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Did you know that if you don't stretch in the correct way, you might end up thwarting the entire purpose of your workout and suffer unwanted injuries? Doing pre-workout stretches thoroughly will determine whether you are benefiting from your workout or whether it's worsening your muscle tear. Here are the major stretching crimes that you should never commit. Not doing a proper warm-up According to gym instructors worldwide, this is the most commonly committed crimes in any gym. A warm-up is a must before any kind of workout — cardio or weights — and must ideally last at least 12-15 minutes. Assuming that stretching is a warm-up Stretching and warming up is not the same. You need to warm up first, before you are ready to stretch. A slow jog or brisk walking on the treadmill is a good warm-up. Rushing through your stretching exercises Stretching should be for the entire body. You cannot skip any parts. Involve stretches that work your lower back, shoulders, calves, stomach, quads etc. You should not move from one stretch to the other in very quick succession because that may cause untoward injuries. Try to hold each stretch for 20 seconds. When you breathe deeply and hold the stretch, your muscles get trained to tolerate the maximum that your limbs can go to. Giving stretching a skip after a workout You have done an hour of strenuous exercise and now you just want to rush out of the gym; that is a huge mistake. Spend some time bending and stretching after your sweat session. Then, do a cool down before you leave the gym. Not stretching every day You need to be your flexible best always and that can only happen if you stretch daily, even on the days that you aren't gymming. This ensures that your gym days are more fruitful and that you make the most of them. Not breathing properly Breathing right is a very important aspect of stretching. Breathe naturally while you inhale through your nose, expand your rib cage and upper abdomen as you fill in your lungs. When exhaling, breathe out through your mouth, preferably making an audible sound. This relaxes you. While stretching, you need to breathe out when you are exerting, that is, when you are actually contracting your muscles. Doing static stretches Never stand still and do stretches that work only one muscle. You should rather do stretches that work a group of muscles — like a lunge that stretches your upper hamstring muscle, your ankles and also your glutes. Ignoring pain while stretching When you are in the middle of a stretch and you feel pain, stop immediately and consult an expert. Your stretch should make you feel a gentle pull only, not immense pain. If you are hurting, you are doing it wrong. Rest a few days and then go back to working out under a qualified trainer.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 5:40 AM UTC
8 stretching mistakes you should never commit
Did you know that if you don't stretch in the correct way, you might end up thwarting the entire purpose of your workout and suffer unwanted injuries? Doing pre-workout stretches thoroughly will determine whether you are benefiting from your workout or whether it's worsening your muscle tear. Here are the major stretching crimes that you should never commit. Not doing a proper warm-up According to gym instructors worldwide, this is the most commonly committed crimes in any gym. A warm-up is a must before any kind of workout — cardio or weights — and must ideally last at least 12-15 minutes. Assuming that stretching is a warm-up Stretching and warming up is not the same. You need to warm up first, before you are ready to stretch. A slow jog or brisk walking on the treadmill is a good warm-up. Rushing through your stretching exercises Stretching should be for the entire body. You cannot skip any parts. Involve stretches that work your lower back, shoulders, calves, stomach, quads etc. You should not move from one stretch to the other in very quick succession because that may cause untoward injuries. Try to hold each stretch for 20 seconds. When you breathe deeply and hold the stretch, your muscles get trained to tolerate the maximum that your limbs can go to. Giving stretching a skip after a workout You have done an hour of strenuous exercise and now you just want to rush out of the gym; that is a huge mistake. Spend some time bending and stretching after your sweat session. Then, do a cool down before you leave the gym. Not stretching every day You need to be your flexible best always and that can only happen if you stretch daily, even on the days that you aren't gymming. This ensures that your gym days are more fruitful and that you make the most of them. Not breathing properly Breathing right is a very important aspect of stretching. Breathe naturally while you inhale through your nose, expand your rib cage and upper abdomen as you fill in your lungs. When exhaling, breathe out through your mouth, preferably making an audible sound. This relaxes you. While stretching, you need to breathe out when you are exerting, that is, when you are actually contracting your muscles. Doing static stretches Never stand still and do stretches that work only one muscle. You should rather do stretches that work a group of muscles — like a lunge that stretches your upper hamstring muscle, your ankles and also your glutes. Ignoring pain while stretching When you are in the middle of a stretch and you feel pain, stop immediately and consult an expert. Your stretch should make you feel a gentle pull only, not immense pain. If you are hurting, you are doing it wrong. Rest a few days and then go back to working out under a qualified trainer.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses
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School has taught us much, Our friends were our teachers of life. The building was nearly a mold And our instructors are our vessels of knowledge. It’s time to move on. It’s time to say good bye to a trial And open our eyes to the final exam of time, Where none pass or fail, just seize the moment at hand. Years spent in books and homework Will test the knowledge you’ve learned in school. Life will test you in performance And performance will judge on experience. Be ready for a fight Because life won’t be easy. Several challenges it will be But together we shall triumph. Let us not be a burden But a blessing on a seed. That seed will grow into a tree And may that tree spread many more seeds. In the end, we will be together And reminisce on the years below. Let us be happy wherever we blow And blessed we shall be in anything we do.
