritates, marks time </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as you sit behind the wheel </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">fix-gazed on anything but me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is an oft travelled road, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I anticipate the coming storm,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">sense the thunder, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">wonder what will precipitate </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the squall.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I watch the blades </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">raise the tempo </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as they swish to and fro, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">aggravate existing fury, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">heavens darken, heighten fear </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and you glance at me hate-faced </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and I know the time is near –</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">tis not only skies that will blacken.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Anna :o]</p><p class="MsoNormal">Shared with the wonderful folk at <a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/12/writers-pantry-49-get-your-binge-on.html">P&SU Writers Pantry #45</a>,
hosted by the lovely Rommy – cheers Rommy!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Image: Courtesy of
Flickr Creative Commons.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Author:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/25925838@N00/16186769553" style="font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">"Bad
sky, wet road. #Traffic #rain #ColumbusOhio"</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/25925838@N00" style="font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">Howard TJ</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is
licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich" style="font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 2.0</a></p><p></p>hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-33210824668301754032020-11-12T09:04:00.001+00:002020-11-12T20:20:13.118+00:00Mad<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gyff2HcloF66lDhReanLQPX2phGWe-gYbrQeJDdXMnydAUA7vxgNci1oyZBQJkvoBrYZA2nc8RrilYdSX8cQEdytCflG3u2RIqItGgK77qHL1QZAEShAfPycwxU39iaGz84iobH-32wp/s1600/Carnival+Dreams+-+Shelle+Kennedy.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1134" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gyff2HcloF66lDhReanLQPX2phGWe-gYbrQeJDdXMnydAUA7vxgNci1oyZBQJkvoBrYZA2nc8RrilYdSX8cQEdytCflG3u2RIqItGgK77qHL1QZAEShAfPycwxU39iaGz84iobH-32wp/w142-h200/Carnival+Dreams+-+Shelle+Kennedy.jpg" width="142" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">She has cut it out, her
heart. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">She has stitched it together,
it was broken. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is now tethered to her
wrist by a string. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It floats. It beats.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is… (cold (it is as frigid as ice))<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“Beautiful, YOU are” he says
as he lies down beside her <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(it’s not <i>the</i> <i>he,
</i>the heartless heartbreaker <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">but some unfortunate sap who just
doesn’t get <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that he’s plain out of his luck.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He will die, this is certain,
for the sins of <i>the other, <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the absentee lover who left
her dejected rejected <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">that broke up her heart <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">She allows him to take her. He takes her <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and heightened with passion she brings the knife down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">She roughly rolls him aside and
he pleads with her quietly, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">quiet quizzical Whys(?)
filling his emptying eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">His lights have gone out –
she feels both loss and elation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">She gathers her senses,
carves out his heart, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">flash fries it (in butter), then
consumes it with gusto<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">with relish and tatties,
fried onions and peas. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Yum! Yum!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">She smiles…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One down and countless to go!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hoorah! Hoorah!
Hoorah!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anna :o]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Just in case you’re worried,
I love men, well most men, but I don’t love all women either (except in pies…).</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Words for the lovely Magaly
who is hosting <a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/11/weekly-scribblings-45-artistic.html">P&SU Weekly Scribblings#45: Artistic Interpretations</a> and
whose inspirational prompts are of three images. (I have used two and the image above is “Carnival
Dreams”, by <a href="http://sunshineshelles.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shelle
Kennedy</a>. The words “Beautiful YOU
are” re “Beautiful, YOU are”, by <a href="https://magiclovecrow.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Magic Love Crow</a>)</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Also shared with the good folk at <a href="https://dversepoets.com/2020/11/12/open-link-night-278-rejoice/">dVerse Open Link Night</a> hosted by the lovely Linda. Cheers Linda!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p></p>hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-80165769241058296652020-11-06T10:48:00.000+00:002020-11-06T10:48:34.783+00:00Peas<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFY9OZzpfjmefJXukJH0ZemVIV3Zzo_6XBVE59Z08pNeNI0GjbONQuTbamKnnHjrzc2OcWfcq_FZCixHhGuHr78sYOqZbiXW1FVEHUajN2lMjdpJoIwud9MkHdrO2hDfYM_hUtiRNA773s/s150/50054239717_b672db4d34_q.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFY9OZzpfjmefJXukJH0ZemVIV3Zzo_6XBVE59Z08pNeNI0GjbONQuTbamKnnHjrzc2OcWfcq_FZCixHhGuHr78sYOqZbiXW1FVEHUajN2lMjdpJoIwud9MkHdrO2hDfYM_hUtiRNA773s/s0/50054239717_b672db4d34_q.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Under the guise of
nonchalance,</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">she quickly resets her bones,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">stitches her gaping wounds <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">and paints a smile on her
face.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It is imperative he sees her
smile. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">That </span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">smile, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">that smile of gratitude, of humility,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">that smile of acceptance, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">that smile of knowing her place
in his world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">that tiny space, forever
closing in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">She sets the table.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">(He will be home soon.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">(He is home now.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">She plates the dinner; it
must be set so precisely. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The meat from nine to three
o’clock, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">the potatoes, mashed (absolutely
no lumps) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">milked and buttered at three
to six <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">and the rest of time filled
with peas <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">(garden) buttered and counted
– <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">their numbers <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">must </i>be even, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">God </span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">must </i>be even!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The gravy, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shimmering with meat juices, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">just the right thickness
fills two thirds of the boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">(Perfect she thinks and feels
the excitement the joy of success, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">of doing the right things for
her man).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">(He will be pleased; of this
she is (almost) certain...) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He sits, glares at her, his
