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Stevemearns01

Updated: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 04:48 pm

steve.mearns@live.com

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Biography

Hi, Im a 52 year old bloke who lives with his partner and cat in Shrewsbury. Ive been writing ( mainly poetry) for 3-years I have had some of my work published in the USA Ive not really done any open mic stuff, but have read a lot of my work out loud on a recent writing course

Samples

The Fall We were falling from the tall tree we’d been happy in Accelerating nauseously through the small green leaves Whips, thorns & troublesome branches That decorate full grown trees. Thundering downward toward uncertainty, Impact and probably injury, to what happens next Too fast for stopping, but too slow for certain death We experienced a hollow feeling between depression and despair Where some people holiday all their lives Couldn’t we have managed this differently? Why didn’t we hang on in there, why did our grip loosen? Time stood, like a frosted dawn garden And a myriad of memoirs flicked fleetingly across our brain Then the impact came - A rush of pine needles neurological activity and pain Then nothing I got up, damaged, but functioning, i limped away Inwardly tarnished, but outwardly serviceable My heart however (I was told later) was uniquely broken, Unmendable, ah such absences! It was buried at sea, on or near Castle Beach, Tenby Where on 28th June two thousand and fourteen You yourself found it while shell diving One application of super glue, and a defibrillator or two And you looked into my eyes, and gave it back to me I can only thank you.

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