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What is Beauty: cancione

Posted on January 27, 2017 by John

So what is beauty, really? As a requisite to love it seems far too subjective, just some desire’s beguiling design to snare a victim. So what is beauty, really? A figment caught by the eye (or nature-made to seem thus) … Continue reading →

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Memory: a poem of the five senses

Posted on April 17, 2014 by John

Burnt cinnamon and candle wax, the surface of sandpaper and a tack, a bitter hint of lemon peel chased with a water back. The tinkle of a shattered glass, the supple strength of silk, an echo of a footstep and … Continue reading →

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Seed Thought for the Day

Posted on May 10, 2004 by John

The truth is that a man’s sense of the world dictates his subjects to him and that this sense is derived from his personality, his temperament, over which he has little control and possibly none, except superficially. It is not … Continue reading →

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Release

Posted on September 19, 2003 by John

Sometimes you smell trouble coming Hinted on the breeze The final fragile feather That can bring you to your knees Sometimes you can sense it coming When the pressure builds, your ears start drumming Sometimes you can tell the future … Continue reading →

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