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.
I didn't really understand…
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…Bud let me use his old rifle whenever I wanted. These days, giving a kid free use of a rifle would end in seriously unpleasant Child-Services intervention, but in the countryside of the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read More…is in constant motion, constantly rotating and revolving around the sun, leaving behind old ways, old thinking, racing towards updated thinking, modifying old ways to accommodate bigger…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read More…a long period of time souls drifted out of the soul world to the corporeal planet where they play their part in the cycle of birth and rebirth. Creator however always stays forever in the soul world…
By Jennifer Forrest
Read MoreThe forced separation…
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…very name is as mysterious and romantic as a Louisiana bayou. She is quintessential to Cajun mythos; a misty nearly-sainted presence emblematic of the Acadia diaspora. It matters not that few know her story. It matters less that the story is more poetry than…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreHe 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
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