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When I was little my mother put me in several ballet classes in hopes to bring some grace to my stumbling gait. I grew up walking on eggshells, wobbling to keep my balance on a tightrope that never really ended.  My instructor pinched my thighs and shook her bony finger at me every tuesday and thursday for three and a half years. 4 am, I'm still tiptoeing around the creaks in the stairs as if anyone would notice an empty bed.  This Christmas I came across the broken reminents of the ballerina ornaments my younger sister used to play with. I never did master the delicate posture I was expected to adopt. My feet fell a bit too heavy, I suppose, on the ice tonight. I'm not cold anymore, just exhausted from attempting to balance the wrong things for too long. My life is flashing before my eyes, but all I see is a younger version of myself practicing Grand Battements on thin ice while everyone slept.
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Dec 21, 2014
Dec 21, 2014 at 3:18 PM UTC
Ballerina
She is equipped with sensitive ******* and those other secret places that ladies give out as prizes to deserving guys as long as they adopt the right disguises of gods, gurus, intellectual giants, goats, children, father figures, macho brutes, sugar-daddies, supermen, seminal vessels, house-repairers, jar openers, jocks, hate objects, handy shoulders to cry on, emotional support systems, sensitive, intuitive, yet strong silent types who can also pay the bills, tall dark and handsome total strangers, toy boys, clowns, jugglers, jokers, millionaires, wood choppers, ******* removers, bottomless reservoirs of reassurance or just plain spunky studs when the moon is right. In fact, anything but woffly wimps. Oh God, no.  Anything but woffly wimps. Yes, but what about stoic, steadfast SNAGS, you know, the Sensitive New Age Guys who won’t face-shift for a **** Yes, well, let's try to sum all this up here right now. I think that the woman is dripping with a brimming reservoir of luscious and sensitive resources on tap for   the man who can figure out her cosmic kaleidoscope   of swirling dreams and desires, which is definitely not to say she can’t be totally independent. Although please don't be confused. Friendly boy-next-door types who are handsome, aren't too hairy, who like to laugh, who have a boyish braggadocio, who are students, who appear to be intellectuals, who are not nerds, and who can **** it in the kitchen, who  can be oh, so cool, who can convince a maiden that she is in distress, and is in need of rescuing, while he has a swaggering hard-on will do, too. Oooh. You devil. And if you think this poem is misogynist, misanthropic or myopic, well, I’ve been around and by now, well, I really should be panoptic because I’ve seen all the fads, and really, it’s sadly too bad about those poor old earnest SNAGS. But you know what? I don't think I understand anything, because I'm really a victim of worshiping women. I'm bedazzled and as blind as the next man, and yes, I'm just happy whenever I'm with them.
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 8:28 PM UTC
The Woman
She is equipped with sensitive ******* and those other secret places that ladies give out as prizes to deserving guys as long as they adopt the right disguises of gods, gurus, intellectual giants, goats, children, father figures, macho brutes, sugar-daddies, supermen, seminal vessels, house-repairers, jar openers, jocks, hate objects, handy shoulders to cry on, emotional support systems, sensitive, intuitive, yet strong silent types who can also pay the bills, tall dark and handsome total strangers, toy boys, clowns, jugglers, jokers, millionaires, wood choppers, ******* removers, bottomless reservoirs of reassurance or just plain spunky studs when the moon is right. In fact, anything but woffly wimps. Oh God, no.  Anything but woffly wimps. Yes, but what about stoic, steadfast SNAGS, you know, the Sensitive New Age Guys who won’t face-shift for a **** Yes, well, let's try to sum all this up here right now. I think that the woman is dripping with a brimming reservoir of luscious and sensitive resources on tap for   the man who can figure out her cosmic kaleidoscope   of swirling dreams and desires, which is definitely not to say she can’t be totally independent. Although please don't be confused. Friendly boy-next-door types who are handsome, aren't too hairy, who like to laugh, who have a boyish braggadocio, who are students, who appear to be intellectuals, who are not nerds, and who can **** it in the kitchen, who  can be oh, so cool, who can convince a maiden that she is in distress, and is in need of rescuing, while he has a swaggering hard-on will do, too. Oooh. You devil. And if you think this poem is misogynist, misanthropic or myopic, well, I’ve been around and by now, well, I really should be panoptic because I’ve seen all the fads, and really, it’s sadly too bad about those poor old earnest SNAGS. But you know what? I don't think I understand anything, because I'm really a victim of worshiping women. I'm bedazzled and as blind as the next man, and yes, I'm just happy whenever I'm with them.
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Be kind to yourself. You have come so far. Each emotion you feel tattooed to your skin the seasons wash away like chalk. Be kind to yourself. You are braver than you thought. No longer scared of what lies beneath your bed but what awaits when you wake up. Be kind to yourself. You are worthy of love. Only you give permission for forked tongues to leave passing words as lasting scars. Only you can adopt old failures and stack them as obstacles upon each new path. You cannot dictate what will be only – who you are. Be kind to yourself. You are doing enough. You cannot always be switched on. Sometimes you have to lay down and breathe – it is not greed. If you are always exhausted you cannot help anybody. Be kind to yourself. You did not grow from a single cell born from a dying star in order to feel so small. You did not close the door on friends when you expected more from them. Why beat yourself up for who you were before? Be kind to yourself. A faltering dancer who gets up again and again draws the loudest applause at the curtain call. A person who spent half their life at war with themselves knows the value of peace, the feat of getting out the house; the measure of good mental health. Be kind to yourself. You have come so far. They say ten thousand hours is the time it takes to master an art. You spent so much longer than that learning the patterns of your heart. You can pull at those common threads that keep you together even when you are falling apart. Be kind to yourself. You are stronger than you thought. Like Leonard says, “there’s a crack of light in everything. “ You do not have to be perfect. You do not have to live in the dark. Be kind to yourself. Make sure you get to the end. Do not worry how you stumbled at the start.
