Category: Non-Fiction

Where do I start? Where have I come from? What about you? Where will I begin…? One foot on the ground and the other on the silver cloud. Dare we think aloud…is it such a sin to dream of vast wealth? Or should we always remember our humble beginnings? Is there any wrong in that…for after all are not the

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The ground we walk and the sky that we see.  When walking along the twisty lane on the hard crisp ground, It’s the time of the year when you hear your feet touch the ground. Deep frost is in there and not a live seed to be seen.  Wait, don’t be hasty, what’s that beauty?…there are snow drops what a

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I had a love affair, she was one of the best? She was a rather large lady called tiger… around 65 feet long. 25 tonnes of steel, green for the main, with a splash of orange, She could swim and live with the best. Moored at times in obscurity; yes I liked it that way, Hidden amongst the foliage and

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Brave honourable men Streets littered with rubbish… foul smell, stale ale and sputum… Dark, dank passages lead down to the dock lined with pick pockets and beggars begging off beggars… The freshening smell of salt air and the rising mist finally points my way forward. Signing up for a ticket to earn a crumb or two, cruising on a hulk

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Families disunited. Countries disjointed. Our Worlds dysfunctional. Why did so many give So much for so many Seventy five years ago. We owe it to their Memory to embrace  Each others differences, To rise above selfishness, To live our lives as one. Throw of the shackles  Placed on our shoulders By those who govern, And say to those with thoughts

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Like a comet Racing through the dead of night, Troubled mind inhibits sleep. It shoots across the clear dark sky, Good thoughts halt my wake. Hurried, troubled….it never stops. Dreams are sweet but all too short. Nightmares last but rock your night. Like me, you will never sleep. Searching your inner self. So far to go, will we ever stop?

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When we first set eyes, It was You, Casting a silhouette, Surreal, no dream. Your elegance  Rocked my steady legs. Gliding upon  Our mirrored lake. Persona perfeito.. Care etched deep In your very soul., Voce sorriso, sempre, Emanating, lighting Every corner of our world. Beauty abound,  Dashing, with radiance. Bright, full of colour, Our rainbow… Earth, wind and fire, The

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You remember Spartacus? He’d fight with the lions! Most of the time, the poor lions would die in front of the applauding audience. At other times, the slave would be killed in front of the entertained spectators. Imagine! Every time, such killer sports would end in deaths, bloodshed. Then, in time, came these bull fights (they could be contemporary) where

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Thinking out of the box If I weep alone, let’s say in a public place, it’s okay; some kind soul may also offer me a tissue; but if I laugh alone, laugh helplessly, say in a park then it’s not okay? 😅🤗 I’m missing the plane daft category!  😔 Let’s have a nonsense category… with so much of sense playing

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I came into your life By default, Through the back door Some would say. ‘A big bang’,  The way you described my arrival that day. What was the crime?  To fall in love with someone, You supposedly held dear? The cruel and unjust anger you chide, Why me? I cry when alone, Trapped with those words.  Your tongue is sharp, Propelled

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