Tag: walls
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August 06, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
Alone in a corner
wanting to shut off the adrenaline
the way I've shut off my emotions.
I smile and tell you I'm ok,
won't let you see
the pain,
the fear.
We both know you see through . . .
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January 13, 2007 05:05 AM EST --
As you read Jeannette Walls' best-selling, riveting memoir of a nomadic childhood with an artist mother and an alcoholic father, you will find yourself dancing along the edges of smiles and sorrow . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:02 PM EDT --
As seen at www.postsecrets.coma few months ago.
Thanks for caring
enough.
My walls were both
tall and thick.
There are not many walls left...
crumbled ruins at my feet...
...and nowhere to . . .
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March 10, 2007 10:54 AM EST --
Once I had a solar home that sat on a hill overlooking a spring fed pond, a ramnant from the glaciers that covered southeastern Massachusetts and the Cape. Through summer and winter the sun shined . . .
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June 19, 2008 12:47 PM EDT --
The Romans settled in York in AD71, and stayed untill AD410. It was during this time that they built the city walls, or Bar Walls as they are called, because of the four 'Bars', or gates, into . . .
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November 11, 2008 12:01 PM EST --
The apple orchard is closed. As I walked among the fallen apples and the fluttering yellow leaves, I thought of Robert Frost.
Here is the first half of his famous poem, "After . . .
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July 26, 2008 08:21 AM EDT --
Ok so we tried to demolition the bathroom last night and oh my. My handman who is a licensed union electrician and overall handman couldn't believe what he saw. The bathroom seemed . . .
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November 10, 2007 02:07 AM EST --
At the sheriff's office today,
A prisoner sat shackled to the wall
He was removed because I was there.
He seemed so not to care.
I felt his eyes pierce me,
Like teeth . . .
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May 14, 2006 09:14 PM EDT --
My Walls
A Catalog Poem
An Asian cat stalking a spider
Two sumi-e crayfish dancing with red flowers
A coat of arms for MacLean: Virtue Thine Honor
Batik roses, a birthday present from my husband
A small, . . .
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July 06, 2008 05:07 PM EDT --
As if almost in a trance, I sat there and let the world go away. I don't know what had overcome me and persuaded me to have grabbed my guitar, but I had enclosed myself in a space so small . . .
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March 16, 2007 11:10 AM EDT --
Your words come in spurts
After a pause for thought
Or maybe it's just effect
Falling from your lips
Like soft rain drops
I know you believe
But these words, these words are a paradox . . .
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October 07, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
When it comes to retaining walls, there is certainly a lot of diversity. If you want to build a wall for yourself as a do it yourself project, you can make a retaining wall out of just about any material . . .
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July 01, 2008 07:58 AM EDT --
Man is the only species that deliberately pisses each other off. I think you know what I mean, you see examples of it everyday, whether shopping in crowded stores, driving around in your car, or virtually . . .
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October 25, 2008 12:00 PM EDT --
Riverhead, Long Island, New York has a Mosaic wall running along one area. These are the pictures of most of the wall.
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August 18, 2007 04:36 PM EDT --
bare walls...
of our parting words
only the echo
More of my haiku/tanka can be found at whitecherryblossoms.blogspot.com
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June 19, 2007 03:23 AM EDT --
There are few memoirs that can compare with The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The story begins as Walls is on her way to a party in New York City, traveling by taxi down from her Park Avenue apartment. . . .
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June 06, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
If “the wheel” is considered the number one invention that we inherited from the earth’s primitive years, then perhaps, “the wall” should be number two.
In nine tenth’s . . .
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February 07, 2008 06:42 PM EST --
Separated by miles, and yet so close. Separated by mountains, and yet so near. Trapped by ideas and ideals, was left to find my own place in this crazy, crazy world. Separated by society, by their thoughts . . .
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April 29, 2008 11:35 AM EDT --
'What troubles you?' She asked.
'Nothing, what makes you think I'm troubled. I'm fine, absolutely fine.'
'It's written all over your face.'
'Really, . . .
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October 31, 2008 01:37 PM EDT --
About three hours later the self-inflicted tortures, with which he did torment his own brain lost their grasp over him. She was back in his cell. He heard her melodious voice in the corridor, . . .
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