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I was behind the trees, digging graves, When I heard the wind sweep up the hill, Driving the rain ahead of it. The graves Would be full of water in… Continue Reading
Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter
I was behind the trees, digging graves, When I heard the wind sweep up the hill, Driving the rain ahead of it. The graves Would be full of water in… Continue Reading
This underhand way Of waging war, hidden, to Rip malevolence into the Precincts of peace, unbidden Entrance through steel and flesh, Dead centre and sharp, to Overcome an imaginary enemy…. Continue Reading
The sun slices an alien light Into the sepia of the gloaming To create abstract shapes of angles And curves and shade. The world Becomes two-dimensional in The orange haze… Continue Reading
The Greek for question is erotisi. It leads the Western mind dwn alleys Of sensual thought, and raises matters That border on philosophy. If life is Based on question, and… Continue Reading
A tyranny’s apex is one person. Nothing below matters, ideologies irrelevant except for that of selfishness. The rest of the diabolical triangle is nothing but sycophants on the second level,… Continue Reading
If to dote on someone is to love them Unconditionally, to antidote on someone Must mean to hate them unconditionally. In the spirit of those language logics, I dote on… Continue Reading
he cried she sighed he moaned she groaned he shouted she pouted he yelled she welled he frowned she gowned he ordered she bordered he commanded she demanded he complained… Continue Reading
There is no point in weather forecasting. The weather will be what it is, and the Inevitable greyness will envelop our towns, Invade our cities, and suffocate the few Forests… Continue Reading
I miss our first life Where nothing mattered But we. There it is, There it was, and we Can’t reverse time To bring it back or Make ourselves younger. This… Continue Reading
We are vessels, base elements And primal chemicals, wrought In the furnace of ancient into Living sentience, but never Understanding what made us, Nor what we are, and love is… Continue Reading