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You have got to love #Nature! So wonderful! So beautiful! So awe-inspiring! And there is no better way to witness and to enjoy nature at it's most wonderful, at it's most beautiful, and at it's most awe-inspiring than on a Summer's day the like of which we here in the UK have been blessed with over the last couple of days! 🌞😎😊 #BirminghamCity #UnitedKingdom #Summersday #Beautifulday

Everything always is... 😊 #life #everything #amatterofopinion #BirminghamCity #cool

Chillin' while wearing my "Melissa jacket" on a beautiful sunny Summer's day here in the UK. I am feeling very chilled out, as I come down from the taste of that delicous Blood Orange Iced Tea I just had from @starbucksuk ... and I already want another one! lol 😊😎🌞🍹🥤 #me #chilling #summer #BirminghamCity

Enjoying a delicious Blood Orange Iced Tea at @starbucksuk @starbuckslloyds - which is just what the doctor ordered on a bright and beautiful Summer's day like today! So good! I wish they had these 24/7 365 days of the year! 😎🥤🍹🌞 #starbucks #summer #BirminghamCity

Life is a cycle. Paths converge every day. Life is beautiful - even on a rainy day. Life is more than anyone could ever perceive, and it's true meaning is deeper than anyone would ever believe. Life is a wonderful gift, and if you look for the poetry in every moment then will ultimately discover that the planet that we call Earth has one purpose: to give all of its children - from humans to bacteria - a place to exist and to thrive. Life is an enigma surrounded by a cosmos of mystery. Life is like what makes raindrops sparkle like diamonds when the rays of sun shine upon them. I believe that Life exists elsewhere in the universe, and I also believe that one day the paths of many life-forms will intersect - and when that happens it will be like Life has once again divulged a timeless secret to its varied races, and from that moment on Life will be lived and it will be seen by the living like it has never been seen before, and as if many worlds had opened their collective eyes and realized that Life is like heaven: it is the best of all dreams. 😊 📝🗒#me #poetry #poem #poet #writer #writinginthemoment #livinginthemoment #life #cycle

"The Knife Angel" - what a wonderful monument, and what a powerful and inspirational symbol of the potential of peace. When I look at this statue made up of knives and blades of all sizes I feel hopeful that one day weapons of all kinds may become a thing of the past and will no longer be used by people to hurt and kill one another - perhaps that is the idealistic, optimistic, dreamer in me talking; however, when I see symbols like "The Knife Angel" my hope and my dream of a world without violence is bolstered significantly. These days there seems to be an epidemic of stabbings and deaths in the UK as a result of the knives and the blades that people carry around with them on a daily basis - mainly by young people - for reasons that I cannot comprehend, which is alarming; but I remain hopeful that one day people of all ages will realize that weapons and violence is never the answer to anything, and that one day there will be peace all around the world. 😊 #TheKnifeAngel #VictoriaSquare #Birmingham #BirminghamCity

May the Fourth be with you... Happy @starwars Day! 😎 #MayTheForceBeWith #Always #StarWars #StarWarsDay #maythefourthbewithyou #me

Hi there! This is a little sketch that I drew a few months ago of Hermes - “The Messenger God” - to commemorate the one year anniversary of my book “Playing God” being published. You could say that “The Messenger God” is a very important character within “Playing God” and the seven short stories that it comprises, for reasons I do not like to reveal - because I am a writer, an artist, a reader, a fan who likes to surprise their audience and who in turn likes to be surprised by what I invest my time into, because that is the magic of art and that is that art of magic. Writing the stories of “Playing God” was an experience, a journey, an evolution - and I only discovered who I was writing about, who the central character was, and what the message of the main protagonist was, the more stories I wrote. And then, while writing one story in particular, there came a moment - a literary lightning-strike of inspiration and clarity - when everything fell into place and I recognised who I was writing about, what the motivation of the central character of every one of the seven stories was, and why he chose to appear how he appears and why he did what he does. I like to think that anybody could read any story from “Playing God” and understand who this mysterious “Man in Black/Man in White” is and that the stories within could be read in any order because there is no set chronological order to them. The stories of “Playing God” were a joy to write, but they are not for the faint of heart - because each one is a heartfelt cry for help by characters and by people in need of being saving - but how, and whether, they are actually “saved” you will only find out if you choose to dive deep into every one of the seven stories and you return with a new insight into life as it is for so many people in this world, and those not of this world. Thank you to anybody who has already read ”Playing God” - and to the many who have not, I would just like to say happy reading! 😊 #PlayingGod #markhastings #book #shortstories #ManinBlack #ManinWhite #Hermes #messengergod #happyanniverary #writer #writing #poet

Today I finally got to sit on the @gameofthrones Iron Throne @ @birmingham_bullring as a part of @skyatlanticuk promotion of Game of Thrones final season! I truly felt like a king and like I belonged on the Iron Thone and King of the Seven Kingdoms! 😋 🤴 #gameofthrones #got #IronThrone #kingofthesevenkingdoms #skyatlantic

Check out my poem “Environmental Clock” and all my other poems @ http://MarkThePoet.Me - [side note]: I wrote this poem this morning not even realising that today was in fact Earth Day, and I personally do not think that I could written a better poem for Earth Day even if I had tried. Happy Earth Day, everybody! 🌍🌏🌎 #poetry #poem #poet #Earth #EarthDay #nature #life #humanity #environment

Having a birthday Caramel Machiatto and a blueberry muffin at @starbucksuk! Happy birthday to me! 😊🎊🎉🎈☕🍩🎂 #birthday #starbucks #BirminghamCity

I have always loved the beautiful blossom that perennially blooms from our family apple tree at this time of the year... 😊 🌸💮🏵 #blossom #nature #appletree #home #inspiring

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