SOUL SEARCH

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and Three Word Wednesday. With Thursday Thirteen items.

BLOGGER BARD

Soul Search

Recessions are always thought of as bad things, but there is one
aspect that is good. When we’re affluent we don’t think very much,
and in this way values decline. When poorer, we become more
dissatisfied, and this leads us to think more. Hence, an eventual
upshot of a Recession is an increase in the intellectual process, the
arts and more – which has got to be good.

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BRIT NEWS: Tory leader vows end of
‘spendaholic’ govt if they gain power. Are we
seeing a stirring of proper politics instead of consensus?

BRIT NEWS: The Sunday Times Rich list sees ‘UK’s 1000 richest
lose £155bn. Doubt if they’ll be out on the street like the poorer,
though.

HEALTH NEWS: WHO raises threat level for swine flu. Some media say:
can’t be contained. Let the pros do their job and stop the panic!

BRIT NEWS: Guardian given evidence of paid police informers in protest
groups. The political police state. Who’ll protect us from them?

BRIT NEWS: Brown’s idea for daily attendance allowance
for MPs shelved. Reminder to him that consultation
is key to govt, and not dictat.

BRIT NEWS: Poll puts Tories so high that next
election could see bigger landslide than Blair
in ’97. Bring it on. This rabble must go!

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READ WITH MUMMY

The Magazine Post with a gentle hint of horror

Try my Horror Archive

TO EXERCISE

Fight those demons, pump it up,
Effort, sweat, with adrenalin we sup,
Racing heart, keep going true,
Don’t give up! You want to;
‘Tis the only way to vanquish the dead,
Exercise?
Oh, sorry
Thought it was exorcise you said

IT BEGINS WITH A WINK
(A rewrite)

Fiction: I looked at the mirror once more, unable to believe what I had
seen. Yet there was no doubt about it. The mirror had winked. Doing
so a second time, I jumped. If only it had been my reflection. But it
wasn’t. Behind me a chair crept forward.

A HORRIFIC TALE OF LIFE

Vampire takes it all
My girl is not what she seems
NOW I KNOW THE TRUTH
Vampire is not what she seems
My girl takes it all

THE FUNERAL

Fiction: I took the opportunity to attend the funeral. It was nice
to see friends and family again; AND in an environment where we
wouldn’t quarrel. There’d been too much of that of late. Oh yes, I
remembered the quarrels, the last one resulting in where I was
now. And I suppose the service decided me to visit one of them
again. Oh yes, I intend to often visit my murderer.

© Anthony North, April 2009

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Totally Optional Prompts
Write a poem about exercise
Three Word Wednesday
The words are: opportunity, quarrel & service
Naisaiku Challenge
Have you taken the challenge yet?
Simply Snickers
You’ll find a weekly prompt here
Thursday Thirteen
List 13 things
ABC Wednesday
The letter today is: O
Blog Your Blessings
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Meme Express
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HUMAN BEGINNING

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WEIRD OBS ORG

Human Beginning

What made us human? Science says the evolving of a pelvis that
allowed us to walk erect, leaving the hand free to develop manual
dexterity, and the explosion in brain size. We can add another
element. The new pelvis made it more comfortable to mate face
to face. Intimacy, and then love, was born, freeing us from
instinct. Maybe we’re human because of love.

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HEALTH NEWS: Chew nicotine gum
to beat smoking – sorry, say scientists. It
can cause mouth cancer. When will we realise
nothing is risk free.

BRIT NEWS: Clown from Moscow banned from wearing
his big floppy shoes ‘cos they breach health & safety rules.
This clowning is getting silly.

WORLD NEWS: Pandemic fears as swine flu hits Mexico. It will
happen as air travel shrinks world, but if we panic every time, we’ll
lose interest.

BRIT NEWS: Think tanks have their say. From deepest spending cuts
since the 70s, to debt not paid until 2032, gloom rules in politics.

HEALTH NEWS: Drink kills 40,000/yr say experts – and they
blame Govt’s 24 hr drink laws. They wanted continental
culture, but found hell!

WORLD NEWS: G7 finance ministers say world
economy showing positive signs. Ha! And
we’re supposed to believe them?
Delusional in many ways.

