Free to Run

One from the archives (totally reworked) describing the day I came home to put my mother’s old cat beyond suffering.  The dreaded hour, my summons home, a sombre task. Always fiercely a one-woman cat rescued from cruelty, untrusting hissing exchange, for tentative interaction.  But last night you crept in slept on my chest… as though in unspoken , feline appreciation, […]

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Too long a road…

No gain without pain on the Isle of Arran. (With audio narration – turn your sound on) This poem has been re-posted for gothicman who was born on this beautiful Island. First posted 2006.   I run passed Knockin-Kelly, with a pain in my belly Well that’s not true, I had pain everywhere. Then on down the hill, I’d a promise […]

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