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How Sweet That Is

Our pedals spin and whir we career along a gravel path. Beneath the squinting grey I listen to our intimate soundtrack. Cycling tall in conifers, following your curved back that maps my way, caught in the thrill of future reminiscing

A Hijacked Nation

A Hi-jacked Nation The TV runs on a loop: Torn clothing, ashen faces, wails of realisation, Maniacal sirens and amber alarms, blood running from foreheads and knees. Concrete monoliths shadow the victims
Cherry

Lily's Frillies

Another journal. Thoughts on a frilly hat.

The Barley Fields

Baked tarmac cracks in the heat of the day And the smell of scorched earth shimmers. Dust and insects film my prickling face.

Planet Tardis

Through the looking glass at the back of the wardrobe in a quiet street where the Tardis stands Barely furnished Habitat basics two mugs and a kettle Shall we go exotic? test our pleasures
Cherry

I Have Always Been Afraid of Air

I have always been afraid of air The swooping fall of space fast cold plummet Not a circle like a leaf but in deadly earnest I want a bigger life but not the empty air hold me in your arms

Everyone in America

Everyone in America live in big colonials on the lakeshore or in modern mansions with a seaview in the OC They all have perfect teeth and designer clothes wonder at nothing except the price of oil

Cave of the Storm Nymphs

Let me call you a storm pull you laughing into lucent waves My pretty sisters loll and languish in flickering cave light tricketting with baubles while sailors drown and drown Come to me we wil be air

Red

It was red/gold my hair bright copper Titian Pre-Raph Burne-Jones beautiful I asked the hairdresser to put it back now it's just red

The Old Car

...The car was on its side and secured in position for the grand display to follow.

The White Crow

...The calm water stretched for one hundred yards through the canyon ahead

HANG ON YOUR FAITH

Hang On To Your Faith The devil's whole strategy is to get you to turn loose of your faith in God and His Word. MARK 4:15 NIV 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the

REJOICE IN TROUBLE

Rejoice In Trouble Life can be hard. Maybe you have been forsaken by your spouse. Or are struggling with the death of a loved one. Or facing the constant pain of disease. Or the loss of a job or business. Or, maybe just the

IMITATE GOD

Did you know that the Bible tells you to imitate God? It surely does! EPHESIANS 5:1-2 NIV 1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, 2 just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a

The Wooden Bench

With blue checked shirt and smiling eyes, You made the wooden bench under the ivy. That golden band glinted on your hand, Which was rough as the wood that you planed. I danced around the garden, all blue sundress and chubby legs,

Jonathon James

Poor Jonathon James always suffered from pains As soon as he got near his classroom. He would clutch at his ears in a tantrum of tears And would hide in the infant boys' bathroom. When louder he bawled his mother was called

No more brouhaha

In any conversation with another person you are dealing with the three aspects of them, just as your morning meditations are attempting to align on paper the three aspects of your self. But, in distress, their aspects are not likely to be in agreement or even alignment. Their personality might be fighting with the soul, and their practical aspect will be watching every word to try and double guess the impression they are creating on the receiver. So how many aspects of yourself would you want to add to that mix?

On The Edge

Blowin' through space at the speed of fright, Slam down the throttle and feel the rush; The scene's just a blur, Peak velocity reached. Young light on the ledge, Bright whirlpools beckon; Mainlined again, no other way.
Cherry

What They Don't Tell You About Vasectomies

There's a secret about vasectomies that you don't discover until you're committed to the little operation. You have to have a lot of sex before it works. The actual operation is quite simple and painless: a bit of intravenous Valium takes your mind not only off your balls being cut on but pretty much everything else as well, and you're out of the doctor's office inside of 45 minutes. There's not a whole lot of pain afterward despite the location of said surgery, and you're back on your feet in a day or two. You can resume sex anytime you feel up to it; certainly within a week in most cases.

My shy moon shadow

As time dissolves to no return, I'll be the urn that still keeps standing, loam-based, tall, holding in essence, what I am and all that I will ever be and can sustain: Silent, earthen and earthly,

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