Posted in Writing, life, poetry on October 11, 2007 | No Comments »
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as [...]
Posted in Creative Writing, Fiction, Prompt, Writing, Writing Prompt, life on October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever felt like breaking out, packing a bag and running away? Most people at one time of another feel like doing this, rarely does anyone do it. Well, I’ve decided to light out for the territory. I’m going to be 34 next week. I’m giving myself 1 year and 1 week to leave [...]
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Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both [...]
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The Enemy
My youth was nothing but a black storm
Crossed now and then by brilliant suns.
The thunder and the rain so ravage the shores
Nothing’s left of the fruit my garden held once.
I should employ the rake and the plow,
Having reached the autumn of ideas,
To restore this inundated ground
Where the deep grooves of water form tombs in [...]
Posted in Creative Writing, Fiction, Prompt, Writing, Writing Prompt, life on October 7, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been cleaning my office this morning in an attempt to regain some sort of control over my life. I feel calmer and more focussed when I throw away clutter and I’ve filled a black bin liner with all of the notes, files and documents that I always said I’d get to reading sooner or [...]
Posted in Creative Writing, Micro Fiction, Prompt, Writing, Writing Prompt on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
There is a point in the sky between the sun and the horizon where it’s safe to look. If you draw your eyes from the ground slowly little by little towards the sun, it’s safe, until suddenly, it isn’t.
Some people are the same. When you look at them out of the corner of your [...]
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