Cherrypicked stories
velocity of rest
This is a poem that attempts to think 'scientifico-poetically'; a bit like Einstein without his amazing sense of metre! I couldn't think what category this should go in.
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London Snow
I went to sleep alone yet woke to find you next to me. The white room was filled with an unnatural brilliant light as you broke the morning news, framed at the bedroom window like an arctic fox.
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Sleeping in the Library
Sleeping in the Library The house hums a harmony of children settled in their occupations and rain taps drumming thrumming fingers on the roof tapotement a heater makes the air drowsy
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Ode to an Age Old Struggle.
An experiment for me; my first sonnet. On love, art and science. (written in the Alexandrine meter). feel free to critique...
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They cannot make it alone
"Love ya lots babe, ur da best"
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Forever Jaded - Chapter 3
Richard sighed as he gazed up at the white whisps rolling across the sky. The clouds were different shapes and colors; some gray and long, some white and small.
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She died I think,
poem,version,editing,
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Legal Fees
Could almost be a plot-line for a Victorian novel...
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Imagine Me - April 2
NaPoWriMo Day 2
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The Fairer Side of the Sunset
So this is how it happened. Listen and listen close, because I fucking hate questions. So I’m in North Bend Hospital cleaning out the bed pans of dilapidated grandmas...
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D Minus
part of the sonnet, sort of, not, collection -
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I Suppose It Was Pretty Obvious To Everyone
I know it's what she would have wanted Florence & Mo had flown over all the way from Ottawa anyhow the twins are growing up so fast and me, myself, I'm not getting any younger
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Splinter
Splinter (28th March 2008, 12.05pm) Slipped under the skin Lodged beneath the surface How do I begin to take a pin to dig you out Millimetre by millimetre Tearing away at each fragile layer
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Have you ever speed dated before?
Local radio listeners sent in questions that they would like to ask on a first date. i shifted them about and added a couple so that it works better.
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The Hamster Diaries 2
In which hamsters are purchased.
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An Ode to Thailand
(dedicated to his majesty King Bhumibol) Brightly glows the living love force: from the flaring pink sun of south central Thailand,
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walking home (after Reading Ivoryfishbone's Week on Fire)
Once, I had all day to read the papers became an expert at crossword solving now I know cross words solve nothing I try to learn patience of maturity by remembering what it is to be a child
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You have just become a character in my poem
“You have just become a character in my poem” I think as the conductor hole punches an ‘okay’ into my ticket
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Hymn to a Broken Marriage
“If we have children I will be an inattentive father."
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