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on morning
alarmed to new dayfrom sweet scented pillow dreamsyour absent presence~ CLP 22/12/2025
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on Ukraine
adventurous youthtravel from South Africaconsumed by Grinder~n.b. Chinese and young men from South Korea, now South Africans chasing work, all have found themselves in dead…
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on time
when the tide rolled inI felt it lift me off my feethold me gentlyI felt no fearas it carried me outit was as if it…
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on his high horse
Here’s a man high on a horseA horse on a hillA hill over an estuaryAn estuary to the North SeaThe North Sea stretching to BelgiumBelgium’s Flanders FieldsTo Flanders Fields he sent the finest young menThe finest young men of a…
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It is not what it is
What is this cynical acceptanceOf injusticeof discrimnationof iniquityof downright wrong?Powerlessness? Complacency? World weariness?I’m all right, Jackness?Question. Challenge. Confront.It is not what it is.It does not…
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on the page
a writer sat downto write about a writerstruggling to writeat a retreat deep in Dorsetaway from daily distractions(obviously, that’s the appeal of a retreat)the story…
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on Ukraine
the wolf feigns wearinesswhile circling the flockwhile picking off the strayswhile slaughtering lambsthe wolf licks its lipsreveals a smilemocking the eaglewho also only has eyes…
Journey of Words 