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Parsing Through
*/ David Mickes Professor of English at the University of Houston says studies 'have shown that when we read online text we do not read all of it, parsing only the left-side of the column.' In honour of this dazzling insight. here is some Concrete Prosetry. Image used in accordance with Creative Commons Share Alike Attribution 3.0 Image maker Chickensaresocute
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The Big 7-0
If my dad had lived, he would be the big 7-0. On this day, Dad was born seventy years ago. Seven decades is how long he would've been alive. But...
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STRENGTH OF THE SUN
our sun's so very heavy yet seems weightless in design as she rises very slowly till she fills the sky with wine . if she ever chose to leave us or...
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Grateful
In this shell I remain safe, Within a crowd gravely misplaced, Decimated hopes of fateful communion, Solitude my only acceptable union, Still there...
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This is what love is
For N
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Walking with Jeanie
Memories can be very real
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If I
More recycled work... Image is from publicdomainpictures.com
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Blame it all...
"Pantoum alert" Avoid if allergic to formal poetry. This is an old one. I've made dozens of changes to it over a couple of years and end up changing everything back again. Apologies if you've seen it before. Vaguely inspired by a Dylan song from one of his greatest albums and various other things. Image is in the Public Domain due to the artist having died before 1915, it's ten to eight as I type so that's alright then.
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The Perfect Place
Once, a group of men went searching for a land of peace and tranquility. They searched for years, travelling the world until, finally, they came upon...
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Butterfly Soul
sky. of the wing Butterfly My soul, changing colour, flies. Beautiful song of the Earth.
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The Wonky Heart Pebble
It is worth saying that this short lives up to the name of a short story. It is more a flash fiction than anything else I could label it. We were tasked with writing the manifest content of our peer's selected item and letting the others come up with the latent, or interpretation and meaning. Hope you found it as weird as I did as a writer studying dreams for a short while.
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The Woman at the UEA
The whole thing was bizarre, très à la Bond . Waiting in my name were tickets to Copenhagen International.
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An Evening With An Immortal Man
You have seen this so many times before. Wives; lovers; sons; daughters even grandchildren. So many lost souls. So much lost love. It has become more than you can bear.
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The Tale of the Clutterbug and the Minimalist
Clutter propagates, from stuffed drawers emerges, submerges … “but where is that thing that I kept just in case …
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Juan and Jill
In response to airyfairy's comment, a sequel to Good News, Bad News
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Second Wind
Slow go the winds of time, to reign in futures is to harness destiny, a trove of completeness, lack of hope, groaning for the intangible, the gaping...
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Fairytales of Dublin
Aoife awoke from the nightmare, calmly. Had it been a nightmare at all? Her body was certainly not gripped in the terrors of someone who had just...
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Good News
Inspiration point. Image created and released into the Public Domain by The Tango! Desktop Project
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The crowd
My mam and dad did everything as part of a crowd. A self-reinforcing group – bigger the better in terms of security and recognition – being one of...
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