Tag: random
group name: writing
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October 12, 2007 08:27 AM EDT --
Welcome to Friday Writing Essentials ....
My very first article here got overwritten by my next one...
Doris Lessing had just won the Nobel Prize, and Auden's poem on the death of Yeats . . . more
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May 12, 2008 12:30 PM EDT --
Once upon a time, my social life didn't involve kids or birthday parties.
But now it does.
The journey of my youngest daughter's seventh birthday culminated this weekend.
I call . . . more
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September 01, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
I don’t know about you, but my hotmail is full of unread e-mails, ditto on my Yahoo, my gather box is also full of requests to read others stories, and my eyes are blurring because I have read the . . . more
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July 08, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
I forgot to link y'all to this: How To Write a Sestina
Try it, you'll be glad you did.
No one
Can write a poem using two
Hands, a sheet of . . . more
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June 13, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
There is a weeping willow tree
outside my bedroom window.
I look at it in the early morning ---
there are dew drops dangling from its graceful tendrils.
They dazzle in the new day's light . . . more
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August 26, 2007 06:43 AM EDT --
“No man is an island”
A wise maxim asserts
In this ocean of earthly ties
I’m an archipelago of many isles
On isle of friendships
Confidants know me well
Supportive, . . . more
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July 15, 2007 11:51 PM EDT --
I take a walk on the street
Come across dirt
lying everywhere,
on both sides of me.
Mother nature does its part,
but we who come from her,
who have been given life from her,
practice carelessness . . . more
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May 14, 2008 05:26 PM EDT --
"Now what I want is facts." rasped the supervisor. Sweat beaded, running coldly down his spine. The guards quieted, leaving their fear to lay heavy in the fluorescent hum of the . . . more
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June 18, 2008 05:14 PM EDT --
I couldn't sleep last night so I let my mind wonder. When I finally harnessed my thoughts, this is what I had come up with. I'm not sure where the idea came from, but while I . . . more
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September 15, 2007 12:04 PM EDT --
My childhood was filled with traumatic food experiences. At an early age, I was held hostage by the ongoing gefilte fish battle between my two grandmothers.
Several . . . more
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June 11, 2008 07:42 PM EDT --
(for Kathryn's Wednesday Writing Essentials
and the Montreal image prompt)
mansard roof
wrought iron lace
emerald tree
lavender trace
yellow paint
brick facade
red/orange doors . . . more
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February 21, 2008 10:22 AM EST --
A publishing goal, am I supposed to have one of those? I feel foolish thinking about it. I love to put my thoughts down on virtual paper, but it hadn't occurred to me that . . . more
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July 14, 2007 06:35 AM EDT --
Small town,
too many people.
Voices screaming in my ear.
What attracts me here is you my dear,
sunrise,
sunset,
the moody clouds
and the change of colours.
Sunlight highlights . . . more
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September 22, 2007 02:36 PM EDT --
I awoke groggy from the wine and Brie, late on an azure Monday, feeling like I had just missed a parade. Checking for the brown and gray cliff from my bedside window, I was relieved to see it loom . . . more
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June 15, 2008 07:57 AM EDT --
Landscape groomers, gardeners, groundskeepers or whatever you want to call the people that take care of lawns and gardens are considered more of a necessity rather than a luxury in the area . . . more
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September 22, 2007 07:29 PM EDT --
The sun shines alike on grasper and dreamer,
whenever clouds and their rain are working
elsewhere. The sun smites, it burns, it calls deep
into the skin, incites rebellion
whenever . . . more
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September 09, 2007 09:48 PM EDT --
SHOE HALL OF FAME
If a shoe hall of fame were ever established, this would be my first nominee.
Timberland Dark Brown Pull Up 3-Eyelet Oxford
Purchased Fall 1991, shoe store on Wisconsin Avenue . . . more
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July 04, 2007 06:52 PM EDT --
The only part of Aunt Dana that moves rapidly are her eyelids; they flutter when she's thinking. Behind them, framed in a face that is a map of wrinkles, her wide eyes are bright and defiant. People . . . more
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August 19, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
Haven't done anything stupid for love lately.
Lost that touch or dropped the facade.
No more tangled breath or startled heart.
Gone to their futures without me,
Lovers . . . more
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April 14, 2006 07:35 PM EDT --
The wallpaper was entertaining. Jack could just as happily have gone and looked at the pattern on the china, or gone out back in the dark and rummaged through the pebbles on the ground. But he was where . . . more
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