mouth a snarl, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">her smile momentarily drops
but she quickly resets it;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">nervous now, hands shaking, chest
near imploding…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">she waits…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He trawls the plate with his
fork, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">searching for desired imperfections…
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">he is counting the peas, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">looks up with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>look in his eyes <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">and his fists hammer down on
the table<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">(God the pea count is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wrong, <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">the pea count is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wrong, </i>the pea count is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wrong</i>!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He explodes in a fury, his
fists battle her body <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">and battered and bruised she
drops to the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">YOU’RE FECKING USELESS! (he
screeches), <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">slapping <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>smile off<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her face,
kicking her foetal-curled body, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">and he turns on his feet,
shouts obscenities, storms out of the room, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">slamming the door behind him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She cries… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">She composes herself, resets
her bones, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">stitches her wounds, paints
on her smile, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">huddles in her tiny space,
her ever so tiny space, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">disappearing (as she is)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">in ever decreasing circles…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Anna<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>:o]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Written for </span><a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/11/weekly-scribblings-44-eye-of-hurricane.html" style="font-size: 11pt;">https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/11/weekly-scribblings-44-eye-of-hurricane.html</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> – cheers for the
prompt Rommy!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(I can't figure out how to do links on New Blogger so will have to try and get my head round it...)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Image (the nearest I could
find): Courtesy of Flickr Creative
Commons - </span><span style="background: rgb(243, 245, 246); color: #212124; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">'Photo
© Acabashi' ‘<b>Steak and ale pie at Sainsbury's Low Hall, Chingford, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>’</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-63581672289430937692020-04-26T09:47:00.000+01:002020-04-30T20:27:22.016+01:00Alex<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">He
is wise, wise and wizened;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">hair
thinning, salt and pepper seasoned;</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">brow
lined and furrowed, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>quizzical? </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Brows:
bushy, grey and wiry;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">eyes
blue and vision fading;</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">nose:
large and Roman</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">(now
too long and thin (he thinks) -</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">My,
I can almost see where bone blanches skin). </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Cheeks:
skin thick and craggy;</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">mouth
small, pursed and wrinkled;</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">chin
cleft, stubble sprinkled.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Ah,
and below the chin –</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">the
bugger that will be the death of him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Untreated
– he too old (he thinks)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">for
wrath of radiation beam</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">or
cruel brunt of surgeons knife.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">So
this is he, this is who he is</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">above
the faltering heart in heaving chest –</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">his
face an echo - a diary of a life well-lived. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">His
mouth clenching pipe, pipe-puffing,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">puffing
pipe (vanilla flavour and aroma)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">he
reminisces on the joys of yesteryears. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">He
is alone – yet not lonely,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">his
memories’ - companions of his past and present. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";"><br />
(He sips Jack Daniels – no, swigs it back,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">his
body welcoming each soothing warming mouthful.)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">He
thinks: if death comes tonight I hope it comes easy –</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">no
crushing pain of heart arrest… </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">But
should he be blessed to live another day,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">to
see tomorrow – he will live it for the love of it. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">But
should he not he knows (yes he <i>knows)</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">that
those that gather grimly at his graveside</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">to
pay homage to his passing spirit,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">will
sigh, smile and softly say: </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Ah
Alex,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">he
lived life for the love of it.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Anna
:o]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">An
oldie regurgitated and shared in these strange times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Stay
safe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Shared
with the good folk at </span><a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/04/writers-pantry-17-growing-safety.html" style="font-family: "\"gloucester mt extra condensed\"";">Poets and Storytellers United</a><span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">, hosted by the lovely
Magaly – cheers Magaly!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Also shared with the good folk at <a href="https://dversepoets.com/2020/04/30/open-link-night-we-are-listening/">dVerse OLN</a>, hosted by the lovely Kim- cheers Kim!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Image:</span><span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";"> </span><span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Courtesy of </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A._Beridze._A_Smiling_Old_Man._Oil_on_canvas.jpg" style="font-family: "\"gloucester mt extra condensed\"";">Wikimedia Commons</a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "\22 gloucester mt extra condensed\22 ";">Source:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://burusi.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/romanoz-gvelesiani/">https://burusi.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/romanoz-gvelesiani/</a></div>
<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-49515197677586089282020-03-05T20:06:00.000+00:002020-03-08T08:15:20.192+00:00One Night Stand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">An elaborate ritual,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">you dance behind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">my shower screen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Intimately connected,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">I watch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">as you wash away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">the memory of me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Cleansed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">you leave,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">passing me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">without recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Anna :o]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Shared at <a href="https://dversepoets.com/2020/03/05/openlinknight-261/">dVerse OLN</a>, hosted