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THE CRIME POST

It would be criminal not to read it

True Crime – Crime Fiction

THE FARM

Tasty girl, took her out,
Twice a week, always my shout,
Lovely meals, food piled high,
Gets more attractive, can’t deny;
She’ll soon be right, taste buds tell,
I want her now! Dining bell,
Yet always such a sad, sad song,
But I’ll find another when she’s gone

THE OTHER DEATH

Fiction: He killed her. There’s no doubt about it. He did it. He took the
life from her. I’m not saying he planned it – he didn’t. Not her. But he
killed her when he killed her man. And she died of a broken heart.

O is for … OUTBURST

He won’t get up; he just lies there,
And his eyes have such a strange stare,
But it wasn’t my fault,
This assault;
I know my outbursts can be bad,
But you don’t know the terrible life I’ve had;
It wasn’t my fault,
This assault;
My only defence was self esteem,
With such a life, I have to gleam!
So it wasn’t my fault,
This assault;
And I know I’ll spend my life in jail,
The indignity makes me go quite pale;
And you think it’s my fault,
This assault

GETTING WARMER

Getting warmer, following the clues,
So many paths, time to choose,
The way to catch the villain quick,
Before more crimes that make us sick;
Forensics, informers, so many ways,
The detective marches through the haze,
But the best way to catch society’s foes,
Is always to follow the copper’s nose

© Anthony North, April 2009

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Heads or Tails
Write about ‘down on the farm’
One Single Impression
The word is just that: Word
Manic Monday
The word is: warm
Search Engine Stories
The prompt this week is: water colours
Poefusion
Friday 5 words are: column, ram, riveted, bail, break
Poetry Train
Link any poem here
Weekend Wordsmith
The word is: champagne
Saturday Scribes
Write on the theme: what we need

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BIZ REGS

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and Acrostic Only. Have you had a go yet?

POLLY TICKS

Biz Regs

Government is talking about business regulation to stop another
Recession happening again. Free market has been proved wrong. Well,
yes, it has. But regulation is the flip side of the coin, and will lead to
equal disasters. What is needed is moral regulation – an acceptance
by all in business that greed is bad!

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BRIT NEWS: In a table of youth wellbeing
in Europe, UK ranks 24 out of 29. Good to see
Labour’s youth policies are working.

BRIT NEWS: Brown orders review of MPs expenses after
recent scandals. Good timing, just as we hit deflation & a
Budget. Seems planned to me.

BRIT NEWS: Govt organs need to become ‘pushy parents’ to
increase child care. Sounds to me like the last nail in the coffin
of family.

BRIT NEWS: Budget 2009. Gloom, gloom, gloom. More borrowing
than all previous governments put together. Decade of debt.
And that’s the optimistic view!

BRIT NEWS: New top rate income tax of 50% will cause
new brain drain, detractors say. Quite possibly
– and for just £7bn. More ideology?

BRIT NEWS: UK having hottest April in a decade
– hotter than Athens or Rome. Good job. Most
can’t afford Athens or Rome now.

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RATTLER’S TALE

A Voyage of the Imagination

Twist In the Tale Archive

THE WORD

Inspiration, for a world,
The thought behind a nation,
The Word, the single most important thing,
To it, total sublimation;
Fighting, living, conquering, existing,
No other thought but this,
Driving us on to Herculian tasks,
Though we’ve forgotten what it is

THE DAUGHTER

Fiction: Divorce spoils a child. After all, both parents do all they can
to satiate the hurt. But when her father had enough of paying out
this and that, the daughter got angry and killed him. She got away
with it – never found out. But what then? ‘Mom,’ she said, ‘isn’t it
about time you re-married?’

FOLLOW
(Take One)

A new religion, will you stray?
The most powerful around today;
Spreading all around the place,
Everyone becoming interlaced;
You’re at the alter, sing the song!
Ready!!?
Let us Log On

TIME TRAP

Chronology
Order of events
No way out
Future relents
In seconds ticking slowly by
Never allowing us to spy
Events before they arrive
Maybe we can eventually contrive
Elements to let us jump through time
Negating the system of the divine …
Time is such a confinement

FOLLOW
(Take Two)

Does he inspire you to follow him?
Would you leave Bob and Jim,
To come under his charismatic ways,
Unable to get out of the phase?
Well,
Just remember the ultimate truth;
Follow’s an anagram of: Lo! Wolf

© Anthony North, April 2009

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The word today is: Follow
Inspire Me Thursday
The word is: push
ReadWritePoem
A prompt a day for NaPoWriMo
Write Anything
A good source for info and Fiction Friday
American Sandwich
Write a story in 3 sentences
Tell a Tale
Write a story around the pic of a snake
Acrostic Only
Posted 25 Apr: Confinement or Wild is the Wind
Friday Flash 55
Link a 55 word story here

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WHO ARE YOU

Including Thursday Thirteen, Totally Optional Prompts, Naisaiku Challenge
and Three Word Wednesday. With Thursday Thirteen items.

