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After Parveen Shakir: Poems
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2011
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Strange FrenZies
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2014
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About Time
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2011
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Prose 1997 - 2008
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Socrates: Philosopher or Prophet?
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Morney Wilson: The Recordings
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Poetry Potion #11 : Love & Compassion
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The Rotary Dial January 2014
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Review of ‘Love Is A Virus’ by Lola Demo
This mind-blowing album is pure seduction by music. ‘Love Is A Virus’ is very in-the-moment but its lyrics deliver an overall message about society’s obsession with making us into what we are not, with being other than oneself,. When one tries to change what one is, the things that define an individual, we are no longer wholly ourselves - That which makes each individual unique. Auden takes up th
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“Such a waste of a girl, such rumination.
I am obsessive. I contain nothing but the replay. I am blood and blood and replay. I am please don’t go. I am toss the windows open, but I am windows closed.” Lisa Marie Basile |
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| 'For Ibn 'Arabi, the universe was the product of God’s desire to see Himself manifested, as in a mirror. Hence, although the Divine Reality is transcendent, at the same time everything that exists is a manifestation of that Reality. Everything that e ...more | |
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'Like water, I flow softly but do not mistake my yielding a weakness, for it is water that wears away rock.' ...more |
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"Loneliness is aggravated when you focus on it. I just don’t have the time to feel lonely”. 'Life is a sum product of chances, both taken and not taken. But how does one decide between the plethora of chances that come knocking, when the mind has the ...more |
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“I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.”
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“I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.”
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“Each morning they re- hang the sky
early, before sunrise; it moves to left or right
and I look hard to see the gap
between here and heaven.
© Victoria Mosley ‘’Love Bites”
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early, before sunrise; it moves to left or right
and I look hard to see the gap
between here and heaven.
© Victoria Mosley ‘’Love Bites”
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“He carries stars in his pockets
because he knows
she fears the dark.
Whenever sadness pays her a visit
he paints galaxies
on the back of her hands.”
― Growing Light
because he knows
she fears the dark.
Whenever sadness pays her a visit
he paints galaxies
on the back of her hands.”
― Growing Light
