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  Sixty Million Tonnes And Counting Sixty Million Tonnes   and what do we get? Almost a song lyric   written for those who don’t get older,   the uncounted ones lost in the rubble of Gaza. Sixty Million Tonnes of homes, roads,   and infrastructure converted into rubble that will take uncountable years for us to clear and still longer to rebuild towns and villages,   to replant crops and trees. And who are the ‘us’ - the ones who will pay. The same ‘us’ as did it before and will do it again unless perpetrators are held accountable. And while this goes on, year upon year ‘they’ will feed those surviving living still in that wasteland of rubble. The same ‘they’ as did it before,   are trying to do it now and will do it again unless perpetrators are held accountable. And how will we, us, they and them   deal with the hate engendered. It will have to be dealt with, then what will we do as we count the cost once again. https://www.ozymandeus.com/authors...
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  Longing The years have passed but still she yearns for the child   that once grew in her body. It was there she felt it knew it gave it a name bought clothes and toys soft and cuddly. They told her she was ill sick with longing that there was no baby that there never was a baby only her longing. Still. https://www.redrosethorns.com/post/longing
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  Flagging Scotland Imagine a new flag for Scotland, a thistle soft purple   and prickly green growing on a background   of misted drizzly mountains. Imagine that new flag for Scotland I can almost feel those midges biting. https://edgeofhumanity.com/2026/11/13/edge-of-humanity-magazine-poetry-monthly-november-2026-issue-25-authors-%c2%b7-31-works/
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  Oct. 23, 2026 issue of the Rivertowns Dispatch
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  The Last Devil To Die I have known so many devils, Hitler, Stalin, Kissinger, Pinochet and now Netanyahu. And then there are those with histories or geographies beyond me. It seems there is no end to them that one begets the other in a prodigious male line straight from Satan up to Earth, there to make a new Hell, there to be fed,   groomed and protected by politicians in their own interest, by corporations in their own interest and by countless others in their own interests in the country they call home. They’re like a queen honey bee, her own ordinary egg   fed by Workers, groomed by Carers, protected by Soldiers. It’s nurture not nature that makes her queen and keeps her queen while she is useful. Then they kill her and breed another and so it goes   on and on and on. If die it must, I see the last devil swallowed by an angel and shit out into the fire   they all helped to create. All will burn in the end if there is an end to it all. https://coinoperatedpr...
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Harsh Snowflakes blowing gently, fragile as shadows smiling in the soft light. So soft. Catch them quickly in your hair  to melt them for soon they’ll grow harder even though the sun is shining and smiling blindingly bright, bright and harsh. Harsh crunchy crystals. Jewels shining like diamonds hard as rock giving way to ice as the light starts fading when the sun loses it's smile and we're skidding,  sliding slipping away, blinded  by crystalline https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HQWMDMKP?fbclid=IwY2xjawVdflVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR9oJydWLOVsqt91Fxt9ijrjxoY7UTy-1WGxpVI701vh8959TcQE2IqwRmEcng_aem_5t9cnA2IQyxwX8ztOdSCeA
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    All Gone They built the roads.  They built the bridges, the power lines and masts. But still the landscape was empty, deserted, lifeless, abandoned, hopeless. And then they built fences. They’re good at that, building fences to keep THEM out, not let THEM cross. So still the landscape was empty, deserted, lifeless, abandoned, hopeless. As abandoned as an empty shopping trolley, as abandoned as those who pushed it there in desolate desperation. And then it snowed. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HQWMDMKP?fbclid=IwY2xjawVdflVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR9oJydWLOVsqt91Fxt9ijrjxoY7UTy-1WGxpVI701vh8959TcQE2IqwRmEcng_aem_5t9cnA2IQyxwX8ztOdSCeA
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