Tag: written word
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March 18, 2007 11:24 PM EDT --
I have no idea what the point of this article is, and I wrote it. You have been warned.
Within my first two weeks on Gather, when I could count the number of my connections on one hand, one of them abruptly . . .
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December 28, 2007 04:34 PM EST --
AND THEY CALL YOU A WRITER?
I am, of course, a writer. As anybody else who happens to convey their thoughts to the written word. Okay, there are excellent conveyors, not-so-great ones; fat ones, skinny . . .
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December 22, 2007 10:08 AM EST --
Fruitcake is not something I would normally think about, and probably not something I would normally buy. One Christmas I made the mistake of defending the beleaguered fruitcake . . .
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November 26, 2008 11:31 AM EST --
I am not a praying man.
A thoughtful life should be the prayer.
Transgressor: I have sinned, and grown
with the world around me;
a myriad of turnings from lie to light,
the burdens . . .
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October 01, 2007 04:11 PM EDT --
Awhile back I started a group for poetry lovers who enjoy reading it aloud as well as listening to it read. The name of my group is Video Poetry Jam. This group is for those who would like . . .
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August 25, 2008 05:35 PM EDT --
Things are always falling.
Slipping from the finite
into the void.
And back again,
stopping cold, and not, at one point or another
balanced along a particular . . .
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October 10, 2008 02:49 PM EDT --
She said I am blue
Almost no one heard her
They went on with their lives
Talking to and fro
amongst themselves
She had become invisible
The few who noticed her sadness
asked what is wrong . . .
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November 03, 2008 05:01 PM EST --
A reader pointed out this 'new writers' program from MacMillan publishing in the replies to one of my blogs. Since there are so many budding writers here, I thought I'd share a unique opportunity. . . .
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February 10, 2007 01:23 AM EST --
Search Deep
Be the observer
of thy own life discover
truth, peace, love, hope forever.
The Dragonfly
The Dragonfly flies
Stopping to investigate
Curious humans.
All Eyes
They all watch . . .
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February 14, 2007 03:40 PM EST --
Down from the North, across the Ridges,
The wind blows so harsh and cold.
There is a breath of warmth, a mere whisper,
That Winter is losing its hold.
That dead season's . . .
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January 28, 2008 10:18 PM EST --
She will cut glass tonight.
She will wait until the dogs are walked and fed
and I settle in to cringe, thank god,
at the president's last
State-of-the-Union. . . .
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December 11, 2007 10:38 PM EST --
inspired by Ed Nudelman's abc poems.
ambivalence
blooms
crystalline
daily
even
faith
goes
hungry
i just
know
love must
never
over promise. . . .
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January 19, 2008 11:48 AM EST --
Hard under the shovel
sealed up in the now,
where history ends and illimitable began
far and away from lessons long past,
depleted of clarity, calamity,
and . . .
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September 06, 2007 11:31 PM EDT --
All my words but
tetrodotoxins, souring in the sun,
just ill timed ardor, fugu, rustling through leaves
of words unwashed.
How many poets must die
to learn poems should boil three times . . .
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January 14, 2008 08:12 PM EST --
Mind to mind
The door is closed. Behind it are
the congregation of the saints
and as the silence churns, . . .
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November 20, 2008 01:45 PM EST --
In from the cold
at the first winter's blush
joeys
are pounding
down walls in the attic.
Only hours away from a marsupial dawn,
kangaroos . . .
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November 20, 2008 12:49 PM EST --
I am having a major problem getting ANY writing done this month. I don't know what my problem is. I need to write to make money, but have no desire to write, not even about things that are so simple . . .
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March 13, 2007 05:00 PM EDT --
<i>In the Shadow of the Blue Ridge</i>
The trees lift naked branches
to the faded blue of the endless sky.
The wind whips up long-dead leaves
and sends them swishing, swirling by.
A flock . . .
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February 02, 2006 04:48 PM EST --
Moderate and liberal Christians, Unite! Reclaim Jesus from the evangelical Christian right.
At www.ReclaimJesus.net we have begun a new game called "Re-opening the Canon." The rules . . .
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April 28, 2007 02:39 AM EDT --
Too polite for love...
By, M. Vida
Love is a big gangly kid
who falls down a lot
and knocks into everything until
one day it knocks over a glass of
red wine onto the white carpet.
Eventually it becomes . . .
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