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church street cemetery
I follow the path where tombstones line up like stegosaurs plates. At the bottom there’s Timothy aureoled by a piss coloured glow. He spends most of...
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Deep Love
[Continuing the idea of one of my old hymns on Sundays :] Amazing, awesome, wonderful is God’s unspotted love. Its span we cannot fathom, its...
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The Script Writer - Part II
‘So let me get this straight, you narrowly avoided death today?’ The editor’s wife asked in a serious tone, yet with an expression on her face and a...
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The Script Writer - Part I
Larry’s coffee was free that morning. The barista had insisted that he didn’t pay for it, before he had had the chance to tell her that he had no...
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The Mezzotint Chapter 7 Pentimento
‘I can’t really think of any parallel at all, certainly in my experience, but to be sure I would have to adopt the same tactics as a barrister’ ‘I...
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My Alma Mater
My Alma Mater P K Routray NIT, Rourkela my Alma Mater, with love and pride I proclaim, as my second mother. My gratitude to her, superior to my...
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The Wanderlust Lady and the Door to Door Salesman - 34
March 4, 2013 Monday was bright and clear. I got up early, had breakfast and then cleaned the kitchen and put away everything that was lying around,...
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Chapter 17 Cyber Soul
Chapter 17 Cyber Soul Finally equipped with a full history of Chimera, and his memory of Nessa kneeling before like a frightened child still fresh in...
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I remember
I see her laughing I watch her cry She is a million people Just a few of them smile She’s Christmas lights in June, Still hanging on the shutters…...
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the struggle within
The struggle within I have been too held back By this birth this skin, Hiding bruises, scars Blood and sinew. I need to be born again Formed anew in...
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Man on the run
A poem about King David
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Hillary Clinton 6
Now, I will speak about what I mean by liberal culture. Liberal culture as a meritocracy can be seen as flowering in the 1960's. So, if we start...
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Crossover (Part 1)
She rose from the thin layers of water, climbing the stretch of beach, her arms flapping and hips rising. She was tall and beautiful, wearing a...
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Amsterdam
No time to lose, got to find a place to hide No hotels, motels for me, not a dollar on my back Gonna move way down town to the red lights on a side...
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'Beautiful Confusion' haiku set
Ra's last red-hot rays fall upon the wild garden this strange summer's end the honey-dew is halved in the chess-board kitchen... under dim blue light...
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Longing or '**** you, next door's cat.'
F*** you, next door’s cat, sunk in smug puddles of riddled fur, curled like a purring, steaming turd.
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Sleep Refreshment
but when we are asleep … removing bad things, internally flushing, refreshing and clearing the mind …
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A Marriage
His chicken head teeters on a long scrag of neck. She seems to have no neck at all: a medicine ball topped with a limp brown wig rests on buffalo's...
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The windows of her soul
The windows of her soul pull apart the soft soil Of my heart: slowly allowing me to enter truth. For through her open oval, that knot now rises;...
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