GURU TONY

Who Are You?

Who are you? I may seem to know you, but do I really? Does anyone
really know anyone? We live in an image conscious world, and this is
born in the conflict of your mind. The true you is the one inside, and
the person people interact with is more a façade – a mask – crafted
for social interaction. Maybe we don’t know anyone at all.

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BRIT NEWS: Judge tells head-butted
burglar ‘it serves you right.’ At last an injured
burglar NOT seen as a victim. Commonsense returns?

GREEN NEWS: Sellafield nuke reprocessing plant could cost
£50bn to clean up over 100 yrs. Remember this as govt opts
for more nuclear.

ARTS NEWS: Author JG Ballard has died. From Sci Fi to Empire of the
Sun, a great novelist. He will be missed.

SCI NEWS: A solar superstorm could knock out all electric, internet,
etc. Is there one in 3 yrs, as some say? That’s 2012, folks.

BRIT NEWS: UK civil servants passed info on protesters
to power firm? Another hint of state/corporate merger,
AGAINST the people?

BRIT NEWS: Reports say UK economy to grow again
in 2010. Excuse me, what about the dampener of
the tax burden? A case of myopic thinking.

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GREEN SCENE

Save the Planet – or you’ll be sorry!!

Green Scene Sub Domain

BIG IS BAD

Small is beautiful, the mantra of green,
Forget the big, all you’ve seen,
Of corporate worlds and their buzz,
Leaving us with eco-fuzz,
Obliterating planet and our soul,
Big is Bad!!!
Please be told

DEADLY SOLUTION

Fiction: He had crash landed in the desert and the sun beat
down on him. Of course, it always happened to him, didn’t it?
He was pessimistic like that. And what was he to do now? The
obvious answer was to walk out. After all, it was only a hundred
miles. But then a thought struck him: All this sun is bound to
give me skin cancer, and I’ll be dead in 20 years. So he
sat down and fried.

POLLUTERS

The bad polluter
Throwing things here and there
THE PEOPLE STAND UP
Throwing him here and there
The bad polluter

GREEN CRIME

Mr Bigbiz is on the stand,
Facing the law for what’s in his hand,
Making us indulge in this hamburger crap!
I wonder if he’ll take the wrap;
Such deceit about the ingredients within,
And the cost to the environment a major sin;
Now he’s on oath, will the truth come out?
There can’t be room for reasonable doubt

© Anthony North, April 2009

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Heads or Tails
Do something with: One upon a time
Three Word Wednesday
The words are: deceit, indulge & oath
ABC Wednesday
We’re up to the letter ‘n’
Totally Optional Prompts
Write a poem about a quote
Thursday Thirteen
Make a listr of 13 things
Poetry Train
You can link any poem here
Manic Monday
This week’s word is: plant
ReadWritePoem
A prompt a day here for NaPoWriMo
Naisaiku Challenge
Have you done the challenge yet

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ONCE UPON A TIME

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and Poetry Train. Have you had a go yet?

BLOGGER BARD

Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time. Don’t we just love that sentence. As a reader
it takes you immediately into the fantasy zone. Of course, its cliché
nowadays, but one of the secrets of storytelling success is to
immediately capture the reader with an opening line like that. If
you can do this they’ll read you more than once upon a time.
You’ll be the storyteller eternal.

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BRIT NEWS: Govt to get tough on tax
dodgers. Anyone notice the disgusting thing
about this declaration? They haven’t been in the past.

GREEN NEWS: Obama declares emissions towards global
warming a public health hazard. At last, a move in right direction.
Hopefully.

BRIT NEWS: Authorities order woman to make love more quietly
after 25 complaints by neighbours. What happened to make
love not war.

BRIT NEWS: Police watchdog chair criticises G20 tactics.
As the man says, the police are servants, not
masters. Couldn’t put it better.

