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August 2024
Here we are with the August edition of Winamop.
It's the summer-time according to tradition, but here in
Scotland the grey clouds are stubbornly persistent.
I guess a lot of us are away somewhere? Sand between the
toes, barbecue smoking away, you know the sort of thing.. I'd rather be doing
something recreational instead of sitting here - but I am a trooper and I want
to bring you all this good stuff!
Let's get started.
Joyce
Walker has been to a pub called The Nobody Inn. She's been there a
couple of times and each time it's different.. The story is called Nobody
In.
Michael
Smith returns with a tale of an unsettling experience. Seeing your
Doppelgänger, an exact facsimile of yourself, on the other
side of the road. What would you do?
Simon King's subject this time is
the famed Finnish composer Sibelius. We meet him in his later
years with a long and successful career to look back upon.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg had a new cat... and then another new cat. How will they
get along? Always interesting to observe.. It's called Cat Cat's
Woes.
Terry
Brinkman has some work to do - hard work. It starts him wondering
Too Old? Or I Need To Go To the Gym?. I know how he feels.
Dr. K Srikala Ganapathy has
something a little different: This is "Flower Rangoli" or "Pookolam". Have a
look.
Terry Brinkman has a great new
piece of art called Lake Walk. It's on his art page where you can
see all his other pictures too.
Paul
Murgatroyd is usually a story-teller but this month he turns his
keyboard to poetry. Here we have: Oik - Adunta and
Daffodil.
Gary
Beck has brought some poems from his unpublished collection
"Rigors". Here are: Job Bound - Product Placement - Lessons - Resigned
and Alarm Bells.
Joyce
Walker also has a collection of six poems this month; she's
returning in style! Here are: An Angel Once Came Down From Heaven - The
Ballet Of The Birds - Blue Dawn - By Day, By Night - By The Fireside
and Chicken.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg has two new poems for us today. Here we have: An End
to Quantum Tunneling and Instructors' Manuals as Principled
Palp.
Terry
Brinkman has contributed two Sleepy Whale poems, a Sonnet and one
poem. They are: Sonnet CCLXXV - Sleepy Whale 468 - Sleepy Whale 461
and Cast Shadows.
That's all we have this time, check back soon for more,
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Bye-bye for now.
Ed.
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