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Homework

Homework poetry is written by Alice Shapiro.

Laughing, dancing on the spongy earth
they don’t bother with the interruption
but I, having turned toward their play
grow fonder of the spectacle
than to writing.
The half-blank page
suffers from imbalance
like standing only on one leg.
With a fleeting, bitter breath
I reclaim my place and place the pen
at the fragmented thought
and set to fancily embroider, embellish it.
A cat’s meow and pounce
at a great invisible phantom
takes me, smiling, off the path again.
Incomplete and disillusioned
the lesson has no end.

 

First Shooting

One night I finally got my chance. I responded to a call of shots fired at a new apartment complex on Garth Road, in Baytown, Texas. One person had been wounded. I responded with other officers, and each of us rode in single cars. Back up was usually only two or three minutes away. We arrived, I can’t remember which of us got there first, and found a white male lying in the open doorway of downstairs apartment A. There was a small amount of blood coming from a tiny wound in the victim’s back, near his spine. He was yelling and crying like a baby. Then I saw that he was bleeding from his right hand as well. He told us he had been shot. I looked, but didn’t see anything real bad – just a small amount of blood on his back and the same on his hand. Then I saw he was bleeding on his other hand as well. When the ambulance arrived, the crew found no other wounds and then transported him to the hospital.

We soon learned what happened. Two guys were playing cards in apartment A. The girlfriend of one of the guys slipped out of a bedroom window and went to meet the shooting victim, who lived in apartment B. The two had sex while the woman’s boyfriend was playing cards in the apartment they shared together. It seems the boyfriend and the woman’s lover didn’t like each other. After having sex, the lover decided to take a shower.
The boyfriend and his card-playing friend decided to pick on the lover in apartment B, unaware the girl was in the lover’s apartment. They went to the lover’s apartment and saw that his motorcycle was parked on the patio. They knocked on the door. The girlfriend saw her boyfriend and his partner at the door and panicked. She told her lover that her boyfriend was at the door, and she quickly slipped out the window, never allowing her boyfriend to catch even a glimpse of her.

The woman’s lover grabbed a towel and wrapped it around his waist. He told the two guys at the door to go away. They yelled at him and refused to leave. Fearing for his life because of past encounters with the woman’s boyfriend, the lover grabbed a gun from a nearby table. The two guys outside knocked over the lover’s motorcycle, which caused Lover Boy to exit his apartment, wearing only a towel and nothing else. He pointed the gun at the two guys, who immediately took off running. Meanwhile, the girlfriend, ran to her own apartment and climbed back through her bedroom window.

When the two guys took off running, Lover Boy, towel around his hips, chased them and began shooting. He shot the boyfriend in the back first, and then in both hands. As you might guess, the shooter’s towel fell off as he was running and firing his weapon. The gun the shooter had, a .22 caliber, explains why the wounds were very small and caused little bleeding.

When the incident was all over, I reflected on my first shooting – a naked man with a gun chasing and shooting another man. Very little blood and no gore. Whew, I made it!

 

Too soon

For Bigfoot
I can see the light is fading in your eyes
The pain of life you just can’t hide
Too soon the day has come

I blink as tears fall down my face
I hold you close in a warm embrace
Too soon the day has come

To say goodbye to a loyal friend
Fly away as your pain now ends
Too soon the day has come

I took you from an unwanted life
Taught you love, aint that right
I took you off the streets of cold
You returned my love a million fold
Too soon the day has come

I shed more tears as I say goodbye
Its ok my friend, you won’t know why
I found it hard to watch you die
Too soon the day has come

 

Feel

You want to feel the euphoria
Until your heart’s in a mania
Of thudding and reverberation

You want to feel the passion
Energy vibrating in satisfaction
With the wide smile on your face
Melting away the haze

But do you think constant
Upbeat vibes are reliant
On being your answer to happiness?
No, you will be like the waves,
Once crashing the shore and recoiling away

Being so high strung will be your destruction,
Just as a string that stretches before separation,
tearing away, until it is then halved
You still think you want the feelings to last?

I feel a contentment, vigilant of the pain,
But wisdom is the shield of the restrain
Being alive is not to be stagnant
It’s to be in constant
Movement

To stretch, slip, fall and stand
If you say you will never change
You are but ignorant to the inevitable
Your body may be interchangeable
But your spirit is what will remain

So, feel,
I feel!

I feel the warm inviting embrace
Of faith, calming my heart who wants to race
In the solitude, I find solid foundation
Housed in hope and determination
I don’t feel fear, as the truth departs
My lips, sweet is the taste it imparts

To others you might detect bitterness
But you must feel,
The absoluteness in acceptance
Violation, is the falseness
Comforting, is the awareness

 

Attempted Surrender

Let yourself fall back
Let it fall back
Let it fall back

Attempted surrender
Another pretender
Can’t show what they know
You can’t let it go
Not like I should anyway
Not like you could someday

It’s begging me to let be
But I can’t feel the need
To break this chain
Like I want to remain
In the darkness
I feel safe,
I feel safe
I, feel

Fall back
I want you to fall back
Attempted surrender
Attempted surrender
I can’t,
I should anyway!

Sing out your lungs!
Take it as a last breath
And my heart’s hung
Love is under cover
Don’t make me smother
Myself in these ropes
Again, feed my hopes!

