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Blessed
As Charles pedaled between lines of perfected manicured lawns, he wondered if today would finally be the day. The boy on the mountain bike knew that...
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Due Deliverance
"I'm tired of people." He could hear his mother's voice in the back of his mind as he turned down a dark stretch of Route 718. Looking out through...
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The Neery
There once was a little creature called a Neery; a kind of winged fairy that for 364 days of the year was invisible to human beings but that always...
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In High Maroc
I sat on a roof in the mountains of Morocco Drinking mint tea, speaking bad French. I read some novel of dubious note When a goatherd approached my...
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Speak Softly Love (After the Godfather) 1
Speak softly love, let love ne'er enter your heart. All the moments of your life to ne'er start. Life is not love, beauty is not truth... all heart...
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Who Cares About New Years (Song lyrics)
1. I hear the racket of rockets in the sky I hear the New Years midnight bells But I look back and it only makes me cry. It hurts my heart more than...
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Is It Tonight Lord
Is It Tonight Lord? A child once chased a kite through this playground used to be a school here too. Now only blood remains soil defaced-- where an...
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Gogol
Check out the newspapers today... It says Gogol, there is no copyright issue, or have they "copyrighted" coloured writing?
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Retirement Options for Tube Trains: #3 Cadnam, New Forest
Stippled with mould it lies at the foot of a lawn by a greenhouse where earthenware pots lie cracked like the summer soil.
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Barcelona Attacks 17/8/17
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Barcelona Attacks 17/8/17 What would it be like if they came here? Islamic State, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Al Shabbab, or Boko Haram? Decapitations in...
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Hope In My Eyes
1. A sweet, gold cherub spreads his wings; new hope and joy, the gifts he brings; my sobs shall cease; my soul shall sing; a new chance give to...
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A Country Life
A Country Life Sketch an outline of a farm where people live and chickens – cows horses and a llama or two do the same. With a nice house porch and a...
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Love in Sight
Love in Sight He tucks her in at night checks her coughing spell in the wee hours an extra blanket perhaps to chase away the chill. Married so many...
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Winter wonderland
Walking slow crunching snow dripping trees In park smattered many pied white bodies, excited children building, cheeks aglow, refreshed parents...
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My Life in Your Hands
The moment, Nicolas stepped into the apartment, he saw the white orb on the kitchen table. His heart started pounding and he froze with the hand on...
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Crunch carpet
Snow-clad skeleton trees beckon squirrels, crown magpies
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The Card.
When I first met Louisa we didn’t hit it of straight away. We had nothing in common. It even appeared she made me her enemy or target, by the things...
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The Search for Meaning
The Search for Meaning ‘In the beginning…’ so the Bible says. A linear story, a record of truth? Many philosophers, religious seers and occasional...
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Dark Matter
Dark Matter I fear the darkness most of all. Hidden evil, spiked with fear, Rays of hope forbidden, A dark matter lies unseen. We fear the darkness...
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Does It Matter?
Does It Matter ? My mind made up Does it matter? Thoughts and dreams And cosmic scenes Do they matter? We’ve spit the atom! Does it matter? A quark...
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- 479 reads