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Michael Collins – Wind
Outside this Wattle and Daub the wind is doing what the wind does best: Â blowing the trees every which way... including loose. And the...
Michael Collins
Feb 92 min read
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Michael Collins - New Year
New Year more fear Who is really who…  Allow me to be more precise... more clear...  As if Christmas was not bad enough With the...
Michael Collins
Jan 121 min read
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Michael Collins - The Jolly Old Fellow Got Stuck In The Chimney
The Jolly Old Fellow got stuck in the chimney: but it was Christmas morning, so it was all just very funny. Still, it was...
Michael Collins
Dec 8, 20242 min read
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Michael Collins - Remembrance
I forgot to remember Both Gough... and The War  Arguably, neither achieved much in the long run... No... Not true... Sorry... Spirit of...
Michael Collins
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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It is A Mess - Michael Collins
It is a mess! Â They say: God bless this mess... I say: it is just a mess... And a mess gets in the way of moving around the house... you...
Michael Collins
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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Michael Collins - Grand
These feelings are... well... grand... Such an old-fashion word... To use such a word in todays 'modern' poetry... Why... the very...
Michael Collins
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Michael Collins – Personality
I had a personality once upon a time. I thought that it belonged to me... till I realized... It was not really mine. Â This...
Michael Collins
Aug 12, 20241 min read
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Michael Collins - Rain
Rain has no conscience shows no fear Displays no love… Is not a living thing. Effects not to condemn… not to judge…. Simply falls from a...
Michael Collins
Jul 8, 20241 min read
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Cabbages - Michael Collins
from a cabbage to a king a story oft told a metaphor of transformation akin to transmutation... from lead to gold there was once a tale a...
Michael Collins
Jun 17, 20241 min read
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Beloved Palm - Michael Collins
Beloved palm sits in the shade... Like me... It does not seem to like to see the sun... Again... Like me... And though my Beloved is...
Michael Collins
May 13, 20242 min read
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Power Lines – Michael Collins
Power lines provide... well... Power... To the people Not in any political sense of course... Though... that may well be a matter of...
Michael Collins
Apr 8, 20241 min read
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France - Michael Collins
France once Left now turning Right gutter ideals sewer mentality growing nasty children thank you family Le Pen we have to encompass the...
Michael Collins
Feb 11, 20241 min read
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The Garden - Michael Collins
at first luxuriant now overgrown in its time replete with a goodness that only the Earth could provide the shadow falls across the garden...
Michael Collins
Jan 7, 20241 min read
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Chaos - Michael Collins
Dishes in the sink! Garbage on the floor! Clothes scattered here and there! Who could ask for more? Me... I think... And soon! Before I...
Michael Collins
Nov 13, 20231 min read
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Blessed Spirit - Michael Collins
Blessed Spirit Well... What name have you chosen? Is this, then, your new disguise? 'Sunflower'? 'Moonbeam'? 'Earth-Child'? Which one won...
Michael Collins
Oct 9, 20231 min read
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Who is Roger - Michael Collins
Who is Roger? Where is Roger? And why did he miss the train? Where is Roger now? Is Roger even Roger? Or an AI using just using his name...
Michael Collins
Jun 13, 20231 min read
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Plastic Bags - Michael Collins
‘Plastic bags! You wrapped my presents in plastic bags?’ It is what is inside that counts. ‘And what Op Shop did these come from? Well?’...
Michael Collins
May 8, 20231 min read
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Skinned Alive - Michael Collins
skinned alive enemies of whatever empire was on top at the time or those to be sacrificed martyrs to whoevers god was pouring forth their...
Michael Collins
Apr 11, 20231 min read
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