Let yourself fall back
Let it fall back
Let it fall back

Fall back,
Now, fall back now
Into the arms of joy
Let it fall back,
Now, fall back now,
Let me tell you how!

I just want to give in
I know you want to forgive
I know they won’t do a thing!

Fall back
surrender

 

Jonny Plumb and the Silver Space Ship – carries straight on from Jonny Plumb’s last incredible adventures

Jonny Plumb and the Silver Space Ship – carries straight on from Jonny Plumb’s last incredible adventures with the Silver Space Ship, the fastest machine ever built, which takes Jonny on even more inc.

For readers who love unbridled imagination and the joy of finding original story lines, the brilliant Jonny Plumb adventures by Kim Wheeler are an absolute must. His latest offering, Jonny Plumb and The Silver Spaceship is definitely no exception as Wheeler takes readers of all ages on another fantastic journey. A delightful foray which combines action, adventure and more than a little tongue in cheek observation, Wheeler has the enviable ability to render his characters in a way that has them all but leaping from the page. They’re big, bold and vibrant whilst the accompanying illustrations are perfectly pitched against his prose and help create the most memorable scenes. The suspension of disbelief may well be a requisite for Wheeler’s readers, but his young protagonist Jonny Plump proves wholly endearing as he attempts to unravel the mystery in which he finds himself embroiled and on this level Wheeler writes for the inner child in all of us to deliver a genuinely rip roaring read.

A must add children’s series that will appeal to readers of all ages Jonny Plumb and The Silver Spaceship is another fine release from Kim Wheeler that definitely deserves your attention and is highly recommended.

 

Jonny Plumb struggled up the last few concrete steps to the large oak door and dropped his old battered

Jonny Plumb struggled up the last few concrete steps to the large oak door and dropped his old battered, heavy leather case with a thud. He turned and lifted his arm in a sad.

Zany, magical and totally original, Jonny Plumb and The Golden Globe conjures up the spirit of age old classics into the most beguiling of children’s tales. A full on childhood adventure from the very first page, author Kim Wheeler reminds us of the pure joy to be found when imagination is given free reign. With an engaging narrative, the suspension of disbelief may well be a requisite, but his young protagonist Jonny Plumb always feels real as he attempts to unravel the magical mystery in which he finds himself. A wonderfully drawn little character who Wheeler ably captures in cleverly nuanced dialogue and sublime turn of phrase. A read that combines vibrant illustrations with Wheeler’s whimsical rhymes, it’s one of those tales that will linger in the enquiring minds of young readers as they quickly take the ever endearing Jonny to their hearts.

The start of a magical series that deserves wide readership, Kim Wheeler has set his bar enviably high with the promise of good things to come. With an unreserved high recommendation, Jonny Plumb & The Golden Globe is certainly deserving of a place on your child’s bookshelf.

 

The fourth in the six set series of original futastic fantasies with Jonny Plumb

Jonny Plumbs jaw dropping adventures continue in rip roaring fashion with his latest book, Jonny Plumb and the Battle for earth. Where again Jonny and all his friends set out to try and save the earth from the evil clutches of the devils only daughter Deadsheda and her Hench woman the even uglier and revolting Dances with Death who has a strange aversion to custard, I wonder why??
Read as the Outriders from Hell try to break the force field made by the Shard of Pure Light in order to destroy Jonny and his family and friends and steal the Golden Globe.
Watch Nanny Noo take on Deadsheda in unarmed combat, yes one aging nanny fighting the most evil hideously ugly cackling devil child, will she win?? Will Nanny Noo be the hero? Will all Jonnys friends and family join together as one with Blueshadow and the Water Horses from the Planet of pure water, Firestorm and Starshell, along with Dentro reclu and the beings of Pure Light help Nanny Noo and Jonny, Legion and Legend save the Earth.
Read in nail biting horror as the Gnud Repeek threatens to return to destroy Jonny and allow the devil to reign supreme over all mankind. Well sit back and enjoy the ride of a lifetime with Jonny Plumb and all his friends.

 

Third in the six set series of funtastic adventures with Jonny Plumb

Jonny Plumb and the Sombrero Galaxy continues from where Jonny Plumb and the Silver Flying Arrow Space Ship left off. Taking Jonny and all his friends on even more amazing, hair-raising, dastardly and devilish adventures with all his sea-life friends not forgetting, Legend and Legion, Jonny’s two most loyal companions.
Join Jonny as he discovers the secret, never seen or heard of hidden city of Amaranta and its inhabitants, the Beings of Pure Light and the oldest man in the universe, Dentro Reclu the keeper of Amaranta. Then, journey across the world in the fastest space craft ever built in the entire universe, The Silver Flying Arrow Space Ship, as Jonny and his friends fly from one new adventure to another.
Sit back and be stunned at the radiant beauty of the Waterhorses, Firestorm and Starshell from the Planet of Pure Water, Jala as they and all Jonny’s friends venture forth to ultimately save the Earth from the evil clutches of Deadsheda and the evil witch, Dances with Death.
Will Jonny save the world from complete annihilation and ultimately the end of days? Or will the Monostomous, a million mouthed monster destroy the Earth?
Well, sit back and enjoy being taken on many, many new and exciting, jaw dropping, exhilarating adventures with Jonny Plumb…