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Tag Archives: children
A Man Trapped in the Instant of Falling
The car is parked and I’m in the driver’s seat. People swirl with bags of clothes and toys for pets. Flat pack furniture washes against the paint work. In the rear mirror I see you’re asleep. I don’t know who … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry
Tagged absence, absent bunny, amnesia, Benjamin F Jones, car park, child, children, danger sudden drop, depersonalisation, DPD, driver, father, fatherhood, flash, flat pack furniture, forget who I am, forgetting, graphite bunny, memory and recall, memory loss, mental health, mental states, newborn, parenting, prose poem, retail park, Retrograde amnesia, semisomnia, semisomnium, sleep, sleeplessness, snapshot, tired, vignette
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Child’s Treasure
Beneath the loose floorboard an egg box treasure chest reveals a bent penny washer a hosepipe adaptor a pink badge with a star on it and the keys from the bathroom that have been missing for weeks. – Benjamin F … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Poetry, Snapshots
Tagged Benjamin F Jones, children, Creative writing, egg box, fatherhood, graphite bunny, hosepipe adapter, keys, lost keys, parenthood, pink badge, poetry, snapshot, treasure, treasure chest
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Haiku #1042: Paediatric Paracetamol
Sticky syringe found under cot faint smell of strawberries. –Benjamin F Jones
Posted in Haiku
Tagged childhood, children, cot, Creative writing, entropy, haiku, illness, Sticky syringe, strawberries, syringe, vanitas
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For Children: Magical Nonsense
Leggy Confusion Never confuse centipede legs with millipede legs, magically they are very different. I know a witch that made that mistake and now she has a cat with a nose like a trombone. Decisions Nip Fairy Spoodle could never … Continue reading
Posted in Exercises, Prose, Scraplets
Tagged children, children's, Creative writing, faerie, fairy, fairy tale, magic, magical, microfiction, nonsense, short, silly, surreal, witch, witches
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Tied Hands
Eczema drawstring round the wrist. Strangling softness vacuum dry. Peel and smelling of lotions rubbed on. Red itch. A strap of concrete and lime. White scaled to the back of her hand. Veins to mole full stop. Exclamation mark. Fingers … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry, Scraplets, Snapshots
Tagged children, Creative writing, Eczema, family, kids, life, mother, motherhood, prose poetry, prose-poetry, vignette
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