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The folowing stories are tales from my childhood. Some are excerpts from my unpublished manuscript; Blood of our Children, and others are just short stories. The first story is a lipogram (removing all words with the letter "e"). You can see that in so doing the story becomes somewhat convoluted; clichés are twisted and phrasing is difficult (the story reads better with "e's" but you will have to buy the book, lol, if it every finds a publisher. I would suggest that if you decide to right a lipogram you start from scratch. I hope you enjoy these short stories find the humor in them, and most of all you remember the joy of childhood.…

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This poem is written in couplet form and speaks to our inability to read the handwriting on the wall.…

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This is a poem on not listening to the words of our guardians to move toward peace.…

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This story poem is about cleansing.…

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Fish Out of Water is a poem dealing with a dream. Jung tells us that water represents the unconscious mind and the two parts of the personas in this poem are played by the anima (femine) and animus (male) aspects of the both the conscious and unconscious self.…

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This is political satire and is meant as such, nothing personal toward your political views but is written in fun of the fact we cannot have two kings and expect the country to move, pun intended.…

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Lies and untruths, is the subject of many a story. Here is a supposition to think about.…

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This is my my first attempt at lyrics so I am interested in your thoughts. This song lyrics came to me in a vivid dream and I woke and wrote it down. It is about my first lover and she comes back to me, in my dreams, to sing this song to me.…

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The poem is a verbal expression of a dream I had in July of 2007. The woman in the dream is my spirit guide who moves me to write and live life. The comparison and allusion here is this guide is Kali mate of Shiva and bringer of renew.…

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Inhabitants of Disgrace was written for a post graduate class; the assignment was to experience homelessness and then write about it. Although it is an older poem I felt it deserved its own page.…

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"Ophiuchus" is a double acrostic poem using the first words of each line and letters to name the title. Ophiuchus is the thirteen constellation that the sun currently resides in and it and is known as the Thirteenth House of the Zodiac.…

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Life of a poet and the brief, hopefully brief, interruptions due to illnesses such as the flu.…

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Blue Trails: Riding Rod was inspired by an obituary of a local man who was "beating his way to" a neighboring town in 1897. Coroners report said that he was suspected of riding rod on the train cars and lost his grip. "He leaves a wife and five children behind."…

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"Time before Time" is a free verse acrostic poem, but not the ordinary acrostic; this acrostic is a hidden message within the message. To discover the secret phrase spell out the letters that are in bold; did you find it?…

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This is a discourse between Titania and Oberon as she pleads for her husband to return her as his light is absent. Alinda, is a Sanskrit name that means balcony or support of the gods; Titania is the Queen of the fairies and Oberon is the King of the fae. Legend says that the Abysmal Mother realized that the night needed light to tame chaos and evil. She sat Luna in the sky so Luna who reflect the light of the sun (Oberon) and provide light in the darkness.…

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This is a tercet poem dealing with life of bird on a ledge who is observing the life of humans on a busy street in the 1800's.…

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Oblong Box is an parody poem of Poe's short story, "The Oblong Box" with a rhyme scheme of a,a,b,b,a,c,c,a.…

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"Narcissistic Gods" is an alphabet restraint poem starting with "a" and going to z. The poem is 26 words long with the initial letter of each word beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, in sequence.…

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Sparkling Heavens is a free-verse quatrain poem that questions life.…

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Blaze a Steel Trail is a quatrain poem about working on the transcontinental railroad. I have attached a youtube video with this poem to give you a feeling of the labor involved. The photographic image is the Station in my home home town taken early in the twentieth century.…