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Oct 19, 2015
Oct 19, 2015 at 10:11 AM UTC
Depart and Reunite
Dear Ashley,           Congratulations! Your parents decided to give you one of the most popular names of the 90s! This is your letter of introduction to being Ashley! However, be informed that your name will not only be just "Ashley". Since it's very common, non-Ashleys will need to differentiate between all of you. You may be nicknamed "Ashley #2" or "Ashley Last Name Initial". Preparing yourself for embarrassment is also essential. Instructors will call out your name, resulting in either you pointing to yourself mouthing, Me? or managing to chirp a "Yes?" in unison with three others, only to feel stupid when it's not you. With a name so stale and boring, you may grow a hatred for it. You will fall in love with unique signatures, wishing they were your own. Over and over again, you will fantasize about changing it. Keep in mind that other Ashleys feel the same. At least you can be thankful you weren't named Frances.                                                                                           Sincerely,                                                                                                   Ashley P.S. - Although, personalized key chains are easily accessible!
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014 at 12:52 AM UTC
To Those Named "Ashley"
in baler where the sun shines and the waves visit is where freedom bathes under the blue skies in the seaside realm of surfing simple hotels line the shore where you can run to the beach fronts after settling in little white rooms, and in the blue water wait tanned, youthful surfing instructors-- local boys of the province who've grown up with the salt water as their playground. get on your surfboard and join the waters, "mag-timing ka sa alon,"— "wait for the waves", the instructors say and lie down on your stomach on the surfboard, and when you do get the waves you ride them fearlessly, you are lifted, invincible, by the hands of the philippine sea. and if you don't surf, the smooth sands are there, calling you to lie around under the seaside sun. and when night falls and the waves are reckless, you can sit on the sand with a bonfire and some drinks— watch the stars with the sound of the tides as your music and do not fear; for in the morning the waves will come rushing back to the shores of Balers to give anyone freedom as they always do.
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Nov 10, 2016
Nov 10, 2016 at 10:52 PM UTC
in Baler
What's your problem? He asked. And he did it through thought process. And I open up. And confess to him everything. It's not like he doesn't know. He just wanted the built up emotion to flow. For me to release my inner deep feelings. We all come to him for an answer. And his door always open. No set appointment. No proclaiming I'm busy. That I get back to you later. God, the counselor is available twenty four hours. Not just when you're praying. Even when you experience joy. Once, you told him your conversation. Watch the way you begins to shine. God's going to accomplish his mission. He just wants you to accomplish yours. God, the counselor is an unpaid servant of the world. And we very aware he's owed so much more. Simply, for blessing us. With jobs. With life. With parents. With kids. With good instructors. With good friends that don't judge us for any offense. When some think they are more perfect. Whatever success we find? We know God did it. And success isn't based around wealth. It just might be health. It just depends on the way you look at it. Have a talk with the Counselor.
