Finding Place and Purpose
A feather may survive in flight for a time, without a bird in sight, as words may live forever, plucked
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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
Father Rivera
When Gibbs wasn’t talking, he was singing … They left me to die. I was on my way to Tucson
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Kindly Mister Timberson
Kindly Mister Timberson Kindly Mister Timberson one day was just gone. Old Main Street would not be the same
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Return to Rocky Shore
Return to Rocky Shore Did we not after all come from the very same rocky shorn and misty shore but not
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A Patch-Work Quilt of Learning
Who will sit with me upon the knoll, beside my abridged and placated soul, somewhat worn but at least still
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The Shroud of Indignation
Indignation… Indignation is often guilt wrapped in pride, a lie forsaking truth for the benefit of self, so the deeper
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Golden Ratio
Golden Ratio GOLDEN RATIO The love of the heart And the love of the mind Don’t always agree on the
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Rose, A Roland Short Story
The creek was low, only two or three inches of water standing in some places. Her horse walked through the
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In Silent Thought
Silent moments in meditation… Here in the silence of my mind, I exist with no contention, passing thoughts like wisps
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The Sometimes Ragged Path of Love
Ragged path of love… Sublimely potent, the call of the heart, where thoughts contained find flight, and possibility races in
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Blustered Day in Nature’s Play
The winds bluster while morning seeks serenity, and the turbulence squanders all hope of peace, yet in its release there
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Lost Between the Floorboards
Tremulous hands, dappled and pale, reached for the letter, its words a great anticipation, a heart stopping fear, and so
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Primitive Appalachian Doll Story – Historical Fiction
A Story as Told by a Primitive Appalachian Doll My name is Amy Lynn. I am a primitive Appalachian doll
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There is More in the Secret Garden
Sun glimmers blue, radiating sky in hues unseen, before a mind decided to seek beyond the eyes, to recognize the
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Turbulence, and My Hiatus of Calm
Turbulence, in the name of peace release me from your hold, for tis misfortune that drives your folly and my
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In Your Heart Tonight
As silhouettes, figures dark before my window’s moonlit curtain flight, they moan in distant voices, as if displaced from bodies,
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The Shortcut – A Halloween Story
The Cemetery It’s getting close to Halloween again, and as always, the horrible memory of that long ago night
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For the Love of a Friend
For the Love of a Friend The dusting of hard, cold sleet found its way down his collar, but
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Left With Broken Dreams
You left me with broken dreams and a heart that scarcely beat. I wanted to die, when my best dreams
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Behind Those Eyes
Evil rarely hides behind blood-soaked snarling teeth, and monsters more unnoticed live within our reality not nightmares real, for they
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Some Seek a Hollow Life
Despise I must those ragged souls, who determined to have it all, plunder life in their course and care not
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Could You, Would You, for Love?
For Love? A spine I have, not death wish proud or bravery prone, but it does hold this flesh upright,
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Her Name Is Nicole
Child Protective Services … “How old?” Detective Carl Hardin thought he heard the woman from Child Protective Services correctly,
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