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RAINFALL
Staring through the windowpane, Focused on crystalline pearls of rain, Euphoric, relaxed, in no pain, Just floating freely, no chain. Now...
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May 26, 20241 min read
MAID OF HONOR
I like water. Something about it attracts me, like a pleasant experience that I want to always have. I think that water likes me, too,...
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May 26, 20246 min read
LOOKING UP AT DEATH
I felt like I had fainted. As I was returning to reality I felt as if I was floating in a rocking and rolling boat. My head started to...
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May 26, 20246 min read
KARMA
The horror of death is rarely seen the way a soldier sees it in war. At least the way a soldier with at least a rudimentary conscientious...
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May 26, 202411 min read
HITCH-HIKER
“Shit,” I yelled as I ran to the parking lot in a torrential rainstorm. Just my luck, I muttered to myself. I had been working late in...
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May 26, 20248 min read
A BRAVE SOLDIER DIED TODAY
He was still tall and slim and his hair was thinning fast, And he sat around the table, Telling stories of the past. Of a war that he...
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May 26, 20242 min read
A PATH DOES THE FUTURE MAKE
A path does a future make. Each person makes the choice. A choice of which path to take, Based upon their personal sake. Pick a path,...
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May 26, 20241 min read
A GHOST STORY
My name is Bill Comstock. Most of my life I’ve been haunted by a paranormal event that occurred when I had just turned...
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May 26, 202442 min read
WALKING IN A FOREST
We walked together, side by side, hand in hand, with our shared, radiant smiles warming us, and our mutual love comforting us. Sandy,...
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May 26, 20245 min read
THE WILDERNESS OF THE MIND
Out of the wilderness of his mind it came, Out of the savage jungle, into the exposed plain, An idea with a sharp feeling, but a vague...
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May 26, 20241 min read
THE STRANGER
I see this guy almost every day, A mist of tears guarded by steely eyes. A mysterious smile, unfathomable and His thoughts impenetrable....
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May 26, 20243 min read
MORTALITY
I think of death, about my last breath, About my many years, and the hotness of tears, About of life’s sadness, and all of the gladness,...
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May 26, 20241 min read
PSEUDO-SACRED
All their gods never seen, Like infants shy in the extreme. Bouncing beliefs like a holy ball, Against their pseudo-sacred wall. I think...
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May 26, 20241 min read
GHOST SOLDIERS
Ghosts noisily roam In my mental zone. Ghosts of those slayed For wrongs they played In a time long gone In a war long done Where...
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May 26, 20241 min read
FAREWELL YOUTH
Youth has gone, Life nearly done. Set me on a Viking Pyre. My life’s light will expire. My mind lives in youth, But the mirror sees the...
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May 26, 20241 min read
DRUNKARD
Beer bubbles float on putrid breath, Eyes dark as if feeling the touch of death. Staggering on unsteady feet, Feeling the grasp of the...
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May 26, 20241 min read
DEFEAT
Iron armor yields to a soft shell. Lips stretch widely in an agonized yell. Desperate thoughts rush in pell-mell, That I am powerless to...
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May 26, 20241 min read
DARK DREAM
I see now that Death is a friend. It comes to me at my life’s end. I grasp its hand, cold and bony. It lives a life so very lonely,...
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May 26, 20241 min read
FRIGHT NIGHT
Once upon a moonless night, Came my greatest fright. In bed with the silence of the night, My heart nearly leaped into flight. A shadow...
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May 26, 20243 min read
HOW SNAKES GOT THEIR LONG BODIES
Once upon a time there was a land with a beautiful green forest. At the edge of the forest there was a huge, beautiful tree, whose...
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May 26, 20245 min read