Ollie Lind Poetry

I spend a great deal of my life assisting other’s to progress in their lives. It is the most satisfying and uplifting thing I know how to do. That’s not to say life is a simple journey from success to success. Anybody who says he has never failed either has never attempted to do anything, [...]

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I was looking at the news the other night and saw (again) details of strife in the West Bank. We tend to become desensitized to violence, particularly religious violence. But it’s still real people who are suffering, and for what? This poem is simply my way of looking at the subject. I am not a [...]

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Something happened last night that really set me back on my heels. About six weeks ago I injured my elbow. Prior to my injury I was doing weights three times a week, martial arts twice and playing competition squash. The accident was absolutely stupid. I was playing squash and collided with a wall. I struck [...]

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It’s funny how life keeps presenting us with lessons. I had gym workout this morning (Sunday) with an old lady friend of mine. (The friendship is old, not the lady) We had lost touch for a couple of years and, through a coincidence we spoke on the telephone during the week. But this story is [...]

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Have you ever had a sequence of events happen to convince you the universe has united against you? It seems that, no matter what you do, the opposite to what you want seems to occur. What about this for such a sequence. Firstly, my e-mail seemed to play up. It would send one message and [...]

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