Writing Archive
Explore a curated collection of my writing, including psychotherapy insights, short stories, letters, and poetry, all compiled for easy access and reflection.
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to wake to find
from the tattered remains of a low dream that my love in all it’s endeavours has been useless to breakfast this beaming child has made me a dead man’s case parboiled eggs not quite…
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forms
looking along this high street now pedestrianised looking above the shops noting the Georgian architecture hints of Edwardian & the usual 60’s brick remembering this & how it was when i first arrived recognising…
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Calling out to one another
I know I’ve known you before in times gone etched in centuries rather than days. long moments passed in terms of kings stone formed by heat now coldered by rains lasting briefly in extinctions…
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The Remains of Adolescence
Chapter 12 The Remains of Adolescence The difficulty of adolescence (-apart from the living through it-) are the vestiges or remains of the ego states that guided our thinking then and the parts of…
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breaking hearts
i had girls then thinking none would get very far we’d date awhile say our goodbyes never thinking about them their ideas to find i was breaking hearts from notes pushed under doors angry…
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madness lies
there were a few one or two graced me with couple of years of their lives thankfully we just shacked up lived together co existed if you will never serious enough to tie the…
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grumbles
you get to the grumbles series of shit fights rows tiffs upsets & come the night backs to each other until the real crises come the grumble fucks selfish & short framed only as…
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could see
the difficulty situation he was in but as he never asked for help none was given or offered for who needs extra hands in the mix when everything is on fire? especially when it…
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