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I Am Ice
I was one of the uncountable snow flakes that fell that day. Time was the same, it snowed, it rained, drizzle fell, fog burned off and the sunshine broke through the clouds. Before I fell to earth I had my last glimpse of the sun. Then all darkened with clouds and more snow. The sun…
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Now Arriving…
[“Oh, yes, I remember it well.” -Maurice Chevalier] I do remember it. How often does a boy get his first kiss (and not from Mom) on an afternoon, after a remedial math class taught by a nun? My guess is that it’s not that often. However, that ‘kiss’ has to happen somewhere, sometime in a…
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What Will Be Written About You?
“My Childhood days bring back sad reflections Of happy days so long ago. My boyhood friends and my own relations. Have all passed on like the melting snow.” (Traditional.) As recorded by Van Morrison. I have a gift for you. It isn’t wrapped in gilded paper and it does not have a magenta ribbon tied…
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18. Drunken Steps
I’m sharing this poem because I think it says a zillion things in only a few words..like a true poem should.
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Killing Me Softly With His Song
[WARNING: IF SAD SONGS MAKE YOU SADDER, THEN STOP READING NOW!] Before you shake your painted fingertips at me and call me “Mr. Doom and Gloom” (a girl-friend once did that), I’ll save you some time and energy. I have a great deal of Irish blood in my veins, I’m Black Irish and raised as…
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A Jigsaw Puzzle
Hey, I took an art course once so I should know a thing or two about the visual and temporal renderings of the Great Masters as well as the Nouveau, Op Art or the trendy new Steampunk. So, to probe your right hemisphere (or is it the left?), here is a Multiple Choice Quiz. Please…
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Epitaphs: Part II
Less Is More Sometimes, the stories that headstones tell you are long and often full of Biblical references. Some I’ve seen are brief and to the point: “We Will Meet Again in Jesus”. Once in a great while, one runs across an epitaph that is pithy and wholly understated. The photo below is such an…
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Boy, You’ve Got To Carry That Weight
It’s been said that the human soul weighs 21 grams. A gram is equal to the weight of a standard paper clip. So, if you hold 21 paper clips in the palm of your hand, you’re hold what amounts to the heft of an eternal soul…a soul that will spend all of time in eternal…
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