by Grace– cheers Grace!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Also shared with the good folk at <a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/03/writers-pantry-10-march-is-month-of.html">Poets and Storytellers United</a> Writer's Pantry #10 hosted by the lovely Sanaa - cheers Sanaa!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Image:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Courtesy of Flickr <i><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/10787737@N02/30722278772" target="_blank">"August
30, 2016"</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/10787737@N02" target="_blank">osseous</a> is
licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich" target="_blank">CC BY 2.0 </a><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" target="_blank"></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Garth shook the bottle in his
hand and the funny little humans - pickled for eternity - were so compacted
they hardly moved. He found it hard to comprehend that a species so
primitive would be viviparous, thinking that they surely would lay eggs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">His father had given him a
passel of the ugly little things for his fifth birthday, and he had watched
them develop and multiply in the glass farm that had sat on his bedroom desk, this
for what seemed the eternity of his childhood. He had found their mode of
procreation odd then. But then they were mere insects and intellectually
dulled life forms, but yet seemed industrious and he had marvelled at their
efforts to achieve betterment, this always thwarted by their predilection for
battle and want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It was in his late teens that
when thinking of the dire straits of his world, of overpopulation and resulting
food shortages, he had considered these little humans might be a possible
source of protein - a bar snack maybe - and his idea had progressed into that
of pickling them in red hot spices. He loved the way they looked in the
bottle, reminding him of foetuses bathing gently in amniotic fluid awaiting
birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">"Garth the quondam loser
- now the man of the hour" he sighed happily. He picked one
out. "Hello ugly" he grinned as he popped the tender morsel in
his beak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Money money money, I’m in the money! Winner winner winner, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m in the money! <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">(Meanwhile, back at the
factory, his dad, the CEO of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of
pesticides, almost burst with pride as production began of the new super-duper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Humandead, </i>a 100% guaranteed killer of
the human bugs that ate the crops that should fill his belly, the fact that it
killed all the other bugs that pollinated said crops mattered to him not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who
gives a toss, </i>he thought as mental images of £ signs rushing into his bank
filled his stupid little head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who gives a toss?</i>) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Anna
:o]<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">For
Brendan at </span><a href="https://earthweal.com/2020/02/28/earthweal-open-link-weekend-9/" style="font-size: 11pt;">openweal open link weekend #9 </a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> – cheers Brendan</span></div>
<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-156785468624522132020-02-20T21:17:00.000+00:002020-02-23T10:27:20.526+00:00Unbidden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Death will come unbidden,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">it will not come today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">it will come
tomorrow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He will be tomorrow’s
ghost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He half expects it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">his mind played out its scene
a hundred times before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He cannot envision pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">rather seeing blood spill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">from imagined gaping wounds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">His wish is if and when it
comes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">it will be quick. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">This theatre, this theatre of
war,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">he plays but a minor role;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">he is expendable, no glory in
his death,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">no rapturous applause <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">at his final curtain call.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">There will be no homecoming,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">no coffin draped in national
flag. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">His remains are no remains at
all,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">mere fragments scattered on a
foreign land,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">fragments that putrefy and
leach into the soil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He is here, on this hillside,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">his life extinguished where
this tree now stands,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">he is part of it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">it absorbed his memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">tapped it through its
searching roots,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">its twigs and branches now
his arms and hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He is unaware<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">as his leaves turn blood-red
and fall;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">it is the cycle of things,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">lines quite never understood,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">lines never learnt in
war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He has become the
Earth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It is the nature of things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Anna :o]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">An oldie, resurrected and
shared on </span><a href="https://dversepoets.com/2020/02/20/celebrating-oln-from-san-diego/" style="font-size: 11pt;">Open Link Night</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> at dVerse - cheers for hosting Lillian!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Also shared with the good folk on <a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/02/writers-pantry-8-we-like-multiples-of.html">Writers' Pantry #8</a> at P&SU. hosted by the lovely Magaly - cheers Magaly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Image:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/35472395@N02/5202202807" target="_blank"><i>"Cherry
Tree in Autumn"</i></a><i> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/35472395@N02" target="_blank">Chickens in
the Trees (vns2009)</a> is licensed under </i><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich" target="_blank"><i>CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-3971150764806322882020-02-16T08:58:00.000+00:002020-02-16T08:58:14.636+00:00Mishunderstood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">She had heard it all before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Déjà moo. Déjà
moo," she sneered in a dreary bored tone that perfectly reflected her
present feelings for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bastard!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bastard!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bastard!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“You drink too much and I hate you when
you’re like this!” he had said as he pushed her away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">She had loved him and still did, oh
how much she still <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wanted </i>him,
arsehole that he was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like her, he was a
member of the burgeoning community of ad hoc families that were spreading like
an unwanted disease in the empty houses that littered the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">right </i>side of town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more
the squatters moved in, the more those who considered themselves respectable
moved out.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He didn’t understand that drink
sharpened her mind, made her more creative, esemplastic as her diverse
extraordinary thoughts melded into one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He didn’t realise that she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">needed </i>the
