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Al-Amal

3 Day 761, 12:55 Published in Australia Australia



Al-Amal

The butterfly floats into the courtyard..
orange and black visitor
Through the rubble,
It finds the flower.

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James in Turkey

0 Day 760, 05:03 Published in Australia Australia

this is a little long, but explains my name

James in Turkey

The gravel road was pretty well maintained by the sweepers. They had been traveling for about four hours now, and there seemed to be a man with his broom made of twigs every 50

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

0 Day 759, 03:41 Published in Australia Australia

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Let me say before anything that it is a comfort to know that someone is reading all this stuff.

Recently I was judged to have broken the rules of erepublic and was allowed to apeal that judgement. This got me to

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Let’s Hear it for Sin!

0 Day 757, 03:53 Published in Australia Australia

Let’s Hear it for Sin!

Sinning changes with age,
passion cools, emotions less sustainable,
while desire for gold becomes quite practical.
On the other hand,
(as the Rabbi would say)
laziness becomes more agreeable
and coveting youth becomes

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Tafari Makonnen (1892- ?)

0 Day 756, 03:39 Published in Australia Australia

Tafari Makonnen (1892- ?)

At nineteen he became Ras Tafri,
At thirty-eight “Might of the Trinity”.
In 1936 he was a cipher…
Then , the conquering lion of Judah!

He died, I am told, in a parking lot
But then does any human truly die?
For

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