The Abstract Art Gallery
A writing gallery created by writers from around the world. From poetry to song lyrics, from essays to entire novels and short stories.
He was a simple man…
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…walked the edge of the road, neither fast nor slow, but steady, like a man on an unknown mission. He walked without regard for the weather. He didn't seem to care whether the day was raining, snowing, or bright and…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreShamanism is ancient…
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…modern word, therapy, derives from The Greek word therapeuein. The Greeks used that word to describe any sort of attendant process that might lead to healing, including just asking what ails…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe lunatic dance of the…
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…was the advice Paul wrote to acolyte Christians in 2 Corinthians 6:14-17. It was sound advice. In the years around 54 AD, Corinth was an Idol-on-every-corner sort of city. Invitations…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreAmerica is the natural home of any…
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…you hear of Sweet Betsy from Pike,
Crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,
With two yoke of oxen and one…
By K. L. Shipley
Read More"Ladies, ladies…
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…furry fisticuffs are fast and furious. In seconds two sweet kitties morph into savage pugilists with no thought beyond knockout victory. I call their continuing…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe masses foolishly…
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…didn't come-up with the idea. He did provide a quasi-scientific excuse for it with his theory of…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreMany can't live new days because their…
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…quiet joy in the light of the morning. If it was only a matter of angle-of-incidence, then the light of the evening would be the same as the light of the morning. It is not. I wonder why? Perhaps it’s because the morning light signals - new, while the evening light signals…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreMan + Woman doesn't…
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…the old schoolyard verse about what boys and girls are made of. For the girls it was 'Sugar and spice and…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWhy do we think passion…
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…reached out to hers. She takes his hand. They walk together in committed love for the rest of their lives - hand-in-hand - a double troth of two souls made one. Marriage as it ought to be but…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWhen you think of your struggles as chapters in your very own personal Idyll, your life is infused with dignity and purpose.
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Idylls of the King and similar heroic Idylls, makes it seem that only the lives of Kings, Ladies, Nobles, and Knights are proper subjects for dramatic narration. Everyone else is little more than a…
By K. L. Shipley
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