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Feb 3, 2013
Feb 3, 2013 at 9:48 AM UTC
Counselor
Sine waves, perpetual motion Centripetal force, density of the ocean Associates, Bachelors Student Ambassadors Register, register, schedules, grades Grants and scholarships, tuition is paid No snooze button, turn off the alarm Losing some sleep. It's ok, though, no harm Friendly teachers and **** instructors Digital logic and semiconductors Homework, classwork, essays, papers Last minute class of procrastinators Get up, get blazed. 'Fore school, 'nutha blunt High while accepting student of the month Higher than you, and my grades, too, are higher How smart would I be if I put out the fire? Gen. Ed., English, Mathematics, Psychology Now on to the good stuff, much richer chronology Top of my class, highest grade in the program In just a few years, I'll have money in BOTH hands This hand-to-mouth **** ain't for me I'm tired of living week-to-week Broke, tired, and hungry day after day But when payday comes, it'll be here to stay You don't have to do as I do But my feet are too small to fill these big shoes If you think I can't fill them, then surely you're trippin' But do whatcha do, cause my burgers need flippin'
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Nov 24, 2010
Nov 24, 2010 at 7:51 PM UTC
Intrinsic Motivation
She thinks if she travels to foreign lands- even if it is only by dating an ethnic man- that she can scale the high walls of the borders between what she was taught and who she hopes she is. Having followed blindly her predestination programmed life she can’t resist taking squinted peeks through the tiny open slits of vision, hoping to find her true self. “You are losing the faith!” her anxious mother warns as though to do so would be an inherent flaw, not a conscious choice. But Mother’s own faith has been slipping through her hands for the past 30 years, and only that promised salvation can save her from the indiscretions that fill the non-rapturous void left-behind by mister Christian-right-wing-man. Taught well by mother, father, and god, that men must be assessed in a purely logical fashion, “Agree on finances and childrearing and you will have happily ever.” But she feels fake, and does not know how to peel the plastic wrap off her personality. You can see its bindings in the way her eyes implore you and how she clasps her hands on her lap by rote. She is the pink peg in the Hasbro Game of Life car with guilt trip road blocks, detours and poorly folded directional maps. Spinning the wheel in search of tour guides: What should I read? What should I think? But that only gives her new mind instructors. Perhaps instead of foreign languages and foreign lands, the verity lies in the realization that mother probably feels fake too.
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Aug 27, 2013
Aug 27, 2013 at 2:43 PM UTC
Only $16.99 at Toys R Us
Shortly after the school systems began defecating on the dreams of my generation, We found different outlets Through which we could bring our loathing to a head. My generation now writes poetry and Finds solace in video games we can beat In lives we can't seem to live the right way. It's funny to me that The Legend of Zelda, When completed, Tells you that "You are great!" While your teacher berates you for being sub-par Though you tried your damnedest To please them through drafts and drafts And drafts of work Spat out at 4am because There are more important things to deal with In regular waking hours, In regular waking life. They tell us that we have failed Because we ****** up in one class, A single credit, A single number on a sheet of paper That tries to measure us When we can't even attempt to do the same. They tell us we have failed Because we do not look good on file And apparently we do not look good Walking down the street With ****** eyes and baggy sweaters, The only clean clothes we own Because the system has ****** us clean of time To do much else than Study, study, STUDY our **** lives away. This is atrocious. When a young boy feels more accomplished Beating Pokemon Than he does when he writes a stellar paper, The best he can pen Only to be told he has a lot more work to do And that the paper "Is good... But it needs work." The culture of my generation does not discriminate. It does not tell us that we have more work to do. Instead, it tells us that "we are great" and It gives us a restart screen when we **** up beyond repair. It does not tell us we have failed, Instead offers us a kind "Try again?" It is sad When the voice over of a video game Offers more kindness Than our instructors and parents Combined. School should not send us home, wanting to **** ourselves. The system should not make a pen cap, A pair of underpants, a simple metal bookmark A weapon In the hands of the human entity of depression. We will not be marked suicide risks. As long as we keep getting our restart screens and Compliments from bits, We will triumph. We will be the heroes of our generation As long as we keep getting the chance. One day, when all the suffering is over And we have escaped this war-torn soul of "The Caring Community," Maybe those words will extend from an NES and find their way Into the mouth of a boyfriend, girlfriend, Wife, husband, friend, professor... Someday, we will hear the words and we will truly believe them. "You are great!" Maybe not today... But someday. Soon.
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Dec 13, 2013
Dec 13, 2013 at 10:16 AM UTC
You are Great
Shortly after the school systems began defecating on the dreams of my generation, We found different outlets Through which we could bring our loathing to a head. My generation now writes poetry and Finds solace in video games we can beat In lives we can't seem to live the right way. It's funny to me that The Legend of Zelda, When completed, Tells you that "You are great!" While your teacher berates you for being sub-par Though you tried your damnedest To please them through drafts and drafts And drafts of work Spat out at 4am because There are more important things to deal with In regular waking hours, In regular waking life. They tell us that we have failed Because we ****** up in one class, A single credit, A single number on a sheet of paper That tries to measure us When we can't even attempt to do the same. They tell us we have failed Because we do not look good on file And apparently we do not look good Walking down the street With ****** eyes and baggy sweaters, The only clean clothes we own Because the system has ****** us clean of time To do much else than Study, study, STUDY our **** lives away. This is atrocious. When a young boy feels more accomplished Beating Pokemon Than he does when he writes a stellar paper, The best he can pen Only to be told he has a lot more work to do And that the paper "Is good... But it needs work." The culture of my generation does not discriminate. It does not tell us that we have more work to do. Instead, it tells us that "we are great" and It gives us a restart screen when we **** up beyond repair. It does not tell us we have failed, Instead offers us a kind "Try again?" It is sad When the voice over of a video game Offers more kindness Than our instructors and parents Combined. School should not send us home, wanting to **** ourselves. The system should not make a pen cap, A pair of underpants, a simple metal bookmark A weapon In the hands of the human entity of depression. We will not be marked suicide risks. As long as we keep getting our restart screens and Compliments from bits, We will triumph. We will be the heroes of our generation As long as we keep getting the chance. One day, when all the suffering is over And we have escaped this war-torn soul of "The Caring Community," Maybe those words will extend from an NES and find their way Into the mouth of a boyfriend, girlfriend, Wife, husband, friend, professor... Someday, we will hear the words and we will truly believe them. "You are great!" Maybe not today... But someday. Soon.
