My mother is the lady sitting on the left, this was taken while she was expecting me. Colouring and sharpening by Copilot Ai My mother died when I was 4 days old; this poem is to mark her passing in the early 1950s.12th to 16th of February I was four days oldwhen the world shifted.A …
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Prompt: Something on your "to-do list" that never gets done. The item that sits with patient spiteUpon the list, by day and night,Is not to climb a mountain peak,Nor some profound, poetic streak.It’s simpler far, yet seems to growA dread that only I can know.It mocks me from its linen throne,A simple, solitary groan:"Change bedroom …
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Prompt: What is your favourite animal? What is my favourite animal? I really have no clue!I’ve pondered by the fireplace, meditated in the loo.I’ve weighed the pros and cons of every beast I know,But indecision follows me everywhere I go.The lion has a fabulous and fluffy mane,But have you seen his dentist bill? Insaine!While the …
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What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? The Five F’s I Can’t Live WithoutA Survival Guide in Rhyming Doubt I once tried a life with no Faith in the mix,Just me and my socks and my odd bag of tricks.But soon I was lost — like a goose with no clue,So I prayed, …
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Putin rolling on the floor laughing with the Trumpster not getting the joke (him being the joke)! What a busy month it's been, only 28 days in the month, but 25 posts. My total now being over 200 since I started. I think I deserve a lie down. February is my birth month and I …
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Share one of the best gifts you've ever received. Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com I am stretching this prompt from ' Share the best gift,' to the 'share the best 9 gifts.' Firstly, there is my wonderful wife. How she puts up with me is something that amazes all our friends. She is loving …
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(I know, it's the 6th of December. I've been busy. Okay?) That's me that is. Well, quite a hectic few weeks in November. Last November (2023) I had a hospital appointment, the consultant examined me, made his prognosis, gave me some pills and said he'd see me in three months. A year later and the …
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Definitions: Otherness is the result of a discursive process by which a dominant in-group (“Us,” the Self) constructs one or many dominated out-groups (“Them,” Other) by stigmatizing a difference – real or imagined – presented as a negation of identity and thus a motive for potential discrimination. Otherness... an image created using Ai. Not the …
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Seven Sisters Cliffs, near Eastbourne. Well, that's another month done and dusted, soon be Christmas, and then, before we know it 2025. Let's not dwell on that, when you get older, the months just fly by. The years disappear, it's almost as if we are in a hurry to get it all over with. Talking …
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