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Hi,

Poet/Lyricist, wannabe Columnist - for a reputable paper, hahaha. Dreamer. Realist. Autobiography writer. Fiction writer. Chatterbox. Silent Meditator. God-lover, good-Atheist lover. Helper if I can. Emotional but understanding if I can't. Open-minded.


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You can contact me at ronhiles@gmail.com



Blending In

'Just go with the flow,'
'Blend in,' and
'Don't rock the boat.'
'Safety in numbers,' and all that
And 'Stay in line.'

Fine quotes, fine rules
When 'All is above board.'
But tell that to the dissidents
In countries killing citizens
And hear their 'Song of Woe.'

See the secret thousands -
Shackled, baffled.

See a mother crying, dying,
Waiting for some news
Of 'Disappeared' Son
Who dared to air his views.

See a so-called ‘Leader’
Bleeding the weak and frail
Living in a golden palace,
Heart filled with greed and malice,
Swiss Bank bursting with his thefts,
Leaving masses sad, bereft
Of all that’s needed to survive.

And see the graves of those who spoke.

Then ask yourself in honesty -
And given that you have a choice -
“Should I pay that Demon’s wages
Buying goods that have for ages
Caused the march of slaves
Across his land to deep-dark graves?

Or should I march on determined legs,
Conscience clear when talking fails,
To take his head in reparation
For all the dead of his sad nation?”


..........

Quote:
If you love something let it go. If it comes back it belongs to you. If it doesn't it never did.
Unquote.
Anon

..........

Maximum Minimalism

I love you not
because you pour my drink.
I love you
because you make me think.

..........

3,000ft up on the top of El Capitan are chiseled these words - chiseled by skydivers:

Man small
Why fall
Skies call
That's all.

....
Here are the works that have been published by Ron.
Click on the title to read.