drink to create her masterpiece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">She gazed at him scornfully as he lay
stoned sleeping on the bare mattress, sharing his bed with fellow half-stoned
druggies, life’s freeloaders and gypsy hearts that inhabited their sleazy
little world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bloody hypocrite!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bastard,
bastard, bastard!, </span></i><span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">she
thought as she staggered over to the dark corner that served as her “office”
slugging at the bottle that served her imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bastard,
bastard, bastard!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll show ya! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll write the damn book!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She took the grubby sheet of A4 and slid it
into the old pink typewriter and her fingers began touch typing, tapping out
her masterpiece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Capter One<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Christine decide
yjsy djr epi;f yitm dkre[o’fyoymjker … … … …<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">… … … …<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Anna :o]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">(This is not about me she said (hic!))<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\"times new roman\""; font-size: 11pt;">Shared with the good folk at the
</span><a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/02/writers-pantry-7-strolling-through.html" style="font-family: "\"times new roman\""; font-size: 11pt;">Writers Pantry #7</a><span style="font-family: "\"times new roman\""; font-size: 11pt;"> at Poets and Storytellers United, hosted by the lovely
Sanaa.- cheers Sanaa!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Image:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Courtesy of Flickr<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creative
Commons, </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/36577481@N00/2561630503"><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">"drunk unicorn"</span></i></a><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt;"> by </span></i><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/36577481@N00"><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Tom Frisch</span></i></a><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt;"> is
licensed under </span></i><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=html"><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "\0022times new roman\0022"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-82317348740141438992020-01-27T13:26:00.000+00:002020-02-02T11:45:19.045+00:00Butterfly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He, the small boy, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">two, three maybe, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">eyes alive, puzzled, inquisitive,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">tugs the wings off a
butterfly <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">eager to know how it works,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">maybe understand it a little,
he,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">innocently snuffing out a
brief beautiful life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">I wonder when he’ll realise <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">that we, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">his teachers, his guides, his
role models, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">eyes tight shut, blind, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">greedy for the needs the
wants of now; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">rip the wings of everything, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">including ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anna :o[</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sherry at </span><a href="https://earthweal.com/2020/01/26/weekly-challenge-the-animals-of-climate-change/" style="font-size: 11pt;">earthweal</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> asks us
to write of how climate change and loss of habitat impacts on the animal
kingdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">During my research into
threatened species in the </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 11pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,
I came across </span><a href="https://www.countryfile.com/wildlife/10-of-the-most-endangered-animal-species-in-britain/" style="font-size: 11pt;">this</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> endangered list on the Countryfile page and it was the image
of the small tortoiseshell butterfly that stood out to me.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I cannot honestly recall when I saw this
butterfly flutter around my garden but know it will have been a long long time
ago.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The only butterfly I see is the
common white although that maybe is only three or four in an entire year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Seeing the image of the
butterfly made me think of my children when they were young and now my small
grandchildren innocently squishing the life out of insects, unaware (until
told) that they are living breathing and beautiful creations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It also reminded me as when a
child (five-six maybe), I and my friends sometimes caught dragonflies, put
them in Welfare Foods dried baby milk tins and kicked the tin around until the
dragonfly was dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why we did this I
don’t know, but the memory is still there some sixty years on and I know this
is down to guilt, for even then, something inside of me knew that it was wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Apart from pollinating bees,
I think we humans tend to forget the insect kingdom, as insects are not warm-blooded
and potentially cuddly, but oh we need them so so much, they are the earth’s
levellers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We really really need them! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our lives depend on them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please read </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html" style="font-size: 11pt;">The Insect Apocalypse Is Here</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, featured in The New York Times Magazine – it a very
informative interesting and educational read.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">And rather scary too…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Having just looked out of the
French doors here, looking at nothing in particular, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>made me remember that for the past three years
or so, in summer months, when the doors are open, pesky flies rarely enter this
room, perhaps only once to thrice a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Where have they all gone?<a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/01/writers-pantry-4-let-poetry-and-prose.html"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-21927959906095892582020-01-18T17:46:00.000+00:002020-01-18T17:46:46.345+00:00Chaos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In utero,
slumbering </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">budding into
fruitful blossom,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I
awoke, here, in this place,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">twixt linens pure,
pristine & niveous,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">now splattered
haemochrome,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">cast chaotic, torn
of loves labours,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">contractions’
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">of earthly
surrogate.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">(She: accoucheuse,
fat and hoary,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">bites through
umbilicus.) </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A birthing,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">footling born of
chaos</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">toe dipping into
Mother Earth,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I sang of Satan,
hailed his glory.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Women wailing </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">cluttered into
corners,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">black in wretched
robes of mourning,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">mourning my
deliverance,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">freedom from
confines of merest mortal,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">accoucheuse bite
and worldly tether torn.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oh you fools virid
of envy,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">minds icteritious
of greed –</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">how well you do my
work,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">feed my lust my
hunger </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">my want of your
