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RoadPoet
Haymish Lam 

United Kingdom, Dorset
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British Red Cross: Disasters Response Challenge 2008
Addendum: Needs to be revised and edited to make the article more writerly before possible submission for publication. Red Cross Disasters Response Challenge. Friday 28th March, 2008. I have now just...
Blogs|  Genre:A day in the life of me|  Updated:06-04-08
Words:5105|  Comments:0|  Status:Reader

Day 1. 25th November 2007. How does a traveller lose their luggage?
On a day reserved for getting hideously drunk and languishing in some local pub in the Totton...
Creative Non-Fiction|  Updated:22-12-07
Words:418|  Comments:2|  Status:Reader

Patricide
(based on a patient who is paranoid about the evilness of his father)....
Poetry|  Updated:05-09-07
Words:134|  Comments:6|  Status:Reader

Being hugged in the middle of the shopping centre!
Human individuals and populations. At the end of the day we are all strangers. And without ties or attachments we would have remained so. From the books I have read and many a quasi conversation with...
Blogs|  Updated:19-07-07
Words:690|  Comments:12|  Status:Reader

Dwelling in Finsbury's Divide.
Sobbing to his wife ??I need that job?...
Poetry|  Updated:18-07-07
Words:209|  Comments:7|  Status:Reader

Dreams of fishing in the workplace
Third draft (25/06/2007)....
Poetry|  Updated:01-07-07
Words:110|  Comments:23|  Status:Public

Boredom: A Poem
When boredom has free reign,...
Poetry|  Updated:23-06-07
Words:209|  Comments:15|  Status:Public

The Resurrection of Tirawa (for Teri and Yvy)- First Revision
Running through woods in Ithaca, miles from where you were....
Poetry|  Updated:16-06-07
Words:270|  Comments:24|  Status:Public

Lives that walk in circles (A Sestina).
One of my most earliest pieces A piece that has been revised... For a day appears as any other through the passing of time, Where nothing but the leaves of the elm declare her age and the low lying...
Poetry|  Genre:Sestina|  Updated:16-06-07
Words:308|  Comments:6|  Status:Public

Leaving Bradford
A nameless cardboard box lays there barren in the room. Where the walls are painted with formal magnolia hues. Thoughts had once swirled in through the opened windows removing the curried stench that...
Poetry|  Updated:16-06-07
Words:334|  Comments:18|  Status:Public

Coffee Dependance on a Monday Morning
Hearing those names...
Poetry|  Updated:16-06-07
Words:211|  Comments:25|  Status:Public

The Memoirs of the Colour 'Red' (The biography of a pigment).
At the beginning...
Poetry|  Genre:Personification|  Updated:16-06-07
Words:255|  Comments:32|  Status:Public

Untitled
Huddled by a ceramic fire,...
Poetry|  Updated:16-06-07
Words:143|  Comments:10|  Status:Public

These Miles That Separate Us
A dedication to all those people that have lost someone close and also my late sister. May they all...
Poetry|  Updated:16-06-07
Words:232|  Comments:22|  Status:Public

Burning Bridges: Life and Death in Kosova (Kosovo).
This is my first attempt at writing a short story! TO BE EDITED! March 1998: If only could still reminisce about the beauty of the land that is Kosovo. Look towards the East, for I will guide you to...
Short Stories|  Genre:War Fiction/Observational|  Updated:16-06-07
Words:1765|  Comments:18|  Status:Reader

Blog: Meeting with Sue continued (draft two).
Blog: Meeting with Sue continued Today I am writing under the auspice of the great Jeff Buckley. It seems that Buckley??s spin of Leonard Cohen??s ??Hallelujah?? eases me into my writer??s...
Blogs|  Updated:06-06-07
Words:579|  Comments:4|  Status:Public

Blog: Meeting Sue for a night out
Meeting Sue On Saturday the 3rd June. Its quite funny encountering people, when you have only read their words and in many ways we are told to avoid strangers?I guess we are all strangers at the...
Short Stories|  Updated:05-06-07
Words:514|  Comments:4|  Status:Public

3). Untitled Scene 2; Act 2 (rough draft- prelimminary)
On that Friday night the air was cold, but pleasant to the touch and a breeze could be felt making ruffles on my three quarter length coat. I just looked straight ahead and I wanted to be someone; but...
Short Stories|  Updated:25-05-07
Words:416|  Comments:7|  Status:Reader

2). Untitled continued (Rough Draft). Scene 2; Act I.
Second scene: Act one- Wafting through the smog of the London underground, I sat politely through the hour journey which snaked southwards from Camden towards the Embankment. I was reminded that the...
Short Stories|  Updated:24-05-07
Words:520|  Comments:1|  Status:Reader

1). Untitled Scene I; Act I (rough draft- prelimminary)
Untitled (rough draft) Premise: I am Alfredo Callia...my name is all I can recognise, for my face disappeared before I could remember what I looked like, because of this I have become a man reduced to...
Short Stories|  Updated:23-05-07
Words:726|  Comments:3|  Status:Reader

The Youth in My Day Dialogue (rough idea).
Just working on my dialogue and characterisation. Don't be alarmed!...
Poetry|  Updated:08-05-07
Words:297|  Comments:8|  Status:Reader

Cultural Confusion!
Sometimes I think I have an identity crisis. I guess identity can be an affiliation to any one particular thing, but in this tiny blog I will say closeness to a particular culture. I have been raised...
Blogs|  Updated:06-05-07
Words:554|  Comments:10|  Status:Reader

Day 7 Uncompleted
Day 7: The Castle Peak....
Blogs|  Updated:08-04-07
Words:516|  Comments:4|  Status:Public

Day 3 (I think)
A sleepless day continued?...
Blogs|  Updated:05-04-07
Words:517|  Comments:6|  Status:Public

Hong Kong: Day 2 (unfinished)
Hong Kong: Day 2....
Short Stories|  Updated:02-04-07
Words:352|  Comments:4|  Status:Public

Hong Kong: Day One
Hong Kong: Day One. It has just gone quarter past 8 in a region of Hong Kong known as Gau Liu Ha and at the present time the temperature is maintained at a sweltering 27 degrees centigrade. The only...
Blogs|  Updated:01-04-07
Words:471|  Comments:5|  Status:Public

A Journeying Day: Canto II. Identity.
A Journeying Day: Canto II. Identity. Once I posed a moronic question to my mother, staring through her car window. ??Mum if I was born in the province of Hunan, would I have looked the way I look now?...
Poetry|  Updated:26-02-07
Words:315|  Comments:8|  Status:Public

The Number 15 Bus.
Arrival: It can be lonesome to the soul, arriving at the bus station, shivering and blowing with a warm exhale. Ominous blocks of slap dash concrete that clad the shopping centre on the inner side. A...
Poetry|  Updated:24-02-07
Words:487|  Comments:11|  Status:Public

A Journeying Day: Frailty (Canto I)
A Journeying Day: Frailty Canto I, Verso I. Burning ghats twirling so the smoke rises upon a Bhagirathi plain. A misty haze cold when felt, merging into the tears of families birthed into a Sissyphian...
Poetry|  Updated:21-02-07
Words:836|  Comments:7|  Status:Public

Walking through the wastelands.
Is it okay to walk through the wastelands?...
Poetry|  Updated:11-12-06
Words:195|  Comments:8|  Status:Reader
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