HeyJaredMother of Hope
Rambles, sweary rants, stories and poetry on life, love & liberty.
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The Rise of the Meaningless Label (opens the original)
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There she was in my feed.Pleased as punch.Yet another middle aged woman I know, showing off her shiny new badge.Not an actual badge, obviously.It’s not a denim jacket in 1983.I mean the other kind.The ones so many people are proudly wearing these days.“I’m this” or “I’m that”I have X condition, Z condition.Y?Because having a label is fa
Sunless Cove (opens the original)
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Sunless CoveCome shelter in this sunless coveSo I shan’t freeze aloneWhere grains of truth in clumsy handsFragment as tumbled stoneSee waves engrave their cries in cavesSalt bite the crumbling limeWhilst echoes lose decisive voice As casualties of timeLet’s float ideas, inflated lilos,Brazen reds and greensThen watch them catch on jagged rocksTo shriek as daggered dreams.<p
Horseshoes and Hedgerows (opens the original)
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“She’d make her own dandelion and burdock!”My mum would say impressively as she recounted her trips to the country to visit her grandmother, Laura.Wow! Once I learned, however, that the dandelion and burdock had not been fizzy, I was somewhat less dazzled. I, was from the Soda Stream generation, after all.“So…..just sort of sweetened water….. with weeds in it then?”But mum, would continue blathering about the homespun brown beverage, ’til my mind ceme
Opal Day (opens the original)
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Opal Day.I dipped into an opal dayFine watercolour paintingMauve bruise that could have slipped awayAs morning chores lay waitingA stolen hour to study skyThe blurring layers of whimA canvas for each cabbage whiteTo lose itself withinSheep grazed on blades of jaded grassBright beetles scaled tall stemsTo mine pale ghosts of summer’s askAnd harvest final gemsCalm s
2020 - The Lens that Never Leaves us (opens the original)
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As news of Dolly Parton’s death broke, I too felt a wave of sadness, but perhaps, of a different kind.For me, she epitomised something other than country music’s smart ‘dumb blonde’ and the rags to riches American dream…….It was how those we admire………can disappoint us.Had she died in 2006, 2016 or even 2019, I’d have been like the rest of ’em - giving it a bit of ‘Islands in the Stream’, indulging my ‘Whorehouse’. Shitshow changed everything.
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