Tag: isolation
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December 10, 2007 01:32 AM EST --
Alone is a state of mind. Many people can be physically alone but do not feel alone as they know someone, somewhere is loving them, thinking about them and missing them. The moments progress . . . more
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March 02, 2008 09:05 AM EST --
What's Next with Globalization?
I just read a good article by Karl Leuba about China, and I could just settle for making a comment. But it brings up subjects I have long been thinking about, Global . . . more
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November 14, 2006 08:04 PM EST --
Walls, they
divide
but we can always climb
them to get to the other side.
Walls, they
shelter us,
but stay too long
and they imprison . . . more
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August 08, 2007 06:45 AM EDT --
Dancing to a ghostly echo
Eloping with a memory
Sharing secrets with shadows
Outstanding debts of spirit
Languid, emotional IOUs
Antiques whisper scents of yesteryear
Today’s embers . . . more
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March 16, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
The truth about doors
Their most fundemental flaw
Is, when closed,
They become walls...............
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March 29, 2007 04:53 AM EDT --
This fire still burns bright
The only illumination in my night
Bright enough to show how empty this darkness is
In the flames you dance
In my embers you exist
Fuelled by tears, your incandescence . . . more
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October 28, 2006 06:20 AM EDT --
Three stories below, men holler, women shriek, couples walk by laughing, defying the night. Three stories above, she waits for a sign; a pebble striking the window, a knock at the door. . . . more
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October 18, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
Something within my gut recoils as I hear the flippant response . . . again. My words, thoughts, ideas are dismissed as a husband no longer consultsthe once esteemed mental checklist of "verbal offenses." . . . more
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August 09, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
For Chana...
My response to the challenge Chana gives to respond to Her Impossible Mission and Simon & Garfunkel's I am a Rock (posted far below with . . . more
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September 03, 2006 02:25 AM EDT --
For two days we lived isolated on the mountain, with only a few daring to venture up the Yellow Grade Road while we were there. We soaked up as much lonliness, and old time atmosphere as we could, but . . . more
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October 11, 2006 08:53 AM EDT --
Some days the path is so clear,
and the sun beckons to me;
Other days it seems littered with debris,
and my eyes cannot seem to focus
on where I'm going;
I feel I must constantly stop
and pick . . . more
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May 15, 2006 04:01 AM EDT --
Nocturne
Red wine
white russians
the blues
a dark bar cafe
in the rain; in the snow;
in the freakin' blizzard!
You w/o me; me w/o you
writing in our journals
separately
"let you see mine, . . . more
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March 21, 2007 06:28 AM EDT --
Twisted desires claw through my mind
Erotic
Eclectic
. . . more
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May 04, 2007 06:18 AM EDT --
From a distance
The rictus of the damned
Could be construed as a smile
I will push you away
And hide behind this apparent grin
From a distance
In the thin grey light
Tears seem like shining . . . more
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September 28, 2006 11:35 PM EDT --
This is as far as we may come toward Valinor
Just to these mists, but not beyond
From here, although they have forgotten us.
We will hear, if only faintly, when they dance.
And smell . . . more
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February 07, 2007 11:10 AM EST --
A lotus thrives placidly,
On contempt of the rotting . . . more
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October 11, 2006 01:17 AM EDT --
In his faded blue robe, he languidly strolled into the bedroom. Time to shut down. So little to do, so much time.
He disconnected the phone, drew the blinds, and made a cocoon out of his comforter.
"Honey . . . more
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October 19, 2006 01:29 PM EDT --
Amazing how life catches up to you.
I look in the mirror and count the gray hairs;
I see the crow's feet under my eyes
and wonder where the time has gone;
Sometimes I long to . . . more
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June 02, 2007 09:28 AM EDT --
With the recent news of an air traveler infected with Tuberculosis being isolated, TB is much in the news. I thought some of you may want a little background on the disease.
TB has been around for a millennia . . . more
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January 14, 2008 10:08 PM EST --
t was obvious he had no mat erial wealth
And was accli mat ed to this place
No a mat eur ani mat ed denials
Nor diplo mati c utterances of his race
. . . more
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