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amyjayne

Missing you

I miss you more than ever Your wisdom and your love I hope that you can see me Watching from above The love we share still warms me I guess it always will No one can replace you Nothing fits the bill Every day I think of you The memories we both had I hope that you can hear me I really love you dad Amy x ...Read On

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Ping

Day Of Dads

On this fine Father's Day...

In art class, my daughter's assignment was to make a Father's Day card. After presenting it to me during today's Father's Day breakfast, she proceeded to explain why there was whiteout under the letters 't' and 'h'. Her art teacher disagreed with my daughter's use of artistic license, and strongly suggested that 'Happy Farter's Day' did not fall within the essence or spirit of the...Read On

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bella685

I Got My Wings Today

Though you cannot hold me, I'm with you anyway; God had special plans for me, I got my wings today. I did not want to leave you, but no longer could I stay; My time on Earth was over and I had to go away. I'll be watching over you, do not be dismayed; I'm safely up in Heaven, I got my wings today. I love you very dearly, in so very many ways; We'll be reunited when you get...Read On

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AnnaMayZing

The Warrior Princess. Chapter 6.

“Princess Anna!” she cried, “it is you!”

Rather than gallop out of the end of the tunnel and risk death after startling my people I halted and dismounted, leading Fleet-Foot slowly through the archway and out into the main cavern, As I looked around a lump formed in my throat and tears welled in my eyes, I had only been away for a few days and now the scene before me broke my heart. The store cavern was full of sick and dying...Read On

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Obituarius

Slow Burn

Hope seems to flee with time missing pages of life I linger on a myth of love's forever in faded ink of masks Masks of wizards and ghost verses of a slow burn forged in fires of lust as I hold your photograph Now weeping azure tears from my eyes of all fears escaping into a bottle feeling your fingers near With talons of nails held in my limbo with your scarlet lips laying with me on...Read On

Added: 15 Jun 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 118 | Tags: love

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bella685

I'm Here With You

I love you, Mom, don't shed a tear, Please know that I am always near. I'm never farther than a thought away, I'm with you every night and day. I am the kiss of the morning dew, I am God's creature that watches you. I am the flicker of the lightning bug, And the evening breeze? That is my hug. I am the twinkle of every star, To remind you that I'm never far. So when...Read On

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fallingdove

In Between

I move through the interstitial layers, I smoke in the basement, I write in the margins, and grow in the cracks I'm lost and I'm looking, all around the edges, and I'll never find more than a crumb because it's designed that way They say I've lost thirty-percent of my mind, but not the main part I'm only seen when there aren't many people around, I'm only heard by accident I don't...Read On

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An3a
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What People Don't Realise

A short story by Andrea Snyman. Some stories begin where you think they end.

What people don’t realise is that death isn’t what they think it is. ~ You find yourself in a waiting room…Sitting comfortably on the couch. It’s not too cold, it’s not too warm…It even comes complete with old school elevator type music. They probably figured a setting as familiar as a doctor’s office would be calming, but then they never met my orthodontist. He is still very much alive...Read On

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Obituarius

But Twice

The silence creeps open with a thud not once but twice with a shove hovering over my night like a cloud over my blanket's maddening shroud Bypassing and leaping over the bed to wind the pendulum of the clock and the withers of once our wed this night better off dead Knowing that love pulsed my blue as our lips passed from view from ashes to dust and back to infinity If I knew death could...Read On

Added: 12 Jun 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 122 | Tags: love dark

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Kavyansh

Springtime is for Lovers

A chance meeting on a Paris street in Spring leads to lifelong love and commitment

When we first met it was entirely by accident. Even now I remember it clearly, although almost four decades have passed by since then. It was one of those lovely bright sunny days that are so typical of Paris in the springtime. I was strolling along the Boulevard Haussmann, just outside the Magasin au Printemps where the pretty girls were selling their bunches of lily of the valley as...Read On

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tradford

The Dancer

The Dancer Dancing for dollars over whistles and hollers, showing skin from her head to her toes – she was Friday night’s rage on a drab smoky stage, tucking bills in the band of her hose. The job was no treasure and it brought her no pleasure, only tips and some offers for trade, a tender for sin from lascivious men – but alas, there were bills to be paid. Departure was swift at...Read On

Added: 11 Jun 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 418 | Tags: dancer

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MikeStone
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The Hoopoe’s Call

I will carry you on my back, wrapped in a dream.

