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Attempts at Haiku
end of Spring silent chimes from a blue bell a deckchair folds in the last of Summer eyes closed the crunch of Autumn leaves Winter frost waits in...
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Kataskopos
Through the sky My own current cuts Red Like paint from a lunatic's brush. I am in the midst A mist Of greens and blues. Below, the land I have...
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Lost! (Poetry Monthly??)
or how to add 3 miles to the end of a short walk …
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A weekend in London
“Way to spend a weekend isn’t it, knee deep in a muddy plague pit digging up the bones of the dead.” “Better get used to it, another hundred weekends...
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Photographs
For want of a title, let’s steal from Jim Croce and call it, Photographs and Memories. For Mrs Bodnar, Cheryl, and Darrald. Begin. “Hope lasts as...
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blink
Was it in the eye? or someplace farther away blink perhaps I missed it blink I cannot see your heart blink I cannot see your brain blink I cannot...
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The Blind Bowman
Rami was manacled to a wall, in the prison courtyard, opposite the blind bowman. It was not really a bowman, as some believed, but a mechanical...
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Angel On Fire
You are an angel on fire, you’re my desire You are an angel on fire (gal), you’re my desire Of all the angels heaven sent you have meaning for crush...
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Suicide
Two men dead Two men killed them selves Two men in their 50s from the local church group killed them selves both this year I am sad I am angry I am...
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Beyond a mere greeting
What's the significance of three seconds? Is it the difference between a mere greeting and a lingering whisp of love? Just on the cusp of craving but...
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Playing Scales
I preferred the English title... I knew it wasn't a second sequel, you see.
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The further adventures of Stan -6
As well as my church related activities, I also play bridge several times a week. There are way more women players than men – and going through a...
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A Mother's Love
They’ve started up again. The voices. Whispering things I don’t want to hear. Making me feel things I don’t want to feel. Making me do things I don’t...
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Better
The duty to reflect,in times of peace,is not a given the knowledge of the past must be imposed upon the future else why do we write? Lay down the...
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Who You Are
You're the kind of person people write poems about You see universes in raindrops And hold a burning sun in your heart You are everything and nothing...
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10 Near Death Experiences (but there's only 5 NDEs because I'm still alive).
Ten near-death experiences. I don’t remember this NDE, but I’ve got reliable witnesses lined up to testify, although not on me, that it’s true. I was...
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Sigh
You wanted to throw it all away the aroma of life had blown on its way scattered like petals on an Autumns day from a lonely hill and out over the...
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Where the Seabirds Fly
'Why can't we reach you?' they ask
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Park Views
Some routes become so familiar it’s hard to see them as they really are each time I walk them – every visit is overlaid by all the visits before...
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Mental Cruelty
Fictional work to highlight the effects of mental abuse.
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