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cathietufnail

Perpetrator of poetry 🖊️ writer of screenplays 📝 lover of life 🧡 and drinker of wine 🍷
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What kind of a person could eat that doleful, yell

What kind of a person could eat that doleful, yellow face?

#easterchick

Simple pleasures that used to be a chore - putting

Simple pleasures that used to be a chore - putting the washing on the line. Sun out, warm breeze on my skin, birds swooping and cheeping. #makingthebestofit

I'm a writer, it's a notepad. It's a funky notepad

I'm a writer, it's a notepad. It's a funky notepad. It's a match made in heaven!

Thank you @design_image_geko (and when I get stuck with the words I can colour in the pictures!) #amwriting #lovelife❤️

No-one said pole dancing was going to be easy Eve

No-one said pole dancing was going to be easy Eve #poledancing

🌬️ and it's a wonderful feeling! ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

🌬️ and it's a wonderful feeling! ⁠
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⁠ You were my Cinderella’s Rockefeller,⁠ Poc

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You were my Cinderella’s Rockefeller,⁠
Pockets full of fancies,⁠
With smiling eyes that hypnotised,⁠
That hurricane advances.⁠
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More villainous than Herod,⁠
Dealing dreams instead of flesh.⁠
I thought I’d found my everything,⁠
My heartfelt dearest wish.⁠
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But streaming vapours⁠
Hid the truth, the face I couldn’t see,⁠
’twas no glass slipper in your hand,⁠
Your love was not for me.⁠
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A villain not my saviour,⁠
A scoundral through and through,⁠
You took my love, my everything,⁠
Now all that’s left is you.⁠
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There’s a hurricane raging in my brain,⁠
It’s all that’s left of me,⁠
Until you find another fool,⁠
Then death will set me free.⁠
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©Cathie Tufnail⁠
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More on my website www.missdemena.co.uk⁠
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Just as you can choose how you react to being told

Just as you can choose how you react to being told you can choose 🙂⁠
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#inspirationalquotes #knowthyself #life #spiritualhealing #energy #growthmindset #inspiration ⁠

☀️ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #poetryofig #igpoetry #writer #

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True ⁠ ⁠ #poetryofig #igpoetry #writer #words

True ⁠
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A woman, but so much more than a woman....⁠ ⁠

A woman, but so much more than a woman....⁠
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There's a lot to see when you look up!⁠ ⁠ ⁠

There's a lot to see when you look up!⁠
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Harlots and Heretics⁠ ⁠ 'Understand me now!' s

Harlots and Heretics⁠
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'Understand me now!' she cried,⁠
As in the ducking stool she writhed and twisted and tore her skin on God's own rope.⁠
For was HE not the one who put her there?⁠
'I am no witch, I am no whore, God made me, I am his!'⁠
But feeble words were drowned, as icy water clamped her head in vice like claws,⁠
And salted wounds erupted around voiceless screams.⁠
'My lungs explode,' she thought, when once again clergy’s madman jerked her from deaths liquid grasp to flounder in the noisy air.⁠
They cursed her long and loud, her crime of living more sickening to them than any murder.⁠
'I did nothing' she gasped, as padre's fist closed her mouth forever.⁠
'God, just let me die!' she prayed as stars exploded in her mind,⁠
But no such easy end awaited this fair maid.⁠
They dragged her, silent, from the witches chair,⁠
With hating hands, that introduced her to the cobbled street,⁠
That broke her bones and bruised her skin with stony hard indifference.⁠
'Burn the witch' chanted the children, infantile ignorance fed by prejudice and hate.⁠
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She hardly felt the snapping of her spirit as her bloody eyes beheld the wood.⁠
Her funeral pyre, pointing to the brilliant sky,the finger of the devil mocking God.⁠
They tied her, pierced her feet with broken twigs and lashed her shattered body, to prevent escape.⁠
Their feeble minds rejoiced to see the greedy flames consume her flesh and melt the curse she whispered with her dying breath.⁠
'God loves you' she thought, 'why then could he not love me, when all I strove to do was save the child from death?'⁠
'Her death is mine' she thought, and wondered, as they cut her down, why pain no longer racked her form.....⁠
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Read the rest of this too-long-for-Instagram poem at http://www.missdemena.co.uk/harlots-and-heretics/⁠
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