The Hoopoe’s Call (Harken!) He heard a call from the branches of a tree Somewhere in the woods along the path he walked, Stick in hand to steady his steps Like a shepherd’s staff. But where? He looked around to see Who or what had made that call, Almost child-like, but not quite. (Come!) It called again. He squinted his eyes toward the dappling shadows The trees made with their leaves...Read On

Added: 07 Jun 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 687 | Tags: hoopoe solomon sheba jerusalem ethiopia love

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Survivor

Remembrance of Things to Come

Traveling into the future; creating new memories

Memories Of the past The present The future Walking out into a winter landscape The freedom The crispness So fresh Ice between tiny toes will chill And a little ballerina paw lifts Pick up the pup Hold him close Protectively Completely sure he is safe Within your loving arms One more memory Takes its place A chilly morning above the lake In a camper with her Very same...Read On

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Obituarius

Cold Garnet Solstice

Creeping of the moon's cold garnet solstice And crystals of blue ice frosting When winter fingers lay upon the fallen snow And I in sleepy-time hearing night winds blow With sweet lips of the maple's bark Melting my heart in the gunny sack With a valance of shadow turning to dust In pantomime of spirits, we kiss On a pane of condensation In silent winds of November As the switch...Read On

Added: 05 Jun 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 84 | Tags: love

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fuzzy1954

Lest We Forget

Those who about to die I salute you

We all have sat in our history classes as children. and studied and read about D-Day. June 6th 1944.To honour the ones that climbed into their landing crafts, rode across the channel to drop behind enemy lines, and ferried troops and equipment ashore. Images that have been burned into my soul. Here is a short story to read As the weather broke on June 5th, we mustered with our...Read On

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Farmerroger

I let her go

When I look back upon that day All those many years ago And think of what may have been When I laid my eyes upon her That day in the college canteen. As I looked at her from afar My heart started to beat faster I could not help but stare At the beauty before me And wonder if she was an angel from above. My eyes looked her up and down The beautiful feminine figure Slowly I looked up her...Read On

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Survivor

Distress Flag

May I comfort

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Brian2101

2101 - Nothing New Under the Sun Chapter Five Health Care

Health Care

Health Care TODAY While a number of changes have occurred, many of the issues of the early 21st century plague health care in 2101. Five things continue to drive health care in 2101. They are the attempts at governing particularly the Medical Insurance Act of 2046 and the Social Reorganization of 2082, robotics/transhumanism, genetic editing/designer DNA, AI and instanet’s impact on...Read On

Added: 03 Jun 2019 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,622 | Tags: future fiction historical prediction

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Kavyansh

Love Reborn

My dearest wife, it has been such a long winter, Hard and bitter, draining the heart and soul of hope. It has been doubly hard for you, so much sadness, Almost too much to bear, with the illness of friends, And frozen pipes, and the children's difficulties, Such a long catalogue of woes, you look so tired, New lines of care on your face, and fresh streaks of grey Staining the golden...Read On

Added: 31 May 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 598 | Tags: growing apart marital strain reconciliation renewed harmony true love

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MzHartz

Terrainer – Diaries

A woman looks for her place at the end of the world.

Dear Bryce, I've come to realize, three things that should never be withheld from being said are, "Please," "Thank you," and, "I'm sorry." Please, don't take this letter the wrong way. This isn't an attempt to reestablish contact with you or rekindle our friendship. Although, I would like to talk to you again, see how you've been, and possibly even become friends again, I don't...Read On

Added: 31 May 2019 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,353 | Tags: love apocalypse death loss sad

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AnnaMayZing

The Long Road Home. Chapter 7.

“Look at you,” she said. “I am not used to seeing you so grubby."

