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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – FRIEND Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was WHIFF. Keith Channing: Wills made a ciggy called whiff, Hellish strong and an unusual niff. I tried one in…

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  • A Poem For Friday

    No One Cares All around the world there is such pain, The needy lose out, while fat cats gain, Poverty has been brought to the fore, And countries caught up in hideous war, Terrorists and tyrants try to rule, And cabinet members play the fool, But no one cares about me. People awake to a…

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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is FISH. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word FISH in it somewhere? Here are your HUMAN stories from last week: EDC Writing: Human. Being, can’t be. Really? Ritu: I’m only human, you know. Christine Mallaband-Brown: My…

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  • For part one, click here. 6th September Dad came to see me today and he was on his own. He tried to act all pally, giving me a pat on the back and ruffling my hair. He shoved an ‘HMV’ bag in my hand. He winked at me and said that he knew I liked…

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  • 3rd September Mum and Dad’s divorce came through today. Mum danced round the breakfast table singing, ‘I’m gonna get that man right out of my hair.’ She looked like a witch with her hair stuck up and a grin Tony Blair would have been proud of. Then she ran up to me and kissed me…

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  • Two Poems

    Dark Thoughts For All Seasons Spring: The Easter Bunny, helping build the obese. Summer: Heat waves, aiding the spread of skin cancer. Autumn: Darker days, bringing with it depression. Winter: Christmas costs; who says Scrooge died long ago? Happy Thoughts For All Seasons Spring: Lambs and fresh flowers; nature reigns eternal. Summer: Glorious sunshine, lifting…

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  • Daffodils Part Three

    For part one, please click here. For part two, please click here. I went blank after that. I couldn’t think, speak, move or function in any way. I didn’t want to either. I wanted to die too. I didn’t want to wake up and know you weren’t going to be there any more. But I…

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – STUDY Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was SPACE. Keith Channing: Space is a place we can see Pharmacologically A virtual anthill Coming out of a pill…

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  • Bullies

    So quiet at the back, No one can see her. If she closes her eyes tight, No one can see her. The bell rings, lessons done, Now they can see her. They wait while she walks past, Now they can see her. She runs all the way home, Still they can see her. Their feet…

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  • Daffodils Part Two

    For part one, please click here. But I didn’t know. You were only ten. You were looking forward to going to the big school in the autumn, to being in the school play and travelling on the Inter City up to London with me and your friend for your birthday treat. You weren’t supposed to…

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