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Heart of Stone

Distant black
eyes watch
from this tower
of ice erected
around myself.

Always cold
within my soul
in a land where the
sun never shines.

For if warmth
ever penetrated
and the walls began
to thaw, than I would
drown within its
aftermath.

So I revolve
with the moon
traversing from one
side of the world
to ...

Casablanca. Oh how those syllables seem to echo throughout the collective memory of film audiences. Its lines, phrases and characters have become virtually commonplace and this work of art is just as likely to settle into the collective unconscious of Western civilization just as Hamlet or The Sistine Chapel has. Let's admit it, this is one of the most popular movies of all time, so popular and so well loved, that it has become almost a cliche to call it the greatest film ever made. Every filmgoer ...

Fresh tears in my eyes as I view autumnal leaves
With the gnarled foliage tumbling onto asphalt.

The cold wind bites me with its inclemency
But I persevere along the road to somewhere.

Dancing in front of my face the amber pages spin
Pirouetting a final downward spiral to oblivion.

No doubt to start a new cycle of decay & birth;
Phoenixes that will arise from Bonfire Night ashes.

'Penny for ...

Silence speaks the word
only in death is comfort
fear not the darkness

sin·gu·lar·i·ty: • something that is singular — of or relating to
a separate person or thing distinguished by superiority • a point
or region in spacetime infinitely distorted by gravitational forces
and which is held to be the final state of matter

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5.

I never got to tell you

the
world
has
ended


4.

in the beginning

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