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Apr 18, 2017
Apr 18, 2017 at 4:14 PM UTC
Be Kind To Yourself
Be kind to yourself. You have come so far. Each emotion you feel tattooed to your skin the seasons wash away like chalk. Be kind to yourself. You are braver than you thought. No longer scared of what lies beneath your bed but what awaits when you wake up. Be kind to yourself. You are worthy of love. Only you give permission for forked tongues to leave passing words as lasting scars. Only you can adopt old failures and stack them as obstacles upon each new path. You cannot dictate what will be only – who you are. Be kind to yourself. You are doing enough. You cannot always be switched on. Sometimes you have to lay down and breathe – it is not greed. If you are always exhausted you cannot help anybody. Be kind to yourself. You did not grow from a single cell born from a dying star in order to feel so small. You did not close the door on friends when you expected more from them. Why beat yourself up for who you were before? Be kind to yourself. A faltering dancer who gets up again and again draws the loudest applause at the curtain call. A person who spent half their life at war with themselves knows the value of peace, the feat of getting out the house; the measure of good mental health. Be kind to yourself. You have come so far. They say ten thousand hours is the time it takes to master an art. You spent so much longer than that learning the patterns of your heart. You can pull at those common threads that keep you together even when you are falling apart. Be kind to yourself. You are stronger than you thought. Like Leonard says, “there’s a crack of light in everything. “ You do not have to be perfect. You do not have to live in the dark. Be kind to yourself. Make sure you get to the end. Do not worry how you stumbled at the start.
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I. The Mermaid I am six years old, and I am obsessed with Ariel from The Little Mermaid-- she is, by far, my favourite Disney Princess. I want to be exactly like her-- hair billowing in red swirls around a heart-shaped face and eyes so blue they put the very ocean to shame (my sister has blue eyes too, you know, and, to this day, I still envy her, for her eyes are the loveliest characteristic of her Beauty-- and believe me, there are many); purple clam shells vibrant against porcelain-doll skin and fully blossomed ******* (in three years from now, I will begin to grow ***** elementary-school style, over-ripe. B Cups going on C cups fated to become D Cups, plum-sized in comparison to the budding mosquito bites of my fellow classmates. Barely a child, womanhood threatens to sexualize my girlish body before I truly know what sexualization is); fins cutting through the water gracefully in all their green, iridescent glory (little did I know that, as I grew older, "cutting" would adopt a far more sinister meaning in the context of my life). But, despite my admiration for Ariel, I fail to understand her desire to abandon her under-sea rendezvous, sunken treasures, oceanic melodies to "be where the people are." This lack of approval I foster exists due to the fact that I am a firm believer of the magic the aquatic realm (and Disney) has to offer. To this day, I continue to maintain my stance-- that Ariel had been terribly wrong in the choices she made-- but I have become cognizant of different (and better) reasons to argue my position; after all, and as a cartoon crab had so wisely declared once, "The human world-- it's a mess."
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 10:29 PM UTC
I, Ophelia (Part One--The Mermaid)
I. The Mermaid I am six years old, and I am obsessed with Ariel from The Little Mermaid-- she is, by far, my favourite Disney Princess. I want to be exactly like her-- hair billowing in red swirls around a heart-shaped face and eyes so blue they put the very ocean to shame (my sister has blue eyes too, you know, and, to this day, I still envy her, for her eyes are the loveliest characteristic of her Beauty-- and believe me, there are many); purple clam shells vibrant against porcelain-doll skin and fully blossomed ******* (in three years from now, I will begin to grow ***** elementary-school style, over-ripe. B Cups going on C cups fated to become D Cups, plum-sized in comparison to the budding mosquito bites of my fellow classmates. Barely a child, womanhood threatens to sexualize my girlish body before I truly know what sexualization is); fins cutting through the water gracefully in all their green, iridescent glory (little did I know that, as I grew older, "cutting" would adopt a far more sinister meaning in the context of my life). But, despite my admiration for Ariel, I fail to understand her desire to abandon her under-sea rendezvous, sunken treasures, oceanic melodies to "be where the people are." This lack of approval I foster exists due to the fact that I am a firm believer of the magic the aquatic realm (and Disney) has to offer. To this day, I continue to maintain my stance-- that Ariel had been terribly wrong in the choices she made-- but I have become cognizant of different (and better) reasons to argue my position; after all, and as a cartoon crab had so wisely declared once, "The human world-- it's a mess."
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He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide, He was just a wand'ring mongrel from the weary world outside; He was not aristocratic, being mostly ribs and hair, With a hint of spaniel parents and a touch of native bear He was very poor and humble and content with what he got, So we fed him bones and biscuits, till he heartened up a lot; Then he growled and grew aggressive, treating orders with disdain, Till at last he bit the butcher, which would argue want of brain. Now the butcher, noble fellow, was a sport beyond belief, And instead of bringing actions he brought half a shin of beef, Which he handed on to Fido, who received it as a right And removed it to the garden, where he buried it at night. 'Twas the means of his undoing, for my wife, who'd stood his friend, To adopt a slang expression, "went in off the deepest end", For among the pinks and pansies, the gloxinias and the gorse He had made an excavation like a graveyard for a horse. Then we held a consultation which decided on his fate: 'Twas in anger more than sorrow that we led him to the gate, And we handed him the beef-bone as provision for the day, Then we opened wide the portal and we told him, "On your way."