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RATTLER’S TALE

A Voyage of the Imagination

Twist In the Tale Archive

ONCE UPON A TIME
(Take 2)

Once a fairy came my way,
Upon my word, she was so fey,
A princess, beautiful as can be,
Time stood still – we kissed by a tree,
Far away we began to stray
Far from reality – what can I say?
Away we went, forever and a day

DEAD LIFE

Fiction: I never believed she was dead. How could she be? She was so
full of life – the ultimate party girl, out there on the celebrity circuits.
And then – gone. And the evidence pointed to her death. But I never
believed it; and finally, I tracked her down. At least, it looked like her,
but her new dowdy life and dowdy dress? ‘It was all so pointless,’ she
said, ‘and I’m not going back.’ I left her dead.

FALLING SLOWLY

Falling slowly, forever down,
Thoughts are racing, most profound,
I see my dead mother, say hello,
All about her is aglow,
My children look sad, how it should be,
Their faces receding; Oh destiny,
Falling slowly, nearly there,
Then surrounded by light; don’t despair

PLANT

Plant a seed, it begins to grow,
Won’t he shut up? Doesn’t he know?
I try to hold my temper, true,
But on and on … Phew!
That’s enough! The seed, it grows,
I’m sorry!
I planted my fist right on his nose

© Anthony North, April 2009

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Heads or Tails
Do something with: One upon a time
Poetry Train
You can link any poem here
Manic Monday
This week’s word is: plant
Search Engine Stories
The phrase is: falling slowly
One Single Impression
The phrase for a poem is: one word
Simply Snickers
You’ll find a weekly prompt here
Acrostic Only
Choose a word or a phrase. Take a look.
Saturday Scribes
Writing info here + Sat prompt
Meme Express
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MODERN COMEDY

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PAPPA RAZZI

Modern Comedy

I find a problem with much modern comedy – it isn’t funny. It seems
to be based on insult or inane behaviour. Comedy proper is a process
of illogic, where a statement or action confronts the rationality of the
experiencer, causing a self-defence mechanism called laughter. True
comedy is so subtle that its practice is no laughing matter.

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HEALTH NEWS: The UK growing more
fearful, it seems, causing rise in mental illness.
This is what happens when a society loses meaning.

WORLD NEWS: General Elections begin in India but can
democracy exist in such a big country? Can a Parliament be
representative here?

BRIT NEWS: Local councils to be watched by govt for using
anti-terror laws to increase snooping. Shame it took
public to show problem.

BRIT NEWS: A million householders in negative equity;
another 1m close. And there’s talk that we may
have turned a corner. Wanna bet!

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FUTURE ZONE

What’s ahead … and Beyond!!!

My Sci Fi Archive

JUST ONE WORD

The future holds our destiny,
Tech for good or enmity,
Driving one word to ultimate power,
Providing a button that can devour,
Everything as the missiles hit,
Our leader safe in his pit;
Godly, he takes out man and bird,
For: In the End Was the Word

DREAM LIFE

Sci Fi: The boy had been having lots of dreams of late. He just lay
down and off he went again. This time it was a lovely dream, and
he felt at home with the person the dream made him become. Waking,
he turned round to the salesman and said: ‘I’ll have that one.’ After
all, things were so much easier now that you could have the
life you dream of.

THE LANGUID SPACEMAN

Languid spaceman, isn’t it time,
You went to planets, hoping to find,
ET and other magnificent stuff,
Even though it may be tough?
The tech’s been on the drawing board so long,
The aliens are wondering where we’ve gone,
Just orbiting the planet without any cred,
As if flies buzzing round something dead

OPPORTUNITY GAME

Ordeal of fire, proving yourself,
Pow! On the pyre, onerous smell;
Participants line up, having a go,
Only to duck, gladiator show,

Reduced to your genes, future guaranteed,
Tuned to the memes, orchestrated seed;
United society, the new way to be,
Normal entity, no you or me

It was a hard fight, but now he has won,
The fires burn all night, he can now have a son
Youth wins outright, eugenics begun

© Anthony North, April 2009

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The prompt word is: green
One Single Impression
The phrase for a poem is: one word
Sunday Scribblings
Write something about ‘language’
Search Engine Stories
The phrase is: falling slowly
Weekend Wordsmith
The word is: languid
Poefusion
A prompt a day for NaPoWriMo
Tell a Tale
Still time. Tell a tale set on an evening
Naisaiku Challenge
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Acrostic Only
Choose a word or a phrase. Take a look.

