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Unloved The whole house echoed With emptiness Spectres of past lives Crouched helpless In cobwebby corners Surrounded by Aromas of damp Tornados of dust Stains of neglect And rust A narrow staircase A leaking roof Peeling paper Were not enough To put them off Tenderly nurturing A wreck into a home Image found on www.dailymail.co.uk

I follow Cheryl Merrill’s post on elephants, about which she is very passionate. I love the language she uses and have previously written a poem borrowing some of her words and illustrated with one of her amazing photographs (see my page Elephant Skin under Poetry). You can find Cheryl on cherylmerrill.com. I later developed it into something […]

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
At 1:04am, on the 20th of August, after exactly 292 days or 41 weeks and 5 days of writing my first draft of my novel, I wrote those two long awaited words… ‘The End’. I was in bed, in the dark, laptop on my knees, with my sleeping beauty of…

Source: Uncle Bert’s Pigeons