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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
CALL OF THE SEA (poem 6-25-78)
In days of yore, close to the shore, A comely, green-eyed maiden did await, With anxious smile that could beguile, The gods and goddesses...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
BEAST (poem 5-5-78)
There is a brutal beast inside. I wish it was not there. Against my will it does reside, Unwanted, but it doesn’t care. Behind that fake...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
WHY? (poem 4-12-73)
Through the window shone the sun, The day was warm and bright. It seemed a day for hope and fun, A joyful, verdant, summer sight. He...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
THE FOG…8-24-72
The fog is rolling in, An ethereal blanket of gloom, Like a sheet pulled over a corpse, To seal its final doom. The fog keeps rolling in,...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
NON-VIOLENCE (poem 1-26-71)
If old man violence Would take a rest, To stop to suckle Upon a breast, The world might pass The “Human Test,” And those most crass Might...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
GAMBLER AND WISHING WELL (poem 5-8-70)
Come gather around the well. Come gather around the well, I have a story to tell, About a man who dropped a quarter Into this black, deep...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 18, 2021
- 1 min
Soldier Ghost poem
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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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 6 min
Looking Up at Death
I fainted. As I was returning to reality I felt as if I was floating in a rocking and rolling boat. My head started to clear, but now I...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 12 min
Wine-Making Weekend
I woke to a pleasing memory of my Grandparents. A memory, not forgotten, but possibly fading. It was as if some internal stimulus was...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 13 min
The Black Door
It was a dark and stormy night … Fuck you Edward Bulwer-Lytton, screw you Madeleine L’Engle, but most of all, piss off, Snoopy. It really...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 11 min
New Principal
Journal Entry NOVA is an astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright new star. That was the inspiration for the name...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 6 min
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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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 10 min
I Would Give Anything
I have been a detective first-grade for twenty of my thirty-four years as a police officer. Sure, after that many years, I am tired and...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 8 min
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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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 19 min
God Made Me Do It
Christian Boyer is a twenty-one-year-old college graduate of Reverend Luke and Martha Boyer. Christian grew up in a deeply religious,...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 18 min
Brandy
Arriving home from work, tired and in a foul mood, Jack walked directly to his wife. “Fix me a brandy, the Korbell, not the cheap Mohawk...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 19 min
Bald Face Mountain
PROLOGUE Approximately eighty-four million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, a meteor the size of a football stadium struck and...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 11 min
Bad Apples in Time
I am Reggie (Reginald) Townsend, and this is my tragic story. Maybe I’m one of those mad scientist guys who gets obsessed or, perhaps...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 23 min
In Cold Blood
“I’m sorry, Mary. I truly am. It won’t happen again. I promise.” Mary’s slender body ached from the bruised cheekbone and the black eye....
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billsheehan1
- Feb 16, 2021
- 26 min
Aliens and Idioms
Cave Entrance It was an alien experience. Never had anything like it. Funny as a laughing clown, shocking as an unexpected bullet wound....
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