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MAFIA FACTS

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DI CASS NOVA

Mafia Facts

It goes like this. The idea of family is formed. The family is extended
into those on your side. The idea of silence and patronage becomes
real. The people under their influence are ‘protected’. Illicit forms of
enterprise are begun. Enemies are fought and destroyed. Yes, that’s
Mafia – but also Monarchy. And they say Feudalism is dead.

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MEDIA NEWS: TV soundbites taking away
school kids ability to concentrate. This IS new
media; secret is for intelligence to take it over.

BRIT NEWS: Video shown of cop striking woman & then
hitting her legs with baton at G20 protest. This is not the Britain
I love. Shame.

BRIT NEWS: Sir Clement Freud has died. Wit, politician, cook, he
was of generation that applauded eccentrics. World poorer
without them.

GREEN NEWS: List of 11 possible nuke power sites
unveiled. Always said govt’s cosmetic green
plans were smokescreen for nuke power.

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SCRIBBLING ON

You know it’s the write way

Romance Fiction Archive

N is for … NOVEL

A product of enlightened times,
The novel took writing away from rhymes,
Fictional tales of the human condition,
Characters in love, or feeling contrition;
A pact is done between writer and reader,
An emotional see-saw through joy or fear,
A means through which the mind is honed,
The writer’s thoughts in the reader cloned

LAKE OF SECRETS

Fiction: The lake of secrets I call it – especially stood here as the
sun goes down. I’ve lived so much here, and so many of my ideas
have arisen here, as if out of the water itself. So much of my latest
novel is associated with the place – at times autobiographical; how
we met, how we loved, how we parted. I just hope the body
doesn’t rise before it’s published.

THE GREEN WRITER

I’m the greenest writer there can ever be,
Every page from a sustainable tree,
I cover global warming and pollution, too,
All eco-issues to educate you,
Offering a world to which you’re entitled,
But you could have read it before you recycled

LANGUAGE MODE

I think the words, write them down,
Causing the reader to laugh or frown,
Storytelling is my game,
Using abstract thought with which to claim,
A language honed to pass on ideas,
Archetypal expressions of our hopes and fears

© Anthony North, April 2009

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The word this week is ‘language’
Three Word Wednesday
Still time for this. Words are: allure, perch & vivid
Plinky Prompts
You can answer prompt questions on-site here
One Single Impression
Posting 19 Apr, the phrase for a poem is: one word
Totally Optional Prompts
Still time to write a poem about a photo
Write Anything
Always a good source for tips & prompts
ReadWritePoem
A prompt a day for NaPoWriMo
Inspire Me Thursday
The prompt word is: green
Tell a Tale
Write a tale set on an evening

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SAVING FREEDOM

Including Thursday Thirteen, Totally Optional Prompts, Naisaiku Challenge
and Three Word Wednesday. With Thursday Thirteen items.

POLLY TICKS

Saving Freedom

I want to tell you straight. Your freedoms are going. Government
is getting dictatorial. Big Biz is becoming all encompassing. Technology
is creeping into, and watching, every area of our life. But most of all,
you are to blame. You are to blame because of your naivety, ‘cos
nothing destroys freedom more than the idea you’ve got it.

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GREEN NEWS: Study finds that one
large container ship produces same amount
of carcinogenic chemicals as 50m cars. Remember:
Big is Bad!!!

HEALTH NEWS: Brain scientists say Twitter can blunt sense
of morality. Anything can if you let it take over. It’s just a
comms tool.

TV WATCH: Hell’s Kitchen is back. Celebs nervous. Marco Pierre
White struts round like a guru, offering snippets of wisdom.
Yeah, right!

BRIT NEWS: Teachers vote for 10% rise, saying Recession no
excuse. No wonder kids are dumbing down. Their educators
are from Planet Loon.

WORLD NEWS: North Korea to boycott nuclear talks after
UN condemnation. I doubt if nuke threat is serious;
a bluff to counter axis of evil.

SCI NEWS: Deep space image shows hand of God?
How politically incorrect to all those clawed,
hoofed & tentacled aliens out there

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READ WITH MUMMY

The Magazine Post with a gentle hint of horror

Try my Horror Archive

THE SERIAL PHOTOGRAPHER

I snapped it quick, showed her surprise,
And then to the task I had to rise,
Now it’s framed forever and a day,
Reminding me of where she lay,
A trophy upon which my ego is fed,
In her death, we are wed

ENTERING THE TOMB
(A Re-write)

Fiction: The archaeologist felt the expectancy. He had come to
the end of the tunnel, carefully taken down the wall, and entered.
He struck the match. The tomb flickered to life, shadows darting
in tune to the flame. He saw the mummy; felt it move. Sitting
up, it turned, slowly, to face him. Stared. Said: ‘Put that
damned light out!’

