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Parliament of cats

A piece of empty, barren ground overgrown and patched with nettles, broken bricks and sunflowers. This is where they come. Stepping deftly from the shadows they nudge the grass aside and find a place – Manxies, Marmalades, and haughty Siamese, rag eared warriors and plump eunuchs, queens and catlings hissing, spitting, rowling till peace isContinue reading “Parliament of cats”

Posted byIan StuartDecember 14, 2021Posted inUncategorized6 Comments on Parliament of cats

Great Jarb

You Gotta!

Posted byIan StuartDecember 11, 2021December 11, 2021Posted inUncategorized3 Comments on Great Jarb

The young man of great wealth

I did everything he asked of me. Modest in all my dealings, I killed no-one slept with no man’s wife, spoke truth and thought on heaven. Then he said “Sell everything you have and give it to the poor.” A blow across the face could not have hurt me more. My life of cautious virtueContinue reading “The young man of great wealth”

Posted byIan StuartNovember 27, 2021Posted inUncategorized2 Comments on The young man of great wealth

My Time

“I want to spend my time with you”

Posted byIan StuartNovember 13, 2021December 1, 2021Posted inpoetry, UncategorizedTags:love1 Comment on My Time

Junkyard

Down the dusty, data-blown back streetsof my computer’s hard drive liesthe dumping ground –                                 the placewhere failed poems go to die,and fragments too, which make me feelembarrassed or ashamed –lines leading nowhere, overgrownwith lush, excessive, choking adjectives;a rusting heap ofContinue reading “Junkyard”

Posted byIan StuartNovember 10, 2021November 15, 2021Posted inpoetry, Uncategorized2 Comments on Junkyard

The Fetler

Buffalo shoulders and thighs like oak trees,

Posted byIan StuartNovember 8, 2021Posted inUncategorized11 Comments on The Fetler

In the Beginning

God had a helicopter view

Posted byIan StuartNovember 2, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on In the Beginning

MH17

They fell out of the clouds like stones, smashing the sunflower fields, splitting, spilling on the hard summer roads. Their lives fell with them – letters, clothing, photographs, sunscreen, lipsticks, bags of sweets, passports to witness who they were and what they had become. They will not rise up, bones whole, flesh healed, brushing petalsContinue reading “MH17”

Posted byIan StuartOctober 30, 2021November 8, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on MH17

A transport of delight

When I was four I fell in love with trams. I loved           the shape – a double decker cigar           the  glossy cherry-and-cream  paint job           the trapeze on top to catch           electricity from the wires. IContinue reading “A transport of delight”

Posted byIan StuartOctober 19, 2021October 19, 2021Posted inUncategorized1 Comment on A transport of delight

A new start ?

I haven’t been  on WordPress for a long time and I’ll tell you why. To start with, I was ill. Every bone in my body ached and went on aching. And I was tired. I would go to bed  at 6.30pm and wake up (after a bad night) at ten o’clock  the following morning andContinue reading “A new start ?”

Posted byIan StuartOctober 11, 2021Posted inUncategorized2 Comments on A new start ?

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