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Brevity

...
though long loftier are visited much 
like space empty needed seeing some stars
your wisdom scales twice thrice at least as such
brings peace ends bloody loud proud wicked wars

less more deep...

Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two

...n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement....

Versatile Views

...Pondering the thoughts of nameless enemies
dying to show their face
yet too afraid to be revealed
I forgive & heal from all rocks thrown with ill intent
for I know their time is at hand
Absorbin...

Not Justified

...Rayland Givens is getting old.
He's still quick on the draw,
but now he's more internally aware,
more thoughtful as he shoots
his Glock 19 into hearts and guts.
He's grown, matured,
i hate that...

Wordsmith

...Suddenly he is gone
His words unspoken
And, more sadly, 
Unwritten

Some said he’d been a preacher
He could certainly hold a crowd
Teasing them and pleasing them
As he spoke his words aloud
...

A Book Reread

...I see, looking through a novel read long ago
that most of the story I had overlooked
or misunderstood.

Strings of decades are often a compendium
a journey disjointed by sinkholes and rockfalls;...

Early Morning: Breccbairdne 1

...Froggy is croaking
Somewhere where it’s boggy
He’s steering them clearly
A lighthouse, that froggy

Yearlings are frisky
Delightful, these dear things
But dawn is right risky
So fly, flee, yo...

Rut

...On he goes
Lazily
Where he ends?
Cannot see

How’d he get
Front of me?
Wait, that’s me?
Seems to be

What the heck?
Turn around
Let him be
Backward bound

Up ahead
On the path
Me aga...

Tortoise and Haradactyl

...Rabbit brags
crazily;
Tortoise plods
lazily.

Rabbit gets
sleepy, see.
Tortoise wins
Easily.

Work ethic
is lacking;
Rabbit gets
shellacking.

Relentless,
forward, there.
T’s out fro...

Our Chief End

...Though it seems
that somehow
things are not
quite right now,

When the end
is in sight,
He will put
all things right.

Is life fair?
Thank God, not.
We misjudge
our dire lot.

Standard...

Thankful

...I have no food.
My stomach rumbles from hunger.
My body reacts in weakness,
Sending the message of pain to my brain.
My heart beats in rhythms,
Making me aware of being alive

I have n...

Treasures

...TREASURES
mesmerising
  asides
reside
to
display
the
extraordinary
&
delicate
blooms

a choice
narrative
survives
gently
  resides
in
patterned
  fragments
swirling
 in the
spec...

Gallery

...GALLERY
a
splash
 of colour
&
 joy
brought
exhilaration
  a repurposed
compulsive
fascination
with
 intensity


an affectionate
 motifs
so
graphic
in
a light
hearted
 brief
of
...

Echoes of a Shady Past

...An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement...

Hitchhiker From Another World Part 2

...Or the fate that awaits one at journey’s  end. 
Like all distances I suppose.
My destination if you can call it that  is another world altogether." 
A lady who could structure her sentences with t...

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