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You don't look a day older than bad manners Remember to let people off the Train first. Old fashion common sense has gone, we are generating our everyday Cleopatra where the private is as imperative  as the public persona , unbeknown nail polish is on a reconnaissance mission for  blase solvent effects, and as for Gentleman  I cannot think of a suitable Mass observation survey yet, but if i did, there wouldn't be enough Stradivarius volins to avail. Note too how bus drivers aren't generally slow and bicyclists are veering militant driving instructors take chances through the red  lights, city life is not necessarily construed as a public safety issue, but everything  is considered less relevant in the pursuit of balanced manners.
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Nov 24, 2012
Nov 24, 2012 at 3:57 PM UTC
Manners should not be forgotten
"Surviving solely On caffeine and nicotine Hazy baby Crazy maybe But I am a being Forever being." - The way I use to describe my daily muse Terms are the worms of the garden of expression; Words must be chosen in the utmost discretion. Through the rhymes, walking the lines Between Romantic and pedantic. Simple semantics- There is no such thing. In humanities we learn about semantics (among other areas of expertise). There's no humanities without semantics (among other areas of key). The instructors instruct, "It's easy, it's simple, it's breezy" But the instructors don't conduct How semantics can never be easy.
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Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 7:22 PM UTC
The Paradox of "Simple Semantics"
The man of Tao Seems dull And confused Floating from time to time He is without desire I must live In some type of computer program A part of a large system And isn't life strange Events just happen And there is all this extra stuff Like the noise And loud shouting By the instructors At the gym Can't they just do The movements In silence? Turn off the loud music It is not necessary
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Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 8:30 PM UTC
Turn Off The Gym Music
Somewhere deep within the pages of a dating book, possibly a dated book. Feelings. A little like dying. Inside so cold. Feeling like crying. Sort of loved. Then got lost. All and sundry voice concerns. Very loudly. Distinctive moments spent. Lessons learned. Instructors and culture. Govern the day. She made you smile. Life worth living. Not permitted, The young man not granted the gift of an obvious grin. Still lost. (C) Livvi
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 6:12 AM UTC
PRECIOUS MOMENTS
The University where my friend teaches has sadly forgot what Free Speech is. Instructors are expressly forbidden to use the name” Christ” in a greeting. If you say “Merry Christmas” in passing if non tenured,  it can be career ending. If you bless in the name of the Lord, be prepared for your Ox to be gored. On the same Campus, on many occasions, Folks speak freely of perverse persuasions. Yet, Dean forbid, you should pray, You’d be better off coming out gay. If Supernatural salutations you savor “May the Force be with you”- still is in favor. So forget about Magi and Manger or your teaching career is in danger. If you lecture about Christ and sin be prepared for what they did to Him.
