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No Animals

October 30, 2022November 10, 2022 / N. P. Ryan

Two people sit on a settee looking at a TV that is behind the camera. The person on the right, a man, eats pizza from a box; while a woman, in the middle, eats salad from a bowl; to her left, a terrier dog also sits on the settee while looking at the food longingly.Thoughts on animals and the film industry via the medium of poetry.

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Animal Lover

October 9, 2022 / N. P. Ryan

wolfgang-hasselmann-cy6mlclvdx0-unsplashPoetry without comment beyond thanks to Wolfgang Hasslemann for use of the header image.

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The Swans

July 19, 2020September 21, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

The feeling I hope to paint with words today has sat heavily upon me since the day of the scene evoking it. Every time since that I’ve walked through the same Continue reading →

What We Feed Cats & Why It’s Far from Purrfect

April 18, 2020November 17, 2022 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

There’s something wrong with what we feed our cats. It isn’t secretly added or hidden from the ingredients. It’s right there on the label staring us in the face, but apparently we never see it.

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Animal Crackers

April 12, 2020September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

In 2019 while visiting an animal sanctuary in the UK, I found myself faced with hypocrisy of monumental proportions. Continue reading →

Cats Under Attack! (Backdoor Clawing Redux)

September 2, 2018September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Should cats be banned? It’s a question being asked in New Zealand. In Australia one local council offered $10 for any ‘feral’ cat scalp residents bought in.

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A Poem about Poems about Cats

August 9, 2018September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

On the back of the recent Clawing at the Backdoor yet another poem about cats. In fact, a poem about them. And on International Cat Day too.

If it’s all getting too much,  don’t panic – there’s some calming cat pics coming up below!

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An Environmental Catastrophe Clawing at the Backdoor

July 22, 2018September 15, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Poems just come to me, seemingly from out of nowhere. This one appeared last night after a couple drinks. Unfortunately it’s unlikely to win me any friends.

Only people who like cats read/look at cat related things.

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Drinking in a dingy bar by the sea, crumpled postcard from Her and World’s Biggest Ray Zero for company; then the son of a starts saying I’m cursed. Praise Be to lighting-up another smoke. Inhale, taste a foul brand: the Hex She put on me. Promised Heaven, delivered a dive nightclub Hell. Thank the Lord for liquor loving hot chicks. Though nothing compares to how it’ll feel catching up with Her.

Wanted a quick bit of business and gone. Bath had other ideas. First, battered and left for dead after a hundred heart-breaking truths. Then a Police Chief with a saggy old treasure chest of secrets to keep needs a scapegoat. Dumps me in the middle of corruption so deep it eases through bone to suck greedy at marrow. With every gun pointing my way, Hell, not even He’s gonna get me outta this one.

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One thing I never expected to hear at a punk gig: a shout-out for ex-footballer Gary Lineker, and more so one well received. Such is the embarrassment of messes the BBC has made in dealing with Lineker’s Tweet of disgust for insidious government policy and terminology, the player I once jeered from the terraces when […]

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A verse about us. With thanks to NASA for use of the header image.

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Written when the snow was but a forecast on the TV . . .

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