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  • Will there be a Unicorn? and Other Tales
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    Will there be a Unicorn? and Other Tales is a collection of short rhyming stories for kids which I'm updating as they come to me. The title story - Will there be a Unicorn? - has illustrations by the wonderful Sringkhala, more coming soon. One day I'd like to see it published as a picture book with really detailed, cu...

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  • THE SWORD OF NYMPH
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    This Poem was inspired by a short story still in progress by J-C Rowan a fellow Wattpad member

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  • Carmel Reflections
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    Ever wonder what it's all about? I need to try and work it out. I'll just begin with the deer. This is about what and who and where strength comes from.

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  • letters from here and there
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    letters

  • Poems from the Quill, by Olan L. Smith
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    "Poems from the Quill" is where I place current works that don't fall into other collections. It is here you will find obscure poems that range from constraint to free-verse. I began this collection as a contest entry, years ago, for what was then the poetry side of the Watty's contest and I have since kept it current...

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  • At Least They Are Small
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    Tiny windows to bigger stories.

  • Poems To Make You Smile
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    Some light-hearted Poems to make you smile. Poetry at it's funniest!

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  • Movements of Life in Time
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    Our continued legacy for a connected pulse in Poetic crafting. References~to Edger Allen Poe for "Tell Tale Heart" and "The Raven" Poet/Lyricists/ Singer Don McClain for "American Pie" "Prelude" From Night Voices by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Rock Poetry: Fortitude
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    Finding strength in music of faith, hope and love.

  • Lisonneta
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    Fourteen line poems.

  • Thank God For Girls
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    Fairly Feminine poems about Ferociously Feminist things in a Frequently Figurative way. ------------------ "I'm so glad I have a girl to think of Even if she isn't mine I think about her all the day and all the night It's enough to know that she's alive" - Thank God For Girls, Weezer -------- Poems title...

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  • It's Good to be Home
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    A prodigal son returns.

  • THE GOOD OVEN *Wattpad Featured* (aka 'Re Ply')
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    #6 Spiritual. Wattpad Featured. The battle for life and the winning of love, from World War 1 to the Millennium. A collection of (very) short real life stories and one or two poems. 'Waiting for Fred Astaire,' 'No Child of Mine,' and other memories were given to me by wonderful women and men who taught me everything...

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  • Mickey the Monkey
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    A cunning monkey grabs the attention of three kids and a small Alabama town during the summer of 1937. A tale in seven parts.

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  • Ode to the Gods
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    Short stories and poems about gods, goddesses and other mythological creatures.

  • The Wizard!
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    The Wizard! This collection from Olan L. Smith is a dialogue series that asks questions and ponders evidence about existence. We will take a look behind the curtain to see what the Wizard is up to and what tricks he (she) has up his (her) sleeve, be warned that in so doing it might spoil the illusion we call life.

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  • The Power of Rest
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    #Wattys2014 Award Winner: This candid, heartfelt collection of essays addresses many of life's thorniest challenges. Whether you struggle with a perennially messy house, run away worrying, depression, an unhappy relationship, mega-stress or even the devastating loss of a loved one, give yourself the gift of The Power...

  • There Will Never Be a Home
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    Resigned to drift ~ a lyrical lament.

  • Whisperings Of A Heart's Psalms
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    Inspirational and Spiritual Poems.

  • 40 Poems From POMEGRANATE FLESH by Strider Marcus Jones
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    This collection of poetry features 40 of the 75 poems from my latest book Pomegranate Flesh. You are most welcome to vote and comment and follow me. The poems in this collection show Strider's gift of being able to weave words into creative and surprising configurations. He manipulates words to do his will, taming the...

  • Jump into Colour
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    All colours of the rainbow in haiku form, jump into colour now.

  • Drifters
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    A collection of Inspirational poetry and my personal observations.

  • IMAGINE
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    On Wednesday 22nd May 2013 a young soldier named Lee Rigby was hacked to death on the streets of Woolwich, London by two Muslim fanatics. This is my dedication to him and his family.

  • Cannot
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  • Old Mr Bitterman: Criminally Insane
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    A day in the life of a septuagenarian psychopath. If you like your serial killers a little long in the tooth, this could be right up your street.

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  • World Peace
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    A poem that I wrote inspired by knightwriter

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  • Love and Loss
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    I think the title kind of gives it away :P

  • Politico Poems!
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    Poems: Israel, Arctic, Euro, Japan, Arab, LHC, Syria, Russia, Iran, Kashmir, SOPA, Politically correct or not, Environment, Tibet,Sudan, Maldives,Nepal, India in the eighteenth century, Piracy, Southern Oscillation,Government.

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  • Blue Trails: Riding Rod
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    Blue Trails: Riding Rod was inspired by an obituary of a local man who was "beating his way to" a neighboring town in 1897. Coroners report said that he was suspected of riding rod on the train cars and lost his grip. "He leaves a wife and five children behind."

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