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Dec 17, 2011
Dec 17, 2011 at 7:30 AM UTC
Merry ____________Mas
~dedicated to the heart fixers~ sometimes I smack my head, when a poem commission is lying on the ground before me, and I just don’t hear it, believe it, in order to retrieve it… many months of physical rehabilitation, sessions always ended with a certain cutesy Gen Z~Millenial crossover phraseology: “remember to tell someone you love them” the instructors mostly youngish, so we senior~smile a tad dismissively, give them a reward~grin, and head for the locker room, where we gossip and compare notes, on the Part II of our in-process-future-realization, living a grueling new life of self-preservation, 24/7 the PTs & EPs pound you on the machina, go faster, work harder, eat better, sleep more, take those meds, motion is lotion, walk the talk, never be still, but race to live longer and prosper, this hard work is your new job, and resignation is non~optional now, it hits me, via a figurative sharp slap on the side of the head, triggering an actual physical manifestation that reverbs to the toes, that the most important lesson went under the radar, evading the former trader’s dimming vision, flunking himself on the rehab test paper, a purple F for fool, a grade, earned and deserved, and herein poetically preserved the hardest heart work, begins only after you co- commence the longest road back to where you once belonged, but where you can’t walk alone, for therein a recipe for failure; and the work that needs doing, is on you; take that tear-repaired heart, and give it away, it, one can be healed, but not if sealed, for the hard-hearted walls thicken, and “*over  time, the thickened heart muscle can become too stiff to fill the heart with blood; the heart can't pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.*” so break off pieces of your heart, give them away with relentless abandon, for this is the heart that self-repairs, new tissue, new fiber, and most important, regeneration, the one single reparation that can successfully accomplish the true miracle of getting by giving, no forgiving, if you don’t exercise the heart by “remembering to tell someone you love them” dedicated to the hard working staff of the Cardio Rehabilitation  Unit of Nyulangonge, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation who started  me with a mighty push on the long road to utilizing my heart properly <•>
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Apr 26, 2024
Apr 26, 2024 at 8:13 AM UTC
Hard Heart~Work (a love poem)
~dedicated to the heart fixers~ sometimes I smack my head, when a poem commission is lying on the ground before me, and I just don’t hear it, believe it, in order to retrieve it… many months of physical rehabilitation, sessions always ended with a certain cutesy Gen Z~Millenial crossover phraseology: “remember to tell someone you love them” the instructors mostly youngish, so we senior~smile a tad dismissively, give them a reward~grin, and head for the locker room, where we gossip and compare notes, on the Part II of our in-process-future-realization, living a grueling new life of self-preservation, 24/7 the PTs & EPs pound you on the machina, go faster, work harder, eat better, sleep more, take those meds, motion is lotion, walk the talk, never be still, but race to live longer and prosper, this hard work is your new job, and resignation is non~optional now, it hits me, via a figurative sharp slap on the side of the head, triggering an actual physical manifestation that reverbs to the toes, that the most important lesson went under the radar, evading the former trader’s dimming vision, flunking himself on the rehab test paper, a purple F for fool, a grade, earned and deserved, and herein poetically preserved the hardest heart work, begins only after you co- commence the longest road back to where you once belonged, but where you can’t walk alone, for therein a recipe for failure; and the work that needs doing, is on you; take that tear-repaired heart, and give it away, it, one can be healed, but not if sealed, for the hard-hearted walls thicken, and “*over  time, the thickened heart muscle can become too stiff to fill the heart with blood; the heart can't pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.*” so break off pieces of your heart, give them away with relentless abandon, for this is the heart that self-repairs, new tissue, new fiber, and most important, regeneration, the one single reparation that can successfully accomplish the true miracle of getting by giving, no forgiving, if you don’t exercise the heart by “remembering to tell someone you love them” dedicated to the hard working staff of the Cardio Rehabilitation  Unit of Nyulangonge, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation who started  me with a mighty push on the long road to utilizing my heart properly <•>
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Dreams of being free literally..... Not this ******** they breed, equality planted with momentary seeds at a time things may seem beautiful but were destined to lose our leaves Buses and water fountains don't mean **** to me, You throw my brothers on tv for for what God gave us naturally to mostly benefit you so that don't mean **** to me Money..... something my people aren't use to seeing so you use it to introduce a new form of slavery..... We bring in the money you own the teams,I've never heard of an owner being the highlight of these kids dreams.... Never witnessed you be the reason for an arena's sold out seating we serve as your entertainment blinded by your "rare" pocket feeding unsegregated schooling..... yet were granted those who's declared least capable of teaching..... I've encountered way to many classroom instructors who were incapable of speaking.... English, math and reading subjects taught for our daily needing yet every GYM instructor perfect now tell me that's not strategically planned breeding Neighborhoods overcrowded flooded with options for poor consuming..... Neighborhoods over crowded swarming with destructive solutions for financial bleeding's place two rabbits in a cage with enough food for one feeding and sooner or later you'll witness a presentation of how survival earned it's meaning I love everybody, never favored a particular flesh concealing but it's proven everyday day those who mimic my complexion are constantly victims of horrible dealings Amerikka © 2014 viewtifulink R . I . P trayvon martin mike brown Eric garner And anyone else who has been a victim to a hate crime
