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Embers

Loss is a ravenous inferno And I sit surrounded, by gasoline soaked memories Each time one is exposed, it is kissed by the fire, then a piece of me...

Searching still

I am a man of faith, but it is a thing constantly assailed Answers I have not one, despite drowning in questions Like any one desperate, I wish to...

I the beholder

How to gift the world beauty, when it possesses so many eyes Each already colored its favorite shade What of the ones who look aside Will not their...

The Eyes Of Tears

The Eyes Of Tears By Paul McCann I‘ve cried these brown eyes blue , my hearts been broken in two , but somehow I know it won’t be long and I'll get...
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The Long Road Home

begins with a little boy and his dog Prince both skipping along a gravel road. Cars are few -- money is a dream and allowances unknown. Life is...

Guinea-pig

In his expensive, light grey suit, unshined shoes, I watch him in his deep sleep, in my cream coloured armchair. I say my armchair, it was partly...

Vigil

Catching words

Sitting on a Stump II

Meanwhile. On a stump, I was sitting on a stump. I weren’t involved, I was a lump. That stump, it was feelin’ kinda stumpy. But still, no place is...

Sitting on a Stump I

I took a longish hike. Boy, my legs were tired. I shoulda took my bike. ‘A’ stump I acquired. Deferred to my weary feet. I would sit a bit. An oak...

Rocky Balboa Isn't As Tough As He Thought

When Rocky Balboa returned from Russia, he'd been cheated out of his money, he didn't have a penny. I was at his estate sale and I bought his...
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Déjà Lu (Formerly Déjà Vu)

12 years and little has changed... The last two stanzas, which I've never been happy with, changed. Image By R-41 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, source Wikipedia Commons

Way?-markers

When walk instructions are unclear, and arrow-signs the worse for wear – why does the colour disappear? – they might, if shaped to point the way...
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Ink

If you can't write, write about not writing... (How self-absorbed is that..? No, don't answer that...)
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The Cave Chapter 5

The Cave Chapter 5 Shawn sighed as he came out into the large cavernous opening. “I’m going to sit down for a moment,” he said, grabbing a bench...
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The Unsent Letter

I've been going through old untitled documents on my cloud and found this unsent letter to my next door neighbour whose noisy handy man (her little pet) polluted the air space with a very loud radio each weekend, drowning out the birds and other soothing sounds.

April Fool's Prank

Three convenience store employees thought what they did was funny but I think it was cruel. Those three people said that I won a thirty million...
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Charlotte Finds A New Employment : Ch.4 : Getting To Know The Foreign Men - Section 2

The Western economies have become stagnant and poor. Charlotte and friends are introduced to adventures in their new work which create unexpected reactions. This is Section 2 of 2 sections.

Bring Out Your Dead - Part 33

In which Archibald wakes from his rest, and Frankie doesn't!

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