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Love, unbelievable
Those who hear me tell about my love must think I lie for it’s hard to believe men may reach heaven and not die ; hard to believe that such bright...
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The Count and The Carpenter
Once there was a village carpenter and blacksmith called Pascal who received a mysterious visitor; a nobleman who called himself the Comte de Lupine...
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- 668 reads
Unguarded Letters
It's almost too dark to see. What little light there is comes from the small lump in my hand: a mixture of dirt, rags, sweat, a trace of hoarded...
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The Down and Out King - 30
WILLIAM I once was rich - had lots of tin - I never thought I’d get so thin, Business failed, and I must go Into the poorhouse, oh Dear oh I have had...
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The only Kiss
It was only a kiss one simple kiss it seemed more than that the warmth the coziness the feeling of someone there but it was nothing more Nothing more...
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Uncovered In Recovery
After about 13 years in recovery, from alcohol, some drugs and life I relapsed. Everything that I had been told in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous...
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After the fight
I imagine that you want to ask me if there’s someone else. I would hesitate before answering, even though there isn’t.
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Momma's Little Man
The way she dressed him little boy in short pants and gray tam way back then, the food she fed porridge and toast now unfamiliar to most – today is...
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- 440 reads
Some Bread for Momma
Words that wound keep spinning inside his head. Poor boy nothing but a poor boy. Words do hurt. Not his fault so little to eat since dad passed away...
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- 460 reads
A Natural Foliage
A fallen leaf belongs with its mother as others do on the branch each aware of height and its long way down -- none wish to roam those unknown paths.
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BRIGHTER THAN THE FLAME
i'd always had a fear of fire i'd always turn and run but you eased my anxiety and showed me how's it done . we're brighter than the fire that would...
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- 479 reads
Love is Scarey
Its going to take time for me to fall hard for you but, I do have some type of feelings for you. I'm happy that you gave your heart to me and that...
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- 433 reads
Forever And A Day
Forever And A Day by Paul McCann Somewhere in my dreams I’ll find a place to leave this world behind within my heart and my mind , I know its true ,...
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- 554 reads
Just Jade
A watercolour – signed, just, 'Jade' – his portrait, as a young man
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Because I can speak
The clouds keep passing over but it’s still recognisably summer The kids in the park lithe and lean Male, female it doesn’t matter It all means the...
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Awaken Summer Day
Awaken O' Summer day the shadows of dark night stencil with patches of gray then with your flaming wheel the bright canvas roll out with infrared...
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- 305 reads
Man Longs For
Man longs for P K Routray It is not my fault that I was born amidst scanty and poverty, that I did not know what education is, nor aware of...
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Lara's Song
We met in-between the lines of a craigslist rooms/shared add: “Female seeks female roommate for summer sublet. No thugs, no drugs.” Upon meeting her...
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The Solemn Book of my Life
A solemn book with a transparent cover baring the folio of a solitary life the binding thread-bare smudges of dried glue shackling the tattered...
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Mind Matter
I want to swim through the ocean of your mind, wade though the musings and fancies to find the file marked with my name. I want to open it and ruffle...
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- 292 reads