Category: Hope
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Opportunity Knocked?
The Loch Ness Monster stared at me for twenty minutes. Twenty minutes! Tilting its head from one side to the other, as if trying to work me out. At one point, it stretched its long neck forward, as if trying to get a closer look. Its tongue licked the air, and it constantly blinked its…
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Sommat Good?
An’ when the words just fail to form The time to write’s not right But is it right to write any words Or only them what’s right? My words tonight are out of sight My form is not on form But are my words tonight wrote right And this is jus’ the norm? Right words,…
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Bah, Humbug! It’s Valentine’s!
“Valentine’s what?” one of my teachers would have said to me centuries ago when I was in school, if I’d have dared write something as I did the header of today’s post. “I’m waiting!” She would have glared over her thick-rimmed glasses, steam bellowing out of her nostrils individually. Bony fingers tapping the wooden desk…
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Offa’s Wheel
I wonder what went behind the invention of the wheel? Was it created after many months of trials of objects of varying shapes and sizes by our Stone Age ancestors until they got it right? Or perhaps the wheel had been invented many eons earlier than the Stone Age, and kept a closely guarded secret,…
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Thoughts, by T.L.Merriman
A spark ignites an idea from an image, smell or sound A few words grouped together gets a tale off the ground A tale becomes a paragraph; a chapter; or a book Possibly a trilogy (or more) with any luck. The pen needs inspiration, to enable the tale to grow And the balance of everything…
Tom
The Mansionic Perspective 