Wendell1953

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Wendell1953
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I've been writing poetry and short stories since 1967. I have utilized my writing as a way not to remember but as a way to forget.

  August 2023     5 months ago

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Cries of the City

I can hear, the sad tears that fall
The grieving hearts, mournful call
The cries of the City, now near it's end
The prayers of it's people, unheard, they send

The industrial sky now hides the loving sun,
As smoke and steam fill the skies;...

– by Wendell Nealon

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Inside Another Rhyme

Someday, I know all the words, that are
spinning inside my head,
Will land upon the tip of my pen, then
onto paper, and never read.
I write not to remember, but, to forget!
The words falling on paper, a relief to be set free, no regret.

...

– by Nealon

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