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The Creaks of Age
The turned over wastepaper basket wheezed a thousand tiny delicious squeaks as he eased himself down slowly for a moment's repose. A multitude of...
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The Angelus by Jean Francois Millet (1814-1875)
One of my favourite paintings.
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Grimms73
‘You don’t need to be daft and drown yerself. You can just drink the poison to kill yerself.’ Bruno is deft at sneaking up on people and has big lugs...
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Moon Over the Monkey's Back, part 4
In dreams, I still revisit that mountain march, where although immutable constellations of experiential data remain bedded within my psyche, the...
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That Is Life
That Is Life P K Routray At this twilight days memories, back when I gaze flash before me my smile and tear, tears of apprehensions and fear, smiles...
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Land of Mist
A poem about Wales
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Moon
Golden mystic cloaked in velvet; moving like a magic spell that, through confusion, wisely peers then, like illusion, disappears.
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Beth Tree and the Elgars 5
Mrs. Elgar remained a support to me as I continued with my lessons wish Mr. Elgar. And she also impressed me with her literary knowledge and...
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Waiting
I couldn’t remember if you still smoked, so nonchalantly I lit a cigarette. I wanted to look out across the harbour but mountains of clothes hemmed...
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The Candle
Donna Walker, my best friend since high school, and her husband, Mark, had the most prestigious candle selling business on 69 th Street, the shopping...
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Local.
[myworldview721] Skip to content Local…. via Daily Prompt: Local She was known as the local tramp. A loose woman. For any man looking for a night of...
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Illusion.
[myworldview721] Skip to content Illusion…. Illusion It was all just an illusion. An untrue bloody facade. Not one word of it true. Those...
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Paragon
…. Paragon That’s what he was know as in the village. The paragon of virtue. So clean, so saintly and God like it was questionable if he ever needed...
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Company and Ambient
Company and Ambient P K Routray A droplet of water on the bed of a river, a lake or an ocean with drops million loses its identity in infinity but...
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Pandora's Mirror
There's a little old shack at the end of the road Nobody will venture that way. Whatever goes on in that old wooden hut ... Is a secret to this very...
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Cocoon
The van beat a clunking, jittery path through the endless twists of gravel road. The driver flicked his fag butt out the window. 'You got three days...
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The Prince With The Glass Eye
Once upon a time, in a far away kingdom there was a beautiful princess who was afraid to go to sleep at night because whenever she did she would have...
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Indigo
She had wanted to wear red but chose, indigo instead. The day so hideously hot summer disassembling into dust earth cracking, like broken eggs shells...
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Once I saw an Invisible Man
Once I saw an invisible man wearing an invisible coat. He ate some invisible marzipan as he sailed his invisible boat. He had an invisible cat on his...
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