Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Smoking

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Of all the pubs in all the world, you had to enter mineI Won't permit your passive smokeIt makes my patrons gag and chokeI cater for the normal blokeSo kindly toe the lineOf all the pubs in 'Chestycough' my local this would beI don't accept your smoking ruleTo me abstention would be cruelI know my rights, I'm not a foolJust m... More..

Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Things people do when driving

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TRAFFIC STOPPERLook right, look left, look right again. Pause...... then left, then right, then left, then right. If the road is clear, continue to peer each way as your head swivels back and forth like a scene from the exorcist. It is accepted that many actions in life may have some calculated risk factor. Crossing a rural B... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Abstract poems

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Mr InsignificantFootprints on the sand heading out to seaPassed through rock pools , left on rocksShow no speed, and yet they hurryShow no feeling, yet they worryThat time won't waitFootprints on the sand conform to any sizeAge, no barrier to the thrillOf those who seek contentment in retreatTo where the sky and ocean limits ... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Hate

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Hate; Scribble the word on a pad and lock it in your safeFor not to keep it safe, though merely starve and stem its usethen place the safe inside a fortress strongroom wretched waifand melt the key , delete this human word from false excuseIn all of life's emotions, hate can turn his withered hand to mostAnd spin a web of wre... More..

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Life

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Write your article THE EVERYTHINGThere is much in this world that can blight the life of a clean, hard working, healthy individual. No, it's not drugs or alcohol. Not even self inflicted illnesses like obesity or bulimia which swing the human torso to two different extremes on the digestive pendulum. Even tobacco fails to mak... More..

Politics, News & Issues > International News 2nd Lt. Prince Harry deployed to Iraq

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Prince Harry made his own decision to join the military . I assume that he made this decision because he wanted to be a soldier . If this was not the case ,then surely he has entered the military under false pretenses . I suspect any ordinary new recruit may rather suspect that when he joins the army ,he may at some stage be ... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Life's paths

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When you can rise from slumber every morningwith resolution running freely through your veinsWhen gallantly you greet each challenge dawningChampioning your beliefs, not leaving challengers in chainsWhen championing deteriorates to confrontationAs being all that's left to pull you throughBe yours the balanced mind that knows ... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Reflections on success, struggle, and happiness

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SPEAK OR BE SPOKEN FORIs excellence attainable in what one aims to sayAnd can one speak his mind with self controlDetermination,Courage,Observing all the rulesA smattering of talent mingled inFor a man who doubts his statureWill cultivate his ego,put up barriers, and cajoleTo fool himself,and compensate his failure to beginWi... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Football Are football players paid too much?

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Are Footballers paid too much - Of course they are! . This is the 'old chestnut' of market forces. We always evaluate pay as being earnings or entitlement for what we do. If the word earnings is evaluated , the word, by definition means.........To receive money for work - TO DESERVE. How on earth does a footballer DESERVE a w... More..

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