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Dec.03.2011
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The act is repeated with an after taste of garlic and rumblings in the tummy. Decadence has a charming after effect, it makes one nauseous and giddy in the head; and in a manner of speaking, directionless.
So I have to say good bye and move on, on this auspicious day...
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Dec.02.2011
The beach is bathed in noonday heat serenaded by the constant yet consoling roar of the sea licking the shore, drowning out the chit chat of those that seek to partake of a comforting concert of decadence.
A quietness descends on his soul. He has been here before; a few decades ago when the full...
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Feb.06.2010
We are born in a family, community, and country engraved with their social, religious and economic traditions that become part of our cultural DNA. We are indelibly stamped like cattle with a number. Like automated androids we go about our lives in the cultural milieu.
Every so often there comes...
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Jan.31.2010
“I am the mother that gives birth, nurtures and buries its young. I am eternal. The folds of my sarong are the emerald rice fields. I suckle the sad, nourish the hungry, embrace lonely souls searching for love, bless those who worship me and protect all who live within me. I am adorned with...
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Jan.22.2010
Somewhere in Bali: This is about the author of this column who arrived on the shores of Bali to complete his unfinished book and to write for publications in other countries. Nearly two years down the line the words seem to flow in all directions creating a brand new world for him with the ever-...
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Jan.21.2010
This is a fragmentation of thoughts poorly disguised as poems. Humor me and read them. Then if you so desire consign them to the recycle bin.
Oh Radha!
Visions of love and passionDrifting ashore at duskAnnouncing the night to lustOn crumpled sheets of lost thoughtsShe sat on the beach As darkness...
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Jan.20.2010
The day commenced with a downpour that drenched his spirit and kept him closeted within himself as work meetings trailed to sundown and slipped into twilight at the bar. Devils crouching on the rocks in the water of life invaded his senses and occupied his nocturnal thoughts with carnal concoctions...
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The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing - the Great Socrates.”
About Mark
Ulyseas has served time in Advertising as copywriter and creative director selling people things they didn't need, a ghost writer for some years, columnist of a newspaper, a free lance journalist and photographer. All this took up nearly three decades. End...
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