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Save the Jungle
I moved through the towering trees, with their mellifluous melody and various greens and browns, reds and yellows painting a kaleidoscope, and ————- a perfect canvas for the glory of nature there. Awed, as in a holy place I saw, the joyous sound of water over stone. I sat and watched its furious rushing forcing…
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FGM
My mother was the knife that took it from me. She wielded it as it had been for her and the others. Held ——————————————— me down as I screamed. ‘Don’t let them do it, Mummy! Please! Please! Don’t. Stop it! Mummy! Til —————– they stuffed my mouth and then my eyes bulging in…
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Where Land is Rare
I stood on the cliffs and looked out to blue, blue sea, the bobbing boats with lines and nets in the bounty. ——- An innocence spread out on the tortured ruins below the rippling waves where we came too late, too slow. – Heard the bells of the churches and cathedrals…
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Goodness Sown
Politics is the name but man -ipulation the game as they have learned to use our prejudices against us, leaning on us like toppling trees to sway our thinking and blow away our morality. Murdoch has tumbled the ——————— numbers to open he safe, of sanity and pushed the news into his own road. And…
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A Moment of Grace
For a moment it blazed across the sky, deep rubies, amethyst and gold as the sun sank below the sea leaving me. I looked and saw through the colours into a lit space where all was possible beyond imagining, For a moment time stopped. Then the sun sank and darkness collected around me – yet…
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Help! Look what’s happened!
O phial from astra Zeneca we adore you, the first drops made in Europe delayed by ports and threats and paperwork. Millions more expected, so they say as they sit around a table and nod their heads with Eton wisdom, while thousands and thousands and more sicken daily, and a thousand and more die from…
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A Woman’s Choice
She peeled back her skin and saw that she was raw material for a marketing machine that would make a fortune in denying the fragile existence of a woman because she was fitted out in the wrong covering. —— Leaving her tight skin friends another floated into money by stripping out her stomach and pretending…
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Ghosts of Christmas
They politely exercise their prero -gatives by sitting on our beds when we crack open an urgent eye to begin the day. They come to us in each piece of wrapping paper and gift, the stockings on the mantelpiece breaking open wounds and joys and hurts and crazy memories of floundering ———— in…
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