POETIC LICENCE.

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During my return to a local beauty spot, I was overcome with emotion, at how much I had missed the place, and how wonderful it looked, felt and smelled. It had such a profound effect on me that I began to wax lyrical in my mind, so I wrote down my thoughts in two parts as follows:-

1/ BEAUTY BLIND. Prose based on my new found appreciation of beauty, together with an expression of sorrow for those who fail to appreciate it.

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2/ FANFARE FOR IMMORTALITY. Prose based on my deeper thoughts about life, death and those left behind to cope with it. It's pragmatic, not morose.

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These were followed by further lyrical thoughts as I came to terms with my destiny, and so I wrote the following verse :-

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3/ PRECIOUS MOMENTS. Prose which continues the theme of my appreciation of life and time.

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I don't expect critical acclaim for these pieces, they're just an expression of my thoughts at a particular instant, warts an all. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did, for it was as much a surprise to me, as it will probably be to those of you that know me, that such expressions could come from my mind, and so, when I read them to myself, it's as if someone else had penned them.

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