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I have 103 stories published in
2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 70964 times
and 37 of my stories have been cherry picked.
John Silver
My stories
Thursday Sonnet: Becoming Spring (I)
This was my entry for the abctales competition, just adding it to my archive. :)
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Thursday Sonnet: Storm
Because the storm of love is raging On a chest too young to claim It has weathered storm and rain I build a house and, in it, staging Pantomimes of rigid bliss, I tell myself and tell myself
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Monday Sonnet: The Trial of the Mind
I do believe that I’m the only man Who’s sane upon this globe, and since we find It’s fact you’d have to have gone mad (or blind) Not to be mad in love with you, madam,
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Thursday Sonnet: Thames Song
It’s pretty good a place, the Thames, to sit by And think of all the ills that time repairs When, laden with young love’s modest despairs, One smooths regret under an indifferent sky.
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Monday Sonnet: Birds
Poe’s raven, from a tree, caws ‘Nevermore,’ While both the swans of Baudelaire and Yeats Are fighting to be monarchs of the lakes; Plus, Coleridge’s gull is seen to soar.
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