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The Hug

By on March 20, 2010 in Poems & Stories

I sit on the sofa, holding a mug Then there’s a nose under my elbow Of the dog that I love He pleads with sad eyes As he snuggles in tight So I give him a hug and Settle in for the night My heart rate slows down As I stroke his coat Then I [...]

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She pulled herself out of the water

By on April 6, 2009 in Death Poems, Prose Poetry

She pulled herself out of the water, nails digging into the soggy riverbank, choking on weeds and coughing up the muck from the riverbed. She lay still for a while, long wet tendrils of her dark hair straggling across her face, her fingers embedded into the moss and leaves beneath her. Her jeans, heavy with [...]

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Au Revoir

By on February 23, 2009 in Stories

1 Present Day It was the first Monday in weeks when I was not in office before ten. As I saw the frosted sundial of my old citizen ticking eleven thirty, I cursed myself for the umpteenth time for choosing that insurance company. I found out that the other companies did not require so many [...]

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Magic Mushrooms

By on June 9, 2008 in Poems & Stories

I’m down in the dirt and I’m scrounging around, I’m looking for mushrooms wherever they’re found, (Oh, look at the pretty pink clouds in the air), I hope that I find a few mushrooms somewhere. I know they are healthy, or so I’ve been told, The ones that are shiny, not covered in mold, (A [...]

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The Boy Within

By on May 16, 2008 in Poems & Stories

The small boy falls and hurts his elbow and knees, and cries quietly on the inside, because there is no one there to feel his pain, or give him comfort, for the small boy is 86 years old. His skin is wrinkled and his bones are frail, but the ‘small boy’ in him still lives [...]

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