Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian

September 23, 2022
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Words to Comfort

If you are about

to suffer a loved one’s loss

friends will share your pain.

September 18, 2022
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Reflections

These are some regrets

Acts of kindness, just not done

Maybe tomorrow

August 20, 2022
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Let sleeping dogs lie

Many things you want to say

Better left unsaid

May 16, 2020
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Unusual U.S. Place names 7 – Pipestone

PIPESTONE – (Pipestone County) Minnesota

Named for stone quarried

for hand-carved calumet pipes

Ritual peace pipes

May 12, 2020
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Obscure words explained 101. – crepescular

CREPESCULAR

Resembling twilight

Shadowy forms loom about

dim and indistinct

May 7, 2020
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Obscure words explained 98. – proxemics

PROXEMICS

Study of space needs

of humans and animals

and social effects

May 4, 2020
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Open Window

OPEN WINDOW

In the dead of night

unseen creatures foraging

back to bed for me

May 1, 2020
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Cosa che si rompono

THINGS THAT BREAK

I saw her making

omelets, breaking many eggs

then she broke my heart

April 12, 2020
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Obscure words explained 90. – cosset

COSSET

To treat as a pet

pampering and much coddling

Oh, for such life!

April 11, 2020
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Just joking1.

I went into bar the other day and asked the bar-tender for a double. He went in the back room behind the bar and came back with a guy who looked just like me.