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Flash poetry: Cave life

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life. living.

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Flash poetry: lovers lens

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Flash poetry: So this just happened

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Letters baked in the mail

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Black ants and driftwood, when writing means life

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    I wasn’t expecting to fall in love but it happened

    I didn’t expect to fall in love while in Vail, Colorado but I did.  My dead mother sent me to Vail and while I nowContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    That time I got lost in a boat on a lake in Colorado

    Since arriving in Colorado a month ago I have been desperate to hike to a lake, a stunning crystal clear mountain lake. I had picturedContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Sex, love and open hearts – being human

    I used to think that saying you wanted to be loved was weak, that saying you crave to be touched by someone who cherishes yourContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Help, there’s a child stuck inside me and she wants to get out

    I have a child. Apparently her name is Sylvia. I know this because I was introduced to her at The Golden Door health retreat in AustraliaContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Finding a new normal when you left the old one behind

    It’s been seven days since I embarked upon a momentous life altering experience and in my disneyland thinking I expected everything to go perfectly. ThereContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    When your zipcode is your heart, the home within

    There’s nothing better than arriving home after a long day, time abroad, illness and the like. But what if you don’t have a home? IContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    This is not my last goodbye, not by a long shot

    Goodbye has never been a word I have embraced. I play Houdini at parties, simply disappearing by doing a runner out the door when noContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Even on the darkest night there are always stars

    No one is immune to depression. I learnt that this week when a friend died by her own hand. Her stunning renovated home in anContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    Homeless by choice, a room with a world view

    It was the hand writing that set me off. A simple R written on a jewellery box built for a solitary ring. I found itContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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    The panic before the heart of the storm

    Sell. Donate. Dump. Three words I have been living by for almost two weeks. I am moving. Scratch that, I am evacuating. Selling everything inContinue Reading

    Rachael Oakes-Ash
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