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Melange vol.3 October

Editorial
Guaranteed satisfaction - where did a deep impression dissapear?

Poems
Lonely Humanity
Veteran
Guitar
inner child
Cactus I / II

Multilingual Page - English
Interview with Mr Robbie Petterson
Interviews with learners of English as a second language

Film Review
Are dinosaurs getting too old for Hollywood? - Jurassic Park III

Novels
Adonis Blue (3)

Guest Writers' Corner
Story of Strawberries: Bedtime Story for My Sister

Notes on Group Writers

POEMS

Alone
Afraid
A single tear
Flowing down the cheek
Of a beginner
In life.

Darkness falls
A velvet blanket upon
A weakened divan of faith
Frightened
Lost
Without hope.

A solitary molecule
In the fabric of life
Crossing an ocean of turbulence
Falters
Hesitates
Waiting for a tide to
Carve its course
To mold its existence
To place it in the order
Of nature

A distant rock
Moving through continents of light
Pushed by unseen forces
Into circular patterns
Of elliptic diversity
Stops
Waits.

An infinitely small seed
Concealed in black
Is chosen
One of few
Of millions sent.

Life
Hope.

Engendered by thought
Desire for the liquid of truth
Grows
Develops
Nourished by the prospect
Of breaking through
The impregnable barrier
That wrestles inside
The untrained heart.

First steps are awkward
Hesitating
Wanting
Believing
Trusting.

This is the time
To stretch
Widen, put faith
In accumulated ability
To grow.

Light moving forward in
The darkest hour of
Unending despair
Dispelling haunting self-myth
Breathing life into
The beginner.

Not alone
Not afraid.

Standing tall
Before lonely humanity.

Daniel Parkes

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