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September 7, 2018

The Pit and the Pendulum: Edgar Allan Poe and the Short Story

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Bound in glorious purple, this new edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales from Oxford World’s Classics reprints some neglected Poe tales among the usual classics

Edgar Allan Poe has a claim to being the originator of the modern short story. Not only has the earliest use of that very term, ‘short story’, been attributed to him, but he stands at the beginning of a long tradition of short fiction which would only take off in British publishing in the closing decades of the ni...

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Published on September 07, 2018 07:24

September 6, 2018

When A Girl Does Acquiesce

When a girl does acquiesce
To a lover’s caress
And undress,
The honest man must confess
That sometimes he
Finds an ordinary she
And the thought,
The silk and lace,
The chase
Are all
And the fall
Naught.

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Published on September 06, 2018 22:57

There Was A Young Academic Called Moore

There was a young academic called Moore
Who did her studies adore.
She gave me tuition
Which led to perdition.
That studious young lady called Moore!

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Published on September 06, 2018 05:33

September 5, 2018

Ghosts

Mick Canning

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Ghosts;

Walking through the rooms

Of an empty house.

Seeking the past.

Their silent breathing,

No more than dust motes

Floating in afternoon sunlight.

Their shadows,

Moving in the no wind.

Old footprints appearing in the dust,

And going nowhere.

Nowhere,

Now.

The ghosts of past happiness.

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Published on September 05, 2018 23:47

I Know A Young Lady Called Ling

I know a young lady called Ling
Who is extremely left-wing.
But on meeting a man called Night
Who is of the centre-right
I confess they had a fling!

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Published on September 05, 2018 23:04

A Philosophical Young Lady Called Mable

A philosophical young lady called Mable
Dressed in the colour sable.
When a young man named Guy
Asked her “why?”
She said “Existence is merely a fable!”.

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Published on September 05, 2018 22:40

There Was A Young Lady Called Moore

There was a young lady called Moore
Who all the men adore.
When she fluttered her eye
At a priest named Guy
He thought on the Canon Law!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law

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Published on September 05, 2018 22:16

Pontificate

There was a young lady called Kate
Who liked to pontificate.
She insisted that she was right
And every night
Kate would prate and prate!

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/pontificate/

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Published on September 05, 2018 05:50

A review of my collection of poems, “The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems”

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I was pleased to receive the below review of my collection of poems, “The Writer’s Pen and Other Poems”:

“Having read previous poetry collections by the author, I was eager to read this one. I was not disappointed. This is a great collection of thought-provoking poems. “Indefinable” is a particular favourite of mine from this collection”.

For the above review please visit, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2506614343?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1.

You can find “The Writer’s Pe...

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Published on September 05, 2018 04:27