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A Dog's Mistake [In Doggerel Verse]
Hi, below I copy a humorous hiabun, which I shared as an exercise to mentor enquiring and inspired poets to learn, so they might adopt and try different techniques and then give critique together with awesome comments... Yes, I used the words *** ****** and **** for context the rest was left to an individual imagination as in good poetry! It included reflective commentary encompasses innocent classification terminology used in the critique, reading, examining, appreciating, understanding and writing of poetry for example: POETIC DEVICES (enjambement, duality, keriji, images, collocation, semantic, oxymoron, repetition, listing etc.), STORY (personification, characterisation, subject, context, voice etc.), IMAGERY (synaesthesia), STRUCTURE ( lineation, breaks, syntactic etc.), SOUNDS (syllables, rhyme, alliteration, pace, musicality, phrasing, beat, assonance, onomatopoeia, mouthed rhythms, patterned) and WORDS (preposition, determiner, verbs, adverbs, lexical, nouns, adjectives) used by poets, critics and academics... And here it is : **** tongue-in-cheek haibun - a reflective commentary on writing a popular tanka Eye lashes flicker a shared urgent interest parting - dancing smile My first inspiration was *** passionate life squeezing screaming *** the thumping wall musicality of *** exhaustingly inventive sweaty and wet. I wanted to make it a senryu but for duality the female characterisation demanded two more lines each extending to seven syllables.   Arousing images captured her moaning splashing loneliness in unusual collocation. I was first excited by the placement of a hovering extended enjambement to give life to my final line, whilst also considering the satisfaction in using noisy mouthed rhythms.   I believe I easily hid the wet aroused context with a watery semantic field, that suggested she would choke and drown. So in my last line I had ‘pleasures’ as a cutting keriji to make clear the dominating ****** context, having previously used a preposition and determiner to maintain duality! Exhausted shivers in windowed naked currents unfolding sinking then surfing vital wavelets drowning screams - pleasures wet bite **
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May 2, 2010
May 2, 2010 at 7:10 PM UTC
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE v SOMETHING WORSE
Hi, below I copy a humorous hiabun, which I shared as an exercise to mentor enquiring and inspired poets to learn, so they might adopt and try different techniques and then give critique together with awesome comments... Yes, I used the words *** ****** and **** for context the rest was left to an individual imagination as in good poetry! It included reflective commentary encompasses innocent classification terminology used in the critique, reading, examining, appreciating, understanding and writing of poetry for example: POETIC DEVICES (enjambement, duality, keriji, images, collocation, semantic, oxymoron, repetition, listing etc.), STORY (personification, characterisation, subject, context, voice etc.), IMAGERY (synaesthesia), STRUCTURE ( lineation, breaks, syntactic etc.), SOUNDS (syllables, rhyme, alliteration, pace, musicality, phrasing, beat, assonance, onomatopoeia, mouthed rhythms, patterned) and WORDS (preposition, determiner, verbs, adverbs, lexical, nouns, adjectives) used by poets, critics and academics... And here it is : **** tongue-in-cheek haibun - a reflective commentary on writing a popular tanka Eye lashes flicker a shared urgent interest parting - dancing smile My first inspiration was *** passionate life squeezing screaming *** the thumping wall musicality of *** exhaustingly inventive sweaty and wet. I wanted to make it a senryu but for duality the female characterisation demanded two more lines each extending to seven syllables.   Arousing images captured her moaning splashing loneliness in unusual collocation. I was first excited by the placement of a hovering extended enjambement to give life to my final line, whilst also considering the satisfaction in using noisy mouthed rhythms.   I believe I easily hid the wet aroused context with a watery semantic field, that suggested she would choke and drown. So in my last line I had ‘pleasures’ as a cutting keriji to make clear the dominating ****** context, having previously used a preposition and determiner to maintain duality! Exhausted shivers in windowed naked currents unfolding sinking then surfing vital wavelets drowning screams - pleasures wet bite **
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Every place I turn I can't unsee the horrors I've known I can't say I have had it the worst Not by a long shot But it hasn't been butterflies No three year old wants to see Random men in their house with Their mama when their daddy's not home And no six year old should have to see Parents so enraged And divorcing Nor should their best friend's parents Feel a need to adopt them Even temporarily No seven year old should Feel they need to be twenty-seven And like they aren't allowed to cry No ten year old should be forced To choose which parent they like best Under any circumstances No twelve year old should feel Any desire to harm themselves And watch blood swell on their arms No fourteen year old should think they're Wrong because they believed in love Nor should they feel jaded No fifteen year old should contemplate suicide At all Especially not so thought out With a grand scheme and everything Just two months before their sweet sixteen No sixteen year old should feel betrayed And forgotten Or unworthy of any kind of love Every step I take I am reminded That life is a widening gyre Mr. Yeats, you were right But I can't accept that to be The only plausible possibility Which leads me to believe That with every step I take Though my heart is torn to bits By this minefield called life I get a little bit Stronger
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Jul 18, 2016
Jul 18, 2016 at 1:48 AM UTC
A Little Bit Stronger
Light the Endearing Youth she introduce Of Trouble Death's Warrant I cannot spell Meet me this haply; Your Mind I deduce Transform a Stranger to a Friend so well I know you Love him. In Degree of Soul That a Year's Promotion is not enough The Author advices his Name; In Truth So merry comfort your Will to adopt See? Now he prepares for his Loved Event Inspired by the Contract for his Dad If I were you, wear those Sprint-Shoes you spent And chase the Best Moment you ever had. Once it's done, come set your feet by this stool And let me rub-in some Herbs to be cool.
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 5:06 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE: CLAIRE HART
Walk onto a stage called life and take a look around. There's much to be found in such a small space, more to give and much to take as the curtains called and you're pulled into this performance. Stare into the audience and pray for applause but what if you're met with silence? Spotlight on you as your hopes are ejected and you my friend have just been rejected and that is a hard thing to take. So take a seat, a rejection seat. Front row to your failures as they come In-ter-view. Call it the Dragons Den the Lions Pit and yet they ask me what kind of animal i'll be as i sit and daydream about Spiderman in a suit listing qualities of make believe as he's forced to fill in a CV just like me; not that i'm a superhero, i'm just saving face you see, it's just an amusing thought to ease the anxiety. And the voluntears they come in turn. Call em that cause they come momentarily to remind me involuntarily that sometimes i do need help and not all things are easy, not all things are meant to be. So i take a seat, will you take one with me? As you watch that relationship sail and wonder how did it fail? Bon voyAge is irrelevant. Whether it be school crush folly to divorcee it's a learning curve right? Hard when it seems the only thing you taught me is what it means to feel lonely. It's cold in that place called the one way street, so take a seat. Pull up a chair to something that's no longer there and share in despair as you stare at your feet. But you will raise your head eventually. Adopt the thinkers pose, indulge in some feelosophy. Cause a friend once said to me that rejection is a time for reflection and i tend to agree. So tell me, as i stare into the face of rejection why is it that i see my own reflection? Am i cursed to take this personally? It's always the shoulda, woulda, couldas that get to me. Do they get to you? If so take a seat. And are you sitting uncomfortably? Cause you shouldn't be. Take comfort as you stare along row upon row of chairs that stretch along beyond you and me. Side to side, across from and diagonally. Filling the Feartre. There's many to be found in such a small space, more that give and much that take and though this may be the closing scene there's another show tomorrow and you and I will receive our standing ovation, just take my hand and stand with me. Cause this seat was only ever meant to be temporary.
