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I rolled out of bed
A touch of rouge
Like blooming
 
I am blooming into poems
Dedicated to a lover.
 
Not ordinary ones
Like hooker green cargoes
But like something in between
Holding a hand
And a hot cup of coffee that burns
When you kiss it
Blooming slowly into something sweeter
 
Something that hums a little,
Dances a lot,
And bares a little skin
 
That says Yes
To a little [...]

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In the Cross Country from Newcastle to Glasgow Central , returning after a  warming almost-week tangled in the arms and dreams of “A”.
A lot of dirty laundry is waiting for me in Glasgow
it means there’s a home waiting for me there
a table with a view- even though it’s made of moss and stains the paper [...]

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Fall in Love

28.01.2008
2:58 pm

Weather report says rain starts at 3pm today. so I am parked inside Caffe Nero with my toasted ham and cheese sandwich and my notebook for the next few hours to watch the rain, smell the coffee, hear the whirr of machines, listen to Tracy Chapman and write.
I love this particular table in this [...]

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Smile at the sky

STOP
what you are doing and slow down for a minute.
Put down the mobile phone, stop the power walk; shift into a slow, comfortable amble and a deep, long breath.
Tilt your face away from the book, the screen, the floor and throw your head back to face the sky.
Look at its enormous blue. Grey. Black. Twinkle. [...]

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SHARE THE LOVE

There’s not a Shakespeare sonnet
Or a Beethoven quartet
That’s easier to like than you
Or harder to forget.
 
You think that sounds extravagant?
I haven’t finished yet-
I like you more than I would like
To have a cigarette.
Giving Up Smoking, Wendy Cope
 
Share the love. Give someone a poem. Give up smoking.
So it’s a new year- this is always a [...]

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A Day of a Life

24.11.07
 

 
Today is a day to begin with writing- a small token for a day of a life.
 
Today is a day to give my heart to something new. Yesterday I gave it to Journalism for the first time.
 
Today is a day to tell A I love him like I love the sun, the warm Bombay rain [...]

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The Glasgow Manifesto

The drive for a better, kinder, more adventurously lived life has begun again. I want to allow my life all the richness and experience it was born to see, do, receive, give. I’m in Glasgow starting a year of newness and experience. What do I want to do, what do I hope of this year [...]

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YES TO GIGGLES

I haven’t said YES in 5 days.
So today I’ll say it. I’ll do the things that I long to do and face the things I long to face.
I want to say yes to class from 8am to 6pm
Yes to looking out of my window at the stars when I should really go to bed and [...]

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EVOCATIVE

 
The view from my room
 
My room
Glasgow is slowly growing on me.
 My journal, my world, my self are slowly changing, evolving, growing wings. I’m starting to see the city in terms of colours and curves and mood and sky; starting to see the joy of anonimity in a new place so I can park my self [...]

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