Professional marine soldiers training with weapon on a military range
Cowboys
Tragedy of fools Men not boys with guns Who think it’s a game To shoot as you run Fired up and ready Blood lust in their eyes Power hungry puppets…
Chemtrails
I lived and lovedin lives that changed,mingled in some desperate darkness,watched sun break over chemtrails. After every down, I found an upwhen I felt defeat and despair.Sometimes unforeseenwas the warmth…
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Hope Horizon
More than mindful, Very heart ,belief. Negative emotions, Happiness thief. Hope is folly, To those who know. But we believe, Need hope to grow. Hope is eternal, Next…
Original Photo - Image Source - Edit by Laurence Meehan
Bob Williamson
Bob Williamson lived at number 42, and he looked like the sort of man people crossed the road to avoid. A murderer, a paedophile, or something equally menacing—at least, that’s…
Grandad
The evocative morning call of nature A dewdrop rolling upon thistle A brim of sunlight prisms this morning new. You carried your duties, and I carried you. I beg…
Photo by Chalabala
Christmas in Dublin
It’s Christmas again without you.I am far now from where I grew—those cobbled streets under my shoe,“wrapping paper, five for a pound,”called by street traderson Moore and Henry Street too.…
Image by Mint_Images
The Old Coat
The spare bedroom in Granny’s old house. The wardrobe door creaks treacherously when eight year old Simon slowly opens it. An old coat of faded tartan with nostril-wrinkling odours. The…
Image by olgar23
Wasting Time
If time doesn’t exist, how can we put it to waste This interval life that we count pace . Time creates pressure in this limited life Yes, some do marry,…
Photo by Laurence Meehan
Make it like a memory
And there it was, in a thousand piecesfrom only one plane. It crashed to the floor,and my heart the same. An emblem—not of a machine,but of a figure and a…
Image by davideangeliniphoto
Ring out the Old, Ring in the New
Yes, yes, yes. New Year’s Eve is a perfect day to ring out the current boyfriend to be available for new love starting the next day. Decluttering I call it.…