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Dec 6, 2014
Dec 6, 2014 at 7:29 PM UTC
Amerikka
Dreams of being free literally..... Not this ******** they breed, equality planted with momentary seeds at a time things may seem beautiful but were destined to lose our leaves Buses and water fountains don't mean **** to me, You throw my brothers on tv for for what God gave us naturally to mostly benefit you so that don't mean **** to me Money..... something my people aren't use to seeing so you use it to introduce a new form of slavery..... We bring in the money you own the teams,I've never heard of an owner being the highlight of these kids dreams.... Never witnessed you be the reason for an arena's sold out seating we serve as your entertainment blinded by your "rare" pocket feeding unsegregated schooling..... yet were granted those who's declared least capable of teaching..... I've encountered way to many classroom instructors who were incapable of speaking.... English, math and reading subjects taught for our daily needing yet every GYM instructor perfect now tell me that's not strategically planned breeding Neighborhoods overcrowded flooded with options for poor consuming..... Neighborhoods over crowded swarming with destructive solutions for financial bleeding's place two rabbits in a cage with enough food for one feeding and sooner or later you'll witness a presentation of how survival earned it's meaning I love everybody, never favored a particular flesh concealing but it's proven everyday day those who mimic my complexion are constantly victims of horrible dealings Amerikka © 2014 viewtifulink R . I . P trayvon martin mike brown Eric garner And anyone else who has been a victim to a hate crime
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Salute to the teachers that don't let one of their student falls to the sideline. Salute to the teachers that's determine to find out, what's bothering a child? If they shy, many hates to read before the class. While others soaks in the joy of it. Salute to the teachers that's determine educating a child. You won't fail because of her/him. It's not an option you have the permission to turn down. Yes, all instructors know you can give them a book. And can't force them to read. Except, in your class you're determine to know the various reasons. Salute to those teachers determine in educating a child. Oh, we see the politicians speaking. And talking before the cameras. But many of them could stand a little more education. Even I , as I write this poem. But you must respect the baby sitters for parents. Who assigned to watch them learn and grown? When the score of students learning comes upon the news. A teacher should take pride in knowing they're not talking about you.. Because you took pride in educating a child. You wasn't pushing to be a private school instructor. You wasn't complaining about being a public school educator. Because when you pay close attention to facts. One is no better than the other. One just has more parents pretending to be wealthy,, A teacher is a motivator. A promoter too. And all they ever need is a child determine to be something. And with that determination many will leave a great impression upon their parents.
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Jan 25, 2014
Jan 25, 2014 at 11:01 AM UTC
Educating A Child
my fingers touch the piano and gingerly the shadows rest on its ivory white keys. inhale, and my hands rise to hover gently above the keys, then exhale, and they nudge into the body of the piano, ringing five notes at a time. i lift and push with more force, and the sound sharpens, cutting through the air, through the background noise of the tv in the other room, past the laughter of two boys playing video games, beyond the quiet murmurs of the voices in my head. redemption. i'm working towards it. for my teacher, whom believes i will soon catch up to everybody else. for my fellow musicians, surpassing me in experience but standing beside me regardless. for my instructors, whom led me to be the musician i am today and will be tomorrow. for my friends, whom cheer me on and always will, whether i be smiling or not. and for myself. because i've had to prove to myself i am capable of doing this. that proof lies in my fingers, in my mind, and in my determination. and because even now, i'm still doubting myself here and there. but i am not incompetent. i am not incompetent. i was never incompetent.
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Jan 17, 2016
Jan 17, 2016 at 10:46 PM UTC
redemption
