Heaviest, the Purge
Heaviest, the Purge … Ask the mirror like, “I could be happy, why won’t you let me?” I need a
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The Crumbling Space Around Me
These crumbling walls whisper an endless loop of static each night Recorded voices, some once human, others generated by the
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All for the Love of a Lady
Introduction ‘All for the Love of a Lady’ reflects a more traditional time when life had a slower pace.
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On One Terrible Night: The Family Well
ON ONE TERRIBLE NIGHT By Jamie Lee Hamann CHAPTER ONE: THE FAMILY WELL 1.) a.) “Alfonso will be out
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Patronizing Child / Fallen Angel
Patronizing Child … Always wonder if God even talks to the devil. How would the conversation go? What are the
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The New Normal People
Normal people (nôr′məl pē′pəl) What does it mean Anymore Not what is used to mean They called it mainstream We
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Murderer in Pursuit
Murderer In Pursuit By Chris Mills I worked into the early hours of that dreadful morning at the
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Parallel Lines
Parallel Lines … “Parallel Lines” Parallel: “of one another, lying in the same direction but always the same infinite
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Years to become stone
Years to become stone … No touch of kindness upon this shoulder nor spoken wisdom to calm No tears to
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What Haiku Hold
What Haiku Hold I. To build new school with a thousand wheelbarrows near high ceiling lodge. Dwell in Sierra
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Rocky Mountain Moonshiner
Rocky Mountain Moonshiner the 6th novel in my “Rocky Mountain Series” is now available in print and digital download on
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Let Go of the Past
We all do a balancing act between honoring our past – or losing ourselves in it. Some of us
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777 Affirmation
777 777 Affirmation … My verses ride in hearses, dispersed at night in silhouettes I curse my intuition, my amusement
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A Quest For Treasure – A Tribute to Metal Detecting
A Quest For Treasure – A Tribute to Metal Detecting My neck is sore from looking down As I search
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Days and Nights in a Cowboy Cabin
Days and Nights in a Cowboy Cabin 1 August Sierra’s Desolation Valley snow drove to old Cowboy Cabin hidden in
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…this day…
I cannot sleep, for sleep is the sibling of death A young Queensbridge poet stated Just the facts, when the
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On the Edge: ‘Ukraine’: Poem, Meaning and the Fight
On the Edge: ‘Ukraine’ ‘Ukraine’, the country’s name itself, means ‘on the edge’ or ‘outskirts’, ‘borderlands’. ‘The term ‘Ukraina’
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Snowing up a Scene: Form, Impact and Wonder
Snowing up a Scene Snowing up a scene, phantom flakes floating from heaven’s portal, sparkling, slow, suspended descent of
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A Tree Trunk Seat
A Tree Trunk Seat (For Gary Snyder) 1 Winding grains of time under a crystalline sky we have walked along
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I’m Listening, There’s No Need to Shout
Always listening Or so I believed Now finally hearing And oddly, I see Sounds that were lost Now found and
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The Tides of Despair
The Tides of Despair … Rough shards of tossed paper intrude in this halcyon dark Down a dingy path upon
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The Gypsy Love Spell
The Gypsy Love Spell I strolled into the Gypsy camp Among the caravans. I’d followed all directions, And hoped things
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When I became a mountain
I remember the morning I became a mountain I dared you to climb me I dared you to blow me
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The Green Maidens
The Green Maidens A. Awakened by sudden light glow of three magnificent presentations of female so I look away.
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The Wind out of Your Sails
Takes the Wind out of Your Sails No doubt you’ve heard that expression; you’re all fired up, ready to go,
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