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Author / Derek Dodds
A Sinaloan Road Trip: Why Surfers Risk Everything for Waves

A Sinaloan Road Trip: Why Surfers Risk Everything for Waves

Everyone said I shouldn’t go. “It’s dangerous down there right now,” my friends and family told me. In fact, just a few kilometers from where we stay, two Australian surfers disappeared and lost their lives in a horrific story of injustice and brutality. According to reports, they were pulled over by assassins dressed in police...CONTINUE READING
Category:Life Lessons, Travel
Pulsating Pensivity by Derek Dodds

Pulsating Pensivity

broken raindrops of existence kindled by flames of eternity grasped by the throat of time dripping memories from my glass of wine bloodstained youth of– dreamless dreams running in circles of– meanless means twisting away on the cosmic vine
Category:Poems & Prose
Ode To Life by derek dodds

Ode To Life

ode to emotion and desireblinded by my oceanic dream-like imagination reborn to myself, in myselfre-birthing my energetic ability to march, dance, and sing ode to standing up to a new way of living yes—an ode to myself to the lion’s roarmy roar to the heartfelt understanding that life in not overthat life has just begunand...CONTINUE READING
Category:Poems & Prose
Writing By Derek Dodds

Truth’s Dance

i met this guy in Mexico years backand he had this huge tattoo on his armhe was powerfulInsightfullike a shaman i instantly felt he was my brothersoul-type-brotherand i asked him what veritas meant he said truthit hit me hardit struck me like a boltright in the center of my being because i knew that what...CONTINUE READING
Category:Poems & Prose
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I am by derek dodds

I Am

sun shaped silhouettes of silenceseduced sensitivitygently shaping my reality tears of broken dreamsshattered by a softness of unfathomable understandingimpregnated peace drips like honey from the fountainof my own courageto live in truth mysteriousmysticalmagical the bird song tells the complete story shuuuuuuujust listen, my friend silence the ground squirrels even know the secretkept by a thousand...CONTINUE READING
Category:Poems & Prose
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