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A Smile To Remember

Spillwords·July 31, 2016

A Smile To Remember A Poem By Charles Bukowski we had goldfish and they circled around and...

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Footsteps of Angels

Spillwords·July 24, 2016

Footsteps Of Angels A Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When the hours of Day are numbered, And...

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Invictus

Spillwords·July 17, 2016

Invictus A Poem by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the...

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Warning

Spillwords·July 10, 2016

Warning a poem by Jenny Joseph When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a...

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Friendship

Spillwords·July 3, 2016

Friendship by Henry David Thoreau I think awhile of Love, and while I think, Love is to...

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Suicide In The Trenches

Spillwords·June 26, 2016

SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES A Poem by Siegfried Sassoon I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned...

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The Song Of The Wreck

Spillwords·June 19, 2016

The Song Of The Wreck A Poem by Charles Dickens The wind blew high, the waters raved,...

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Faces n the street by Henry Lawson at spillwords.com

Faces in the Street

Spillwords·June 12, 2016

Faces in the Street Henry Lawson They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive...

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Spillwords·June 5, 2016

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night a poem by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle...

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IF poetry of Rudyard Kipling at spillwords.com

IF

Spillwords·May 29, 2016

IF- a poem by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are...

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The Lotus- Flower

Spillwords·May 22, 2016

The Lotus-Flower by Roderic Quinn All the heights of the high shores gleam Red and gold at...

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A Poison Tree

Spillwords·May 15, 2016

A Poison Tree a poem by William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my...

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She Walks in Beauty

Spillwords·May 8, 2016

She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron (George Gordon) 1788–1824 She walks in beauty, like the night...

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The Clinging Vine

Spillwords·May 1, 2016

The Clinging Vine Poetry by Edwin Arlington Robinson “Be calm? And was I frantic? You’ll have me laughing...

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After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

Reaper by Sharon Frame Gay

As an orphaned son of an orphan, I always see the glass as half empty. I picture the water murky and lukewarm, a waterline etched below the rim. Maybe with an ash or two floating at the bottom, because that’s what I do for a living. I deal with ashes. The remains of the deceased. No matter how those who pass away see their glass, meager or full, they eventually end up in a satchel carried on my shoulder.
My business card reads “Morton Stark Transport.” I’m called upon to disperse the ashes of the dearly departed and honor their final wishes. People hire me to escort the remains throughout the world ...

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