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If I should vote

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If I should vote, remember this of me

That according to The Representation of the People Act (1983)

My vote is cast, and cannot be revoked by any earthly sway.

(Unless the Royal Mail loses it on the way.)



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Wet Flowers Haiku

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Old man, don't expect
More than the scent of wet flowers
This summer night.
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The Reverse Domino Effect

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One person picks themself up from the ground

And someone close by sees, and does the same.

Dusts themself down, and carries on.


A third picks up the same idea:

Defeat is not defeat; and copies yet again

The resolution they have seen before.


And so it carries on; one act of courage

Can be infectious in a chain, and at the end

We all may rise again with pride.



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The Grave's a Lonely Place

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Edited by Richard Walker, Monday, 6 Jun 2016, 22:23

"I fancied you".

"I never knew!"

"I never said."

"And now I'm dead."

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My Kitchen Bad

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The spinach didn't just wilt.

It was kilt.

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Wanna Loose Wait?

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Edited by Richard Walker, Saturday, 4 Jun 2016, 23:24

Here's another crazy idea. Some Swiss prof claims if you want to slim, then between dawn and dusk you should eat only cereals. Honestly. It's called "The day, the muesli diet".

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Calendar Misinformation

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Google Calendar sent an alert: "Clear tomorrow". Got up and it was still raining.

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One Liner

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Another one. I asked some Greens a question. But there was no Brussels answerability.

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One Liner

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My new hedge is privet. I was thinking outside the box.

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One Liner

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Revenge is sweet so they say. Do they mean it's serial?





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Epitaph for a Mouse

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A cat decapitated me.

And so I went to a mouse, mouse, better place than I have every known.

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All the Birdsong

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Growing old

Does not disappoint.

A calm mind

Hears birdsong better.


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Red Top

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A jogger in a red top

Overtook me quickly tonight.

I never even heard him behind me.

But further up the path I noticed he slowed.




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Birdsong

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I'd organize a Thrush competition, if they needed me.

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When The Wind Blows

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Edited by Richard Walker, Monday, 30 May 2016, 21:22

If, the wind blows your hair about,

Be grateful.

One for the wind

Two that you live and breathe

Three that you still have hair.
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Headline

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MASOCHISTS FACE BACKLASH

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One Liner

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I'd write about bondage. But I'd be bound to get it it wrong.


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We are what we are

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I only sobbed at fifteen watts

A low-energy blub.

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Bird Lover

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Edited by Richard Walker, Saturday, 28 May 2016, 00:26
I couldn't honestly say who's    pecking at the window.


Is it yourself that    won't come in?

It's open if you will enter. 

   I've been waiting.

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Bird Haiku

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More and more

I want to hear

That little bird outside my window.

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One Liner

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I'd never wear my hair in a bun. For me that would be a top not.

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All the Bairns (= Alla Barnen)

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All the kids loved school meals,

Except Mag.

She said they made her gag.


All the kids loved school meals,

Except Duke.

He said they made him puke.


All the kids loved school meals,

Except Nick.

He said they made him sick.


All the kids loved school meals,

Except Drew.

She said they made her spew.








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Sappho and Rudy Vallee : As Time Goes By

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Edited by Richard Walker, Sunday, 22 May 2016, 22:01

A kiss is still a kiss

Why make me wait like this?

I lie alone and sigh.

Oh please don't make me cry,

As time goes by.


I lie here waiting: yet

The moon and stars have set,

But still alone I lie.

Still gazing at the sky,

As time goes by.


http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/sep/05/poster-poems-sappho-reinterpreted-billy-mills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXwS7yLOYt4



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Alla Barnen

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All the kids looked after the gerbils, except Nat.

He fed them to the cat.



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Beauty and the Beast

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This is a wild flower I spotted today, very close to where I live. I saw it was a cranesbill, called that because plants in this group have seedpods that look like the bill of a crane. They encapsulate a rather neat way of seed dispersal.

But which cranesbill? I've not seen it there before and I wasn't familiar with the species.

A bit of searching showed it is the 'cut leaved cranesbill', widespread in Europe. Although it's not rare at all, I can't remember seeing it anywhere before.

But this same, shy little plant, when introduced into North America, transmuted into an invasive species, and a 'noxious' weed'. I don't think anyone would have guessed that from looking at it.

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