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Only Memory

May 15, 2013by merlinspielen 1 Comment

this box holds all i was in scraps of wrinkled paper fading chromatic chemicals bonded into smiling synchronicity enticing chemical neural misfiring dancing across my cortex laughter and tears seeping […]

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Energy, Fiction, Memory, Poem, Schadenfreude, Writing

Only Winter Remains…

May 15, 2013by merlinspielen 3 Comments

Spring never lasts or lingers long enough We await the arrival as days grow longer tickles of warmth enticing us to shed only to be wrapped in lurking cold winds […]

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Energy, Fiction, Memory, Poem, Schadenfreude, Writing

Happy May Day

May 1, 2013by merlinspielen 2 Comments

Today is May 1st and finally feeling like winter has left. It also feels like winter has zipped straight into summer without any gradual ramp up from freezing to mildly […]

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As Good As It Gets.

April 28, 2013by merlinspielen 2 Comments

There is a memory of once upon a day when I was somehow somebody’s someone in some mystical way Anticipation gnawing towards the end of day calling me toward her […]

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Energy, Fiction, Memory, Poem, Schadenfreude, Writing

Aqua Marine

April 22, 2013by merlinspielen 9 Comments

You rise like Aphrodite swelling from the surf dripping warm salt water in your foamy wake the ocean of your veins pounds time in my ears seduces my heart with […]

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Energy, Fiction, Memory, Poem, Schadenfreude, Writing

I Held You…

April 21, 2013by merlinspielen 1 Comment

I found your picture lurking in my drawer I didn’t need it to remember you cause you’re always waiting in my mind every moment we had etched across my eyes […]

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Energy, Fiction, Memory, Poem, Schadenfreude, Writing

Brown Dog Alone

March 1, 2013by merlinspielen 8 Comments

unexpected journey down familiar roads sent me through waterdown unplanned detour down memory lane sent me through time here i sit recalling happiness delight joy enjoyed enjoined with an americano […]

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Happiness, Health, Memory, Poem, Schadenfreude, Writing

One More Slice

February 14, 2013by merlinspielen 4 Comments

thin sliver delicate lines waiting for me asking me begging me now take me now use me now taste me free me release me enjoy me Now …NOw ……NOW all […]

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Peppercorn

February 7, 2013by merlinspielen 10 Comments

peppermill waiting filled spicy black burning red savory green quick turn twist flick flavor cascade tantalizes taste-buds from bland to burning If only it was so easy to add zest […]

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Cooking, Fiction, Happiness, Health, Memory, Poem, Psychology, Schadenfreude, Writing

Completion

February 6, 2013by merlinspielen Leave a comment

This dance of you and I moves slowly in circles familiar and contemptuous spilling over in heated moments of angry distrust tumbling down into burning moments of hungry lust the […]

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Cooking, Debt, Family, Happiness, Health, Memory, Poem, Psychology, Writing

Monday Again

February 4, 2013by merlinspielen 7 Comments

Wow. Monday here once more in my living room. Happens to me every week yet it still surprises me when it arrives. Monday morning all dark and gloomy beeping at […]

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Bully, Energy, Ethics, Happiness, Memory, Psychology, Schadenfreude, Writing, |Ramble

Midden Heap of Thoughts

February 1, 2013by merlinspielen 7 Comments

These words languish alone on the page unread unvoiced unrhymed hollowed out devoid of meaning if a poem is posted and there is no one near by to read it […]

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Deep Quotes for the Blues

January 31, 2013by merlinspielen 5 Comments

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let […]

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Untouched

January 27, 2013by merlinspielen 12 Comments

Here I am on the sideline watching you dance so divine waiting for stars to align hoping you’ll show me a sign We arrive here together and then you’re off […]

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Bully, Debt, Family, Fiction, Happiness, Memory, Poem, Psychology, Schadenfreude, Writing

Skin on Skin

January 13, 2013by merlinspielen 9 Comments

here we lie entangled akimbo soft warmth of january thaw fresh in our glowing flesh sheets rumpled in sweat sweet salty scent of passion wrapped inside each breath each touch […]