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Nov 10, 2014
Nov 10, 2014 at 1:57 PM UTC
Rejection Seat
Walk onto a stage called life and take a look around. There's much to be found in such a small space, more to give and much to take as the curtains called and you're pulled into this performance. Stare into the audience and pray for applause but what if you're met with silence? Spotlight on you as your hopes are ejected and you my friend have just been rejected and that is a hard thing to take. So take a seat, a rejection seat. Front row to your failures as they come In-ter-view. Call it the Dragons Den the Lions Pit and yet they ask me what kind of animal i'll be as i sit and daydream about Spiderman in a suit listing qualities of make believe as he's forced to fill in a CV just like me; not that i'm a superhero, i'm just saving face you see, it's just an amusing thought to ease the anxiety. And the voluntears they come in turn. Call em that cause they come momentarily to remind me involuntarily that sometimes i do need help and not all things are easy, not all things are meant to be. So i take a seat, will you take one with me? As you watch that relationship sail and wonder how did it fail? Bon voyAge is irrelevant. Whether it be school crush folly to divorcee it's a learning curve right? Hard when it seems the only thing you taught me is what it means to feel lonely. It's cold in that place called the one way street, so take a seat. Pull up a chair to something that's no longer there and share in despair as you stare at your feet. But you will raise your head eventually. Adopt the thinkers pose, indulge in some feelosophy. Cause a friend once said to me that rejection is a time for reflection and i tend to agree. So tell me, as i stare into the face of rejection why is it that i see my own reflection? Am i cursed to take this personally? It's always the shoulda, woulda, couldas that get to me. Do they get to you? If so take a seat. And are you sitting uncomfortably? Cause you shouldn't be. Take comfort as you stare along row upon row of chairs that stretch along beyond you and me. Side to side, across from and diagonally. Filling the Feartre. There's many to be found in such a small space, more that give and much that take and though this may be the closing scene there's another show tomorrow and you and I will receive our standing ovation, just take my hand and stand with me. Cause this seat was only ever meant to be temporary.
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To my Mom and Grandma, whom I love so dear, It’s time to celebrate you on this great day of the year. To have you both in my life, I truly am so blessed, Some moms and grandmas might be great, but mine are actually the best. … There’s a reason why all our friends call my mother a saint, She’ll take care of us through good times or bad with never a complaint. Her sense of empathy astounds me, it’s a very special gift, She’s always there to show support and give our spirits a lift. She doesn’t take things for granted and shows amazing gratitude, We all wish we had the ability to adopt her attitude. Our road trips and vacations are memories I’ll always keep, I still dream about them sometimes when I go to sleep. … Another blessing we all count is my amazing grandmother, Her strength and good nature help bring us closer to each other. She points us in a wholesome direction and gives us all her prayers, So that when we get to Heaven we’ll have a row of reserved chairs. I love going to visit grandma because she’ll take good care of me, She’ll cook her delicious pasta and meatballs because that’s her specialty. We’ll have a good laugh while we both sit and chat, And she’ll always remind me if I’m ever being a brat. … There’s a good reason why Mother’s Day is a day for celebration, Because my mother and my grandmother are a winning combination. They really are two special gifts from the Big Man up above, And from the bottom of my heart I can’t thank you enough for showering me with love.
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Jun 15, 2015
Jun 15, 2015 at 3:02 PM UTC
To Mom and Grandma: Thank You
To my Mom and Grandma, whom I love so dear, It’s time to celebrate you on this great day of the year. To have you both in my life, I truly am so blessed, Some moms and grandmas might be great, but mine are actually the best. … There’s a reason why all our friends call my mother a saint, She’ll take care of us through good times or bad with never a complaint. Her sense of empathy astounds me, it’s a very special gift, She’s always there to show support and give our spirits a lift. She doesn’t take things for granted and shows amazing gratitude, We all wish we had the ability to adopt her attitude. Our road trips and vacations are memories I’ll always keep, I still dream about them sometimes when I go to sleep. … Another blessing we all count is my amazing grandmother, Her strength and good nature help bring us closer to each other. She points us in a wholesome direction and gives us all her prayers, So that when we get to Heaven we’ll have a row of reserved chairs. I love going to visit grandma because she’ll take good care of me, She’ll cook her delicious pasta and meatballs because that’s her specialty. We’ll have a good laugh while we both sit and chat, And she’ll always remind me if I’m ever being a brat. … There’s a good reason why Mother’s Day is a day for celebration, Because my mother and my grandmother are a winning combination. They really are two special gifts from the Big Man up above, And from the bottom of my heart I can’t thank you enough for showering me with love.
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Sunday, Jim would walk in the Park. When he was young Mom and Dad would come too, but each Sunday, Jim would walk in the Park. Sometimes on Saturdays or Tuesdays they would go, but Sunday, Jim would walk in the Park. Sometimes through the rain, sometimes through the snow, sometimes through the fog, and especially through the sunshine, each Sunday, Jim would walk in the park. When Jim was 12, his parents allowed Jim to adopt a puppy from the Animal Shelter. Jim named named the Puppy Al. Each Sunday, Jim and Al would walk in the Park Soon after Jim's parents stopped walking in the park because Jim felt he was too old to walk with Mom and Dad . Each Sunday, Jim and Al would walk in the Park and Jim would think about his Mom and Dad and carry them in his heart Jim and Al got older and went off to College in Boston. Each Sunday Jim and Al would walk in the Park. One Sunday Jim met Sara in the Park, from then on each Sunday, Jim, Al, Sara and Sara's dog Charlotte would walk in the Park. Soon Jim and Sara graduated from College and found jobs and each Sunday, Jim Al, Sara, and Charlotte would walk in the Park. Soon Jim and Sara had a baby girl they named Emily, and each Sunday, Jim, Al, Sara, Emily and Charlotte would walk in the Park. But one year as Al got older he was unable to make the walk any more and soon he passed away. But each Sunday, Jim, Sara, Emily and Charlotte would walk in the park and carry the memories of Al and Mom and Dad in their hearts. And soon, Jim and Sara had another child that they named Bob. Each Sunday, Jim, Sara, Emily, Charlotte and of course Bob would walk in the Park And because dogs don't live as long as humans Charlotte too got older and and soon she too passed away. But each Sunday, Jim, Sara, Emily and Bob would walk in the park and carry the memories of Al, Charlotte Mom and Dad with them in their hearts.And the years passed, Emily and Bob got older, but each Sunday, Jim and Sara and sometimes Emily and Bob would walk in the park. Then Emily left and went to College and soon after Bob did too, but each Sunday, Jim and Sara would walk in the park and talk of Bob and Emily and sometimes of Al and Charlotte and Jim's parents and Sara's parents." Then Sara passed, Cancer, inoperable stage four, Still Sunday, Jim would walk in the Park and think about Sara and Bob and Emily and and Al and Charlotte, some Sunday's Jim would get a little tear, other Sunday's a little smile as he remembered the good times and the bad. Copyright 2010 Michael Lee Williams.
