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Stuff that gets you through the night...

Sometimes a kind word or fitting wavelength is all you need to get up and go on. Herein lie sketches on worthy things that may reach you in some random way. I'll never know their effect on you. I only know, it is for you, that I write them.


Featured posts:

  • October 2021
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  • May 2021
    • May 2, 2021 Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest... May 2, 2021
  • April 2021
    • Apr 30, 2021 Jesus said: "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Apr 30, 2021
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  • May 2018
    • May 22, 2018 Poem: Between skull and space May 22, 2018
  • March 2018
    • Mar 7, 2018 Poem: Fountain flowers Mar 7, 2018
  • February 2018
    • Feb 14, 2018 A poem: Dog Feb 14, 2018
    • Feb 6, 2018 A poem: Drills Feb 6, 2018
    • Feb 5, 2018 A poem: Trim Feb 5, 2018
  • January 2018
    • Jan 15, 2018 A poem: My brother Jan 15, 2018
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    • Aug 11, 2016 I know my BFG Aug 11, 2016
Photo by: Harpal Singh

Photo by: Harpal Singh

A poem: Drills

February 06, 2018

The drills, the drills, in feather-land, dug in their heels to build inroads in abyssal rock. Trains went through, and sewer pipes, and the people in castles and carriages of covinous motion in a snarl-up.

The decibels grated eardrums into powder, and the lightless moist dust inset like calcified arteries; a stark-staring miscue. Ossified feathers are not stone.

There's no light in dreams born underground, no sound when they crumble. The sun will shine for billions more, while you in the dark, stumble.

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