http://becauseican.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by ver.bo.ten en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:17:36 GMT 2010-01-07T14:17:36Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973403&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace   The child we leave I go down gradually; go under. Drown. The pregnant river radiates my soul.   I know I am waiting on the pier; a child. Two boats playfully . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:10:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977973403&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2010-01-03T01:10:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968500&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace   We all do it, female and males alike yet still in our society, flatulence, passing gas, or plain old farting as it is commonly called, is a normal function of life. It is a myth that ladies . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:41:41 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968500&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Carol Roach 2009-12-30T11:41:41Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977958293&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace 'tis the season   As we strive through painful cold, treacherous dark, dodging danger, palpitating heart, anxiety our stark true friend Dream of this season's end in joyful meeting, . . . Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:43:39 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977958293&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-12-22T08:43:39Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977953245&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace I don't feel like being nice today.   I'm in a nasty mood.   I feel like being mean today.   I feel like being rude.   copyright 2009 by Amy Gwen Kline Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:35:29 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977953245&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Gwen K 2009-12-18T16:35:29Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977953165&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace I'm getting addicted to your voice.   To talking with you on the phone.   It makes me wonder how things will be   when we can be together   for . . . Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:49:02 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977953165&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Gwen K 2009-12-18T15:49:02Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977939246&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace How's your week been? Mine's been good except for the other day when my laundry was stolen & I was insulted four times. I was called fat once & old three times. And just now somebody insulted . . . Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:05:48 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977939246&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Gwen K 2009-12-09T18:05:48Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977936060&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace   Abused The tiny feet of a squirrel on a tin roof; nothingness is a corrugated top.   You look up from there, a frightened life; a squirrel, not playful; in search . . . Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:59:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977936060&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2009-12-08T00:59:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977926355&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace   Surreal corridor “However”, says the naysayer; ‘however’ has always been his way to end a sentence which will fly like a mesmerized . . . Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:44:48 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977926355&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2009-12-02T01:44:48Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977919082&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Are you doing anything special? I'm spending it with a bunch of friends at the place I go every day. My son wanted to spend it with his paternal grandparents, so I decided it would be pointless to . . . Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:24:20 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977919082&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Gwen K 2009-11-26T15:24:20Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977917745&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace                                         . . . Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:19:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977917745&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace guy arneson 2009-11-25T19:19:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977915637&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace This friend of mine who did waaay too many drugs in the '70s told me that John Lennon faked his death & is still alive. He has also told me a score of other conspiracy theories & he's fun to . . . Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:04:54 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977915637&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Gwen K 2009-11-24T15:04:54Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977912843&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Returning   If I could turn again If I could turn If I could If I If I   Flying too high confused, losing oxygen's fire . . . Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:44:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977912843&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-22T21:44:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977911896&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Something Like a Love Poem   That's what we do. We fail to come through. No voiceover narrator keeps score. I know I told you to count on my adoration. In . . . Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:39:13 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977911896&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-21T20:39:13Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977909181&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Breaking bred   Ravenous beast born from boiling seas rampaging barely beneath, breaking surface exhaling snarling flame riotous burning blame . . . Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:00:49 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977909181&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-19T22:00:49Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977903799&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Every New Deconstruction   That's not sunlight -- that's fire! Bells  Gongs  Sirens blast the night proclaim blazing barricades People can't take . . . Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:27:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977903799&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-16T23:27:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977901948&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Ever After   Pan, old ugly friend screams "You're alive!" Respond? Retreat into familiar fairytales. Witch  Waif  Warrior Who emerges . . . Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:24:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977901948&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-15T20:24:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977899481&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Are you superstitious? Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:58:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977899481&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Gwen K 2009-11-13T15:58:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977898301&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace   Arising from Diffraction (Take 3)     Colder than the weather and unsettled, under collective oceans, scuttling claws. Ill-content to follow simpering . . . Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:03:02 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977898301&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-12T22:03:02Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977896847&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace   The prodigal parakeet’s return Because the green bird has forgotten the basics of aerodynamics; because survival demands knowledge of the . . . Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:31:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977896847&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2009-11-12T01:31:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977896424&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Honoring peace Honoring lives left behind not in fecund fields open to air and sunlight tended father to son, mother to daughter. Dust to us. Lives not given, . . . Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977896424&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-11T20:00:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977894873&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace What were the scuttling claws? T raveling moonbeams along neuro-electric tracks distracts displaces segmented time. I'm fine.  No meds, no precious minutes . . . Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:33:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977894873&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-10T23:33:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977893279&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace   Both the poems are dedicated to the victims and Andrea Grenadier whose poem has inspired me.   Parrot, on the war Even in the days of a war, she catches . . . Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:41:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977893279&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2009-11-10T01:41:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977891565&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace   words caught in a photograph Onomatopoeic words scatter with your entrance. Pose with a flower; sit on the table before a glass half filled with milk. Search love. . . . Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:39:48 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977891565&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2009-11-09T01:39:48Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977891358&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace What were the scuttling claws? I wasn't paying attention. T raveling moonbeams along neuro-electric tracks distracts displaces segments of time. I'm fine.  . . . Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:47:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977891358&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-08T21:47:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977890250&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace There is nothing wrong with the words strong hard tools, carrying us through signifying what must be said What there are are conventions of conversation; rules of etiquette . . . Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:19:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977890250&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace libramoon C. 2009-11-07T21:19:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977887478&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace I use a few sites in which to publish my articles.  I publish all my articles except those that I am contracted to write.  Those articles do not belong to me as I am a ghostwriter. Therefore . . . Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:57:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977887478&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Carol Roach 2009-11-06T00:57:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977884016&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace   SERVES 4 -6 1 lb chop meat 1 (16 ounce) can chopped tomatoes 1 can kidney bean 3 tablespoons chili powder chopped . . . Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:25:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977884016&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace cat live 2009-11-04T03:25:03Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977880659&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace     Sonnet for a host Wings spread from one ear of the sky to the other; the snowy egret flying. We have talked about Shelly; talked about weather; whether you . . . Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:33:01 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977880659&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Kushal Poddar 2009-11-02T01:33:01Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977880397&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace murderer. i called you murderer as you killed all the songs of my childhood, everything i had. but you didn't mind.   and each time you  killed another one, a lily died. . . . Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:25:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977880397&grpId=3659174697252321&nav=Groupspace Okang Ashiwel O. 2009-11-01T20:25:42Z