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Carol Ann Duffy and the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University have brought together poets from around the world to write new poems about the recent days past and the weeks ahead. The poets were invited to write directly about the Coronavirus pandemic or about the personal situation they find themselves in right now.Continue reading “Ideas and Inspirations: Write Where We Are Now”

I watched an appraisal on TV, A small red fire truck. Paint peeling, Looking like it had made a whole bunch of kids happy, Back in the day. And the appraiser held it up for the camera, and said, “Unfortunately, there is evidence it’s been played with. Somebody, at sometime, played with it, And thatContinue reading “Fire Truck”

Can’t sleep, I am scared God. Are you please listening Father? I can’t Stop this feeling of dread. It overwhelms me. It takes me down It pulls me under. It suffocates me. Through this situation do you really care? I feel like I am drowning in my own despair. The lies I believe are cripplingContinue reading “Knock Knock”

Stay at home, stay indoors,Catch up with your household chores,Stay at home, please don’t go out,Clap your hands, then twist and shout. Stay at home and self-isolate,Keep your distance, don’t tempt fate,Phone your family, text a friend,Some day soon it’ll come to an end! By Tam Laidlaw

Think of life as an itch only you can scratch or a leaking roof you must patch. All because there is no one else around only you can create that million dollar sound all are waiting, breathless, desperate to hear.   If you don’t do any of those things how can you hope to winContinue reading “Regret is “What if…””

Over the years Rosalind has delighted us here at The Bugle with the on going adventures of her comic creation Mr Ketchup, alongside his two pals Haggis and Neeps. This instalment catches Mr Ketchup at a more tragic and reflective moment. Yellow Sun shone on a white frosty morning.The path sparkled like diamonds fit forContinue reading “A Sad Day for Mr. Ketchup”

He first came up with the concept during the middle of the plague. He started thinking, why only tell someone you love that you love them four times a year? Surely it should be more often, that you let someone you love know that your life is added to with them in it. So heContinue reading “Happy Everyday”

Life is not as cruel as we may believe when all we seem to do is grieve as we made choices that makes us fret and fill our hearts with sad regret and only looking back do we get to see life took us where it needs us to be and rewards us for theContinue reading “Think and See”

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I like to think that we are all surrounded by elegant music. Natural Beautiful Elegant Transcendent That our conscience cannot hear, Yet infiltrates our beings anyhow. You see, I refuse to accept that animals live without each others’ songs. Their cries are too pretty. Like, dogs’ hearing is astronomical compared to ours. I think thereContinue reading “Shades of Sound”