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Bless You
We have no place to bury herno grave to lay her in.So bluster all you wish, good sir,there’s no spot you can win. Yet please, I beg, some little plot.She was so small in life.Some place, surely, within this lotwould fit my little wife. I’m sure, but all are occupied.These have been busy days,for nearly all the town has diedwithin a fevered haze. I know, and how I wish I wasaflame with that…
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Poem: Love in Death
Please Read:Love in Death Love in Death
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tale-told · 2 days
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A Bit O' Nonsense
Can’t you see me in the mirror?Are you so blinded by your fear?Oh please just draw a little nearer.There’s something that you need to hear. There is a tale I have to tell, a lie you won’t believe is true. There is an ancient secret that no one’s bothered to explain. Elucidation is my game, a darkening refrain, and clarity’s a murky truth when charity provides no proof. I saw it all, I say…
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tale-told · 4 days
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Only a Child
The silent words he didn’t saythe quiet shout he’d not relayare ringing loudly in my ears,and how I long to dry those tears.Yet still I’m me, not what he needs.Though I may mend him when he bleedsanother hand and other lipsmust help him when he falls and trips.I’ll help him up, reset the bone,but when he stands, he stands aloneand holds his tears with grim façade—a manly spectacle I laud—but…
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tale-told · 4 days
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Moors
In an instant, he was gone. Collapsing beside a fallen column, I rested my cheek against the crumbling stone and closed my eyes, trying to hold in the tears. The shade had fled as the first ray of the sun came over the ruins and through the fallen roof. Was he still here, somewhere, invisible? Did he know the pain, the loss? Why would God give us this little moment just to steal it away? Was he…
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tale-told · 5 days
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Poem: A Walk Through Melancholy
Please Read:A Walk Through Melancholy A Walk Through Melancholy
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tale-told · 6 days
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We Have to Tell Lucy
“What’cha think?” I asked, not daring at first to look him in the face, but as the silence grew, I couldn’t help but lift a cautious glance up to him. In that darkened room, the light of the monitor lit up his features in a strange, alien way. Too pale in places, too black with shadows in others—totally unreadable. “It might work,” he finally mumbled, a hand reaching up to scratch at his chin.…
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tale-told · 7 days
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Persevere
The worn and weary warrior stumbled past the prostrate worshipers toward their bloody god. His sword felt heavy. It was, perhaps, the one piece of his armament he’d managed to maintain. Its keen edge and ready gleam in the green firelight held a memory of that promising young knight who’d set out in fine armor and with finer ideals. His shield was gone now, and with it the images of his heraldry,…
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tale-told · 8 days
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Anymore
The silence smothered my thoughts with creeping and strange dreams. How often did I wake with a start from a sleep I did not realize I had fallen into? The delineation between those worlds is fading. My whole life now seems to be nothing but a mad vision. Tell me, who am I? What have I done? Didn’t I have a sword? Did I not once cut and cleave and set right a world? Was I not a king? I can’t tell…
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tale-told · 9 days
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Waiting for Heaven
Stretching for the starsreaching for their lightbut the distance always barsso I sat down to write I wrote of what I’d do up thereif I could climb some stairor rise up in the air But here I am upon the earthlost in dreams I think profoundthat really have no other worththan brightening the world around Until the sun shall shine againand wake the world of menfrom dreams to real heaven
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tale-told · 10 days
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Tale Told Again
Whatever dreams remain, my world is lost. A hint, here or there, reminds me of my home, but I cannot, I would not, try to overwrite yours; I know the price, that there isn’t one, for once it’s gone, it’s gone, irreplaceable. But if it’s allowed, I might preserve, perhaps, a story we told, long ago. It may grow here. I’d like to think something would go on beyond, and this story is the oldest…
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tale-told · 11 days
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Haiku: Weary
I have grown tired nowand the years feel heavierlike weights on my soul I have journeyed longbut do not know the endof this winding path The sun is settingpain is in my every stepand the world grows cold
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tale-told · 12 days
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My Mind Is…
The silence smothered my thoughts with creeping and strange dreams. How often did I wake with a start from a sleep I did not realize I had fallen into? The delineation between those worlds is fading. My whole life now seems to be nothing but a mad vision. Tell me, who am I? What have I done? Didn’t I have a sword? Did I not once cut and cleave and set right a world? Was I not a king? I can’t tell…
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tale-told · 13 days
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Behind It All
Behind the face of time are gears, behind the gears, a plan, behind the plan, a mind, behind the mind there is a dream, beyond the dream, I cannot see. Behind a wall a nation lies, behind the lies a truth resides, and there this pattern stops. Behind the eyes, they say a soul is found. Behind my words, a hope I have, to speak the truth, to share a dream, to touch—one soul might touch another. So…
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tale-told · 14 days
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Somewhere Between
They sallied from the depths of Hell, too worn and weary to see themselves in the frightened eyes of those who beheld their rotting forms. How cold it all felt, naked of skin, of flesh, of bone, mere spirit exposed to the horrible reality of reality. And the light! What a terrible thing was heaven—the stars so blinding—but they were free, finally free. Some could not see them. They were either…
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tale-told · 15 days
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Growing Dim
I have done what I fear I’d do.At least I said what’s true.And I see that I’ve hurt my friend,but here I cannot bend. There are times when you pray to Godfearing you’re just a fraud.But you pray and give it to Himthough all around grows dim.
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tale-told · 16 days
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Past Dreaming
The dream has passed, the nightmare’s done, the sun is there behind the hill, his light, ready, so dim, a glow in the sky. A moment, and he’ll be a pinprick, so sharp, a blinding dot, and it will all be over. We wait in this hour, this breath, between the day and night. I do not remember, now, what visions beset me on my bed, but there is left a sensation, a momentum, a feeling, part pleasure,…
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