Category: Writing
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Involuntary furlough
I am fighting sleep only for the chance to hear your voice. Call you at 2 a.m. just to make sure I’m still in your dreams Drink a margarita for me please Make it extra strong — These days, we need the strength. I go out to the woods to seek my transcendalist side Decide…
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Bring on the drama: I need material
When I am sad or heartbroken, the positive thing that I can usually take from it is poetry or short stories or journal entries. When I am happy, my creative writing blows. Never really written about puppies or sunsets – not well, anyway. The past several years have been mostly a happy time for me. Is…
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This ain’t no Ferris Wheel
Come sit with me on our bed, my friend As close to me as you can get lest you fall off the edge Hold on tight, honey This ride isn’t for the faint of Heart loses but that’s not important We are only a fantasy; isn’t that right? You never expected truth. I called you…
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I will write a novel in 30 days.
Before the end of the year, I will have completed my first novel. I have not started it yet. Writing a book is something I have always wanted to do. When I was 10 I decided I wanted to be a novelist for a living. When I was 11 I decided that would be too…
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Waiting for November
Thoughts turn to poetry that rhymes and pretty girls that taunt his mind If he waits until he’s ready What if ready doesn’t come A trilogy of thoughts clogs his heart Fifty-thousand words in 30 days A writer’s blocked-up mind can only think of red candles and voices in his head This one-bedroom isn’t big…
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The moment after all goes dark
Never did the street lights seem so far apart as they did when she would run between them fast on the first set, slow on the second that perfect moment between day and night It is impossible to cling to both sides but if she selects one, she admits the other is not right. So…
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It was a curvy road finding you
But when our eyes touched joined in our new world I could do nothing but stare and wonder what it would take to know you to hold you and then we said hello Cedar Mountain was ours but it couldn’t keep us You belonged to the shore but my heart was yours You were in…
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Irregulars
You haven’t seen me wearing my new red pants. In the irregulars section for ten dollars cheaper I got a small tear in the left back pocket. Nothing a little thread won’t fix. You told me she dreamed of you and her, I flared red and ripped into what you call trust, I call…
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Daytona Beach, Florida
We are drinking Korbel and Kahlua, when the clock hits midnight in China, we are kissing like the end of the world is coming even though we know it isn’t. Sorority girls jump on the bed, In the corner guys yell Marine chants And on the porch some people are smoking a joint. It’s midnight…
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Dirty Laundry
Sometimes when I concentrate with all I have I can remember the first time you fell asleep with your head in my lap and I thought the little noises your nose and mouth made were sweet. I remember loving the little stuffed animal you brought me even though it came from the gas station where you…