The Greater Loss of Temptation’s Embrace
The sting of loss… Man plays a poignant game with temptation, the recompense never quite acknowledged, the circumstances not advantaged,
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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
Inspiring Poetry
The Virtue of Patience
Patience is a valued commodity when time plunders expectation, waiting, a torturous and invasive hindrance, as slow the steps to
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Autumn’s Introduction, a Morning Affront
The Autumn chill now displaces Summer’s fading grace, as clouds all grey attest the change, and T-shirts, shorts and bare
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Five Stages of Grief – Stage Five – Acceptance
Acceptance A strange finality The pieces fitting, although tenuously Looking back courageously Episodic moments occasionally Nothing like the used to
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Five Stages of Grief – Stage Four – Depression
Depression The false hope of bargaining Selective targeting Made up marketing Anything Something to confound my wounded soul I’m in
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Five Stages of Grief – Stage Three – Bargaining
Bargaining They say its comprehension An understanding or perception Strike a deal with someone Anyone, or possibly no one What
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Five Stages of Grief – Stage Two – Anger
Anger Deep seeded rage Surrounded by my enemies Taxing me mentally Questioning my identity No solutions or remedies Everyone talking
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Five Stages of Grief – Stage One – Denial
Denial It can happen to anyone Refusing to believe That which is there in front of me I’m choosing not
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Walls and Human Propensity
What walls break, before delusion sets in, will be the salvation of a thirsty mind, one that voluntarily opens to
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That Knock on the Door
Absolved of sins, of everything, pious minds inflict their will and belief on any breathing target, and in truth they
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That Can Only Be Right
As the outside infringes upon one’s personal sanctum, the more one sees the detriment of lives forsaken in conduct, lost
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Through Love’s Eyes…sublime
Sublime… Intimate, the silent words of love, the poetry of delicate touch and eyes glistening, filled with sonnets, as love
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Callahan Clan of the Great Smoky Mountains – Short Story
Callahan brothers left Ireland in 1775 … Thomas Callahan has been the focus of two short stories of mine here
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Pain is Temporary, the Soul Infinite
Truth is all that pain deserves to tell its story completely, for muddied waters cloud circumstance, and blame rarely a
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Infinite Scope…burgeoning life
Upon the earth with delicate touch the sun does bless life with such passionate embrace, growth like surging, burgeoning glee,
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They, Who Choose to Harm and Soil Truth
Causing harm through jealousy… Who are we to be brutalized by scandalous intentions, lies of invention that persecute innocence, when
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Unrelenting Storms Upon Our Shores
And still the waves come, surging life and conspirators run to ground, aloof, ambivalent airs in stoic stance, beating hearts
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The Irony of Reflection
Who cleanses my life to transparency, judges my every thought to win or lose, and by whose authority to peruse
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Expectations in Breath and Life
Shall this be an ordinary day, the interplay of life and dreams, and which shall be the focus, when each
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When In Your Arms
When In Your Arms When in your arms, the world fades away and I’m floating on the clouds above. No
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Love Moves Mountains
Love Moves Mountains Calm your aching heart, for love moves mountains, Put your mind to rest, and find your balance,
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The Ebb and Flow of Dreams…our movement chosen
Dreams seep into consciousness from destinations unknown, epiphanies shown, and they exacerbate thoughts to render movement, and as the shrewd
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Arise, Sun, Heart and Soul
Myriad colors steal the break of day, luminous fractured light all splayed upon a waking blue, and silence guides a
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