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On Pain xii*
Is my name Thomas? I had to be there, feel it The absence of Love ~ n.b. *Alternative title, ‘On Stupidity’. CLP 04/09/2020 →
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On Empathy
My sister My father Slipped into our conversation Silently tears filled my eyes You placed your hand on mine Gentle Kind ~ CLP 07/09/2020 →
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On Pleasure vi
Stopping everything to observe a wasp at work in September sun ~ CLP 04/09/2020 →
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On Pleasure iii
Morning lights our shore gulls call us to discover gifts brought in on tide ~ n.b. photograph courtesy of ACG. CLP 04/09/2020 →
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On Pain (bonus track)
Will this take much more time? I have a life to live. Better things await ~ n.b. An excuse to link you to Ray Davies and the song he wrote for a friend of his many years ago…Better Things. CLP 06/09/2020 →
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On Pleasure ii
Unbridled laughter carried by telephone lines to prised open heart ~ CLP 04/09/2020 →
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On Pain ix
Most spectacular display of self-harm. I’ve Brexited myself ~ n.b. Hard to believe, I know, but when a man’s gotta go, the question can arise, ‘Why not go the whole hog and blow my own house down?’ Where does such thinking come from? It is terribly dangerous for others and destructive to themselves. Sad beyond →
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On Pleasure
In a second hand book, bought on a whim, I discovered someone had kept a four-leaf clover between pages of Seamus Heaney’s poems. ~ CLP 04/09/2020 →
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On Pain viii
A broken arm hurts But rarely does pain persist As in a heart cracked ~ n.b. A fascinating article here on physical vs emotional pain. Tuck in! https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201407/5-ways-emotional-pain-is-worse-physical-pain CLP 01/09/2020 →
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