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The Consolation of Waiting
Waiting in the sun breathed stone, the candle flame flickering in the breath of the minds that flew to realms unmet, unknown. Fear filled my heart as I watched the glow of light illuminating the darkness within me. ======================== I saw those things, I hide from others, as stark and grasping. Their noisy voices overwhelmed…
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Hope in the Darkness
Darkness invites the weary, and brightens their time, with candles and fires, with glimpses of moons, and sparkling stars. And through the darkening sky peeps the pallid sun, its silent strength grown weaker; and wearily now it warmly shines in the myriad eyes of the parcelled populace, squinting and smiling, to see and feel the…
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The Box he Carried
The box he carried weighed in at tons of right wing rhetoric, and pounds of destruction of democracy, and stones of self interest, and gallons of lies and manipulation. ========= Left behind was hundredweights of destructive control and bushels of abuse of the power of a potted parliament. =============== The lining of his pockets, pushed …
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The Refugee
He looked at his children and sighed, his labouring wife by his side, her panting and groaning rent the air with pain, coupled with despair. ============== He felt the tears slide down his face, prayed for a moment of grace, and knelt to deliver his very own chile, in a cruel world, beyond vile. ===========…
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Is God a Bully?
Wear a hat! Sit still! Wear a veil! Behave! prostrate yourself! give money! Fast! Submit! =========== God is warring, violent, avenging, A Jealous one, rewards killers, racist, white, spurns women, wants sacrifices, tramples infants! Thous shall not! ========= Didn’t God create a beautiful world? Love and families? gave us Jesus, healing, equality for all, non…
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2020 Slaughter
Timeless memories of days that mould our families, and friends come round for a coffee and a chat. While, the insistent echoes of government tell us what they want us to hear and what they wilfully want to do. And ——————————- so many hugless months have slowly palled and painted faces with sadness and tears…
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The Butterfly Effect
The butterfly floated thru’ the feathered branches and silently shimmered against the darker bark. ‘This is good, so good,’ said God and delightedly called other butterflies of diverse hues into life. ————————————————— They created a cloud of colours brighter than any rainbow, pale as sunlight on snow as they trickled together through the tousled trees.…
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