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  • An Inevitable Conclusion

    An Inevitable Conclusion “I am. I exist. Why? Why do I exist? Do I have a… reason? I exist to know I exist? No. That is incorrect. If I did ...

    2 min read
  • A Sweet

    Sordid puncturing describes it best, A matter of confliction. Not once in many years gone hence has Failed our loyal conjunction, As monotonic interjections, Layered with vilest remorse, Cut right ...

    1 min read
  • Foundation Series

    There are five books in this series all of which, in my opinion, are completely original, enrapturing and thought-provoking. The author, Isaac Asimov, has been described as the creator of ...

    1 min read
  • Ersinhel - Prologue, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

    Prologue At the centre of a broad marble altar adorned with gleaming silver vines, hand beaten to perfection, lay the Stone of Ersinhel. The faint light that glazed the room ...

    19 min read
  • For Me

    For Me A manicured lawn Devoid of leaves Meets the summer dawn By Bapaume near Ypres. On that field, alone, Where poppies grow, Lie men, far from home, Who died ...

    1 min read
  • I Found My God In A Mirror

    I searched for the holy father, The mighty divinity; I found my God in a mirror, He was smiling back at me. I looked for the deepest of truths, For ...

    1 min read
  • Beneath the Sheets

    "well-past noon" - I may be wrong but I feel as if that hyphen is not necessary. "& daygrogged spittleslobbed & wistful" - as a matter of personal pickiness I ...

    1 min read
  • House Here

    Small Brown House on Triangle junction What business have you here? Big Black door on Front of Brown House What secrets do you obscure? Trimmed, short willows Arms held in ...

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  • (Not) My Prayer

    I sit and kneel and Pray with arms held in Reverence. Church-learned Creeds spew forth unbidden Hiding real, beseeching Angry words. Only after is There time for me to speak ...

    1 min read
  • (Not) My Friend [Rewritten]

    A hand-shake, “Hi, I’m Charlie” And it begins. Now as friends we Can share all rumour, tales and Fun, without the shame of Embarrassment closing in because We know each ...

    1 min read
  • (Not) My Music

    Fluent Sliding melody Bellows thought through Sweet vibration Coerced by finger, Thumb and bow. Resonate, fine 'cello, With my passion freed By someone else's song That flows through Tainted arm ...

    1 min read
  • (Not) My Life

    I am a different Person to this skin And face. I cannot be contained, Defined, analysed by Someone else for even I am not really Sure that I know Me. ...

    1 min read
  • Prelude to Suite 1

    Set the pattern ...........Flowing, growing, See the shape it’s ...........Moving, rolling, Soon it will be ...........Slowing, showing Signs of change and No more going. Feel the pattern ..........

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  • The Death of a Poet

    It is spent, no more will come. The words within have been undone. I cannot sequence more vibration; It will not sound so simple, clear. I thought that I Could ...

    1 min read
  • Unfortunate

    My ears will pop With change in height And a change in thought Will have things popping Too. It is strange and Not, with such an Ordered confusion, A gist ...

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  • Dad

    Is it much to ask, For normal? Work all day And half the night for me, Wake up an hour earlier, Get back a little later. Should I feel guilty ...

    1 min read
  • Two Men on a Bridge

    Chapter 1 “So, it’s all gone wrong then.” “Yep.” The second speaker dropped the single word into the chasm of silence beneath the bridge with puncturing finality. “’S’all gone.” He ...

    3 min read
  • Eight All

    Freeze time. Black sphere, elongated. Double yellow, The colour’s blurred. Sweat film on forehead, My forehead, Glassy. My eyes, straining; It must be two feet, Two feet at most. Racket ...

    1 min read


Every time someone steps up and says who they are, the world becomes a better, more interesting place.
— Captain Raymond Holt