destruction,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">stoke fires of your
eternal hell.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The devils spawn,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I am born of your
desire,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">you harbingers of
the death,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">destroyers of all
tomorrows, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">how well you do my
work!</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Do my work,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">rape your Earth,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">bleed her dry.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I shall spread my
wings</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">fly into your
tomorrows,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">suck sulphureous
sun cerulean skies</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">into my atrous
heart.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Wings fluttering
will cast a storm </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the like you’ve
never known.)</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "\0022liberation sans narrow\0022"; font-size: 10.0pt;">These words <a href="https://hypercryptical.blogspot.com/2014/03/chaos.html">first published</a> in 2014, re- posted today for <a href="https://earthweal.com/2020/01/17/earthweal-open-link-weekend-3/">earthweal open link weekend #3</a>. Cheers
Brendan.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-32943190805001569082020-01-12T09:05:00.000+00:002020-01-12T09:15:38.161+00:00Daphne<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the hallmark of Daphne’s chirography, unmistakable to him; his heart
skipped a beat and then thumped on his chest wall as if begging him to read the
beauty and wisdom of her words <i>now!</i> Of course he
did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">She was a difficult one and
getting her to put pen to paper was more than a little velitation, more so
full battle requiring he and his lab assistants to goad her relentlessly (he
was surprised at his ready ability to be cruel) and once enraged the words
would eruct from her like some volcano simmering below the surface,
suddenly spewing forth its matter in a violent torrent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Her work was a strange
masterpiece indeed for not only was she the subject of his research, clever
little thing that she was, she was actually writing <i>his </i>research
paper too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could visualise it being poured over,
scrutinised by his peers and then the acclaim, the acclaim, the acclaim!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He felt a smug smile crease
his face, he sniggered; he had taken literally the challenge of the idiom </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"that a half-dozen monkeys provided
with typewriters would, in a few eternities, produce all
the books in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">British</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place>."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not that he expected her to scribe a
full library, rather a single tome of exquisite beauty, bursting at the seams
with infinite wisdom.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Only difference was, he had given her a cheap biro and no other monkeys or
eternities needed thank you very much – just regular shocks from a cattle prod<i>,</i> until
painfully defeated, she came up (screeching) with the goods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prognathism: mandiblular: his chin juts out –</div>
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like <st1:place w:st="on">Beachy Head</st1:place> (he
thinks) or barracuda;</div>
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juts out defiant neath tight upper lip.</div>
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He hates this. He hates his tiny tiny little mouth,</div>
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wishes God had given more thought to
his creation. </div>
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He has weighed up the odds,</div>
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the odds the risks of complications;</div>
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surgery – nervous (as he is of it),</div>
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he will sit it out, indefinite. </div>
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Despite his sore self-seen affliction –</div>
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he has it all (he thinks) –</div>
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he has the sea and she and <i>Lucky Lady. </i></div>
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She? He has this notion she is leaving. </div>
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Is she leaving him? </div>
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He feels her withdraw,</div>
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a moody ebbing ocean leaving,</div>
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leaving in its wake a lonely barren shore.</div>
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She: distressed, stress manifests cutaneous,</div>
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her silvery scales remind her of the fish;</div>
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<i>that</i> fish (bass she thinks) that flapped and
flailed,</div>
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hooked as it was to certain death,</div>
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its tiny tiny little mouth gasping gaping drowning.</div>
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It simmered on the galley stove,</div>
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simmered in its briny waters. </div>
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He herbed and lemoned it,</div>
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seasoned it, hot alive with peppercorn. </div>
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He savoured it, the smell of it. </div>
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Succulent, it melted in her mouth just as his kisses
did. </div>
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His kisses <i>did, </i>and then <i>it </i>came,
came horizontal,</div>
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(as she had always lain before him (always always wanting
him)),</div>
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came horizontal rolling fogging up her mind;</div>
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lost in it she found herself
almost invisible. </div>
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Distracted then (by it) she slowly drifted into it;</div>
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no, it took her hooked her reeled her in (flapping,
flailing).</div>
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He is losing her;</div>
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lost she is to some lonely barren shore,</div>
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where darkness offers itself the
infinite,</div>
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ebbing as she is, towards it,</div>
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gasping gaping slowly drowning.</div>
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Anna :o]</div>
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Happy New Year to all and many thanks Magaly for first
hosting on <a href="https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/01/writers-pantry-1-home-is-people.html">Poets and Storytellers United </a> new site – the start of many new adventures
for me.</div>
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I haven’t posted for nigh on a year, initially through
writers block then I guess I just got out of the habit of testing and using my
imagination.</div>
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So upon your lead, I will start this New Year afresh too,
although not quite… As, as I really
haven’t got my poetry mojo back yet, I have pulled an old post from 2014 to
share and will endeavour to respond with new stuff on further prompts.</div>
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Looking forward to writing again!</div>
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Image: courtesy of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sail_Fog_39.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Author: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gillfoto" title="User:Gillfoto">Gillfoto</a></span>hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-62948200377919864962019-01-29T22:48:00.000+00:002019-01-29T22:48:47.185+00:00(I Want to Die in my Sleep.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There it is (still), <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the knowing of impending doom,
<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the alarm, the dread, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the deep involuntary gasps the
sighs, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the cold on every laboured
