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23 Jan: Found Poetry of Ragnarök c.10
Ragnarök: Found in The Weavers c.10 And of this I know Ár skal misseriA year shall pass He lives free and boldand fiercer than fire Perches on a hill,and on the sixth day Ár skal rísaYear shall rise He measures a half loafagainst sand and sea but he waxed too wiseand never knew happiness Ár…
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23 Jan: A Thursday Door from Dijon
Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my photos and found a few to share. ©Misky 2022-2025 Shared on X #amwriting @bushboywhotweet and @DAntion
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23 Jan: A Six – The Death of Thomas Thetcher
The Death of Thomas Thetcher In Winchester Cathedral’s graveyard is a tombstone “In memory of Thomas Thetcher, who died of a violent fever contracted by drinking cold small beer when hot the 12th of May 1764. Aged 26 Years.” “Small beer” is a weak fermented beer of low alcohol, and had he consumed regular “strong”…
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21 Jan: Found Poetry of Ragnarök
The Weavers c.9 And of this I know.He is life and Was meant for a friend Last,Longest, butTo be fair, FatesGave he and gave he again Litilla sanda To friendsBestowed laughter for laughterBy this friend, he hadBefriended foe Litilla sanda kömer The Weavers spokeTo bearBewareThe snare of laughter Young, you were once,BewilderedWho gave and gave…
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21 Jan: A Six – To Stoke a Fire
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 6 To Stoke a Fire Nick opens the Georgian bowed glass doors of the Wykeham Arms, “Thank you,” I say as the barman looks up from pouring a pint and nods, “Table by the bishop’s mitre is ready; it’s been relaid…
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17 January: Ten Things of Thankful
In no particular order: 1. New term starts. Switching on research mode. I’m so thankful that most of what I need can be found online. Centuries of history digitised. 2. Scan results: stable. There’s enough thankfulness in that one to fill numbers 2-9. 3. Leftover Christmas cheeses and fruit for dinner. 4. He who reminds…
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16 Jan: A Thursday Door
Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my photos and found a few to share. ©Misky 2022-25 Shared on X #amwriting @bushboywhotweet and @DAntion
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16 Jan: A Six – Part: 5
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 5 The Edge of Breath, Part 5 Sometimes you smell the fragrance of eternity, and other times you look down, see your reflection in the mud, and check to see if you’ve stepped in something, but today as lightning sheered across…
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15 Jan: Journal of Thoughts from Last Week
Fragments of a 10-Year Old I watched her kiss our waitress by the bins behind the Pancake House – they held each other like a secret, and that memory fell into this drop of ink along with flowers that eat meat and ravenous weeds that digest flies, and I remember that my father’s voice made…
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13 Jan: Found Poetry of Ragnarök c.8
Straight be their road and short,Whose heartsLean into one They ask, nor answer nought. Ërusk gægnhőllir About this better cravingThis bleeding heartThis unsure knowingThis table round as it is long. Ërusk gægnhőllir Yet loveBe their reward, and Straight be their roads and short. This is the continuation of the series of Found Poetry sourced from…
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