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Corners

October 9th, 2006 Comments Off

From her corner she looks,
but does not see him.
From his corner he sees,
but does not speak.
From the fear of rejection,
only loneliness wins.

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Today’s inspiration

June 27th, 2005 Comments Off

Today’s Inspiration
What has happened?
Where has it gone?
Did I take a wrong turning?
Did I get something wrong?
The spark has faded,
Am I burned out?
I revel in being jaded.
Have I been counted out?
The revolution never happened.
It never left my head!
Today’s inspiration,
largely mourns the dead.
The game has changed,
in a sinister way.
The stakes are high,
it’s expensive to play.
It’s not supposed [...]

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Lost in Translations

November 22nd, 2004 Comments Off

Earlier while reading The New Well-tempered Sentence : A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed, as mentioned in my earlier post, some of the wonderful sentences used as examples reminded me of something but I couldn’t remember what.
Later I was looking at my newly organised books, I mean organised for me, [...]

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It’s the waiting I can’t stand

November 1st, 2004 Comments Off

Well this is true of everything with me, not good at waiting at all, in this case it is the Presidential Election tomorrow. Even that won’t end it as everyone is talking about weeks of court cases, yes America the lawyers have taken over, as if you didn’t know that already
Okay before I [...]

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A few great quotes

October 19th, 2004 2 Comments

While checking up on a few quotes I came across these from the great poet Ogden Nash
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds [...]

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