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Hotel 4**** (221 Reviews)
The lawn immaculate as MaryThe Cedar of Lebanon adorns the gardenGifts of shade and shelter beneath its boughsVerandah a place of reposeGuests read piously in wicker chairsThe chapel home to a magnificent pipe organThrough stained-glass windowsPews reverentially curve around the high altarA place of celebration and prayerA modest Christian retreat I had arrived late, ruck Read more
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Day 40
Whoa! A premature summer’s day has been delivered to our doorstep, without a knock. No wind, not a breath. I step out. All I can hear is the sound of my flip-flops flick-flacking down the lane and bees buzzing. The birds are drowsy in this unfamiliar heat. Sparrows offer desultory cheeps from the dusty roadside. Read more
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Day 39
The hedgerows are changing. The blackthorn’s fine white petals have thinned out and the dark spikes are being shaded out by greenery, as the hawthorn, the May Tree is dressing up in its finery. Where the plant is a tree, it shines out from copses and hedgerows. In the shade of the hedge, it is Read more
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The Sun’s Set – A Review
So much consistent applause for this show It seems almost clichéd to join in But this is one that faultlessly runs day into night Night after night Responding fearlessly to the high pressure Of repeat performances With magical lighting Sound effects delightful Words cannot capture the exquisite beauty Her Infinite variety of displays Fearless artistic Read more
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Present Tense
This brittle air in sun so low Glints off flints flash hard To retain the joy of childhood As manners evolve in new-formed slow queues Found on familiar streets Beside the sign, Stay Home, don’t be SHelfish Outside the closed café that specialised in crab sandwiches, That H added by hand, by night Lightens this dull conspiracy of Read more
Journey of Words 