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Originally posted on Raja's Insight: Introduction Lost Souls is an eclectic collection of speculative fiction consisting of short stories, flash fiction, vignettes and poetry. Explore the hidden depths of the psyche in these stories where the paranormal emerges in the lives of the main characters; the dead come to life in Blood & Flesh and…
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Midnight is calling again She’s clawing at me From the steamrolling mist Her villainous screams Plead from the dusk, Her jet black eyes Ever-bulging enraged The day’s left to bleed And I lose my voice To her carnival of shadows Her serrated raised claws Leave me staggering in red
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I’d let the mountains of the world coalesce Into a pale blue dot, Every symphony Every smoldering field of battle I’d let the burning stars Leave humanity to blend Into one pulsing silhouette I would make my escape If my skin weren’t sewn Into this great sprawl of patches So vital, Unseen Yet thrilled by…
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Where to when the rivers run dry And their fearsome anger Is banished To the balmy regions of a dream? I’m drawn to the east To the ivory sands Of an ancestral home, To a love unrequited To the frozen north Where an undaunted trail Weaves through the red forests Yielding solace at last In…
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One soggy afternoon, His ink began to run, Distorting myths Of royal blues and gold A spoiled romance Grew too heavy and slipped Into the raging gutters Beneath the onslaught of rain Now the rogue waves fall Swollen rivers recede, Life burns away the shadows For new fables to thrive and thrive
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Originally posted on Raja's Insight: I relax my mind and meditate, every night before I sleep. He meets me in the meadow, in flowers, two feet deep. ? I ask him to be honest, to his own self be true. He admits his love for me, his earthly body too. ? He tells me that…
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Originally posted on Raja's Insight: Into the Burning Man ? Blasphemy courted with anecdotal perversity limitless chatter echoes through the canyon all now weeping at the sight of blind hypocrisy catching the dancing orbs with a butterfly net seeking a peace but tripping through garbage sands stained with the blood from star shards music calms…
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Aiming for a breach in the clouds, Old daydreams sputter Then roar back to life They scald me at first Then send me speeding For the humbling abyss In a fearless ascent Soaring, Detached, I’m a weightless vessel, Devoid of a captain No travelers, no crew I’m leaving them behind With their faded desires, In…
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Originally posted on Raja's Insight: A robin being a robin A flower without a care A person who just is For no reason just there ? Inspiring the creator Making sense of it all Touching me with depths Religions and their traps ? Have never found A bug who just bites For the blood of…









