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The Wastelands

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men Photographed at The Great Fissure.

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Donna Flora in the Fountain

Three coins in a fountain Each one seeking happiness Thrown by three hopeful lovers Which one will the fountain bless Three hearts in a fountain Each heart longing for its home There they lie in the...

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Crying In the Chapel

You saw me crying in the chapel. The tears I shed were tears of joy I know the meaning of contentment Now I am happy with the Lord Just a plain and simple chapel Where humble people go to pray I pray...

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“…to reign in Hell….”

…Is this the Region, this the soil, the clime, Said then the lost archangel, this the seat That we must change for Heaven, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?… …Be it so, since he Who now is...

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Black Ice

They say that black ice is the most dangerous…. …Glittering, cold, smooth and slick — and innocuous…. …Until you touch it – And then — and then — ! Harper Ganesvoort, November 2012 ===== The cold...

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Ozymandia

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip,...

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Thoughts Of a Supermodel Waiting For the Shoot To Start

Okay, how long’s it gonna be this time? The freakin’ genius there has to get things Ju-uuu-ust right Before he’ll shoot a single freakin’ frame Twitching the lights ten times And moving them about an...

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Party Here, Party There, Everywhere

…On disco lights, your name will be seen You can fulfill all your dreams Party here, party there, everywhere This is your night, baby, you’ve got to be there…. Kool & the Gang, “Ladies Night” It’s...

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California Nights

Click through for larger sizes Along the sand Let’s walk the shores together now Yes hand in hand It’s gonna be fair weather now When the stars come out Stop (Stop) To count them in the sky Love...

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Yemana

demons got me stressing overtime questions and doubts filling my mind apprehensions and misconceptions leading to momentary indiscretions give me back my mind i scream but it’s really my heart that’s...

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Thoughts of a Resident Surfer, Looking for Entertainment

Here’s to the Internet! Creation of universities enabler of communications storehouse of knowledge repository of porn facilitator of spies playground of trolls destroyer of newspapers source of...

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Spirit of the Earth

NOTICE:  The images in this article are nude, and may not be considered safe for work or other situations.  By clicking through, you agree that you understand this, and are old enough to be...

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To a Friend Estranged from Me

Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun That will not rise again. Today has seen the setting, in your eyes cold and senseless as the sea, Of friendship better than bread, and of bright...

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AZUL Camille — The Dream-Ship

I had hoped to get this written and published before the close of Join Hands for Nepal, but time and events conspired to make it nearly otherwise. Still, if you can get to the event before it closes,...

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Waiting…. (Republished with revisions)

Publisher’s note:  As you may know, I originally published this poem, written by me, in September 2011.  Recently, though, I’ve wanted to polish it up a little and take new, less muddy photos to...

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Making an Entrance

If anyone can Make an Entrance, it’s Ariel Sherman. Cyborg, onetime unwilling “courtesan” in a pleasure house on the planet Videra,  now the owner and star artiste of her own revue, the largest and...

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From Hair Fair 2015 — sYs Micha

Hair Fair is among us again, and the crowds should have eased a little by now. I, however, was one of the foolish, uh, brave ones who plunged into the thick of things on the first night and worked my...

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Berry’s Monday Memes — Yearbook Daze

Singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs With the boom box blaring as we’re falling in love Got a bottle of whatever, but it’s getting us drunk Singing here’s to never growing up — Avril Lavigne For...

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Between the Shadow and the Soul

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I...

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Hallowe’en 2015 — Mariposa

Actually, I don’t think Wordsworth had this kind of butterfly in mind when he wrote this ode. Bob Mackie did, though, when he created Le Papillon, the original gown for Barbie that Kelini Couture based...

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