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The Elder’s Rewilding

Farah Rose Smith·January 5, 2021

The Elder’s Rewilding written by: Farah Rose Smith @farahrosesmith Like cats in the corner’s dust Portraits of...

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Sing To Me

Genie Nakano·January 1, 2021

Sing To Me written by: Genie Nakano @genieyogini sing to me sweet bird of happiness so small...

Poetry English

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Drought

Padmini Krishnan·November 27, 2020

Drought written by: Padmini Krishnan winter drought raven wraps himself around wet drying line...

English Poetry

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A Songbird

Hagit Carmel·November 18, 2020

A Songbird written by: Hagit Carmel It rose in the distance of blue skies On a background...

Poetry English

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A Bird Landed On My Window

Eric Danhoff·August 25, 2020

A Bird Landed On My Window written by: Eric Danhoff @troubled_sleep a bird landed on my window...

The Bird

Christina Ciufo·May 21, 2020

The Bird written by: Christina Ciufo @ChristinaCiufo Its white wings, like baptism water, flutter over my melancholy...

English Poetry

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Flap! Flap!! Flap!!!

Abunic Sherif II·March 26, 2020

Flap! Flap!! Flap!!! (The Stubborn Bird) written by: Abunic Sherif II Dried eyes dared to roam rainy...

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Great Indian Bustard’s Plea

Nishand Venugopal·February 8, 2020

Great Indian Bustard’s Plea written by: Nishand Venugopal @nvgpal79 To be or not to be, That’s the...

English Poetry

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The Darkling Thrush

Spillwords·December 15, 2019

The Darkling Thrush a poem by: Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was...

English Literary Greats Poetry

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Broken Wings

Shelly Wilson·October 13, 2019

Broken Wings written by: Shelly Wilson @ShellyWilsonDQK The little starling fell hard amidst the storm and she...

English Poetry

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The Maiden and The Willow

P. T. Corwin·September 26, 2019

The Maiden and The Willow written by: P.T. Corwin There lived a young maiden, so sweet and...

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Soul Search

Sarmistha Gupta·September 10, 2019

Soul Search written by: SARMISTHA GUPTA @9903992790Gupta Flapping his arms and perched atop Bellowing gust the wind...

English Poetry

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Wounded Bird

Mountassir·September 10, 2019

Wounded Bird written by: Mountassir Aziz translated by: Nassira Nezzar A wounded bird as a deserted silence...

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There Will Be Soft Rains, a poem by Sara Teasdale at Spillwords.com

There Will Come Soft Rains

Spillwords·August 25, 2019

There Will Be Soft Rains a poem by Sara Teasdale There will come soft rains and the...

English Literary Greats Poetry

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I was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. At fifteen I left school without the skills or maturity to appreciate the wider world. At nineteen I packed a bag and wandered through Europe and North Africa, learning from the road. At twenty‑five I earned the qualifications for university, eventually becoming a high school teacher and later an education manager. Now I live with my amazing wife on an island north of Seattle. After retiring and with encouragement from Spillwords and the Clever Park Writers Group, I traded reports for storytelling. And that's where the fiction began...

Cast Off by Niall Crowley

The two computer screens tighten their grip. Tom pivots between them, tracking one while he works on the other. Careful discipline from early morning to close of business. Number crunching, he would have termed it before. Now it’s data management and verification, his task to model and tabulate clients’ financial situations and options. Bookkeeping, he would admit to, in more candid moments. He’s tethered firmly to the task, though, and has been since he started here, nearly two years now. Bound in the rigour the work requires, as if life itself depends on it. Top floor, dormer window ...

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