Poetry Showcase
Metaphysical Time After Time
On Immortality
04 Jul 2008 2 reviews
Historical The Raft
The lengths that some people will go to to survive sometimes beggars belief.
10 May 2008 4 reviews
Historical Adventure Stories The Hejaz Line
One for train lovers, saluters of Heroes, wannabe heroes, and those who haven't already read it in the NaPoWriMo 2008 group.
22 Apr 2008 3 reviews
Other The Reef
Memories of the Red Sea
12 Mar 2008 7 reviews
Sport Almost Their Waterloo
Liverpool 5-2 Havant and Waterlooville - the scoreline does not reflect the intensity of the match.
27 Jan 2008 6 reviews
Political Lubyanka Vice
Freedom of speech stifled.
11 Dec 2007 6 reviews
Historical Adventure Stories Who Am I? I Am Mathias Rust. Pleased To Meet You.
The beginning of the end.
08 Nov 2007 6 reviews
Historical Adventure Stories The Fall
Inspired by Bryce Courtney's book 'The Potato Factory'.
04 Nov 2007 4 reviews
Historical Adventure Stories The Dealer
Who knows . . . he may even be real?
03 Oct 2007 6 reviews
Historical Adventure Stories Jimmy Angel
First one to spot it names it.
18 Sep 2007 4 reviews
Other Camel Train
What they actually look like.
09 Sep 2007 6 reviews
Other The Floyd
Another 'Flash' inspired by the word-prompt 'Narcosis'.
30 Aug 2007 4 reviews
Adventure Stories The Viking
Stereotypes exposed as nonsense.
31 Jul 2007 9 reviews
Romance A View Without Time
A Flash, thanks for the prompt, Andmymare.
24 Jul 2007 6 reviews
Other Innocent Carbon Footprint
From the Flash Poetry group - prompt was 'Carbon Footprint'
13 Jul 2007 5 reviews
Romance Maximum Minimalism
Trying to say it all in a nutshell.
28 May 2007 6 reviews
Metaphysical The Ear Trumpet
Another flash.
22 May 2007 5 reviews
Other In Between, Too Tense
A flash poem.
27 Apr 2007 6 reviews
Historical The Map (Revised)
My second sonnet. Historical, with a wish for the future. These sonnets are not easy, and all reviewers have helped me shape this - thanks, all *wink*.
18 Apr 2007 5 reviews
Political Ode To Iraq (revised)
My first Sonnet - thanks, Keith and KateS, for getting me hooked on the form *wink*.
14 Apr 2007 4 reviews
Other How To Write A Sonnet
From an article in Kenaz magazine. Reproduced here with permission.
10 Apr 2007 6 reviews
Other Carbon Life
Think twice before you buy that 'Bargain'.
06 Apr 2007 3 reviews
Other The Storm 23 Mar 2007 4 reviews
Political Blending In
Self-explanitary question on the subject of some so-called 'Leaders'.
03 Mar 2007 4 reviews
Political Nasdarovia!
Memories from a trip behind the Iron Curtain in 1981, written in rhyming prose 10yrs ago, and posted here by request along with the structured verse alternative.
26 Feb 2007 4 reviews
Political Moscow Transit
I've been through Moscow twice . . . and I learnt this . . .
21 Feb 2007 5 reviews
Psychological Train of Thought
What went through my mind following a car accident. A poem from the Flash Poetry Group - please come join us.
29 Jan 2007 9 reviews
Metaphysical Newton's Legacy
My first poem, written around '93. An exercise in self-questioning, I think, looking back now.
09 Dec 2006 6 reviews
Metaphysical In A Manger
A 'Flash Poem' for Christmas and every other day of the year.
29 Nov 2006 2 reviews
Political My Mate, Azhar
Definitely not a 'clash of cultures' here.
18 Nov 2006 5 reviews
Horror A Canary Chirped
Originally a 'Flash' on 'Flash Poetry Group' - thanks, Bernie, for the inspiration.
18 Nov 2006 5 reviews
Political Carbon Life
A 10-yr old poem in Ryhming Prose inspired by James Lovelock's 'Gaia' series of books.
07 Nov 2006 3 reviews
Religious & Inspirational The Vicar
One shot at a job interview and the question takes almost a lifetime to answer. A 10-minute 'Flash Poem' still at development stage - hmm . . . maybe.
06 Nov 2006 4 reviews
Romance I Wish I'd Written This
First published on Get Writing and repeated here for anyone who didn't read it back then.
26 Oct 2006 2 reviews
Metaphysical The Gate
Seeing more than just pictures in clouds.
14 Oct 2006 6 reviews
Other I, Robot
Written 12 years ago after watching yet another load of carnage on the news.
13 Oct 2006 1 review
Other Floyd On Noise
Inspired by donna's 4-word challenge in the Flash Poetry group.
25 Sep 2006 3 reviews
Other Golden Days
A 4-Word challenge by Robb Hinge on Spiderbaby's Free Poetry site. The words were 'Autumn', 'leaves', 'smoke' and 'evening'. Why not pop over and leave a poem.
24 Sep 2006 3 reviews
Other Flash Poems for W/E 27/08/06
Flash Poetry Group poems
28 Aug 2006 2 reviews