Two instructors of philosophy sat down and started talking their conversation was in depth and so, they ceased their walking the topic that these men discussed had each on different sides and the gap that formed between them was miles and miles wide "I swear you haven't got a clue" "You just don't want to hear" "The world is round as round can be" "It's shaped just like a sphere" "You idiot, you do not know" "Just look, the world is flat" "The world has got four edges" "And that my friend is that!" "You can not mean that in this world" "There's an edge that is the end" "That is right dear sir" "The land just does not bend" "You can sit and tell me that" "and still keep a straight face" "What keeps people grounded" "and stops them shooting into space" "the fact, that land is flat my friend" "is a plain as plain can be" "have you ever seen a waterfall?" "have you tried to bend a tree?" "Dear sir, sit down and listen close" "and look up at the sun" "it has just two dimensions" "it needs another one" "The sun is flat as well dear sir," "It just hangs up in the sky" "It has a front, the moon's the back" "you can see it if you try" "Have you seen this new invention" he asked, opening his robe "It's a 3d model of the earth" "my friend, it's called a globe" "the world is flat, it is not round" "it has depth, and width, that's all" "you see the corners of the earth" "it's not shaped like a ball" "If you hold a pebble, to your head" "and drop it down" "does it fly away in space?" "no, it drops on to the ground" "a mountain range....inflexible" "Like your mind, my learned friend" "If you travel off, at some point sir" "you will surely hit the end" "the only end needs hitting here" "Is the one upon your neck" "to knock some **** sense into you" "you're a closed myopic wreck" "water doesn't bend a bit" "it would not make your point true" "it doesn't have to bend dear sir" "it's a concept that is new" "next you will tell me" "there's a force we can not see" "that keeps us all here grounded" "and pulls the apples from the tree" "I'm not sure of that one sir" "but as sure as there is sound" "the sun revolves around us" "and that makes the world round" "do you ever see it moving" "back to where it came" "of course not, it's in motion" "it's called an orbit, that's it's name" "I'm not sure if we go round" "of if we are sitting still" "but one day we will find it out" "I'm certain, that we will" "Arguing this point with you" "about a round world or one flat" "will continue on in circles" "That's where my world is at" "we will not be in agreement" "as to which of us is right" "we will never see the moon sun change" "if we both sit here all night" "we will have to let the prophets" "in the future prove us wrong" "and now sir, it is supper" "and we both should move along"
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Jul 16, 2013
Jul 16, 2013 at 11:39 PM UTC
Round or Flat
Two instructors of philosophy sat down and started talking their conversation was in depth and so, they ceased their walking the topic that these men discussed had each on different sides and the gap that formed between them was miles and miles wide "I swear you haven't got a clue" "You just don't want to hear" "The world is round as round can be" "It's shaped just like a sphere" "You idiot, you do not know" "Just look, the world is flat" "The world has got four edges" "And that my friend is that!" "You can not mean that in this world" "There's an edge that is the end" "That is right dear sir" "The land just does not bend" "You can sit and tell me that" "and still keep a straight face" "What keeps people grounded" "and stops them shooting into space" "the fact, that land is flat my friend" "is a plain as plain can be" "have you ever seen a waterfall?" "have you tried to bend a tree?" "Dear sir, sit down and listen close" "and look up at the sun" "it has just two dimensions" "it needs another one" "The sun is flat as well dear sir," "It just hangs up in the sky" "It has a front, the moon's the back" "you can see it if you try" "Have you seen this new invention" he asked, opening his robe "It's a 3d model of the earth" "my friend, it's called a globe" "the world is flat, it is not round" "it has depth, and width, that's all" "you see the corners of the earth" "it's not shaped like a ball" "If you hold a pebble, to your head" "and drop it down" "does it fly away in space?" "no, it drops on to the ground" "a mountain range....inflexible" "Like your mind, my learned friend" "If you travel off, at some point sir" "you will surely hit the end" "the only end needs hitting here" "Is the one upon your neck" "to knock some **** sense into you" "you're a closed myopic wreck" "water doesn't bend a bit" "it would not make your point true" "it doesn't have to bend dear sir" "it's a concept that is new" "next you will tell me" "there's a force we can not see" "that keeps us all here grounded" "and pulls the apples from the tree" "I'm not sure of that one sir" "but as sure as there is sound" "the sun revolves around us" "and that makes the world round" "do you ever see it moving" "back to where it came" "of course not, it's in motion" "it's called an orbit, that's it's name" "I'm not sure if we go round" "of if we are sitting still" "but one day we will find it out" "I'm certain, that we will" "Arguing this point with you" "about a round world or one flat" "will continue on in circles" "That's where my world is at" "we will not be in agreement" "as to which of us is right" "we will never see the moon sun change" "if we both sit here all night" "we will have to let the prophets" "in the future prove us wrong" "and now sir, it is supper" "and we both should move along"
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Satin slippers, with limbs of ribbon edges frayed from time and use overuse. Countless hours wasted practicing precise dance forms that audiences will never truly appreciate. Her bone structure screams for freedom from regimented rehearsals and strict standards. She longs for a stage under soft, twinkling lights where her emotions guide her movements; where rules and instructors are not needed. She longs for the day where anyone can showcase their soul through movement without the looming fear of heavy and harsh criticism. Her individuality will be praised; her spirit will be longed for among those who watch with adoring eyes. They will glide past one another, like leaves in a summer breeze. Toes pointed, ribbons laced and spotlights casting soft circles on the bare, dusty stage.
