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For One

He who wear the childs' glove, Who slips a thistle, Through the blood, Ran out the broken abbey cloak, Tearing the stones of the grass-slabbed bank...
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Deshnok

Holy rodents
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Others

An earthquake is a natural disaster: we blame God. What happened on Tuesday was not an act of God, but of men for the God they believed they served,...
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Rio Mayo

A coup in Argentina
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That Place

New York. 11.09.01
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The Counsellor

I have been a full-time psychological counsellor for literally longer than I can remember. I work within a number of mental institutions, but, more...
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Bottom Feeders

It had turned out to be as good a morning as the weather forecast had promised. Olaf's first glance through the porthole on wakening revealed a clear...
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Questions

Questions I have watched and rewatched all day The dreadful images of your chosen end, The fireball of your self-immolation, And I am no closer to...
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FINALLY YOU

Two strangers meet as a result of a painful association
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Twin towers

A reaction to the recent terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
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Today was a Nothing Day

Today was a nothing day No super hero's saved the day, No super villains got away. No jilted lovers sang the blues, at six and ten there was no news...
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Alight

Deep inside the ancient tomb A light flickers to life in the wind Illuminating the harsh curves of Granite nestled between softwood Tentative...

Questing for a Quick Buck

Making money in the 77th richest country in the world

Missed Opportunities

Poem about a girl

Champollion's Dream

Poem about Jean Francois Champollion, the man who first deciphered hieroglyphs (edited formatting)

Eight Guilders Short

A sailor's lament from Holland

Sunt Lacrimae

Title from The Aeneid by Virgil - A classic test/proof of Frost's dictum that 'poetry is what is lost in translation. Virgil's phrase can be translated as 'There are tears from things' but apparently it's even been (very loosely) translated as 'Shit happens'. Anyway I've taken a positive route from the original melancholy.
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Briefly in Bhuj

Looking but not seeing
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X Letter from America

A light Rain Falls
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Shrinking

head shrinking suburban styly

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