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Millennium Glasses

13th minute of 13th hour of 13th day of the 13th year of the Millennium

January 13, 2013by merlinspielen Leave a comment

Are you triskaidekaphobic? That would be one that suffers from an abnormal fear of the number 13. Well today is a day full of thirteens! The only thing that would […]

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Energy, Family, Joke, Memory, Poem, Psychology, Schadenfreude, Writing, |Ramble

Oubliette

January 12, 2013by merlinspielen 3 Comments

oubliette: a secret place of imprisonment, usually with only one opening in the top. In a world of instant maps I am suddenly adrift without even a tiger unable to find […]

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Energy, Ethics, Family, Green, Happiness, Health, Memory, Poem, Psychology, Schadenfreude, Writing, |Ramble

Indifferent

January 11, 2013by merlinspielen 18 Comments

For good or bad it doesn’t matter there is no measure carefully applied anywhere between us that can yield a significant result within the bounded error of tolerance untransmutable insubstantial […]

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Just Fine

January 10, 2013by merlinspielen 2 Comments

You stop and say hello vacantly unsure you ask me polite questions and I answer ‘just fine’ which really mostly some of the time is the truth and that is […]

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2013by merlinspielen 11 Comments

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. May […]

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High to low

Freshly Blue

December 28, 2012by merlinspielen 28 Comments

After you hit over 800 views in a day – getting below 100 feels like such a bummer I can see why Le Clown is such a promo fanatic to […]

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The Illusion of Perfection

December 14, 2012by merlinspielen 15 Comments

perfection (noun) – state of being without a flaw or defect Perfection seems to be an obsession of our civilization – at least here in North American. We embark on […]

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A Freshly Pressed Hangover

December 13, 2012by merlinspielen 13 Comments

That is one heck of a buzz I must say! Here it is the midnight after getting Freshly Pressed for my tiny tale of random kindness – and wow that […]

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Award, Debt, Ethics, Happiness, Poem, Psychology, Writing, |Ramble
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Blue Girl is a WordPress Angel!

December 12, 2012by merlinspielen 19 Comments

Today is the magical day of 12-12-12 – and I have most unexpectedly been given the best Christmas present ever from a sweet lady and fantastic poet Suzy Blue of […]

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Award, Ethics, Happiness, Poem, Psychology, Writing, |Ramble
Christmas 2012

List of Lost Wishes

December 9, 2012by merlinspielen 185 Comments

As I was walking to the grocery store, the wind blew a bright pink slip of paper against my leg. The paper clung to me, begging me to pick it […]

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House of Broken Hearts

December 9, 2012by merlinspielen 1 Comment

This is the front door Inside here is the foyer Notice the walls so carefully painted Decor so exquisite showing refined taste Look at that kitchen Granite and nickel – […]

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Stage Fright

December 7, 2012by merlinspielen Leave a comment

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… William […]

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Bully, Ethics, Family, Happiness, Memory, Poem, Psychology, Schadenfreude, Writing

Randomness

December 6, 2012by merlinspielen 3 Comments

don’t stand so close soft fuzzy sweater piece of my heart bad moon rising I saw what you did down the crazy river wise men say moonlight desires are sending […]

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Happiness, Health, Memory, Poem, Psychology, Writing

Flight 19

December 5, 2012by merlinspielen Leave a comment

67 years ago today 5 fighters disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle…there are still no answers as to what happened… Five Avengers aloft in a blue sky flying in circles looking […]

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Reflection

December 4, 2012by merlinspielen Leave a comment

deliberate daydreamer inner ruminations exposed distant pensive entranced speculation mirror-image

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Walking Carrion

December 3, 2012by merlinspielen 4 Comments

Round me circle the crows and the badgers smelling of blood – and death walking near me. Their feast that awaits is all that matters Their eagerness brings great comfort […]

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Debt, Fiction, Health, Memory, Poem, Psychology, Schadenfreude, Writing

Suffused

December 2, 2012by merlinspielen 16 Comments

I watch you bathing smiling serenely subtle steamy mist of fresh coconut oil scent moistly clinging to every delicate surface I would take you in this moment as you fully […]

