(Horatian Ode in Iambic Pentameter with ababcdecde Rhyme Scheme)

The tranquillity of valley hills,
Allows the mind to wander like the clouds,
Above the tree tops with their...

Dascha and Nikolai performing a brandnew song on a sofa.

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Winter has gone

at last into retreat

and spring is here;

The sky is blue

with little cloud now,

has given the Pacific flow

into Whangaparaoa Bay

its colour too;

...

Strange, super-human powers I possess. I know what's hidden, where, and I can guess your history from your breath, and what things weigh. My ears can hear a rip from rooms away. I know...

I'm back. I dread returning to a town. I rented there once. That has a new door. And there I worked. This block is so rundown. I said. “I'll never step back in that store.” I crashed a...

Once Pan, the God of mischief and of mirth, Conceived a plan the mortals to dismay. Argatos bred the saddest folk on earth. It's there they say the men complained all day. So Pan their prayers...

ORFEO AND ETAIN or      "JUST FOR GRINS" a politically correct romance (if those terms are not mutually exclusive) by Glen Fitch dedicated to Joan B. Gratz      Dear...