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My Fifty Shades of Grey
Been there and now I’m over it, those fifty shades of grey; really, what’s the fuss about, we all get old one day. I used to be a mousy brown, then grey bits did appear; pretty soon those grey bits … Continue reading
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The Search
The search for life’s true meaning; where am I meant to be? The lifelong quest for ‘culture’; that place where I am me. We came from far across the sea; a hemisphere apart and far off in ‘The Old Country’ … Continue reading
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Alzheimer’s Way (or Ode To My Zip)
This zip of mine has problems – it always gets undone as if it thinks what’s in there just needs a bit of fun. It seems that when I look down, it’s always there agape; the cage is always open … Continue reading
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My Gurus
I sit beside my Guru; with love her heart’s afire. The wisdom shining from her eyes, to that I do aspire. She holds the deepest wisdom and freely spreads it wide while I bask in her shadow; a truly privileged … Continue reading
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Our Nature 2
Fueled by the fire of insatiable greed we wander the earth seeking yet one more feed. The cultures consumed, the wildness laid bare to us simply profit – a part of life’s fare. Our feces is strewn from North to … Continue reading
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Youth
I sometimes think that in our youth we search for wisdom – forgetting truth. It stands before us, plain as day and we run off the other way. Those days of questing – much revealed; a mighty crop with bountious … Continue reading
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Sacridity
There’s things that I find sacred now as my life’s field I slowly plow; there’s tiny seeds that I must tend as in life’s field my back does bend. So much neglected; left undone – there’s tiny shoots baked in … Continue reading
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Trinity
SPIRIT Without all three there can be none for life’s true cycle is undone. No one can be without the other; a bond much more that sister-brother. Good or evil, right or wrong; there are but three parts to my … Continue reading
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The Sum
Joyous laughter mixed with tears, this is the sum of all my years. Words have trampled on my soul, those same words have made me whole. Actions that have crushed my heart became the paint of my life’s art. All … Continue reading
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Our Nature
Fueled by the fire of insatiable greed I see in their eyes unquenchable need built on expectations that cannot be met and rules all unwritten but so firmly set that we’ll all clamber to dizzying heights to consume ever more … Continue reading
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Sophie’s Nose
My little Sophie has a nose when she has a cold it’s like a rose but mostly it’s a kind of brown with wrinkles if she wears a frown. A pretty button twixt her eyes, tears run down it when … Continue reading
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Fraternity
You can find it on the beaches and in the forest too, that simple thing that changes the lives of me and you. It lurks down in the alleys and on the railway rides, where ever folk may gather – … Continue reading
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Rebellion Rocks!
Why is it that the search for truth is so often left to those of youth? It seems that as our world grows old the passion fades; the blood runs cold. It’s said that wisdom comes with age so we … Continue reading
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