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Eye To Eye

We are so different, totally.

There hardly is a thing

that gives us common ground at all,

but it is interesting –

that we can still live side by side

in pure peace if we try.

Cuz everything is possible…

when we see eye to eye.

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cooperation   differences   accepting difference   tolerance

You can't Streep poverty under the carpet... - NaPoWriMo Day 9

A silence fell upon the city,

contorted shadows twisting moonlight.

Stuttering in a speakeasy seemed so misplaced

bottles rattled flickering like Fedora feathers

in an unforgiving wind.

 

The wretched odour of deprivation

a stench that sticks and degrades ones existence.

Even by day this city remains a lifeless sap

and by night the vampires feast on th...

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Politics   Humanity   Mobsters   Banksters   War   NaPoWriMo   Global   Thatcher   Maggie Thatcher   Margaret Thatcher   Film   Film Noir   Noir   Prohibition   America   Britain   1930s   1980s   2013   universal   poverty   politicians   exploitation   inequality   hate   division   celebration   class   Class War   victory   battle   struggle   cooperation   cohesion

AO'kay

After today’s meeting with The Autistic Organisation we’re proud to announce we’ll be working very closely with Richard and his team in building the Manchester branch with projects at the Royal Exchange, at OpenMind events, and an OpenMind vs AO charity football match all on the horizon.

 

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AO   Charity   Cooperation   Football   OpenMind   Royal Exchange Theatre   The Autistic Organisation.

A Reimagining

Sonnets are meant to be about romance

and love.

You know? All that's good.

But why should form be contained,

can one not make love to the page

in their own expression?

I can,

and will.

Imagination like a dodgems car,

wild yet bumpy.

And I guess that's what love is,

you can try to steer in the right direction

but there will always be obstacl...

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Sonnet   Love   Philsophy   Understanding   Life   Truth   Communication   Cooperation   Reconciliation   NaPoWriMo

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