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A LOVE FILLED LIFE

Each time we wake, fully alive to our selves, Fully present to others, there comes loves joy. For only in our truthful union, loving moments, When we step beyond our incoherent walls, Will the certainties in a love of life … Continue reading

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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE – XLI

I thank you all, who have loved me so right with your hearts entwined in mine. Thank-you each, who have remained: in her voices-view when my prison-walls appeared so tight;

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FINDING LOVES TRUTH

Inhabiting the hopeful daze of tomorrows dreams Provides the nourishment to want, the passion to change, ……………………..the willingness to love.

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ECHOES OF MEMORY

“To speak the truth, I think that people ought to be upset, …; I think that life is so important and, in its workings, so upsetting that nobody should be spared.” J.R. Ackerley to Stephen Spender – 1955 When the … Continue reading

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SONNETS XVI: LOVE AND ART

Of course as with all writers who pen with ink .        There is high and the low and a mediocre style, .        In marble imagining too comes the rich or vile, .        Which only later I came to with my … Continue reading

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