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Dreams Within Dreams

Fear had set in her heart… She lay in the darkness, motionless – but the pattern of her breathing gave away her peaceful demeanor – ragged, semi-awake. She turned on her side to emit a series of hacking coughs. The form shifted back into its original position, having emitted an SOS through Morse code – [...]

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Clicking While Moving Around: Part 2

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The Circle of Life

It takes all kinds to make a school… All five fingers can never be the same. We tend to categorize them as the long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones. Other than that, we put people in a color chart, and title them black, white, yellow, and brown. All different races, colors, castes and [...]

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Wedding Decorations (Photography)

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Clicking While Moving Around (Photography)

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The Hangman’s Noose

It stands proud and tall, Never in sternness faltering, A constant threat to all. Ah, it never fails to kill, Just one jerk about your neck, And you will hang quite still! With hooks three, It will hold up more than one shamed convict, Ironically displaying them shamelessly for all to see! Tall, dark, handsome, [...]

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Stripes or Solids

Stripes or solids, An interesting game, And if the pocket of opportunity were bereft you, who is it you would blame?! Many would say it’s who it is you choose to be, A Solid soul, worth other people’s trust, but dull and mundane, Or Stripes, with sharp cutoffs of shaded past; shadows evil, sins medieval, [...]

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Vaporize

I swish the tea bag Round and round The milk gets murky But the caramel tint is gorgeous in the light.. I sit, esconsced in thought So very absent mindedly I see without seeing Yet my gaze can almost make you squirm.. Pondering the complexity of Simplicity, And the simplicity of Complexity, Eternal paradoxes, a [...]

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A Short and Bitter Sweet End

You sit back staring in this camera, Your eyes swollen, but your smile’s still so wide, You hold me close, but u hold her so much closer, And under those pretty lights, my every hope died.. Her smile is blinding, you look happy too, I just keep wondering if this really you, I saw what [...]

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Whirling Dervish

I do miss you sometimes when I feel like the world is collapsing around me crumbling like my face crumples and the tears start falling, silent daggers zigzagging down my cheeks….tears of blood, that hang at the edge of the pinnacle of the glacier…gleaming in the light.. the eerie greyness that filters through the small [...]

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