Paint My Heart Red by, Melissa R. Mendelson Say those three words, and paint my heart red. See the passion light inside, and keep me warm forever in your arms. And the movie ends. My heart is crystal, and all those lines are the scars from those that have come to break what I keep inside. Now, my […]
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I Have Not Forgotten Fancy Prologue: “Talk about the devil And show me the angel, Fancy Who doesn’t need an anvil To forge or hammer his fallacies” Chapter One: forgive me; I’m unworthy to lace your fancy shoes, I’m unworthy to call you a lair; I’ll leave that to the voices in your guitar— the ones that knew […]
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where this in no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo
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“If you hear someone in public life say that he is going to stand firmly on principle, you should take cover, and warn others to do the same.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
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At least 235 people have died in 75 mass shootings since the Sandy Hook massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six adults in December 2012.
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Aspirations gone, little remains. Daily routine the dwindling hope things will get better. Aging, illness, terrorism, tainting tomorrows, another vessel lost on uncharted seas. Author Bio: ‘Temporal Dreams’ is an unpublished poetry collection that reveals our preoccupation with material things, sometimes to excess. Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as […]
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Strangers Waiting For 2 Different Trains We both spent hours waiting on the line for a ticket to Shakespeare in the Park. I saw her on the blades of grass, supine while I stood up behind her on a lark I’d talk to her. “What’s the play about,” she asked, before I knelt on down beside her to explain, ‘The […]
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“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act: but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” – G.K. Chesterton
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“It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them.” – Philippa Carr
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