breath, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the knowing that you’re going
to die.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And then, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the slowing in your thumping
chest, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the heartbeats skipped, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the fogg</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">è</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">d head, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the terror when the heartbeats
stop, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the horror when you know
you’re dead <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">as you ‘wait the bliss of
brainstem death.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anna :o]<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sarah prompt at <a href="https://dversepoets.com/2019/01/29/harbinger/">dVerse</a> is that of
HARBINGER – it sent my brain into overdrive and I thank you for lifting a writer’s
block of 3½ month duration Sarah.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘Harbingers of doom’ reminded
me of my time at work – I am retired now – where eventual death of the
residents’ was a constant (as death is to us all).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A small proportion of the residents had
dementia, the remainder enduring mental health problems.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There is a strong belief in
medical circles that all folk have a right to know they are dying, whether this
knowledge is helpful or not…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my place
of work we didn’t go along with this, judging whether this should be so on the
knowledge of our residents’ ability to cope with this bad news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some knew (instinctively) anyway and were filled
with either peace or dread.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this respect I do so
remember <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Adrian</st1:place></st1:city>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a very nasty man and one could do
nothing but dislike him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was (also) a
person who instinctively knew that death was coming. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(It was the practice in our home that if
residents had no known next-of-kin, we would sit with them constantly until
death –for no-one should die alone.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Adrian</st1:place></st1:city> had no known NOK
so I sat with him for most of the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was so scared and knowing instinctively that he was dying; he became
very timid and frightened.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Throughout that night I would
constantly tell him I loved him, what a nice person he was and kissed him on the
forehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was so grateful for the
attention – but gratitude was not what I sought – and would say:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you pet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I like to think that constant staff
attention brought him some sort of peace,)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Although the details were
different, this is a scenario I encountered many times, even with residents who
had severe dementia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was as if impending
death suddenly gave these lovely folk insight and they were filled with terror,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On a more personal note, this
occurred with my mother-in-law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
children (including my husband) impressed upon the medical team that she should
never know (she was dying) as she would not be able to cope with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However a well-intentioned doctor, knowing
that my mother-in-law was Catholic, decided she had a right to know – so she
could receive the last rites – so took it upon her self to inform (her) she was
dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother-in-law, upon receiving
this information, became immediately agitated and had to be removed to a single
room as she was distressing other patients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(In fact it was a relative of one of these patients that informed of the
doctor’s (I’m sure) well-intentioned catastrophic intervention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doctor never informed us herself.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No-one should die in terror
for a doctor’s beliefs…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Image:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S%C3%A9pultureCathelineau.JPG">Wikimedia Commons</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-62758832820257492712018-10-14T09:05:00.000+01:002018-10-16T19:21:00.421+01:00Frail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The ivy doesn’t look too well and I wonder if I have
watered it too much or too little? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its
leaves are soft fading and curling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looked healthy before as did you. I wonder
if my efforts to nurture have been in vain and that somehow I have missed the point,
the point of survival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is survival to merely
exist or to live life to the full or to just survive whatever the cost?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What worth is our history if we just die, the
memory of us diminishing across generations, words on a headstone, nothing
more. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">You are frail now my love, yet I don’t understand how
a sixteen stone man can be described as frail – it just doesn’t correlate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frail to me is a stick-thin person teetering
on the edge of life and death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rest is rust </i>they say as if somehow
these words of wisdom will raise you like Lazarus from your bed, strengthen
your atrophied muscles, reactivate your mind.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">I feed you thickened fluids from your sip cup and you
drink with a want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if you
thirst too much or there is just never enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Is this your way of hanging onto life or do fluids bring comfort?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You smile at me and grab at the cup sipping
on blackcurrant goo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you so much
you know – I will quench your thirst forever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">How the wind rages,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">precipitating the storm,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">winter is coming.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Anna :o]</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Shared with the good folk at <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2018/10/poetry-pantry-424.html">Poets United</a>, hosted by the lovely
Mary - cheers Mary!</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></b>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Also shared with the good folk at </b></span><a href="https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-tuesday-platform_16.html" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Real Toads</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>, hosted by </b></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>Vivian</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>. Cheers coming to you too Vivian!</b></span></div>
<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-10944930568500109182018-10-10T12:36:00.000+01:002018-10-10T12:36:13.043+01:00Owl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">“And yesterday the bird of
night did sit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Even at noon-day upon the
marketplace,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Do so conjointly meet, let
not men say,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">“These are their
reasons. They are natural.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">For I believe they are
portentous things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Unto the climate that they
point upon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">(Julius Caesar, Shakespeare.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>I’m not one prone to
superstition, I’m not. I defiantly walk
under ladders, step on cracks in the pavement and chatter whilst walking under
a *monkey puzzle. If I break a mirror and
cut myself clearing the fragments, that is carelessness. I do not fear the next seven years. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>But this is
different. He (owl) has stood sentry
outside my window for nigh on two days now, staring at me, unblinking. He appears to need neither nourishment nor
sleep, his only need seeming that of me.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Winter is here and I
find myself fading as if day into night.
