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Item: Stay
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Author: Robert Laird

Robert LairdMarch 2, 2018

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Stay

written by: Robert Laird

@RobertCLaird

empty echo
butterfly wings
hands open free,
in the wind you're gone
and I breathe so deep,
reach only as far
as empty
recalls

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Robert Laird

Retired high school English teacher
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Latest posts by Robert Laird (see all)

At Peace - March 31, 2018
Stay - March 2, 2018
Unfinished - February 6, 2018

I was born and bred in Coventry and write under the pseudonym 'Ricky Hawthorne', a character from one of my favourite books from my teenage years, 'Ghost Story' by Peter Straub. In 2002, fearing I would lose my job, I started an MBA in Theatre, Film and Literature at Warwick University, graduating in 2006. During the course I, inexplicably, developed a film narrative inside my head. I then wrote out a script. My first screenplay – ‘Myth’. Since then I have completed four more with the latest ‘Would Love to Meet’ being the first requested by a producer through Inktip. I also have written three teleplays based on my own short stories, a children’s short story, 3 stage plays, a TV Pilot and found my fondness for writing poetry return after several years of dry wood. I am married to my lovely Mairea and we have 5 children.