Tag: writing
group name: parables
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September 04, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
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I'm proud to announce the winner for the Poem of the Month for August for Thirteen Blackbirds , a compact and highly charged poem by Rae Pater. Rae's poetry is superb. She has . . . more
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August 31, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
Clearing the Writing Palate
Last night my wife and I had a long walk on a secluded beach in Maine. It was about
6 PM, 75 degrees, clear, . . . more
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July 20, 2007 07:51 AM EDT --
If I had the energy, I’d write about my daughter Kate who’s giving her parents their first grandchild. She lives in sunny California and texts me nearly every day. . . . more
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September 14, 2007 02:05 PM EDT --
Our creative writing final exam in my junior year at Mercer Island High School was an oral presentation on one of our favorite authors: give a little history, show their impact from a literary, . . . more
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July 27, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
In a brilliant essay in the latest issue of Poetry Magazine, entitled Beach Reading, David Orr (New York Times Book Review) explores the lure, fascination, wonder and inspiration of reading and . . . more
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September 21, 2007 07:12 AM EDT --
Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.
-Fred Hoyle
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a good thing to be a student of . . . more
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August 10, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
Are you left brained or right brained? Do you really care? Does it affect how you write? Are you one of those who can never really get the two terms straight, and usually drop . . . more
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March 02, 2007 10:30 AM EST --
we dont argue often but when we do all hell breaks loose! on this particular evening all of the signs of a potential blow out were there. he slammed the car door, back door and his . . . more
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July 15, 2007 10:52 PM EDT --
Everyone's Story
I sit in my bed with the first chapter of what once seemed like a good story filling five pages of legal paper, while the rest of the yellow pad remains tauntingly empty; . . . more
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September 07, 2007 08:01 AM EDT --
Have you ever considered how difficult it used to be to trash your gems? Not that long ago, the process involved a series of advanced cerebellar functions. . . . more
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August 17, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
My senior year at Mercer Island High School was spent cavorting with the intelligentsia of seventeen and eighteen year-old wannabe's in what . . . more
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September 10, 2007 09:39 AM EDT --
POETRY CENTRAL Volume 3, Number 5 ~Poems on Poems~
A poem should be motionless . . . more
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June 02, 2008 09:41 AM EDT --
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Every month I'm featuring the winning entry from poem's submitted to me directly as per the guidelines in the Poem of the Month Competition (read rules by clicking here ). Contrary to some . . . more
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March 10, 2008 06:34 AM EDT --
POETRY CENTRAL Vo l 5 No. 4
Life Cycle of a Poem: A Day and a Half's Journal in the Life of an Inarticulate Poet
"It is a contemporary version of the medieval . . . more
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August 03, 2007 12:50 PM EDT --
It was a lowdown dirty rotten shame. Flower Child from Lowman's hollow had a slow burn for the plowboy from over by the big fallow field. He was always acting the clown; a callow fellow, so shallow . . . more
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August 22, 2007 05:42 PM EDT --
Ten years ago, my son, my youngest, was about three half years old. The kids had been bugging us to take them to the fair. I was always the hold out. There was no way I was taking . . . more
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November 16, 2007 11:08 AM EST --
Joe Debon air had that certain Savoir-f air ; though he spent his life up in the air . With the ladies he . . . more
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February 29, 2008 07:57 PM EST --
Life's a journey,
We always start out as one,
We seek out others, our compass,
Before our path is done,
There, those lucky,
With one tread,
Stumbling easy on love,
There are others, . . . more
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January 12, 2007 02:24 AM EST --
Life is like the game Four-Square. In case you grew up in the dark ages or you’re from Generation Y, you may be a bit confused. While Four-Square is a game commonly played by children, . . . more
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January 13, 2007 04:01 PM EST --
Life is like the game Four-Square. In case you grew up in the dark ages or you’re from Generation Y, you may be a bit confused. While Four-Square is a game commonly played by children, . . . more
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