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Apr 26, 2011
Apr 26, 2011 at 11:46 AM UTC
Sunday Jim
Sunday, Jim would walk in the Park. When he was young Mom and Dad would come too, but each Sunday, Jim would walk in the Park. Sometimes on Saturdays or Tuesdays they would go, but Sunday, Jim would walk in the Park. Sometimes through the rain, sometimes through the snow, sometimes through the fog, and especially through the sunshine, each Sunday, Jim would walk in the park. When Jim was 12, his parents allowed Jim to adopt a puppy from the Animal Shelter. Jim named named the Puppy Al. Each Sunday, Jim and Al would walk in the Park Soon after Jim's parents stopped walking in the park because Jim felt he was too old to walk with Mom and Dad . Each Sunday, Jim and Al would walk in the Park and Jim would think about his Mom and Dad and carry them in his heart Jim and Al got older and went off to College in Boston. Each Sunday Jim and Al would walk in the Park. One Sunday Jim met Sara in the Park, from then on each Sunday, Jim, Al, Sara and Sara's dog Charlotte would walk in the Park. Soon Jim and Sara graduated from College and found jobs and each Sunday, Jim Al, Sara, and Charlotte would walk in the Park. Soon Jim and Sara had a baby girl they named Emily, and each Sunday, Jim, Al, Sara, Emily and Charlotte would walk in the Park. But one year as Al got older he was unable to make the walk any more and soon he passed away. But each Sunday, Jim, Sara, Emily and Charlotte would walk in the park and carry the memories of Al and Mom and Dad in their hearts. And soon, Jim and Sara had another child that they named Bob. Each Sunday, Jim, Sara, Emily, Charlotte and of course Bob would walk in the Park And because dogs don't live as long as humans Charlotte too got older and and soon she too passed away. But each Sunday, Jim, Sara, Emily and Bob would walk in the park and carry the memories of Al, Charlotte Mom and Dad with them in their hearts.And the years passed, Emily and Bob got older, but each Sunday, Jim and Sara and sometimes Emily and Bob would walk in the park. Then Emily left and went to College and soon after Bob did too, but each Sunday, Jim and Sara would walk in the park and talk of Bob and Emily and sometimes of Al and Charlotte and Jim's parents and Sara's parents." Then Sara passed, Cancer, inoperable stage four, Still Sunday, Jim would walk in the Park and think about Sara and Bob and Emily and and Al and Charlotte, some Sunday's Jim would get a little tear, other Sunday's a little smile as he remembered the good times and the bad. Copyright 2010 Michael Lee Williams.
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He slowly assembles his rifle on the barren rooftop as the      wind blows through his light blond hair. His long overcoat ***** and wraps around his thin long     legs. He places his elbows upon the short wall in front of him,      firmly kneeling on both knees. Glancing into the rifle's sight, he focuses sharply through      its cross hairs; he sees hundreds passing through the sight,      men, women, children, and as he sees it, a maze      of mass hysteria. He thinks of his current desperate situation and with each      passing thought, his heart pumps more hateful      adrenaline through his expanding veins. What am I?....He wonders. "I am the orphan child too ugly to adopt! I am the spit in the street you step in and curse! I am the cockroach so many crush beneath their feet! I wish to love and beloved, for I am ever so lonely,      so empty. I wish to give my whole self to someone to make them      eternally happy! To sacrifice all I possess, including my life, for the one      I love, but I am thoughtlessly branded a stalker! I am the void in all broken hearts. As a child, I only wished to be loved and appreciated, but I was raised the invisible child. There's a painful sore in my throbbing brain, the lethal      virus of society'd disdain. I'm insane!....I'm insane!...Give me peace, God if you exist      Give me peace! He glances once again through the sight's cross hairs, catching sight of a young boy standing alone, mouth wide open     with tears rolling down his cheeks. He pauses.....envisioning himself, his blue eyes cloud      with tears. He pulls back back his loaded rifle placing it against the      short wall, realizing at the moment this wasn't the way to end his      unbearable pain. Reaching into his deep overcoat's pocket, his long fingers      catch grasp of the cool surface of a 9 mm. Pulling it slowly from his pocket, he raises it to his temple, slipping his finger upon its tight trigger he whispers once      again, "God....if you exist, Give me peace."
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Dec 26, 2016
Dec 26, 2016 at 1:25 PM UTC
The Rooftop
He slowly assembles his rifle on the barren rooftop as the      wind blows through his light blond hair. His long overcoat ***** and wraps around his thin long     legs. He places his elbows upon the short wall in front of him,      firmly kneeling on both knees. Glancing into the rifle's sight, he focuses sharply through      its cross hairs; he sees hundreds passing through the sight,      men, women, children, and as he sees it, a maze      of mass hysteria. He thinks of his current desperate situation and with each      passing thought, his heart pumps more hateful      adrenaline through his expanding veins. What am I?....He wonders. "I am the orphan child too ugly to adopt! I am the spit in the street you step in and curse! I am the cockroach so many crush beneath their feet! I wish to love and beloved, for I am ever so lonely,      so empty. I wish to give my whole self to someone to make them      eternally happy! To sacrifice all I possess, including my life, for the one      I love, but I am thoughtlessly branded a stalker! I am the void in all broken hearts. As a child, I only wished to be loved and appreciated, but I was raised the invisible child. There's a painful sore in my throbbing brain, the lethal      virus of society'd disdain. I'm insane!....I'm insane!...Give me peace, God if you exist      Give me peace! He glances once again through the sight's cross hairs, catching sight of a young boy standing alone, mouth wide open     with tears rolling down his cheeks. He pauses.....envisioning himself, his blue eyes cloud      with tears. He pulls back back his loaded rifle placing it against the      short wall, realizing at the moment this wasn't the way to end his      unbearable pain. Reaching into his deep overcoat's pocket, his long fingers      catch grasp of the cool surface of a 9 mm. Pulling it slowly from his pocket, he raises it to his temple, slipping his finger upon its tight trigger he whispers once      again, "God....if you exist, Give me peace."
