Cherrypicked stories
Glass Heart
Deception and hurt predicted in the crystal ball...
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- 645 reads
Breath of Alex
He had fire behind his eyes. Red raw and bubbling orange, a spicy spreading glow that often warmed the back of his head, a furnace blast of energy...
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- 1592 reads
By the automatic doors
We stood with lit cigarettes in the wind Reflections sliced by the automatic doors The sky heavy; a cruel twist in the breeze I felt my own heart...
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- 902 reads
A Lover&;#8217;s Quarrel
Rhyming Verse
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- 856 reads
Raw throat pain
Having a throat so sore and a languishing larynx that left him unable to talk, in a strange sense liberated him. Usually he crammed a
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- 2142 reads
Rowing on a Lake
Narrabeen Lake Sydney Oz Long ago
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- 673 reads
Evening comes softly
short lyric
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- 623 reads
One Year On From Flowers
A light long lost now, the candle flickers but never dies; still lights the room and many faces. A year ago, an accident: small, compact and quickly...
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- 563 reads
Summer Factory
Muggy mornings all too often drag us out of bed and out the door, then throw us onto the bus and drive us to destiny: allocated time slots in a...
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- 671 reads
Please Pay and GO!!!!
A telephone rings and we look and shake and nod and glance and feel our pockets and grin and then somebody answers and goes out of the room and talks...
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- 581 reads
BDressing gown on the bedroom door
memories of childhood innocence
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- 641 reads
Hunted
Someones` worst nightmare brought to life
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- 727 reads
Flowers
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know' John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn), May 1819. **************...
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- 693 reads
Crush
I wasn't sure how to categorise this poem. Reactions please!!!!!!!
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- 934 reads
Abacus
On the right side The heroes On the wrong side The murderers. On thr right side The victims On the wrong side The victims Are legitimate targets...
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- 891 reads
The Tourist's Photograph
A few lines on wandering into the lives of others.
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- 758 reads