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I wanted to say. But silence holds my tongue now. So my heart screams it. © M.H.

These are not my words.Hollow gaps where truth should be.The rest is just noise. © M.H.

Life is not filed away and redigested for market consumption, not filtered, not edited for suitable broadcast watershed time slots, not watered down or diluted for mass appeal. We do not receive it in little perfect podcasts of pertinent fact, tailored to a particular audience, not screened and rehashed and reconstituted and reshaped. It isContinue reading “AN OBSERVATIONAL RANT ON LIFE”

Straining my brain-trainingTo its Red Bull-fuelled limit. Matchsticks prop open my bleary,teary ever-so-nearly awake eyes. The words on the pages crawl, like slug trailsdragged onto a dancefloor by bow-legged spiders. They mean less-than little to me.They must mean something to someone here,But their meaning is just a bowl full of buzzing flies,Masquerading as my skull.Continue reading “IN CLASS”

i used to follow the day unto its end,saw past the river bendto the elbow in the sand,andthe pennies in my hand. i could have been someoneif i had in fact been someone. But i am the latest in a long line of Noone’s (Misplaced Hyphen) © M.H.

They drifted in from other towns,Those painted girls who can’t go home.Willingly ingesting poison,To fuel their bravado. The trains and the neon lights,Spilling the boys to the streets.Splashed with pheromones,To attract the dead. The music from the hit parade,Deafens them all as they dance.How can they love this life,How will they know? Cheap and fillingContinue reading “SATURDAY NIGHT”

We sat in the sun,On hard back chairs.Saying nothing with our stares,Saying everything. There were tears on our pages,Making blurs of all our words.Above us, only birdsWho forgot how to sing. We picked the bones,From our bitter souls.And in those holes,We grew our wings. We reached the same horizon,On different roads.Trod in our own footprints,PlayedContinue reading “THE COMPANY OF DUST.”

I have never suffered from any kind of mental health issues, but l know plenty who have, and still do. My brother and Mother both had issues with depression, my 2nd ex-wife does too. It is a common thing to come across in life and l am lucky to be in the minority who doContinue reading “Catharsis. Mental health and the written word.”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”