Sport Clicky-Ba
Based on the character Clicky-Ba from the 60s in The Hornet comic.
24 Aug 2006 3 reviews
Other Flash Poems - W/E 20/08/06
The 1st week's Anthology of Flashes
21 Aug 2006 2 reviews
Metaphysical Untitled - by Kalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Found on a Google search after being prompted by maipenrai. On reading it, I finally managed to put a name to a poem I knew
14 Aug 2006 1 review
Political Eco Echoes
There is more at stake than one's Bank Balance
05 May 2006 7 reviews
Psychological I Have A Friend
If we can't insult our friends... who can we insult?
04 Apr 2006 9 reviews
Sport "Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy! Oi Oi Oi!"
In tribute to Peter Osgood.
02 Mar 2006 5 reviews
Romance She
First published on Spiderbaby's 'Free Poetry' site for a Robb Hinge 5-word challenge.
07 Feb 2006 1 review
Humour A Bet's a Bet
First published on Spiderbaby's 'Free Poetry' website - http://uk.msnusers.com/Freepoetry/home.msnw - as an entry in an 8-word challenge. We are missing a lot of you over there so why not drop back in from time to time - *wink*
31 Jan 2006 2 reviews
Romance Lust's Labours Lost
Inspired by Spiderbaby's 'Lost' over on Free Poetry
23 Jan 2006 3 reviews
Other Happy Birthday Sammy
Hi there, Belfast Boy.
12 Dec 2005 4 reviews
Other George was Best 26 Nov 2005 5 reviews
Other Tickling Friends
Some people are harder than others to convince, but all come over in the end.
23 Nov 2005 5 reviews
Other The Day I went To Mexico
Zorro was there!
15 Nov 2005 7 reviews
Sport A Hunter's Moon
Argentina vs England in Geneva
12 Nov 2005 8 reviews
Other Feedback
A fishing trip
10 Nov 2005 6 reviews
Psychological A Dark and Secret Core
A single paragraph from my novel 'Twilight of the Warriors'. This paragraph, however, is most definately Autobiographical.
10 Nov 2005 4 reviews
Metaphysical Clarke's Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke knows what he's on about
07 Nov 2005 4 reviews
Other Did I Dream It?
F.C. Poem on the subject of 'Dreams'.
20 Aug 2005 6 reviews
Other A Tourist In My Own County
A long weekend in Cambridge
08 Aug 2005 10 reviews
Other Love Was Red
No one forgets a first love affair
17 Jul 2005 9 reviews
Other Turning Point
Written after the loss of Chris, a good friend and a good man.
10 Jul 2005 10 reviews
Other Did they?
Good conquers Evil
09 Jul 2005 7 reviews
Historical Old Scarlett's Poem
Chiselled in stone
21 Jun 2005 2 reviews
Other The Dawn of Enlightenment
A poem about an awakening
15 May 2005 3 reviews
Other Sundowner
Try one!
01 May 2005 5 reviews
Other The Glass Tarantula
My observations of the early Internet and my hopes for it (written 10yrs ago)
11 Apr 2005 14 reviews
Other The Engineer
Autobiographical Monologue
04 Apr 2005 3 reviews
Short fiction
Science Fiction 'Scramble Blood Squadron!'
Chapter 1 of Sci/Fi war story.
25 May 2007 8 reviews
Horror The Baron - Chapter 1
Written in the Flash Fiction Group in four episodes, this first chapter received many good tips and suggestions from the members.
04 May 2007 5 reviews
Metaphysical Two Old Farts On A Park Bench
First published on GetWriting and the title is a link to the original Reviews.
17 Oct 2006 2 reviews
Science Fiction His Master's Voice
An earful of Universal Music for Jack
18 Oct 2005 2 reviews
Other Age of Innocence
First published in Sci/Fi Fantasy and published here by request
21 Aug 2005 7 reviews
Non-Fiction
Romance Young Blue Eyes
I bet you can remember yours?
06 Apr 2007 9 reviews
Adventure Stories Of Flight and Flyers (Part 3)
Ha! Sometimes I find it hard to believe what we got away with, hahaha. But we did.
07 Mar 2007 4 reviews
Adventure Stories Of Flight and Flyers (Part 2)
Some men are unforgettable.
18 Feb 2007 2 reviews
Adventure Stories Of Flight and Flyers
One experience among many that will stay with me forever.
11 Feb 2007 8 reviews
Psychological The Meaning of Dreams
My take on my own dreams. Inspired by nas on the Flash Poetry site. Thanks, nas *wink*.
09 Feb 2007 3 reviews
Adventure Stories Flight of Fancy
A true story first published on GW.
13 Nov 2006 3 reviews
Psychological My Life And Other People
First written ten years ago, published on Get Writing two years ago and, today, the second half added to complete a piece that has been missing something for too many years.
08 Sep 2006 12 reviews
Other My First 'Downplane'
I love the Germans. This is a skydiving anecdote from '85.
05 Jul 2006 3 reviews
Metaphysical Art is The Word and The Word is Art
