The shape of water
The shape of water The shape of water and the sounds of time together yet only if I consider the
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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
Ringing in Christmas Day
Ringing in Christmas Day So much splendor on display Another year has quickly passed Now it seems, at long last
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Appreciation for The Creative Exiles Authors and Site – Acrostic
Appreciation … Appreciation is sincerely felt for The Creative Exiles authors. Perfection is not expected or mandatory, but often shown.
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I Yearn for Kindness and Honesty
What I want is kindness, honesty and transparency, not too much to ask, one would think, yet stumble so many
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One Moment of Desire, One Lifetime of Pain
Consumed by the calling of desire, we so easily fall, lost within the pyre of secular surrender, the eruption of
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My Blackbird Sings For Me
The summer heat rises and lows invite the desert winds, like a dry burn to the skin, and weighted are
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Invest in Life, Each Day May Be Our Last
But one moment from death, ever teetering over the abyss, life is no assurance, no certainty, as we travail our
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The Keys are not Set in Stone
Sometimes I see you in the stars When the world seems so bleak, Where copious thoughts rove and jar, And
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The Duality of a Rose
The delicate petals of a rose, a dichotomy of inward reduction and outward expansion, an interleaved beauty of color and
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CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 2017
Christmas is a Christian holiday and celebration, but it has become more than that. I am not religious but for
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Pig-Headed and Our Own Worst Enemy
Life can be pig-headed, determined to have its way, especially when we are refusing to allay our fears and change,
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Let’s Dream About Christmas Angels
Christmas Angels … Let’s dream about Christmas angels, about the wonders they bring, about the beauty of the stars above
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My Beauty Colored Glasses
Beauty transcends life, when we are ankle deep in the mundane, and when eyes are open to its appreciation, our
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Sanctuary Cities Welcome and Protect Illegal Aliens
Sanctuary Cities … The group of six men got as close as they could to the border guard without being
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Bound By Our Burdens
Hold onto what you have, because for you it is a lifeboat, and tethered you shall be, when you can
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The Stoic Stance of Reality
Reality is, and no matter what we do to rearrange it, it remains; we may take mind altering drugs, be
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Me Upon My Cloud
Whimsy, my weightless floating thoughts, a seat set into clouds, following not what I aught, but the notions that come
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Cowboy Poetry – Berthoud Pass
Berthoud Pass – My older brother Dane and I it would seem once we are together that life in
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Within the Flow of Life
Wanting is a path of misery, as happiness is what we believe to be the result when we achieve our
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In Reflection, The Potential We Hold
Reflection is an art of glimpsing the whole, the other side less recognized, and life’s secrets are afforded in reflection,
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Lost in the Beauty
The hues of color meld in perfect harmony with languid thoughts so free of tether, in the silence of evenings
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Let Not Complexity Blind Purpose
Buried deep in detail, what good is the avalanche, when even breath is inhibited, and so what marks the clear
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The Truth of Despair
And so, I sew the fields of my fated consequence, mirrored from my thoughts in recompense, and I sing like
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