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a.m.

June 26, 2016 by Jared Hines Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: haiku, Hell, loss, love, night, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, romance, romantic, travel, writer, writing

all human (for Orlando)

June 12, 2016 by Jared Hines Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: change, club, death, florida, guns, haiku, LGBT, loss, mass-shooting, night club, orlando, poem, poet, poetry, pray, Pulse, reflection, rhyme, shooting, terrorism, violence, write, writer, writing

What’s in the Box? (a very short story)

April 12, 2016 by Jared Hines 1 Comment

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: amwriting, challenges, fiction, Humor, imagination, Inspirational, life, literature, metaphor, micro fiction, motivational, mystery, nature, short story, suspense, thinking, trees, work, writer, writer's block, writing

No one (a free verse)

March 21, 2016 by Jared Hines Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: alliteration, alone, computers, death, free-verse, freeverse, internet, lonely, loss, poem, poet, poetry, Poetry Day, rhyme, thinking, thoughts, words, World Poetry Day, WorldPoetryDay, writer, writing

Writing Alone

February 28, 2016 by Jared Hines 3 Comments

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: alliteration, feelings, lost, nature, poem, poet, poetry, rhyme, sleep, writer, writing

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