An ol' favourite of mine written in '96 and first published on GW . . . where we all, here, came from.
16 Jun 2006 3 reviews
Other How To Get Published
Looking for that 'Lucky Break'? So am I, somedays, but here's a couple of tips I've picked up on the 'long and winding' road.'
28 May 2006 10 reviews
Family Sagas Maureen and the Air Bears
Autobiographical. First published on Get Writing
10 Jan 2006 3 reviews
Family Sagas The Thornaby Airfield Gang
Autobiographical. First published on Get Writing.
10 Jan 2006 3 reviews
Metaphysical Comparative Religions
This post copied and pasted from my review of sravasti's poem 'Wrapped Within'... http://www.morewriting.co.uk/work/4891
09 Dec 2005 2 reviews
Historical Old Scarlett's Poem
Chiselled in stone
04 Sep 2005 2 reviews
Other A Wednesday In September
First published on GW and repeated here because it's September again and the sky looks the same and, to me, it happened yesterday. (a little swearing)
04 Sep 2005 1 review
Other The Sea of Candles
John Doe reminded me how much I love the sea and of this piece I wrote 10yrs ago... thanks, JD
18 Jul 2005 14 reviews
Other Magic on the Beach
Stargazing spellbinding night
27 Jun 2005 2 reviews
Other The Sky is Blue
Flash Challenge on the Fantasy site
17 Jun 2005 2 reviews
Other The Magic Roundabout
A true story
11 Jun 2005 2 reviews
Other The Sins of the Fathers
Something to chat about... if you want to
09 May 2005 2 reviews
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
War The Thief of Derriakbad (Part-1)
On the planet of Caladin plans for the Birth of Empire are laid down.
05 Oct 2006 2 reviews
War The Thief of Derriakbad (Part-2)
The die is cast and brave men will pay the ultimate price.
05 Oct 2006 1 review
War The Thief of Derriakbad (Part-3)
Life and Death decisions are made.
05 Oct 2006 1 review
Other Hydrogen Bomb - Part 3
Conclussion
25 Apr 2005 1 review
Other Hydrogen Bomb - Part 2
The crisis escalates
23 Apr 2005 1 review
Other Hydrogen Bomb - Part 1
Watch what you're doing when you're working with Blueprints, hehe...
19 Apr 2005 2 reviews
Other Xoxus
Prologue to a novel I'm trying to rewrite.
19 Apr 2005 3 reviews
Other The Mind Builders - part 2
First published on GW
04 Apr 2005 6 reviews
Other The Mind Builders - part 1
First published on GW
04 Apr 2005 5 reviews
Educational Health Stories
Sport IRONING MY OWN TROUSERS
How a healthy mind and body can be achieved from an early age.
25 Jun 2007 6 reviews
Here are the conversations and reviews that Ron has contributed to recently.
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General Conversations [49]
What Music are you listening to right now? [439] My Last: 48m Latest: --
Word Association [179] My Last: 41w 3d 02h 58m Latest: 03h 07m by Clarissa
Book Of Football Rants [1005] My Last: 2d 08h 21m Latest: 1d 08h 01m by JAM
Before The Mast - All Rants Welcome [258] My Last: 29w 00d 07h 04m Latest: 2d 00h 50m by jjcocker
What are you reading right now? [3] My Last: 98w 4d 02h 51m Latest: 2d 01h 18m by Lyuba Ranevsksysa
Success Stories, Good News, Lucky Breaks! [96] My Last: 2w 5d 09h 17m Latest: 2d 09h 01m by arthurian
Thoughts & Comments... [14] My Last: 3w 1d 09h 41m Latest: --
A BIG MoreWriting Welcome for our latest member - Yeahhh [2] My Last: 3w 4d 06h 27m Latest: 3w 2d 21h 36m by bulldozer
Comments on Ron's stuff [24] My Last: 9w 2d 09h 29m Latest: --
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Work Comments/Reviews [167]
Aim Higher ! [2] by KRC168 My Last: 1w 5d 04h 19m Latest: 1d 00h 48m by Ian Gould
Budgies-Part 1 [2] by BrianRobertNeal My Last: 61w 1d 04h 46m Latest: 2d 05h 04m by sortamagicallooking
A Rage of Angels by Roy My Last: 1w 4d 05h 10m Latest: 5d 23h 35m by Roy
Arthur, Morgana, Avalon and oral history [6] by Cadwallon My Last: 1w 2d 05h 43m Latest: --
Mirror Mirage by BrianRobertNeal My Last: 47w 00d 09h 52m Latest: 3w 2d 01h 59m by endakl
On the stair by BrianRobertNeal My Last: 10w 1d 09h 36m Latest: 4w 3d 03h 38m by BrianRobertNeal
A Woman to die for. [2] by BrianRobertNeal My Last: 58w 5d 07h 20m Latest: 5w 6d 12h 25m by BrianRobertNeal
Music of the Darkness by BrianRobertNeal My Last: 47w 5d 05h 36m Latest: 8w 2d 04h 50m by Indie
Cynicism [2] by BrianRobertNeal My Last: 58w 00d 03h 14m Latest: 8w 4d 21h 03m by jjcocker
TRIPTYCH by BrianRobertNeal My Last: 16w 3d 03h 30m Latest: 9w 3d 08h 37m by BrianRobertNeal
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The Randomer
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