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Ears pressed cool against glass tables and vinyl flooring words score high drained slowly slow like wasps caught in guttered draining not like velvet names etched in casing, but weathered like bricked and beaten graffiti – Waning like wax always melting Tools: spelling and grammar – uncheck Don’t fret too many gerunds grounding air suffocating hearing between the lines that past lower truths out straight in dirt and stinky face: eyes drawn with pensive staring lines drawn global remains of words unused: boycott form because it isn’t daring. Adopt sonar because it traces the smokestack between eaves drop and scrap metal hearing like thorns prickled cut by cleaver. Clink, clink, clank. Unlatch cellar doors of images fixed in meaning: glances slanted heads poked out behind legs enchanting ink under eyelids. Clank, click, click. Wishing: Sunday morning came to rest and the cat perched rest without the windowsill and the space between my legs lost meaning. Forgetting: Painted houses haunting furniture misplaced, training lessons in memory fading.   Dreaming: Sounds dipped in vegetable oil, Van Morrison in teething states caring. Still lost without my last breathe wondering…
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Mar 2, 2011
Mar 2, 2011 at 1:31 PM UTC
THERAPY IN WRITING
I love you for your laughter your soft hair the morning routines I tried to adopt, that you have down to a science the way you gaze into the abyss with tender expressions the careful footsteps the blushing falseness the pretty lace and ribbons the black eyeliner and studded collars BUT beards and hunting and fishing flannels and strength and handsome fellers truck stops and smoking whiskey and bonfires g i joe and spiderman but most of all batman and joker the complications of comics gaming on friday nights with bottles of bud I love men and boys and women and girls and ladies and gentlemen
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM UTC
To other women
Begging you, Sterling Mentor of the Card Patient and Calm are your Methods in-check May I take this Learner to Living afar Bespoke my Efforts and Services are met For if I noticed this Lack-of-Command Married to sane Verbs I try to absorb Even out of Bounty; Trust be at Hand To remember such Stubbled Skills I bore This is an Artist-on-High. That which speaks With Curried Words much tempting to forget At expense of Duty is no longer meek And my Salt's Wager now easy to forget. Bear me Calm. I can adopt to re-learn The Blue Eagle's shriek which can eat the Worm.
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Mar 8, 2013
Mar 8, 2013 at 12:23 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE: MARYCRIS MEDINA
Make me your emblem Adopt my colours Let them be seen Through actions and verse Make me your flag Fly me high upon the sturdiest masts Watch me billow with purpose Catching the wind that forever lasts Make me your anthem With truth in words that rings so clear Sing me loud and true Sing me always for all to hear Make me your creed Pledge yourself to always uphold My name in thoughts and writes Emblazoned across as your brand in gold Make me your home Your shelter for when the day's done A safe haven to return to With the setting of the sun Or just... Make me someone... Anyone... So at least I know that I exist Make me a simple somebody in your life Not just a name on a forgotten list
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May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 12:58 PM UTC
Somebody
Balance, Is that not what life is? Balance, Between virtues and vices? If you begin to contemplate You'd realize.. You're will not, to compensate. Not when it's your life You'd save, no matter the lie Would you work for a greater good? Or rather, keep warm inside your hood? For the wonderful music to play, For the high life, For a better taste For this, would you be able to tip the scale? For you to succeed For others to fail *IMbalance,* Is that not what life is? Where good for one, Is to adopt your vices
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 12:32 AM UTC
.BALANCE.
Hi [How high is it?] I’m not exactly sure—how tall are you? [I’m about as tall as I’ll ever be—one day soon, I’ll probably start shrinking. I’ve heard that happens when you get older.] Well... [Well, you say? How deep is it?] It’s hard to tell, since I never used it for water. [Deep wells are best—why I still remember the drought of ‘34 and all the trips we made to the neighbor’s well after ours dried up.] I’m sure those were quite the days, but how are you today? [Today? Today I do as I please...so long as I’m pleased to do as I’m suppos’d to.] That sounds like a good strategy. [Thanks. You’re welcome to adopt it—I won’t even charge you for it.] How generous of you. Thanks. You have a good day now, ok? [I hope to, because every day above ground is a good day.]