And he watches. He watches. He watches…<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Night yawns at
sunrise and I welcome this new day – <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I live! I live! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Snow falls
gently from the heavens, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">casting itself
at my window, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">blankets the
earth in its white finery, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">offers me
strange comfort. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Still, there
is a sense of foreboding, a hollowness, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and owl, he
watches, he watches. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I fear his
vigilance and wonder if I shall live to see the thaw…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Oh that he
would leave me alone…</span></i></div>
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<b>Anna :o] </b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>*During my early childhood I learnt of the superstition of talking whilst walking beneath the branches of a monkey puzzle tree - it was believed that bad luck would occur or we might lose something and in some cases grow a monkey's tail!</b></div>
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<b>Sumana at <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2018/10/poets-united-midweek-motif-owl.html">Poets United</a> has us writing of The Owl and above is my offering. Cheers for the inspiration Sumana!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Image: Courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lesser_Sooty_Owl_at_Bonadio%27s_Mabi_Wildlife_Reserve.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Author: <a href="https://flickr.com/people/26693938@N08">Richard Fisher</a><o:p></o:p></b></div>
<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-38531857518188116952018-09-27T17:02:00.000+01:002018-09-27T17:02:01.144+01:00It's Nowt To Do With Me!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mother
and father know best, they always have don’t you know, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">feathering
their nests with unneeded appliances <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">they
only use once or never take out of the box, so what, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">at least
they have the power of ‘have’ and keep up with the Jones’s, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">although
ideally they would be winning that race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Wealth
is relative to your wants and your needs, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">but
if you have it why not flaunt it, buy this and buy that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">whether
you need it or not, for when you tire of it, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">you
can find it a new home at any old landfill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Give
it away to those less fortunate than you – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">are
you kidding - I will not furnish the needs of those <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">who
don’t even bother to try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(I’d
rather die first, don't you know - freebies won't come easy from me))<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My
brats are the same with their Game Boy’s and smart phones <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which
of course need to be replaced at the very least yearly, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and then
there’s their clothes that must be designer, <i>must</i> be designer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">for the
kudos and the power's in the brand don’t you know, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and
when they tire of a thing, off to the jolly old landfill it goes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Today
is so wonderfully pleasant for a stressed mum like me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">what
with disposable nappies that I dress junior in, for I must confess <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I
feel a little bit queasy at the thought of dropping his shit down the *netty <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">from
one of those awful terry towelling squares. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And those
disposable ones, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I
don’t have to wash them when their purpose is done, just drop them in <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the
unrecyclable bin and off to the landfill they go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Isn’t
life so wonderfully easy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You
ask if I’m worried that our planet is in meltdown, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">well
of course I am for whom in their right mind wouldn’t be? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But I
can state categorically indeed quite emphatically <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">that
this pollution is not down to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do
as I’m asked <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">when
meeting the task of sorting my rubbish into this or that bin, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">tossing
whatever in into its designated (right </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">colour</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">) receptacle – </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">so see I follow all of the rules. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What
happens to them when I’ve done what is asked is beyond my control <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">for,
for my part I’ve just followed them damned written rules<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And
that plastic polluting the seas, well again it’s not just down to me, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">for I
rarely visit the coast don’t you know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So
get off your high horse you who think you’re so so earth friendly, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">for of course you haven’t seen me watching you arrive home <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in
your posh four wheel drive with particulates puffing outa its exhaust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anna
:o]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">*Netty
– a toilet, Northumberland dialect., also ‘nowt’ a Northern English word for
nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sherry
at </span><a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/09/wordy-thursday-with-wild-woman-earth.html" style="font-size: 11pt;">Real Toads</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> has us writing of Earth’s grief as we watch it empty down the plughole, we pulling out the plug ourselves and above is my take on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Of
disposable nappies/diapers, do you know that apart from the few biodegradable
nappies in the marketplace, the following happens?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"Decomposing
disposable nappies emit noxious methane gas. It will take 200 to 500 years for
a disposable nappy to decompose, leaving a legacy to your children's
grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"The
production of disposables uses 3.5 times more energy, 8.3 times more
non-renewable resources, and 90 times more renewable resources than real
nappies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"They
produce 2.3 times more waste water and 60 times more solid waste than real
nappies."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">WEN
goes on to say: "Tributyl tin (TBT), a chemical compound which is known to
disrupt sex hormones, has been found in disposable nappies on sale in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Please
see source of this information <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1287722.stm">here</a>.</span> <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1287722.stm"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Image:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pollution_swan.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Author: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thue" title="User:Thue">Thue</a></span></div>
<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-28153097045226989422018-09-23T13:44:00.000+01:002018-09-23T13:44:48.455+01:00Life Hurries On<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Life
hurries on and at this moment, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">at this
very moment <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">she
is touched by the touch of his hands, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">one
slipped twixt her breasts, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">the
other feeling its way to her pants<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Old
she may be, all wrinkles and rickety limbs, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">but
she is grateful to him for the attention he gives, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">for
she lives and she breathes and she wants and she needs <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and
she is beautiful both inside and out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He is
as ancient as she is, memory fading and pissing of pants, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">fears
of tomorrows’ and the forbidding ‘no dad, you can’t(s).’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s not right dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re too old dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I think it’s a teeny bit
grubby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No dad, forget it, you just
can’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You can’t fall in love again –
you just can’t.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But he
loves her and the drive is still there, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">keeps
him alive and in this moment of passion he lives how he loves, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">gives
all that he is to this woman he holds in his hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He is
beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He is
all over her and she loves it, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">loves
the love of it, the intimacy of it, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">maybe
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>even the lust of it, but it’s a want
and a need, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and she
