Tag: youth
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January 05, 2008 07:01 AM EST --
Today's Boston Globe reports that the number of voters under 30 participating in the Iowa caucuses tripled since the 2004 election. The article further suggests that young voter participation . . . more
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November 19, 2006 02:18 AM EST --
tresses down my back
meets furtive desire
and secret, fecund
webby spider parts,
thick like clotted cream;
I'd invite you in
for a warm soak,
but old parched earth
has slapped across my face
a glass, . . . more
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July 05, 2007 10:07 PM EDT --
Today I picked up a couple of my teen-aged sisters and took them down to a nice big sprawling lake in the west metro where lots and lots of those mini yachts compete for water and attention.
They have . . . more
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April 19, 2008 02:56 PM EDT --
The embers of youth had drawn their last breath
As transitions started bereft of rest
Confusion seemed to have so many doors
As I made my way down long corridors
Narrow narrow the walls . . . more
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May 26, 2008 10:00 AM EDT --
I used to do it when I was young,
Though I don't do it any more.
I did it in my room all alone
At night after I locked my door.
I could have done it in the day,
But I . . . more
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September 10, 2007 01:56 PM EDT --
I recently celebrated my 34th birthday. It really is a pretty innocuous age but I am still amazed at how fast time is going. Some days I feel incredibly old and others I am in utter denial that I am anywhere . . . more
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July 24, 2008 07:56 AM EDT --
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth.
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May 05, 2008 11:59 AM EDT --
I was 19, way tooooooooooooooooooo young. It lasted 6 years, and was hell. Now I am re married for 30 years to a wonderful man.
How about you? How old were you? Are you still married . . . more
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March 21, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
I was very fortunate to receive a copy of "Diamonds in the Rough - The Youth of America" from the author, Nash Hasan . I first saw some of his poetry published on Gather. I was . . . more
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April 12, 2007 07:53 AM EDT --
Being able to go straight to work after a night of drinking and dancing at my favorite club with only an hour's sleep under my belt, boy was that an experience. I'd be lucky to have a couple . . . more
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June 20, 2007 05:59 AM EDT --
Pardon my absence but I just got out of yet another psych ward. Due to lack of space I was forced to spend two days in the geriatric ward. That's where I met this young girl.....
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August 20, 2007 04:21 AM EDT --
The style and tang of refraction
Form elusive gifts we can share
In perceptive built illusion
Of improvisational air
That is stammering for relief
Like a question seeking belief
In quixotic . . . more
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September 22, 2007 11:42 AM EDT --
There are so many but I know a 17 year old that is a worm.
There was a beautiful young man I taught that was deeply in love with a girl. I knew the girl was no good, but you couldn't tell . . . more
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October 17, 2007 10:55 PM EDT --
Garage Band Confessions
When I learn to play guitar,
(and when I have a garage)
I will form a band
and call it Cup of Spiders.
Or Allusion to the Pubis. Or--
Fat Kids Don't Dance;
or the Mute Inglorious . . . more
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December 18, 2007 12:14 AM EST --
This is another poem I wrote shortly after my friend Troy died.
In Memory
Out at Turkey Ridge
the gang all got together
drinking beer and listening to tunes
in that hot, humid weather
We were . . . more
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January 20, 2008 03:55 PM EST --
I was 19 and you, 21: full of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Apollonaire at Montagne's Bistro drinking Slibovice, we imagined we were Revolutionaries side by side with Papa and Gertrude, ignoring the obvious . . . more
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July 19, 2008 01:11 PM EDT --
Did they think they were Adam and Eve gallavanting in Eden? She gloated after chucking their . . . more
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August 14, 2008 06:02 PM EDT --
I was walking through the mall with my arms full. I dropped something, and suddenly, a little boy came to my aid and picked it up for me. Another young man,about seventeen, took my packages . . . more
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September 02, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
As I was cleaning off the table down here in the basement I ran across Heathers scrapbook she was making when she went to the Lutheran Youth convention in San Antonio, Texas the summer of 2006.
Since . . . more
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January 28, 2008 10:16 AM EST --
Glisten my younger dew drops as cold winds whistle
And North winds shudder a reminder for each dream
That experience will foster as you compose
Each bending stream with staunch . . . more
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