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Poetry Prompt 19 – Rhyme and Reason – How to Create an Underclass

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Michael

Last week I watched you, dear Treasurer Play with the lives of the poor As you showed them the door To a new poverty never seen before.   I had to endure your words Get out of your seat and … Continue reading →

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Wordle #9 – The Wordle Murder

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Michael

The phone rang and it was Lester. Lester Peabody my sidekick of fifteen years. Lester sounded excited, I liked it when he was as it meant a case, another baffling case I was hoping but it turned out to be … Continue reading →

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Prompt 56 “Indescribable Frustration” – The Final Year

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Michael

Sit I say We meet again You understand why you are here ‘Yes,’ you say ‘My work?’ Yes or rather your lack of any. You are not achieving, getting nowhere For a boy of your intelligence I cannot understand your … Continue reading →

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Poetry Prompt 18 – Admiration Acrostic – Indian Girl

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Michael

I stand in awe of your intelligence, your heritage, your beliefs Now I have seen your passion and your generosity Daily I see you reach out with compassion to others I read your words, so erudite, so profound And in … Continue reading →

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Poetry Prompt 16 – School Days – Recollections

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Michael

School days were fool days in many ways I was brought up in a sheltered world Reading and writing was not something I learnt at home But its mysteries taught to me in school. A school beset with its own … Continue reading →

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Fairytale Prompt#8 – Strawberries – My Story

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Michael

In my part of the bush it was common to find wild strawberries growing beside the tracks we followed as we went about our travels to and from the village. My mother was always telling me to stop and pick … Continue reading →

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Poetry Prompt 15 – The Meaning of Life – My Son

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Michael

What’s all about daddy? Why am I here, I’m missing John’s party? Why does it hurt daddy when I breathe? Why am I plugged in, always in this bed?   He asks me these questions, Each day so it seems … Continue reading →

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Poetry Prompt 14 – Describe a Smell – My Cat

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Michael

Phew, my goodness my face is all red, I am sorry to say I think something’s dead.   I have not been so nasally affronted My nose feels like its just been punted.   The aroma is not something to … Continue reading →

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Poetics: Those Pesky Questions of Identity – The Man I Am

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Michael

I am a man, father, friend, lover I could be superman, Mr Universe, Anyone I choose in this space But those who know me would say liar lair pants on fire. As I age I find I am confronted by … Continue reading →

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Poetry Prompt 13 – No Punctuation – discourse on love

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Michael

im asking you a question is this or that or something else what you mean one day not far from here in a little green field there will sit a blue box with a painted outside that will say please … Continue reading →

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