TenPastTen is a quiet corner for old souls who love literature, poetry, good conversation, and above all, being a romantic.

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    Gilded Banks

    The river does not argue with the land. It has been here long enough to know exactly where the earth will open and where it… Read more.

    Gilded Banks
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    Ten Past Ten

    The dial holds its quiet face open to whatever light remains. Ten past ten—the hands resting in that deliberate balance, neither climbing nor falling, as… Read more.

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    Sands of Time

    The space between us is only silica, ancient sand pressed thin by heat and time, the same grains that once drifted through an hourglass counting… Read more.

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    Shores of Paradise

    I have stood at the edge Where the water first remembers the land, Where the shore of paradise Lifts its soft, salt-sweet mouth and lets… Read more.

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