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The ills of the world
The ills of the world I want to cosset my babes; Veil their eyes from all the ills Of the world. Each morn We wake up to The news of doom; In lands...
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DECEMBER

the ending of the novel the last page drawing near the cherry that's upon the top of each and every year . the winter's chill may threaten but our...
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Dreams of Children
Walking up the hill to the poetry class, talking to myself as if a mad man, of how tonight I will encourage the students to write vivid and...
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Once When I Was
Once When I Was - By Paul McCann Once when I was lost , you found me . The good shepherd you are . Once when I was hurt, you healed me , with your...
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Fabulous Frogs
Fabulous frogs are the best; with the pomp of a swamp baritone they belch out their bubblegum chests from bodies like glistening stones. Their back...
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Heartwood
Strip the bark. Peel thin slivers of gritted question and whittled skin. But leave the heartwood. Pluck the leaves. Leave bald bird stalks that...
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Lessons for Mr Flopsie
Mr Flopsie is content with his lot. He lives a mostly comfortable and largely stress-free life in the bottom of The Grand Magifico’s top hat. Along...
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Excuse me - I'm Carrying Out a Survey

6 working years talking to strangers
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Jesus ... I Am
Foreword : Jesus came to share His Essence. This story is revealing the thoughts which may have crossed His mind as He strode forth to complete His...
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The fisherman and St Andrew
Long ago, in Scotland, when Christianity was a new religion in that country, there was a Christian fisherman named Fergus who, discovering that St...
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Garganta del diablo Iguazu
On the wall billions of gallons of jagged water rush down the Devil's Throat, spume rising higher than the half moon falls Reminds me that adventure...
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Going All The Way 3
Sister : New York, City of Gershwin. Jazz. Optimistic. Capitalistic. Brash and rude. New York. City of the Dutch. New Amsterdam. New York. city of...
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Sweet Rhythms of Winter.

Once proud Pine, King of the lounge, garden dumped, slumped, redundant Christmas tree, frozen arms, thumbs. Needled myrtle coat, thread-bared to...
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The Speed Of The Seasons
White as the flash on window panes the world's painted with snow; bare trees are thunderbolts again but, fast as thunder, go. And then the Spring...
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Useful Verses

we know how it is... but can we change it? Image author's own created from PD elements and Cooltext.com app. Verse is Malachi 1:8 King James Version
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Thanks For The Memoires
Thanks For The Memories, Bob. We were fortunate enough to watch a Bob Hope retrospective tonight, on the local PBS network. It was a nostalgic and...
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Fare well and away fair lad.
Fare well and away, fair lad. We were sitting outside of The Panera Bread Company, at Coconut Point, in Estero, Fl. on a balmy, late-November,...
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ON POETRY
ON POETRY How many stanzas does a poem make? Unfathomable or dire! Repulsion to desire! Convulsion to chariot of fire! A dying art it may be Poetry...
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September - How
September How I am grieving your goodbyes already. Suffused in the low lie of your sun as over high top mountains, that stretch to reach winter...
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Being King
Remembering an event at a 1950 Kanasuta Lake Cub Camp in northern Quebec, my home province. A favourite game was King-of-the-Hill. Being King of the...
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