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Grimm Fun (Poetry Monthly)
golden haired lasses whose beauty surpasses … the hero was snared, set impossible feat … dare they trust this odd creature who’s leading? …
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Same Old Mess
Friday night. And I find myself in the pub A pint by my side With myself for company Staying here when last orders rings Alone on this stool for one...
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Midsummer's Eve
Act I Spine coils and tingles electrically. Breath quivers. Anticipation trembles in the dark water. Something big is coming tonight. Act II The blue...
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Stuck in Time
Chapter One I awoke, startled by the sudden pounding on my door. I slowly sat up in bed and cleared my eyes. I hung my feet over the end of the bed...
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The Poetry Of Life
The Poetry Of Life We were sitting in a writer’s critique group in Amherst, N.Y. discussing a poem presentation that had just been given by the...
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Dan's Dead
It was a dreadful, barren windswept January morning that made you feel like putting a match to your teacher’s petrol marinated underpants just to...
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Intolerance, mavericks & the politicisation of science
Has science become politicised? Let’s look at the evidence. First up, one of my hobby horses: global warming. In my opinion, and a number of...
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Berkeley (The Californian Tragedy)
A crack, a groan, a rending sound and six angels fell, heaven-bound. We gasped, we cried, we shared, bereft of any reasoning still left. What God, we...
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Future Imperfect
How serene, and unruffled they seemed. Much like us; standards to uphold. Heaven forbid we’d break the moral code.
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Titan
Headphones on I passed you cornered, like a shellfish slyly worried, the retreating hunch of your shoulders they nudged you into the car your half...
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The Islanders
The log rots all on its own In gentle moments As the song of salt, The unlimited music, Carries it off, dot by dot. The song is meek and mild, And...
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Wuhan
Wuhan Amidst the shit and the piss and the dirt and the grime The corruption and the hate and the sorrow and the crime Where you drink your tequila...
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The Shooting Starfish
Once, a long time ago, just west of Atlantis City, there was a little one seahorse town name of Driftwood. And, though it had a sheriff; a cowardly...
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Blanche and Helen - 5 another Meeting
Having been engaged to open the door and serve the food and drinks for the evening’s activities, I was on hand for the next meeting. During it, I was...
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Meditation
Run with your back to the wind: Let it breathe for you. Melt into the green forest draped on the mountain: Let it hear for you. Drip the silky sand...
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Because it's Christmas
At the bar, his eyes are searchlights. In these situations, I invoke the affirmations. It’s OK to be assertive, girl. Jesus, you’re beautiful, a...
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The Untold Story of a Grim Reaper: Chapter 25.2: Choices
The student body suddenly became conscious, releasing me immediately, it wasn’t until the screams of the students who were on fire did I realize the...
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The Untold Story of a Grim Reaper: Chapter 25.1: Choices
It was only midday, but the sky’s threatening clouds destroyed all the light. Hell was in the sky trying to take root. Anxiety still shooting through...
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High School Graduate
I became a High School Graduate twenty years ago today. My diploma has today's date on it but I didn't actually receive it until two weeks later on...
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for all the childless fathers
For all the childless fathers perhaps, you didn't love them well enough; consistently enough. perhaps, you never made it; never found someone safe...
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