loves the feelings that come with it, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">that
powerful needing and wanting, the soon to be ecstasy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">as he
fumbles his way <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to her heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anna
:o]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">As an
ancient one, this article </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <a href="https://patient.info/health/ageing/features/how-to-have-great-sex-in-later-life?utm_campaign=618572_Weekly%20Mix%205%20newsletter%20double%20opt-in&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotmailer&dm_i=4HSP,D9AK,2FX5PU,1HBAA,1">'How to have great sex in later life'</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> in Patient interested me greatly as it touches on the
sexuality of the more mature individual, the older and wiser person, as I
am.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:o]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There
is a certain societal taboo with regards to us older folk having sex as it
somehow feels ‘dirty’ to those younger than us, for as we all know sex is that
wonderful drug that is only the property of the young…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do remember as a spotty teenager hoping
beyond hope that my parents had only had sex three times resulting in me and my
brother and sis, for it didn’t bear thinking about that they actually would do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>for the sheer enjoyment of it, as
they were far far to old, and it just wouldn’t be right.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>I also remember my eldest
son (teenage then) asking if his dad and I still had sex for he never heard
us…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of your business son!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Shared
with the good folk at </span><a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2018/09/poetry-pantry-421.html" style="font-size: 11pt;">Poets United</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, hosted by the lovely Mary.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cheers Mary!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mox
nix my friend, it matters not a jot <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">that
now there is to be three of us, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">you
need to leave to find your stupid sorry self.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oh there
you are, you pathetic little stupid scrote, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">crawling
back beneath that rock from whence you came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shame
on you for running scared, but what the heck, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">at
least I really know you now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So sod off,
go forth and multiply, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">spread
you wimpish genes make other little baby boys who cry like you, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">little
wimps like you who run scared when the going gets a little tough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I shall
bear the child the boy and call him George <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and
raise him good and kind and strong, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">he
will become a man finessed with fairplay & fortitude, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">something
your parents never did with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So
mox</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> nix my friend, sod off and ne’er come back</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">for
I’ll be glad to see the back of you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anna
:o]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Shay
at </span><a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/09/fireblossom-friday-say-word.html" style="font-size: 11pt;">Real Toads</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> asks us to write using (one of five) foreign words/phrases that have
become an accepted part of the English language.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One of these is Mox Nix which is a
bastardiasation of the German “Es macht nichts” used by American GI’s in WWII
Europe to mean “It doesn’t matter” or “It makes no difference” and some of them
brought the phrase home with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cheers
Shay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Video
courtesy of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNz8U7tgU4">YouTube</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />hyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-20911729912360907622018-09-06T22:30:00.000+01:002018-09-08T18:27:13.653+01:00Sun<iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_fKkr7D807Y" width="560"></iframe>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Sun hums (I’ve always heard
her, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">oh so long before the sages
found her, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">heard her self-soothing
stimming <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">sounding in their waiting
ears).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Oh how she’s told me of her
chaos, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">how her mere existence pains
her, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">how her torrid temper maims
her, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">how she’s waiting just to
die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Oh how she’s sung her song to
me, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">sung to me beneath the
heavens, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">bid me please release her
from her anger, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">quell fires forever raging in
her bosom; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">pains me with her plaintive
pleas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Out of body I soar
towards her, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">soar along this astral plane,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">time altered into now or
never, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">and oh how I long to be
beside her <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">and how she gently guides me to her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">as I longingly call out her lovely name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">We are one now forever melded
into fire <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">and I bear her wrath and feel
her pain, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">yet I can do naught to soothe
her <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">yet she moves me soothes me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">with her soulful longing
mournful wantings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">as consumed I am with love of
her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Anna :o]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">For Toni’s prompt at </span><a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/09/step-into-void.html" style="font-size: 11pt;">Real Toads</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> where
she asks us to Step Into the Void – cheers for the inspiration Toni!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Also shared with the good
folk at </span><a href="https://dversepoets.com/2018/09/06/openlinknight-227/" style="font-size: 11pt;">dVerse</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, hosted by Grace – cheers Grace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Video courtesy of YouTube and
with thanks to NASA Goddard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What
if I stared, really stared, willed you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and
you opened up your eyes and said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hey
don’t you cry its okay its okay, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’m
not dead, I’m just sleeping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What
if I held onto you, held you tight <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and begged
you please to come back <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and
you breathed again, took hold of me, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">gently
loved me and kissed me, saying: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hey,
don’t worry; my heart is yours for the forever of keeping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What
if I said I’m sorry, I never ever meant to hurt you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What
if I said my words were cruel idle threats <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and
that I would never ever leave you? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Would
you come back?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What
if I said I can’t live without you, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">would
you doubt me? Please don’t doubt
me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You’re
all I am or ever was and I need you, need you back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I can’t
imagine living this life without you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What
if I stared, really stared <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and
you opened up your eyes and said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hey
don’t you cry its okay its okay, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’m
not dead, I’m just sleeping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Please
please open your eyes, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">please come
back to me for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I
can’t imagine my life without you...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Please please please just open your eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anna
:o]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For
Susan’s 'What If' prompt at <a href="http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2018/08/poets-united-midweek-motif-what-if.html">Poets United</a> – cheers for the inspiration Susan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Image:
Courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_in_Rain-Streaked_Bus_Window_-_Odessa_-_Ukraine_(26862783832).jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Author: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/41000732@N04">Adam
Jones</a></span></div>
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