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richard juckes

@richardjuckes

thoughts and poems and pictures of sunsets

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Mar 23, 2019, 11:18 AM UTC

Lines after coffee

Cold winds from Europe, high albedo clouds, A distant hum of human fear Or the push to Get Things Done; Warm glow of coffee, glad to be remote From the righteous indignation Of falsifiable gods.

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Oct 27, 2018, 6:51 AM UTC

Reiki for STEEM

I have been using Reiki since about 1987. If you would like a distant Reiki treatment, please transfer 50 STEEM to this account. You can use the memo to tell me when and where you would like to recei…

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Sep 20, 2017, 9:00 AM UTC

A Thank You to Steemit

It was a good year on Steemit, but it has been a difficult summer. We had to travel (is that what they call a lenticular cloud over on the horizon? This was over Tunisia, and the next day, in Istanbu…

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Sep 15, 2017, 2:07 PM UTC

Sticks and Stones - a poem

Help me, sticks and stones. This one, in my bag, I picked up in Guangzhou, eleven years ago, polished with a small piece of limestone, and then by the caresses of the years. Here is a flake from an o…

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Sep 14, 2017, 6:40 AM UTC

Cold Water Comfort - morning writing

I'm alive! That's what I felt as the first bucket of cold water went over my head. A hawk is calling, and before that, when I came back in from the terrace, the songbird, something like a robin or a…

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Sep 1, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

FUD - another short poem

* ### Some of the squirrels had massive hoards ### Of unripe acorns gathered in early April : * ### I felt the pangs of hunger in late summer, fearing winter, ### Deaf to the thud of fruit falling al…

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Sep 1, 2017, 8:15 AM UTC

FOMO - a short poem

* ### I found myself alone in a dark wood, ### Without friend, or fire, or private keys: * ### The treetops echoed with rumours of yesterday's token sales ### And the other animals talked quietly in…

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Aug 17, 2017, 9:02 AM UTC

Quote of the Day - "Marketing?"

## "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the [American] public." - H. L. Mencken Is this the underlying philosophy behind Steemit.Inc's marketing strategy? I know there are many though…

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Aug 15, 2017, 3:54 PM UTC

201708151654 - an original poem

This city is my mirror, the cool air that blows in off the ocean: It is uncomfortable, the noise the motorbikes the shouts on the street Jarring with my learnt aesthetic I withdraw into quiescence sh…

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richard juckes
@richardjuckes Aug 2, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

Lilleth Dances - an original poem

Lilleth dances, a smoldering fag dangling between her fingers, the indentured musicians managing the beat, an exotic refrain lulling the patrons, who doze postprandially. > Her mind is, I think, c…

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