Tag: life
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for Miz Quickly: Oh Brave
Be Brave I.I’m older now. LovedAnd well worn.Like a favourite pair of shoes, andI’ve a happy heart forSimple things.Bravery. Faithfulness. Patience, Except when it comes to fishing. II.My sister loves fishing. She braves Freezing water forHours on end withNothing more than a shiverTo show for it. My dad lovedFishing. We scattered hisAshes on the…
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Less Than 20 Questions for Miz Quickly
It’s a Very Short Duration I’m like a tiller. I’ve learnt to live with stones, keep a course of steps to climb, my personally chiselled architecture, the pain makes me feel alive, and I dig my boots in for the duration. I chat with the neighbours, “How are you?” I say — good manners are…
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Miz Quickly Has a Few Words
A Town Like Ours This town’s worthy of hate, its valley cloud-soaked, flowed with rain and smoke, and dingy as old grey sheets, a bed unloved, a corner where the sun never shines bright enough, where bells plead and peal plain expectation off-key, off the back of war that emptied our town of hope but…
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Miz Quickly on Chances
What Are the Chances What were the chances that I’d survive bitterness, outlast my misspent childhood. What chance was there that I’d find space to dry my wings, to fly before I learned to accept life’s slips and pits and stumbles, and eventual fall. And lately I pray for belief in God’s goodness — that…
It's Still Life 