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· Age Of Certainty

· Age Of Certainty

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· The Best Of Boggart Blog (vol 1)

· Dimensions of Mystery

· A Two Faced Poet

· Millennium Dawn (anthology)

· A Stroke of Luck


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· The Vegetarian Shoemaker Of Barking

· Garry Trotter and the Portal of Pleasure #7

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· The King of the Ribble Delta Blues Singers (humour)

· A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 19

· A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 18

· A Stroke of Luck - Chapter 17


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· Deliberately Wrecking Our Environment

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· Helping The Mind Cope With Stress

· Flight From Freedom

· Getting Started With Existentialism (part 1)

· Don't Google It

· Did You See That

· Never Let Me Go - A Dystopian Prophecy

· A Banana A Day Is More Dangerous Than Fukushima


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· Bye Bye Blackbird (parody)

· Sleepless Nights Of A Little boy

· Fitness Fanatics Blues

· The Goddess - Anima Mundi

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· Different Clothes

· The Sacred Feminine

· My Mark

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· Where Were You

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  Blind Justice
by Ian R Thorpe
Friday, March 26, 2004
Rated "G" by the Author.

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Recent poems by Ian R Thorpe
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Men revere justice
They talk in hushed tones
Of her beauty and her innocence
But I have seen the unspoiled one
whoring on the streets of this city,
offering herself to the highest bidder
She never was blind;
She just closed her eyes
And thought of the money.

 


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Reviewed by The Smoking Poet 9/2/2004
Short albeit painfully true.
Reviewed by Regis Auffray 4/10/2004
Powerful truth expressed here Ian! Thank you. Love and peace. Regis
Reviewed by jude forese 3/28/2004
money corrupts ... potent poem!
Reviewed by Tinka Boukes 3/26/2004
This is just too powerful Ian!!

Love Tinka
Reviewed by Calendula Petal 3/26/2004
could go into great depth with this one, but I shall stay in the shallows instead.......
kinda haunting, but thought provoking and bitter too..in fact I loved it!
Reviewed by Anna Marie Fritz 3/26/2004
One of the most powerful statements I have read today!
Great work, Ian.
Reviewed by Lisa Hilbers 3/26/2004
Ian, sometimes that's the only way one can get through the day! Just close your eyes and hope it's all over when you find the courage to open them again.
This is one powerful write! Lisa
Reviewed by Floria Kelderhouse (Reader) 3/26/2004
Oh Ian how powerful this is...
Brilliant......so much truth
in so few words....
by the way...thanks much for
the last note...I really appreciated
your words of wisdom and will take
your advice.....love to you...floria
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