THIS BE THE VERSE
They **** you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were ****** up in their...

A few months ago I read this book: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

It was based on the true story of Louie Zamerini who started out as a...

I recently looked at an old file of some of my own 'Lit Bits' and found my attempts at poetry which I submitted for one of L4U's earliest, if not first, poetry competition which was focussed on the...

This is a delightful book by Jonna Castle, one of the founders of the Egyptian Study Society ( ESS) at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and whose passion is evident in the book.
I had it...

Cute and newly written book You Say Potato: A book about Accents . Written by Ben Crystal, David Crystal who have collected a compilation of 822 accents and postulate what your accent says about...

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Numbers 13 and 14, if anyone's interested, then pm me before I bin them.

Written 60 years before my birth about my then village Clerkenwell, George walked the same streets and drank in the same pubs as did Karl Marx and me...

Mystery Plays were performed here in the...

From my dusty library a cracker.......

Title: The Red Egg
Author: Anatole France

TO SAMUEL POZZI


The Dr. placed his coffee-cup on the mantelpiece, threw his cigar into the fire, and said to me:...

I love to read but just finished a book by Jodi Picoult titled Handle with Care, brilliant I just couldn't put it down, one of those books you want to continue reading but in another way you don't...

In your quiet moments, what do you think about? How far you’ve come, or how far you have to go? Your strengths, or your weaknesses? The best that might happen, or the worst that might come to be? In...

If you have good and kindly thoughts, they will shine out of your face like golden sunbeams, and you will always look lovely.

A WOMAN'S POEM.

He didn't like the casserole,
And he didn't like her cake.
He said her biscuits were too hard...
Not like his mother used to make.

She didn't perk the coffee right
He didn't like...

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell.
He painted a sign advertising the 4 pups and
set about nailing it to a post on the edge of
his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the
post, he...

Another repeated short story and poem newer readers may wish to read.

The Old Chinese Woman

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends
of a pole, which she carried across...

A poem that will give you goose bumps..............

A drunk man in an old battered truck,
They said had run the light,
That caused the six-car pileup
On 109 that night.

When broken bodies lay...

I was your best friend, how could you?

When I was a puppy, I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your child and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of...

I t's Funny

Its funny how hello, is always accompanied with good-bye,
Its funny how good memories,can always make you cry.
Its funny how forever, never seems to really last,
Its funny how much the...

How many of these do you remember your Mother saying?

A little birdy told me!

All I do is follow you around, picking up after you like some maid.

Am I talking to a brick wall?

Are you deaf or...

Life lessons are lessons that may be taught to persons who can benefit from them in the future and more than likely will be used in various aspects of their lives, for the rest of their time on...