Tag: self-reflection
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May 14, 2006 07:42 PM EDT --
How could I stop to think,
When no one else stops with me?
How could I smell the roses,
When no one can see to smell with me?
How could I prove I am human,
When no one proves they're . . .
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January 12, 2008 03:48 PM EST --
Everyone should have a place where they can remove themselves from the press of the day. For me, floating in a small sea of bubbles is the best place to shuffle my thoughts. Amidst scented oils and the . . .
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November 10, 2008 01:03 PM EST --
The other day, you said something,
That I immediately dismissed as untrue.
You told me that I was the sly one,
That I had the" lines", and I felt your words were cruel.
. . .
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August 24, 2009 12:43 AM EDT --
Words
My friends,
I offer you my words,
. . .
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June 25, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
Cold Misery
A cold misery sweeps over
Circuits short out
Self-confidence dictated in illusion
A fervid mental joust
Mercurial personality stopped midstream
Caught . . .
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August 23, 2009 01:03 AM EDT --
I Danced in the Rain
The first time I fell in love,
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January 20, 2009 10:55 AM EST --
May you not lose
What others do not have
Be it for good or bad
For survival is for the true fittest
It is not for the wicked
For if you are wicked
Good things come to those who wait
It may be . . .
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September 03, 2009 11:50 PM EDT --
Crossing Paths
I met Pauline many years ago when we both showed up for an interview for a job neither of us really wanted but both of needed in the worst of ways.
There . . .
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September 14, 2008 11:30 PM EDT --
Sometimes I stand naked in front of the mirror
(full-length mirror)
and I look at myself, not in self loathing
(like I used to do),
but rather look at myself as beautiful.
I'm not beautiful . . .
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August 25, 2009 01:00 AM EDT --
Flickering Moments
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August 30, 2009 10:13 AM EDT --
Sunday Morning
In the stillness of the early morning,
Illuminated by a peaceful, sleep-filled . . .
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September 19, 2009 04:12 PM EDT --
My Words
Someone asked me,
"Why do you write?"
"What do you write?"
"Is it worth it?"
I write for therapy,
Self-reflection, . . .
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September 25, 2009 11:38 PM EDT --
Grandmother's Perfume
On Saturday nights, at bedtime,
She reached into her bureau drawer,
Stretching her fingers to the back,
Touching the little white . . .
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June 11, 2006 10:21 PM EDT --
This is a passage I wrote a very long time ago to put on a website I once ran. This is showing my firends that I had grown out of a smaller sort of shell and started to see a larger picture. Basically . . .
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July 11, 2006 07:01 PM EDT --
Every once in a while, I'll be going about whatever buisness I'm attending to. Then something happens and someone needs some words of advice, or so I think. Whenever this happens I'll remember . . .
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February 25, 2008 06:34 AM EST --
Last week, after thinking long and hard a pressed a button on my keyboard that withdrew me from the Bachelor's degree business program I was enrolled in. I had been behind in my class, and was really . . .
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January 20, 2009 10:53 AM EST --
Thank you
devil of an angel
angel of a devil
you are the mirror of now
the yin to my yang
the yang to my yin
it was you who needed
to show me what I could not see!!!
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January 23, 2009 03:05 PM EST --
I see the light and you look the other way
That is why to you, I have nothing to say
I say not your name, but you know who you are
One need not know that, you have enough of a scar
You can't gather . . .
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July 31, 2009 09:39 PM EDT --
Straight From My Heart
By Dianna Doles Petry
A few days ago I was walking around a flea market when I happened . . .
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August 25, 2009 12:48 AM EDT --
West Virginia, in fact the entire United States, has always seemed majestic to me. People from all over the world settled here, many of them starting off . . .
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