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You Are The Poem

Jack Wolfe Frost·November 2, 2018

You Are The Poem written by: Jack Wolfe Frost @JackWolfeWriter What is a poem, a few lines...

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I Drink The Shadows

Jose A. Tovar·February 18, 2018

I Drink The Shadows written by: Jose A. Tovar The full moon is out And my shadows...

English Poetry

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Mountains & Gems

Chloe Gilholy·December 11, 2017

Mountains & Gems written by: Chloe Gilholy I want mountains & gems with no strings attached. I’ll...

English Poetry

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Growing Slow

SMiles·November 17, 2017

Growing Slow written by: SMiles @stephenmiles2 When desires, to be pan piped by Morricone wake, over hung,...

English Poetry

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Song Of The Stable Boy

Abdur-Rehman Qadeer·October 23, 2017

Song of The Stable Boy written by: Abdur-Rehman Qadeer @ARBINQADEER On the far away empty island In...

English Poetry

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High Above This Tethered Earth

Catherine MacMillan Sihoe·July 26, 2017

High Above This Tethered Earth written by: Catherine MacMillan Sihoe @onspiritswings Before a massive wall of rock...

English 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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