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About Me: Writer and editor. Hopeless romantic. Slightly to the left of left. After 41 years of writing, hoping to become an overnight success. My first book, a poetry collection called Songs from the Road, will be published by Grace Notes Books in early 2012. I write everyday.
Website: rickyapursley.blogspot.com
Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Occupation: writer and editor
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Politics, Poetry, Women, Money, Writing, Drink, Ambition
Country: USA

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– Tuesday, October 25 2011 –
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  the lights go down low, as the music starts to trickle into your ears real slow, and your mouth gets dry, as you let out a ...
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  the Wharf Rat had a scowl on his face the size of Baltimore Harbor, and yet, I knew I would have no question to ask, as he sa...
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  I was always amused by your full name - the grand Southern tradition of hanging your child with as many remnants of slave o...
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  me and the Wharf Rat watched her, loaded, trailing zig-zag behind her man across the wharf, and the Old Man said, "loo...
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  a lot of water's spilled over that dam, baby, maybe mostly because of the kind of man that I am; and you could say that ...
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  time came, when years of bleating gave way to reckoning, and something approaching a meeting, seeking to find a way out o...
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  the Wharf Rat says that all those drunks that stagger down the hill from the inn are just wastrels, society's unwanted; ...
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– Thursday, October 20 2011 –
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  the wind blew through here tonight like a hooker chasing a john who hadn't paid, and more than once, I wished that it wou...
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– Wednesday, October 19 2011 –
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  nothing better, yet, than you, smiling, wet.     October 16, 2011.   Copyright © 2011, Ricky A. Pur...
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– Tuesday, October 18 2011 –
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  from the used-car salesman on the last business day of the month;   from your child, when you produce the last popsicle ...
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gn.JPGThe Golden Grace Note 01. 03. 2009A Voice In The Silence was the first place winner in the creative non fiction category for January 2009.

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I appreciate the voice in this poem. What fun.
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"Trees of pleasant gold". Well said.
Come Winter, But Not...
I will kindly take your advice to mind when it comes to revising it. I'm co...
For Elizabeth
I must say that the last line intrigued me, because I was expecting more of...
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The page on this is all screwy--if either an editor or an author can fix th...
Come Winter, But Not...
I enjoyed how you crafted the idea that something (like winter) can be crit...
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I really enjoyed reading this. I can really empathize with the narrators wo...
For Elizabeth
It's really elegant the way you describe these memories as they transcend i...
For Elizabeth
Angelique -- Powerful, makes this reader want to know more... well done. An...
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