WHERE HORROR COMES

A profound horror
All wrapped up in a riddle
TO NOT KNOW IS FEAR
All wrapped up in a horror
A profound riddle

DANGEROUS ALLURE

Seductive mouth, sensual allure,
She approaches me, can’t say adieu,
Entwined in erotic ecstasy,
A vivid tryst between I and she;
And after, what is this place I search?
The last thing I see, a bat on a perch

© Anthony North, April 2009

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Still time. The word is: Reason
3 Word Wednesday
The words are: allure, perch & vivid
ABC Wednesday
We’re up to the letter ‘M’
Totally Optional Prompts
A poem about a photo
Thursday Thirteen
Do a list of 13 things
Poetry Train
Still time to place any poem here
Manic Monday
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CRIME LOVE

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DI CASS NOVA

Crime Love

The thing about crime is that types of offence are pretty
constant through history. Yet so many periods express a
particular type of crime – the 19th century Victorian poisoner;
the 20th century serial killer. Why is this so? Maybe because
their media popularity says more about the problems of the
society at the time than the crime itself.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Cass Nova Crime Fiction

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BRIT NEWS: Landlady evicts tenants after
seeing pics on Facebook of state of place after
party. I guess some things should still stay private.

GREEN NEWS: Over 100 power plant protesters arrested
before protest. Police need to look seriously at themselves &
remember freedom.

BRIT NEWS: Brown writes letters of regret over recent
Tory ‘smear’ emails by aide. Maybe it’s Labour
culture that thinks it’s ok to do it.

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GREEN SCENE

Save the Planet – or you’ll be sorry!!

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M is for … MOTHER EARTH

All around, above, below,
From the soil to sky aglow,
Mother Earth takes care of all,
But so often we’re not enthralled;
We forgot when we thought we could lord,
That to her we have an umbilical cord;
We break this link at our peril,
When we become the eco-Devil

THE RECYCLER

Fiction: I’d been brought up to be eco-aware – save the planet
and all that. Little did I realise that the idea had greater power
than this – or that my urge to recycle would be my undoing. Yes,
I always recycled. That’s how I got caught – passing the
gun on like that.

FATAL ATTRACTION

Fashion comes
Anorexia stays
Technology hums
Auto-malaise
Living …

Advancing
Trampling
Torturing
Rotating …
Artificial living
Can’t go on
The planet suffers
It will ignore our song …
Only harmony will
Negate our fatal attraction

© Anthony North, April 2009

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The word here is: taste

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WHAT’S REASON?

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What’s Reason?

Reason is a funny thing. If a person believes in God, then all
around him he reasons proof of it. Scientists would discount such
‘reason’ – they have their own. But throughout history ‘reason’ has
been proved against a particular culture at a particular time. Maybe
‘reason’ is relative. We should never class it as an absolute.

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A Black Hole In Big Bang

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WORLD NEWS: US captain rescued from Somali
pirates. About time, too. What is happening in these
waters? All that tech; all that expertise. And ’til now been
laughed at by a crowd of thugs.

BRIT NEWS: Church leaders have warned not to gain comfort
in material possessions during the Recession. Right message,
wrong time. They should have been screaming it out
loud for years, but no. Wait ’til people can’t
afford them anyway.

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PSI-WORLD

A small step into the dark

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TASTE THE FEAR

Little ghostie, why are you here?
Don’t you know you’ve nothing to fear;
If in our minds it isn’t your fault,
It’s our fears we must assault;
And if you are an entity,
Heaven awaits for you and me

BEYOND DOUBT

Fiction: The believer looked at the ghost and said: ‘Don’t you
see it?’ The sceptic said: ‘Be reasonable. There’s nothing there.’
Of course, to the believer the existence of the ghost was
beyond doubt – which left only one answer to why the sceptic
couldn’t see it. ‘You,’ said the believer, ‘are paranormal.’

WHAT’S YOUR TASTE?

Welcome to my psychic shop,
Everything here, never a flop,
Ghosties, vampires, werewolves too,
Tell me – what interests you?
Is your taste telepathy or more?
A psychic test? Find your score;
The directions here are easy to find,
All you need is to open your mind

© Anthony North, April 2009

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