Love it…

What was the best compliment you've received? When someone says to me, I love your books, or I adore your poetry, or is just complimentary about my writing. http://www.josephmasonauthor.com/books Please subscribe below. Let's support each other. I always follow back. © Richard J Kirk, writing as Joseph R Mason - 2025. If you want to …

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Cross Country Trip – a poem.

You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? I'm Going on a Cross-Country Trip I'm going on a journey wide,Through mountains tall and oceans wide.But how to travel? What’s my way?A choice to make—let’s start today! An airplane soars with mighty grace,Through clouds it flies, a grand embrace.With speed and height, …

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Je ne regrette rien.

What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? First, I appreciate that Edith Piaf is a very vague connection to the question, but when I read today's prompt, the song 'Je ne regrette rien' came into my head. Personally, I don't suffer with negativity. My cup is always half full, never half empty. …

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Reading a book…

What activities do you lose yourself in? The world shrinks, pages bloom,A whispered voice, a shadowed room.No clock ticks, no street's harsh call,Just ink and dreams, I give my all. Through forest deep, or city's gleam,I walk a life, a waking dream.Lost to now, and here, and sight,Bathed in story's endless light. Please subscribe below. …

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The Ballad of the Broken Mirror.

Are you superstitious? Oh, fate! Oh, destiny! Oh, superstition’s lore, You’ve haunted humankind since days of yore. We’ve blamed black cats and ladders leaned askew, But let me tell you, friends—it’s all a ruse, it’s true! A mirror shattered? Seven years of woe? Nay, just a mess to sweep—now watch me go! I’ll clean it …

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