Category: Time
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Heave Ho, Valentine’s!
Valentine’s is nearly over!Can you hear me cheer?All this nonsense packed awayFor yet another year! I’ve champagne cooling nicelyIn ice that was quite priceyWith strawberries by the icyChilling since last nighty;Dark chocolate looking fineyAnd some oysters there – cor blimey!They’ve really knocked my psycheI’ve gone all pale and whitey…The thought of shellfish – crikeyAnd that’s…
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Catching Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (1725 – 1798). Ish. Picture the scene. It’s the mid-eighteenth century. We’re in Italy; Venice, actually. The Carnival is coming to its close. Noble folk (and lesser-noble for that matter!) are all partying like it’s 1999. All are dressed in elaborate clothing, wearing stunning full masks, some with head-dresses made out of the…
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Aphorodíta of Phoenicia
Aphorodíta, Cast in marble Watches through the years Yearning, Waiting, For Phoenicia, Her land to reappear One Phoenician, Her Phoenician, Adonis, She waits for too But cast in marble She waits forever For that’s All she can do. Behind the marble The story’s different, They live on Forever more Even in the Underworld, even if…
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Love Bugs
Brightly coloured with long legs and eyes on stalks Very often seen when out on walks Fluttering by here and there And they literally seem to be everywhere!
The Mansionic Perspective 
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