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May 2026
Hello everyone, do you realise that we are almost halfway
through 2026?
How are the New-Year's resolutions going? Can't even
remember what they were I suppose? Never mind, I'm sure one must have been to
read Winamop every month so you're on-track. Well done!
It's a good edition this time so let's get right to
it..
Andrew
Lee-Hart recently went to a very good concert. Unfortunately his
enjoyment was stifled by someone persistently coughing in the audience. The
incident inspired this story which is called simply; Cough.
Tony
Dawson recollects a chance meeting with a very interesting
character.. maybe a bit too interesting for comfort. It's called No
Names, No Pack Drill.
Simon
King likes to drop in on a scene from the life of a notable figure
in history. This time we visit philosopher, academic and social commentator
Karl Popper as the second world-war ends.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg. Something different this time as Hannah takes the
short-story to the very limit of brevity with While Wearing Masks: (A
COVID Tale) and Tagged.
Terry
Brinkman remembers a time when he was about nine or ten and had to
care for a young lamb. It was Terry's Little Lamb for that
summer.
Terry Brinkman has a great new
piece of art called Bison. It's on his art page along with all
his other pictures too.
KJ Hannah Greenberg presents some
of her photographs focussing on children's toys and pastimes.
Ping Yi
has another tongue-in-cheek poem today as he tries to negotiate His
Grandfather’s Road, a peon for more considerate use of public
rights of way!
Diane
Webster is always welcome here. This time she has five great poems
for us: Cascading Rust - Another Flutter - Pond Shore - Tipped Over
and Memory Blossoms.
Gary
Beck is a widely published poet and I'm very happy to have two new
poems of his on the site today. Here are: City Trees and
Economic Abuse.
Richard
LeDue is back with three super new poems. They are : Another
Collapsed Temple - A Black Coffee Sermon and Even the Greats
Lose Sometimes.
Edward
Johnson is a new contributor with a great style. His poems deserve
your attention. Here we have: Glove Compartment - The Push/Shove
Conundrum and Prioritizing Anxiety.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg brings four intriguing poems this time. They are
Love Corpora - Eloquence - Conferring and Verbal
Peculiarities.
Terry
Brinkman has excelled himself here! Just feast on this collection of
18 poems: Ghastly Plateaus Gruffly - Para Nymph - Lost Bruins Hat - Red
Labeled Tim Gin - Snot Green Fishing - Coen Earnestly - Oyster Eyes - First
Embraced - Valentines Day Dinner - Motley Ocean - Green Lawns - Wedded - Under
the Window - Wooden Shutters - Lace Fringed - Sundering Bloom - Grecian
Vice and Sand Slowly Stacks.
Quite a lot of stuff there wasn't there? And all for zero
pounds (as the Temu ads insist on saying).
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I'll be here in a month, you owe it to yourself to be
here too!
Ta-ta
Ed.
Winamop was conceived on a
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continued unabashed since 2003.
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