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Infused

November 30, 2012by merlinspielen 6 Comments

percolated dreams seeping between sheets strewn across hours imbued drip by drop potent distillation instilled infilled unabridged unleashed intoxication bubbling through veins burning through pores the essence of you tempers […]

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Confused

November 29, 2012by merlinspielen 2 Comments

muddled dazed and bewildered i wander alone i wonder aloud why am i here which way to go how many angels are joyfully dancing inside my head? Related articles Were […]

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Diffused

November 28, 2012by merlinspielen Leave a comment

spilling over the edges seeping around corners touching mingling melding into unity of this and that and each other seamlessly fused heated interconnection a mobius merging of elemental particles undulating […]

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Sequestered

November 26, 2012by merlinspielen 11 Comments

The day starts the same a single cup of cold coffee and no one else to blame for what wasn’t done yesterday Solitude is what you choose loneliness is what […]

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Not Wanted

November 26, 2012by merlinspielen 6 Comments

Once the twinkling sparkle of dreams now on the sidelines overlooked unnoticed unwanted and undesirable simply waiting to be displaced and replaced discarded out the door for the inevitable final […]

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So Good for Nothing

November 25, 2012by merlinspielen 3 Comments

It’s the way I live my life the way I’ll always be nothing will ever change me cause I’m just good for nothing Always good for nothing that’s the way […]

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Bully, Debt, Ethics, Family, Fiction, Happiness, Holiday, Joke, Memory, Poem, Schadenfreude, Writing, |Ramble

No Whispers

November 23, 2012by merlinspielen 2 Comments

Looming dusk tinged skies send us running inside away from their eyes we must go and hide playgrounds emptied shades pulled closed silence is the key to our survival Did […]

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Over Time

November 22, 2012by merlinspielen 4 Comments

to everything there is a season a shining moment in the sun a glistening under the moon a shimmer of rain a touch of fame to everything there is a […]

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Deletion

November 20, 2012by merlinspielen 3 Comments

there is now empty white space where warm words lay between us holding us together there is now silent blank void filled only by frosted silent distance beyond touch – […]

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Hopeless

November 18, 2012by merlinspielen 6 Comments

This is bad beyond recollection irrevocably broken totally shattered unmitigatedly pointless absolutely sunk up the creek the ultimate lost cause and yet here I am still one step one breath […]

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Condemned

November 16, 2012by merlinspielen 3 Comments

slotted selected judged carefully weighed assumptions appended prepended found wanting considered measured dismissed sentenced condemned dead man dead horse dead end.

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Charade

November 15, 2012by merlinspielen Leave a comment

You signal your intentions without any sound at all simple hand gestures flowing through the air your eyes brilliant mesmerizing flames willing my understanding words unspoken meaning projected into undulations […]

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Down by the River

November 14, 2012by merlinspielen 4 Comments

Here we sat touching in sunlight watching this river flowing so long ago Here we shared drinking in silence thinking where this was going so long ago Here we laid […]

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Constellations

November 13, 2012by merlinspielen 5 Comments

Back when I was a child late in the deep of night world around me deep in sleep I would climb out my window onto the front porch roof shimmy […]

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Ethics, Family, Happiness, Memory, Poem, Psychology, Writing

First Thing

November 12, 2012by merlinspielen 8 Comments

crisp bright blast shiver chatter shake frozen frosty frigid freezing scritch scratch scrap grumble groan cold Related articles Frozen in Time (salmonfishingqueen.wordpress.com) First frosts, last roses… (mostlymotley.wordpress.com) Morning photo: Frost […]

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After the Feast

November 10, 2012by merlinspielen 5 Comments

I am the uninvited guest hovering on the sidelines intruding on conversations lingering too near You would ask me to leave if you did’t have to look me in the […]

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Fatal Realization

November 10, 2012by merlinspielen Leave a comment

You are the bright light of my miserable existence each moment with you delight I am lost in your presence Your eyes enthrall my mind and soul make me believe […]

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Babbling Fool

November 9, 2012by merlinspielen 3 Comments

Inspiration possesses me much to my torment to dispense poetic verse at the oddest moment words rattle in my mind in random combinations spilling out to form unexpected permutations worst […]

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