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Homesick – Free Write Friday

May 17, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary 15 Comments

Image prompt courtesy of http://www.kellieelmore.com It’s like you feel homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist Eternally tethered to a time, a sense you can’t put your finger on […]

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We Are Poets – NEWSFLASH!

May 9, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary Leave a comment

Award winning We Are Poets are offering you the opportunity to arrange your own screening of their fantastic work at your local festival, arts venue, community group, film club, university […]

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THE LINES BETWEEN

April 5, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary 12 Comments

Snap! The tension vibrates from here to there Lines traced as they slip between finger and thumb A tight pinch and a gentle squeeze before the breeze catches the nape […]

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I ASK MYSELF

March 26, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary 28 Comments

Why do I do this? The habit of self flagellation unbearable yet I find my place here time and again pick… pick… pick… ouch. Why do I do this? Thrown […]

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For the women

March 8, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary 4 Comments

For the women who carve their own identities from deep roots For the women who take baby steps in women’s shoes For the women who seek solace in their abandonment […]

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CREATIVITY SHOWCASE – PHOTOGRAPHY

February 28, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary Leave a comment

So this is the first of my series of blog posts intended to offer up a mini celebration of all of the lovely creative people and work I have come […]

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Caramel & Cohen

February 16, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary 25 Comments

The musings of a troubled mind or permeations of another kind Taken to the depths and back by a beauty too big to hold, a heart too tired to sleep […]

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Lost in coffee

February 16, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary 18 Comments

Finding my place was so much more than searching for an empty table Two chairs when I really wanted there to be only one, solitary me Chatter ahead and lurking […]

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Endurance

February 12, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary 23 Comments

Over kneaded dough eventually relents under pushy palms Malleable and responsive until it can take ‘no more’ Unfurling from its ball form before flattening out ‘Yes’ is a slow steady […]

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Mañana

January 19, 2013by ordinarylifelessordinary 19 Comments

Click, jump, click, jump, click Watching in awe as we are entertained by the bar man who jumps a rough match across his finger nail as if by magic ‘Again, […]

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