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Skating on the Edge of Sanity
She was always the woman poised onthe edge of a river with her bruisedeyes and weeping hair. We moved toCalifornia to drink in the sunlight,but in that city of angels she heardtheir clear voices calling up the deadfrom that famous crack in the earth.Let go of these shadows I say,but this is the...
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Published 4 hours ago

Breathing in Darkness
This darkness wrapped aroundme like a cocoon against thisroom full of awkward tongues.Their vitriol hanging from knowingsmiles and cradled in cuppedhands. I tell myself it doesn’tmatter as I feel my chest heavewith their malice which has coatedmy lungs like coal dust.
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Published 3 days ago

Refund
You would love to see that fortuneteller in Jackson Square again.The one that told you it was goodluck when a bird shit on yourshoulder.
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Published 6 days ago

Phantoms and Tail Lights
Idyllic scars oozed from a ribbon of asphalt,forlorn windows gaze from derelict houses their shadows stretched out like gravestones in the late afternoon sun. A broken down café smiles with the promise of real home cooking, echoingwith the clink clink clink of cutlery on plates. A town of...
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Published a week ago

News Item
Sorry I've been away. Real life getting in the way. I want to thank Rebecca, Petra and Mary Lou for the awards. (blushing) I will do a more detailed post when I get some time. Don't forget about me! :D lots of love Sherry
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Published 2 weeks ago

From one Hockey Mom to another...
This cracked me up! I hope you enjoy!I was just checking the CNN election tracker. It shows Texas 57% McCain to 38% Obama.Seriously when are we going to make some changes in the voting process. I just feel what is the point of me voting. I think it is time to do away with the electoral college.
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Published 3 weeks ago

A Moment of Brilliance
I’m enmeshed in thinking,ideas scrawled on wetsand. I’m riding that satinyplace between just about todiscover and discovering,words; that will make adifference. Truth caught ina net of punctuation. Thesun turns a fiery gazeto consider the emergingsea foam flowing, ebbing,washing away....
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Published 4 weeks ago

The Cigarette
He watchedthe delicate linesaround her mouth deepen as she pulled one last drag, sending the red glow arcing end over end onto a pavement litteredwith broken dreams.
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Published 4 weeks ago

A Night at the Movies
“I hate these period pieces,” he said. "I'll never be able to live up to Ralph Fiennes or Colin Firth." “C’mon you’ll enjoy it,” she said tugging him into the darkened theater. “Why don’t they ever show them a few years later, when they’re both penniless and trying to make...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Venting
I just needed to vent. I'm watching the news and they are talking about ACORN and some of the calls they have been receiving. One woman stating that Obama should be hung. I just wanted to cry and correct her English. The closer the election looms the more I realize that racism is alive and...
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Published a month ago

Bits of Autumn
I wanted to do at least one poem for the season! There was a ritualwhen I was a child;summer would slinkaway with the first hintof cold and we woulduse old jelly jars,gathering bits of autumn.Crimson leaves, applescrisped on frosty morningsand warm woolly things forchilly nights. Each of...
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Published a month ago

Why Are You Crying?
Why are you crying foolish woman?Did youfollowthatsidewalkto thefutureand findyourselfgrayandwrinkleddozing ina batteredrecliner.The power to erase is at your fingertips.
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Published a month ago