Mediocre Stories & Poetry

This Time Three Years Ago

June 11, 2010 12 comments

[nggallery id=3] I was a nervous wreck. In blue paper scrubs, Staring at my reflection in the cracked mirror above the scrub-in sink, The sharp smell of the sterile soap punching my nose, I was waiting, waiting . . . waiting. We were on the brink of a new life — both yours and mine. [...]

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Today’s Circus Show

March 14, 2010 0 comments

Amazing. It doesn’t take long for a bubble, Just yesterday freely soaring in the pink air, To fall and land atop a pin. So far, it hasn’t broken. But it’s caught — in a balancing act– Swaying with the rhythms of anxious breath, High above the crowds below. Unable to be released, It discovers itself [...]

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Gold to Grey

March 14, 2010 1 comment

Why did I do it?  Oh, what a question!  I don’t know; maybe it was because I couldn’t believe what happening; or it was because I had loved my home — because I was losing all I had known; maybe it was because I could hear the screams of everyone I knew and loved.  Perhaps [...]

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The Start of Something

March 13, 2010 1 comment

Yeah — I write horribly contrived short stories. Here’s the start of one. Part One Eehhh Huuh.  Eehh Huuh The young man’s breaths became deeper, more rapid, more pronounced as the priest before him began to speak, nervously and just as rapidly as the man’s breathing. “The Lord is my Shepherd.  I shall not want,” [...]

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A 3rd Person Omniscient View of My Life

August 27, 2008 9 comments

Long, long ago, in a land faraway called “Oklahoma,” a young farmer and his wife brought home a little baby girl. This baby girl was their first baby girl and everything thing they had prayed for — right down to the dark curly hair on top of her little bitty head. The only thing they [...]

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sonnet two

May 14, 2005 0 comments

Why do I love thee? I couldn’t count the ways – Love had not chose me as its child. So I Knew not what Love could hold for my long days. It hid your hair, your skin, your mouth, your eye; But I do now hear your deep voice, and lo It does much please [...]

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