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SPARTACUS
After the third slave uprising of Rome a hundred thousand men lay dead on the battlefield another six thousand slaves were crucified along the appian way and left for months to rot…
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TITANIC
Being at sea aboard huge luxury vessels is very glamorous and as a skipper come captain it is so easy to be wined and dined each evening by billionaires with the finest foods and d…
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GENTLE GIANTS
It's about time the human realised that a tree is flesh and blood not just timber or a price of wood , these beautiful living entities give us shelter shade and our lifesaving bre…
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ELVIS
A poem for the king of rock and roll he was born into extreme poverty raised in a shotgun shack but managed not only to break out of that but also to attack the apartheid of Americ…
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HELL GIRL !!
A musing for Lily's tenth birthday with leather jacket to match my own design of cause - mother not too keen I have a sneeking suspicion she'd like one too . By ten years of age ki…
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CHIQUITITA
A little Ditty for Unis the Philipino irish girl who worked at the crown hotel and blew the minds and trousers of all those old pensioners from the Harrogate rotary club .
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OXFAM
The Oxfam shop or "The dead man's drop" is an essential part of our high street culture we all of us at some stage find ourselves sifting through their silt as if stroking and smel…
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9 min
THE GREEN DREAM
A short story about a chalk and cheese Husband and wife with very opposing opinions on the arrival of some neo hippie neighbours with their green machine.
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17 min
MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
A short story I wrote about doing a favour for a friend which then turned into a terrifying experience of trying to get back to some semblance of civilization .
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THE COUNTESS
Krystyana Skarbek was a polish beauty queen a countess and the longest serving spy in Churchill's SOE , with life expectancy of six weeks she lasted six years fighting against Nazi…
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FRANKENSTEIN
My words may seem cruel that's because they are the comments collected from our café clientele who share space with these very disabled individuals , By the grace of good fortune t…
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GRANDFATHER
These old sentinels guard over us in our early years like grandfather clocks their old hearts pendulum the rhythm of life into our ears a blood metronome beat sounding to the timpa…
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FATE ON A PLATE
The macabre story about a great grandmother , who's ashes were made into a bone china plate by her broken hearted lover , the practice of using powdered human bone in pottery still…
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SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Two Haiku Poems. 1 1 Suspicious minds. 2 Blood river .
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SPITTLE AND SPUME
Listening to these waffling old windbags wheezing about saving our world , who quaff down wine squandering ten pounds a glass and then dare to set the price of carbon at three poun…
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EMANCIPATION
Walking into a very expensive veggie vegan boutique i listened to the sermon of the spiritual salesman , it felt as if you we're about to sign papers of adoption , the high priest…
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LOVE .
Thinking back to my parents divorce how the lovers fate can change by opening or closing Eden's gate from the land of milk and money to a soil scorched hearth of hate .
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JANINE
Our green karma Queen casts her svelt shadows over the obstinate boulder brained beast lighting her alternative pathway towards a spiritual sentient sanctuary.
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SUFFRAGETTE
With courage commitment and Calvary these extraordinary women changed the course of history challenging the might of an empire that stretched across the third of the globe they iss…
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GLASTONBURY
When you're a teenager there's always one out of your crew who takes too much powder and drinks too much brew we use to call him the Glastonbury gladiator , funny but with them hav…