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Feb 19, 2014
Feb 19, 2014 at 3:58 AM UTC
Ballet/cloud
People skills, some have it down to a science. Adapted to handling situation others seem oblivious too. Which brings us to police officers in the news. Where correctional officers must use it a lot? Police officers hides their bravery behind a gun. Within the confinements of prison walls most couldn't survive. None, knows people skills, unless they had it from the start. And most white officers hadn't learned this skilled at all. Unless they in administration which requires more. Yes, its a stressful job. But so being an correctional officers too. Where you face the same things police officers do? And handle it more with just the tone of your voice. Oh, you have hot heads in both division. One feeling tough with shades and a gun? Some feeling braver when one's hidden behind a cell. Talking about things they would do. Until that same person's standing before you. And now you must change your tune. Instructors, advises them all cameras are upon you. And let not the news be the judge of you. This is mostly one battle you will lose. So learning to talk wisely in life will truly help you. Especially when people's skills are required.
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Jun 8, 2015
Jun 8, 2015 at 10:25 AM UTC
People's Skills (Law Officers)
It's 2015, summertime, with an afternoon sunshine gently roasting the cheeks of a little girl into a healthy flush. The sweet sanctuary of the cafe after school; a fresh playground amidst the summer heat. Familiarity, an endless finality of every poster and notice memorised through timeless hours, teaching her how to read through adverts for baby sitters ballet instructors late-night knitting groups. School tie discarded, slung over the back of a squeaky cafe chair, the usual, she drags her mum to the counter, towards the fiery face smiling behind the till. Warm eyes, sparkling with stories and life, already talking to her mum about her new school teacher the new muffin recipe her dad's latest gig. Her face, bronzed by foreign heat folds as she guffaws across the cafe, careless, laughing , at a joke the little girl doesn't yet understand. Handfuls of pink marshmallows, sweet and pure, exchange hands with a wink and a 'don't tell your mum'. The girl sticks two together and calls them butterflies. The broken clock near the door shows the same time as it did an hour ago, hands suspended, never-ending. I carry flowers, an expensive bunch of lilies and roses, tilted in towards my chest - like a child in a green paper blanket - to protect them against the gale as I carry sympathy home. The rain soaks through the paper. I nip off a dead leaf between my forefinger and thumb, thoughts lingering, nose turning numb. Four years since I spoke to Mandy, at 'Mandy's Cafe!' whisked away by time briskly slipping. Moving house, growing up. And yet, when the sun comes out later today, I see a little girl with scooter-hit ankles, and glitter in her hair reaching out a tiny ink-stained hand for a warm buttered roll from a hand memorised through timeless hours.
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Feb 23, 2025
Feb 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM UTC
Marshmallow Dust
It's 2015, summertime, with an afternoon sunshine gently roasting the cheeks of a little girl into a healthy flush. The sweet sanctuary of the cafe after school; a fresh playground amidst the summer heat. Familiarity, an endless finality of every poster and notice memorised through timeless hours, teaching her how to read through adverts for baby sitters ballet instructors late-night knitting groups. School tie discarded, slung over the back of a squeaky cafe chair, the usual, she drags her mum to the counter, towards the fiery face smiling behind the till. Warm eyes, sparkling with stories and life, already talking to her mum about her new school teacher the new muffin recipe her dad's latest gig. Her face, bronzed by foreign heat folds as she guffaws across the cafe, careless, laughing , at a joke the little girl doesn't yet understand. Handfuls of pink marshmallows, sweet and pure, exchange hands with a wink and a 'don't tell your mum'. The girl sticks two together and calls them butterflies. The broken clock near the door shows the same time as it did an hour ago, hands suspended, never-ending. I carry flowers, an expensive bunch of lilies and roses, tilted in towards my chest - like a child in a green paper blanket - to protect them against the gale as I carry sympathy home. The rain soaks through the paper. I nip off a dead leaf between my forefinger and thumb, thoughts lingering, nose turning numb. Four years since I spoke to Mandy, at 'Mandy's Cafe!' whisked away by time briskly slipping. Moving house, growing up. And yet, when the sun comes out later today, I see a little girl with scooter-hit ankles, and glitter in her hair reaching out a tiny ink-stained hand for a warm buttered roll from a hand memorised through timeless hours.
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Family if forever, Weather I like it or not, It is a bond unbreakable, I will forever be stuck with this lot. Sure, I must admit, Family can be annoying, They sometimes make you loose it, But this way life never seems too boring, Because they will never let you quit, They want to see you soaring! Family can also be outside of blood, Since I have my friends too, I have my new and old buds, Including little old you. I have my Sunday friends also, What a joy that always is, I have old instructors steps to follow, And teachers rulings to learn in order to take up any quiz! I see God's love in all these people, Friends, family, and parish, In them I see no evil, As they all love me so much, Threw God's work and threw their own way, All with a gentle touch, They make sure I don't stray away, And on the path of God I stay.
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 6:39 PM UTC
Family = Forver