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If Words Alone Could Change the World

If words alone could change the world the poets would still reign as kings, and those who may rely on swords would spend their time on lesser things. The lure of verse, both blank and rhymed, would tempt young minds … Continue reading

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Conversation with a Mirror

I said, “Before I write another word and send it, helpless, out into the void, I’d like to find a topic less absurd than how the world leaves me only annoyed when I encounter it each passing day; it does … Continue reading

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With one word aloud

With one word aloud, the illusion is broken as the echo fades. So deep, this still well, that a small sound is strengthened and seems so much more. But echoes will fade; and in the gaping silence words do not … Continue reading

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To Be Ambrose Bierce for a Day

chaste, n. The state of being pursued, but not yet within the grasp of the pursuer. For example, it could be said that one is chaste, or in fact chased, until they are caught or captured. Quite often the value … Continue reading

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Your Own Words

What do I care? They’re only words, flung out in speech like careless pearls; it’s not as if they can raise boils or lay an endless, babbling curse. Oh, wait; that’s not entirely true. For in the Celtic lands, the … Continue reading

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Confucious

The words that rend my soul’s speech are my own; they are not borrowed from another’s lines. From someone else’s field, of their seeds sown, come not the fruits due me at harvest time. To posit otherwise is to admit … Continue reading

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Don’t Say a Word

Don’t say a word; let the silence between us deepen and swallow us whole; forget who was in control, who had the more meaningful role. Don’t say a word; let not speaking remind us of what can be better unsaid; … Continue reading

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