Tag: surviving
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November 29, 2009 12:53 AM EST --
Here is your writing prompt for this week: Write a small piece, poetry or prose, from the perspective of an inanimate object that undergoes a sudden change in routine. Use the language and metaphor . . .
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February 14, 2009 02:11 AM EST --
Endless
Is a Long time
Takes an eternity
Souls intermingle hearts entwine
Timeless
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June 22, 2009 12:55 PM EDT --
There have been many losses here on Gather lately and I would like to share this poem with you that I first posted on June 16, 2007.
The Silence of the Marigolds
by Heather . . .
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December 19, 2006 09:39 PM EST --
We were there, at the edge.
Tough, weathered at an early age.
Did we give up, did we sacrifice?
Where were you, near the edge?
We survived, we fought for you.
Riding out beyond the fringe. . . .
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November 28, 2009 12:28 AM EST --
Broken spirit , listen to me
Life is not an easy game
It's not in the winning
But how you play
I know you'll put them all to shame
For you're tender hearted . . .
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September 19, 2006 09:41 PM EDT --
Gloria died today. As as I sit here typing these words, I can feel myself falling again, tumbling back through time to a place of grief I felt so long ago, when my mother's own fight against cancer . . .
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December 10, 2007 03:46 AM EST --
Recently, someone tried to hurt me by saying they were sick of my holier than thou attitude. It didn't really hurt me because I don't have a holier than thou attitude. I think it was because of . . .
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September 11, 2006 12:56 AM EDT --
In September of 2001, I was at the bottom of a new cycle in life. My online business had failed and I was reqrouping, planning to relocate and start a new life. I was just getting enough of my health back . . .
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June 28, 2007 03:11 PM EDT --
A couple of years ago my friend John heard that a friend of his was terminally ill. He hadn’t seen this friend in many years and so was struggling over whether to visit him or not. Knowing . . .
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November 27, 2007 08:31 AM EST --
For some, the holidays are a whirlwind of tree decorating, turkey carving, watching It's a Wonderful Life whilst sipping eggnog by the fire and cuddling our loved ones. This is a time for bonding, . . .
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December 20, 2008 05:20 PM EST --
Back in 1964 I had a good job paying very well. It was with one of the leading Engineering and Construction companies in the world. I think I was dragging in about $15,000 a year. And . . .
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December 18, 2008 02:34 PM EST --
The last weather forecast had the storm coming in and ending by 4:00 AM. It wasn't supposed to be a big deal. The standard warnings had been issued - slippery roads, maybe some minor outages. . . .
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March 20, 2009 08:58 AM EDT --
Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth
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June 30, 2009 02:27 PM EDT --
And 'they' said it would never last. Ha! Whoever 'they' are don't know Jack!! We proved ' them' wrong.
I remember about 3 months after we got married someone asked our . . .
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March 28, 2009 09:18 PM EDT --
Ego
Men must have it
Women nurture with love
Returned love restores ego
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September 01, 2009 07:13 PM EDT --
What, When, Where and Why
These are the questions on my mind
There don't seem to be many answers
It is like this all the time
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September 21, 2009 02:28 AM EDT --
I know a lot of Rob's friends have been wondering what happened to him. Me too,but so much has been going on in my own life, I just thought . . .
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July 10, 2006 09:46 AM EDT --
Jamais Vu Verdant
Once around the late November,yes, . . .
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July 11, 2006 06:07 PM EDT --
Oh, God.....Where would we be if it was'nt for Sam ,and his nieces and nephews in the military?
Would we be dreaming how we could be living free, in a land of so great ,an opportunity?
Thank God . . .
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September 23, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
I was married for ten long years to a man who was, to say the least, an odd duck - or rather, a seriously troubled odd duck who flapped his wings too much (when not being remote and distant otherwise) and . . .
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