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NaPoWriMo 2026 CONCLUSION It's been a busy time again this year, but congratulations to everyone who completed or even attempted the t...

DAY THIRTY IF COFFEE KILLS Don't you just hate killing all those creepy crawlies Even vegans swallow spiders what must our insides...

DAY TWENTY NINE MISTAKES Somewhere in the back of my mind beyond the barbiturates and the alcohol there's a storybook about a boat...

DAY TWENTY EIGHT  DAY TWENTY EIGHT HER TREASURE Everyone is searching for her power But nobody can be sure of the hour Whoever dealt the...

DAY TWENTY SEVEN PASTEL DE NATA Where the Eccles cakes is Cadiz and how far is it from Albufeira and the pastel de nata questions like the...

DAY TWENTY SIX BIRDS I like big birds with long legs like flamingos and small ones with red breasts like robins I wouldn't call myse...

DAY TWENTY FIVE THE WOLVERHAMPTON FIASCO When I saw a private hire taxi registered in Wolverhampton on the streets of Manchester I thought...

DAY TWENTY FOUR HER FINANCIAL SITUATION                    Speculation intimidation what comes next I ask her she hesitates before replying...

DAY TWENTY THREE SUCH HEARTFELT LOVE Only since I found you have I been free Don't let me go I know that you love me Who could eve...

DAY TWENTY TWO SHE LOVES ME And she loves me yeah she loves me alone You might toy with my joy but we are one Briefly you came into my...

DAY TWENTY ONE ANCIENT ALIENS Things aren't always what they appear to be Cycles come and go sometimes in circles Better than ev...

DAY TWENTY THE PHOTOGRAPH They stood still in time in nineteen nineteen and they're still standing there At Chorlton tram terminus ...

DAY NINETEEN SOUNDBITES I haven't got all that I need to keep on going and she doesn't seem to care she must think I'm like h...

DAY EIGHTEEN SOMETIMES (WHEN SHE WANTS TO KISS) She's got what she thinks she's got when she wants it Where am I going wrong an...

DAY SEVENTEEN BALONEY Dressed up with nowhere to go no one to see But who knows we've all been wrong a time or two Those who care wi...

DAY SIXTEEN THE WEST POLE Everybody's ears are different look at Mister Spock But whose ears are twitching like the curtains now ...

DAY FIFTEEN THESE DAYS Nearer to the sun and stars than we are to the moon these days And who can complain about the atmosphere or th...

DAY FOURTEEN LOVE IS RARE There's nothing on the shelves that can compare In supermarket heaven love is rare My love is my night l...

DAY THIRTEEN JELLYFISH GLUE From Magaluf to Palma and back to Magaluf again she said she likes the beach down there and the sea is so blu...

DAY TWELVE TOP EURO (FOR A PINT OF  THE BLACK STUFF) Crazy as flying to a European capital for the day and perhaps as mad as paying top...

DAY ELEVEN NINETY NINE TIMES Ninety nine times ninety nine tie me to your lamppost let your light shine down on me ninety nine times n...

DAY TEN SQUIRREL NUT JOB He screamed as the nurse applied the bandage things could've been worse for him much worse if the ambulance...

DAY NINE STICKY WICKETS Cricket was never so intense before then rain stopped play for the rest of the day Celebrating time but not me...

DAY EIGHT MUDDLED AS MUCK Pew fodder looking at someone's back the stage up front a million miles away on with the song the show mus...

DAY SEVEN TALK IS CHEAP I need to see your beauty face I need to hear your lips complain about the two and eight of things the way y...

DAY SIX ONLY JOKING Linguistic diversity they must think I went to University with words bigger than marmalade on every line oka...

DAY FIVE THE REAL PUPPETMASTER Putin puppet or puppetmaster unmitigated disaster Genghis Khan Adolf Hitler all types of Anti-Christ ...

 DAY FOUR WOULD IF HE COULD Virtually any or every letter in the English alphabet is or could be a love letter we all write them consc...

DAY THREE IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW If you think that I'm writing this about you then you will also know that I almost definitely am ...

  DAY TWO SOMETHING SPECIAL It's never been done like this before or perhaps it has because if the truth were known and it is for ...

 DAY ONE ALL OF THE DOGS Talking to strangers enlightening thoughts who would believe that you could conceive all of this knowledge in...

  INTRODUCTION Who was it that said 'Time flies when you're having fun'? Well if like me, you enjoy writing poetry at any level...

  FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH Friday the thirteenth who would have thought it not me of course but her and a million other superstitious mot...

  WHAT SHE EXPECTS She sends photographs of her boat race most days Occasionally she poses in various stages of undress Each picture ac...

Here's a little thing I wrote in 2007  and updated this time last year PANCAKES Do they still make 'em in Jamaica Like me Mamma used...