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I’m writing to you from that blessed placewhere desert meets oasis, in Iranand it’s the 10th century, now, today, just here:and so I write of wine;..

Believe thatwith your feelingsand your workyou are taking part inthat which is greatest;the more strongly you cultivate this belief,the more will..

‘I love him – that’s why we’re together…’‘I love her too – but sometimeswe drive each other up the wall…’If your past, mate, were her past –this..

They've been atmy stats!it's taken them weeks,the stupid geeksI've gone from nine or tenback thento average fouror not much morethey haven't..

I’d love to be inside the headof the Phantom Oner as shestrikes again… with one deadly One,cuts the previous ten right downto a grovelling..

Suppose that in the graveyards of our grief,so still and silent, frozen by our tears,those corpses, by some heavenly alchemypushed up, not only..

We here in Britain have a traditionalbelief in fair play.Like, if we lose an away match,we trash their town centre,hold the town square as our..

Some years, Spring steals in slow and steady,evoking a daily increment of warmed gratitude.Not this year: first it came too early,then thought better..

You, Lord, are the prideYou are the bananaskinYou are the fallI am the fall guyYou are regretYou are humilityYou come before

Put artinto lifewith your workand your workwill put lifeinto your art

First, of nature's course, it was the birds;for theirs the air, above and over all;knowing by intuition without need of wordsas providential..

... for richer, or for richer still,in status or in wealth,in parenthood or career opportunity,for as long as my current commitments permit,I take..

I'm a hunkybabe-magnetso should Ibe wearing one of thoseblack postboxesto spare the chicks fromlusting after me?Yours metaphorically

Which is the greater hypocrite -One who kills for the sake of Allah, the Merciful?One who kills for the sake of democracy?One who kills for the sake..

The latest European edict from Brusselscommands that horsesmust have a passport, with photo...(our local brewerystill used them for local deliveries..

Tell you whatI'll pray five times a dayif you love your neighbour as yourselfdeal?

So how would you feel ifyou were lined up with the80 virgins (I always thoughtit was 76 - tough...)lined up fora 'martyr'who'd just killed 80..

poets are holy hypocrites;it’s their blessing and their curse.they sit for as long as it takeslike terriers at a foxholeor for second-best..

Did you see today's news headline?'Swedes Beam Poetry into Outer Space'it takes 25 years to get to Vegaand the review comes back 50 years after..

Beside the telephonea full-size, professionalreal leatherpunchbagon a hefty, weightednon-shift standand with a substantialrecoilinscribed in fine..

I may bedyslexicbut I knownot tocarpover someone else'sparc

You wear your heart upon a sleevethat’s shaking with sad laughter,knowing a world of tears and smiles –yet, which before? which after?your answer..

Scrolling Wikipediafor entries on ‘Perception’this entry – scrappy and unclear –produced a new conception:referring to the standard quotestradition..

Philosophymeans, from the Greek,the love of wisdom;I'd like to thinkit also meansthe wisdom of love

this time of year offersnaught for our comfortso it might appeardays draw in. the yearseems tired at the thoughtof doing it all over againcolder as..