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Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 3:42 AM UTC
A conversation with Grandpa
It's well even in the land of well.. It's well even in the kingdom of well .. It's all garbage in garbage out all from garbage . Just like the name, the thoughts of many are, like in most.. it's garbage to those in the same vibration but below exceptions makes it seem godly and magnificent. I wish. I understood. things, words, language the fingers scribes some times... Trying to make sense but making nonsense, ha, I get it, sense takes one third of nonsense, twisted for the disabled. It's just too twisted for the disabled but not for the ables. Twisted....... Books.. Twisted.. Poems... Twisted.... Believes. Twisted... Unending.... Twisted scientists making clones.. Twister... Imagination... Twisted.. Flexibility... Twisted.. So they say... Anxious.. So they feel.. Unbearable. So they remain... Twisted it is and twisted it will be.. Cause, it's believed that twisted is for the unbeing.. It's the outwordly. It's the unreal.. Few escapes, the fews that grasp twisted and make it a friend and a guardian.. A partner and a mentor... Hence they sleep with twisted.. Pray with twisted.. Worship twisted.. Eat with twisted.. Eats twisted.. Marry twisted.. Bond twisted And starts delivering twisted babies.. everything rolls down with the understanding of twisted.. Never could end this infinite theorem.. cause the source is twisted and twisted is goodness and goodness is in all but all isn't in goodness... Even fates are twisted.. Cause our fates are being changed in per second not discovered yet but now or soon.. By the Steps taken... Choices made... Thoughts expressed. Thoughts conceived.. Conceived, oh, I remember a line in one of the forgeten books of agony.. Agony in processes. Agony in delivery.. Once again twisted it is. Sense is one third of nonsense.. Wakeup... Days are very slim here and nights are very colossal.. So awaken and prepare, for the rainy days might seem no end. Drought might be handy. Sorrow might be arrowed through the heart. Preparedness toughens and Patience exonerate.. Patience can be twisted with weakness, it's okay, Patience is weakness to the extent that weakness compels strength.... That's the TWIST.. Many fight to distance weakness yet run after strength but never realize that strength is the shadow to weakness. Shoma morita's.. Embrace with.. Accept it.. Adopt it.. But never tolerate it from the weak.. Else excuses will be made from it. Procrastination will be fashioned. And discouragement will be manifested.. Manifestation.. The resulting culmination of things.. Things precipitated by TWISTED... Now Wakeup. It's well even in the land of well.. It's well even in the kingdom of well .. It's all garbage in garbage out all from garbage . Just like the name, the thoughts of many are, like in most.. it's garbage to those in the same vibration but below exceptions makes it seem godly and magnificent. I wish. I understood the things, words, language the fingers scribes some times... Trying to make sense but making nonsense, ha, I get it, sense takes one third of nonsense, twisted for the disabled. It's just too twisted for the disabled but not for the ables. Twisted....... Books.. Twisted.. Poems... Twisted.... Believes. Twisted... Unending.... Twisted scientists making clones.. Twister... Imagination... Twisted.. Flexibility... Twisted.. So they say... Anxious.. So they feel.. Unbearable. So they remain... Twisted it is and twisted it will be.. Cause, it's believed that twisted is for the unbeing.. Is the outwordly. Is the unreal.. Escapes. Few escapes, the fews that grasp twisted and make it a friend and a guardian.. A partner and a mentor... Hence they sleep with twisted.. Pray with twisted.. Worship twisted.. Eat with twisted.. Eats twisted.. Marry twisted.. Bond twisted And starts delivering twisted babies.. everything rolls down with the understanding of twisted.. Never could end this infinite theorem.. cause the source is twisted and twisted is goodness and goodness is in all but all isn't in goodness... Even fates are twisted.. Cause our fates are being changed in per second not discovered yet but now or soon.. By Steps taken... Choices made... Thoughts expressed. Thoughts conceived.. Conceived, oh, I remember a line in one of the forgeten books of agony.. Agony in processes. Agony in delivery.. Once again twisted it is. Sense is one third of nonsense.. Wakeup... Days are very slim here and nights are very colossal.. So awaken and prepare, for the rainy days might seem no end. Drought might be handy. Sorrow might be arrowed through the heart. Preparedness toughens and Patience exonerate.. Patience can be twisted with weakness, it's okay, Patience is weakness to the extent that weakness compels strength.... That's the TWIST.. Many fight to distance weakness yet run after strength but never realize that strength is the shadow to weakness. Shoma morita's.. Embrace with.. Accept it.. Adopt it.. But never tolerate it from the weak.. Else, excuses will be made from it. Procrastination will be fashioned. And discouragement will be manifested.. Manifestation.. The resulting culmination of things.. Things precipitated by TWISTED... Now Wakeup.
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Jul 10, 2023
Jul 10, 2023 at 5:43 PM UTC
Twisted...
It's well even in the land of well.. It's well even in the kingdom of well .. It's all garbage in garbage out all from garbage . Just like the name, the thoughts of many are, like in most.. it's garbage to those in the same vibration but below exceptions makes it seem godly and magnificent. I wish. I understood. things, words, language the fingers scribes some times... Trying to make sense but making nonsense, ha, I get it, sense takes one third of nonsense, twisted for the disabled. It's just too twisted for the disabled but not for the ables. Twisted....... Books.. Twisted.. Poems... Twisted.... Believes. Twisted... Unending.... Twisted scientists making clones.. Twister... Imagination... Twisted.. Flexibility... Twisted.. So they say... Anxious.. So they feel.. Unbearable. So they remain... Twisted it is and twisted it will be.. Cause, it's believed that twisted is for the unbeing.. It's the outwordly. It's the unreal.. Few escapes, the fews that grasp twisted and make it a friend and a guardian.. A partner and a mentor... Hence they sleep with twisted.. Pray with twisted.. Worship twisted.. Eat with twisted.. Eats twisted.. Marry twisted.. Bond twisted And starts delivering twisted babies.. everything rolls down with the understanding of twisted.. Never could end this infinite theorem.. cause the source is twisted and twisted is goodness and goodness is in all but all isn't in goodness... Even fates are twisted.. Cause our fates are being changed in per second not discovered yet but now or soon.. By the Steps taken... Choices made... Thoughts expressed. Thoughts conceived.. Conceived, oh, I remember a line in one of the forgeten books of agony.. Agony in processes. Agony in delivery.. Once again twisted it is. Sense is one third of nonsense.. Wakeup... Days are very slim here and nights are very colossal.. So awaken and prepare, for the rainy days might seem no end. Drought might be handy. Sorrow might be arrowed through the heart. Preparedness toughens and Patience exonerate.. Patience can be twisted with weakness, it's okay, Patience is weakness to the extent that weakness compels strength.... That's the TWIST.. Many fight to distance weakness yet run after strength but never realize that strength is the shadow to weakness. Shoma morita's.. Embrace with.. Accept it.. Adopt it.. But never tolerate it from the weak.. Else excuses will be made from it. Procrastination will be fashioned. And discouragement will be manifested.. Manifestation.. The resulting culmination of things.. Things precipitated by TWISTED... Now Wakeup. It's well even in the land of well.. It's well even in the kingdom of well .. It's all garbage in garbage out all from garbage . Just like the name, the thoughts of many are, like in most.. it's garbage to those in the same vibration but below exceptions makes it seem godly and magnificent. I wish. I understood the things, words, language the fingers scribes some times... Trying to make sense but making nonsense, ha, I get it, sense takes one third of nonsense, twisted for the disabled. It's just too twisted for the disabled but not for the ables. Twisted....... Books.. Twisted.. Poems... Twisted.... Believes. Twisted... Unending.... Twisted scientists making clones.. Twister... Imagination... Twisted.. Flexibility... Twisted.. So they say... Anxious.. So they feel.. Unbearable. So they remain... Twisted it is and twisted it will be.. Cause, it's believed that twisted is for the unbeing.. Is the outwordly. Is the unreal.. Escapes. Few escapes, the fews that grasp twisted and make it a friend and a guardian.. A partner and a mentor... Hence they sleep with twisted.. Pray with twisted.. Worship twisted.. Eat with twisted.. Eats twisted.. Marry twisted.. Bond twisted And starts delivering twisted babies.. everything rolls down with the understanding of twisted.. Never could end this infinite theorem.. cause the source is twisted and twisted is goodness and goodness is in all but all isn't in goodness... Even fates are twisted.. Cause our fates are being changed in per second not discovered yet but now or soon.. By Steps taken... Choices made... Thoughts expressed. Thoughts conceived.. Conceived, oh, I remember a line in one of the forgeten books of agony.. Agony in processes. Agony in delivery.. Once again twisted it is. Sense is one third of nonsense.. Wakeup... Days are very slim here and nights are very colossal.. So awaken and prepare, for the rainy days might seem no end. Drought might be handy. Sorrow might be arrowed through the heart. Preparedness toughens and Patience exonerate.. Patience can be twisted with weakness, it's okay, Patience is weakness to the extent that weakness compels strength.... That's the TWIST.. Many fight to distance weakness yet run after strength but never realize that strength is the shadow to weakness. Shoma morita's.. Embrace with.. Accept it.. Adopt it.. But never tolerate it from the weak.. Else, excuses will be made from it. Procrastination will be fashioned. And discouragement will be manifested.. Manifestation.. The resulting culmination of things.. Things precipitated by TWISTED... Now Wakeup.