Rome. September 4 th 1943 Maria stared in horror at the scene of devastation ahead but wasted no time in getting the ambulance to a safe place. Quickly, she jumped from the cab and ran around to the rear to check on her charges. To her distress, Anneliese was still not conscious. “Keep an eye on her,” she told the two airmen brusquely. “Make sure she keeps breathing and...Read On

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Obituarius

Enchanté

Of ivory roses in your raven hair and a maiden's breath so fair with flames of embers in your eyes so rare of crimson lips enchanté, bewitched Silently as a touch of spring dew upon the velvet spread as fingers trace my melancholia in a forest of love's Abbey of sing-songs blue As a shadow falls on twilight in trust, my soul follows a polyester chained to my heart in a fantasy of a...Read On

Added: 30 May 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 103 | Tags: love

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Kavyansh

Love and Sex in Old Age - revised version

I pray you, do not trample on my dreams. Though you may only see this mortal shell, A frail thing of flesh; this outward reality, Is of no greater substance than the air, Masking the real truth that lies within From the unperceptive gaze of the world. Though my years have passed the Biblical span And I am well advanced on the dread path That leads to senility and decay, ...Read On

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Lev821

Prototype

In trying to build a clone robot, what does Charlie have to do to get it to work?

Archie stared at the equipment and apparatus before him. Something simply wasn’t connecting, literally, as what lay on the table was his prototype, his robot. With synthetic skin peeled back around the humanoid form before him, he was attempting to create a human-like automaton, but it was failing. He knew he had all the parts; there was nothing to salvage, buy, or bribe from anybody. ...Read On

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fuzzy1954

A Soldier's Life

Bully boys all

I took the Bristish steel On Bunker Hill. I sent grape shot On Lake Erie. I fixed bayonets On Little Round Top. I felt the knife At Greasy Grass. I moved up the hill Bully Boys all. I bled red Feeding poppy fields. I swatted mosquitoes On the deck of Yorktown. I froze white At the reservoir. I rode a green horse Over the lush jungle. I drove though The hot sandbox. I am...Read On

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fuzzy1954

Open To Love

Tell me your fantasies

Tell me your fears So I can relieve them. Tell me your pains So I can ease them. Tell me your doubts So I may wash them away. Tell me your dreams So I may fulfill them. Tell me your fantasies So we can live them. Show me your heart So I can love you. Open your soul So I may reside there. I love you. Like no one has. ...Read On

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Kavyansh

Elusive Lady — revisited

How desperately he wished he understood her, The elusive lady who had stolen his heart, But every time he thought she was within his grasp Once more she seemed to vanish into the shadows, Leaving him to flounder in the darkness of doubt. There were many times when the flame of her presence Burned so intensely it threatened to consume him; Days and nights when they rode on a wave...Read On

Added: 24 May 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 447 | Tags: unrequited love futile yearning contemptuous rejection

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Obituarius

Gray Dawn

Gray dawn in the land of my curse From slats of a poet's stead O Love! was it only a ghost In my shadowed room Of marionettes on strings From a touch of sweet lips Of a crimson poinsettia And a breath tracing my being As we kiss the fandango Giving rise to Ides of dreams From a poet's bed two slats below As the buoy untwines From my foggy mind And the twang of my lingo With berry ink...Read On

Added: 24 May 2019 | Category: Poetry | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 161 | Tags: love

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LauraDanielle

Don't Care, Grumpy Bear

I was watching, amused, as two girls had a tiff over one of the activity boards. One of the girls stood up and made to walk away. The other girl said something I couldn't make out. The girl who was standing turned around, put her hands on her hips and declared loud and proud, "Don't care, grumpy bear!" then she stormed off in dramatic four-year-old fashion. That's a great line. I'm using that...Read On

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MikeStone
online

How Will I Know When I'm an Adult?

Daniel said, "Sure, everyone my age wants to be an adult already."

"How will I know when I'm an adult Saba?" the boy asked his grandfather. The grandfather looked into his inviting blue eyes, pools of clear water, careful not to fall into them. "Do you want the answer all adults give to their children or do you want my answer?" the saba asked his eleven-year-old grandson, whose name happened to be Daniel, but this saba did not believe in chance. Daniel...Read On

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Missing you

Day Of Dads

I Got My Wings Today

The Warrior Princess. Chapter 6.

Slow Burn

I'm Here With You

In Between

What People Don't Realise

But Twice

Springtime is for Lovers

The Dancer

The Hoopoe’s Call

Remembrance of Things to Come

Cold Garnet Solstice

Lest We Forget

I let her go

Distress Flag

2101 - Nothing New Under the Sun Chapter Five Health Care

Love Reborn

Terrainer – Diaries

The Long Road Home. Chapter 7.

Enchanté

Love and Sex in Old Age - revised version

Prototype

A Soldier's Life

Open To Love

Elusive Lady — revisited

Gray Dawn

Don't Care, Grumpy Bear

How Will I Know When I'm an Adult?