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I am lovely, O mortals! Like a dream carved in stone, And my breast where poets are bruised to the bone Formed to inspire each in their quintessence A love as eternal and silent as essence. I unite Ledaean pallor with a frozen heart, I scorn movement for it displaces my art, A riddling sphinx, on a throne in the sky; Never do I laugh and never do I cry. Poets, at the feet of my imperial pose, Which I seem to adopt from statues grandiose, Will consume their lives in studious indulgence; For I have, to enthrall those docile paramours Pure mirrors to enhance all beauties evermore: My eyes, my large, wide eyes of eternal effulgence!
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May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 1:32 PM UTC
Translation: La Beauté (Baudelaire)
If your Philosophy Believes Just on reasons Yet denies harmony If it Isn’t sensible To adopt Winning without fighting If it Does not bridges You to me My apology I’m not interested in
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Oct 17, 2018
Oct 17, 2018 at 7:56 AM UTC
Human Understanding
Amplify my cuteness, Oh! Bidaal Devi, Like a cat, Kitten, Like a cat, Oh! Feline Devi, Amplify my cuteness. I shall adopt some kittens, Oh! My Cat Goddess, Maybe a Tom, Or a Pushy, Maybe a Tom, Oh! My Cat Goddess I shall adopt some kittens. I shall adore my kittens, Oh! Feline Goddess, Bring me a Tom, Or a Pussycat, Bring me a Tom, Oh! Feline Goddess, I shall adore my kittens. I wish that cats adopt me too, For except my parents, I'm alone, After them, I can't imagine my life, That's why I shall adopt some kittens, After them, I can't imagine my life, For except my parents, I'm alone, I wish that cats adopt me too. I offer my heart, Oh! Cat Goddess, Oh!! Shashthi Maia, hear my plea, Without your children, I'm alone, I don't want to end up all alone, Without your children, I'm alone, Oh!! Shashthi Maia, hear my plea, I offer my heart, Oh! Cat Goddess.
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Oct 23, 2024
Oct 23, 2024 at 11:16 PM UTC
A Marriage Proposal Lying In Front Yard
Like a character hoarding advises like jewelry from a story like Fantastic Beasts, what do you think what are the best life advises you have hoarded so far? Sharing some of mine before they get stuck in another schedule in the slaughterhouse inventory: "Wisest is he that knows he does not know" "Just live your life" "Sing in Full Voice, Until Then" "What are you doing here?" "What is your plan?" "Eat first" Do not worry we have better villains and heroes now than long time ago, I told my brother. In turn, he made a song on a ukelele after his little one cried and hid away the broken CD collection of her brother. They called it together, the "Last Supper Constellations". His child said, "If there was a Creator. I would like to think He or She, like you or mama, would be kind. Would not that be swell?" My brother shared with us one advise from his favorite collection, "My friend had a family filled with orphans. Even when they could no longer afford to adopt, they continued to adopt children. I did not understand before, but I also did not forget his story." #
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 10:30 PM UTC
Artificial Scarcity of Advice
O my mind, Worship the lotus feet of the Indestructible One! Whatever thou seest twixt earth and sky Will perish. Why undertake fasts and pilgrimages? Why engage in philosophical discussions? Why commit suicide in Banaras? Take no pride in the body, It will soon be mingling with the dust. This life is like the sporting of sparrows, It will end with the onset of night. Why don the ochre robe And leave Home as a sannyasi? Those who adopt the external garb of a Jogi, But do not penetrate to the secret, Are caught again in the net of rebirth. Mira's Lord is the courtly Giridhara. Deign to sever, O Master. All the knots in her heart.
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O my mind
I Put down your wooden blocks, Miyagi - Smashing stuff against your head and shredding the Yellow Pages Is child's play to me I can split atoms with my teeth! II Hey, long time no see, Miyagi What's that you say? You got caught in the fallout and now you're radioactive Just like me? That's great, buddy, We'll call you the Blue Flash And we can team up Fight the darkness together ...You say you lost all your teeth, and your hair is next..? Hey, Miyagi, that's not funny... That kinda **** doesn't happen in comics Where an accident in a science lab or an experiment with nuclear energy Lands you a seat in the superhero hall of fame And then you adopt a suitably awesome superhero name No, you have to be mistaken Look at me - I didn't die from radiation A steady dose has given me powers Beyond my wildest dreams But for you, it seems more like a bad dream Your white blood cell count drop, drop dropping Your body getting weaker Instead of stronger No, no, this can''t be happening You say you can't go a day Without the nausea and the vomiting You pray for relief, for this Journey into Misery to end Here, Miyagi, my friend - take hold of my hand And I will do my best to defend you In your final stand You and I, old bud, Fighting the darkness together
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Jun 16, 2012
Jun 16, 2012 at 11:19 PM UTC
Radioactive Man