Tag: feelings
group name: writingforme
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February 29, 2008 05:54 AM EST --
I hurt, I hurt.
I hurt when little babies die for no reason.
I hurt, I hurt.
i hurt when people disrespect the elderly.
I hurt, I hurt.
I hurt when teenagers are killing . . . more
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March 01, 2008 01:07 AM EST --
I have a family.
But I am alone.
I have friends.
But I am alone.
I have that special man.
But I am still alone.
I have the Lord.
Okay I am not that alone. . . . more
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January 12, 2008 11:25 PM EST --
Since this week is dedicated to Family. It is a great subject for me to talk about. We have a tradition in my family whose ever birthday it is that month gets taken out to dinner at the restaurant of their . . . more
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August 27, 2008 06:28 PM EDT --
What's wrong with me?
It's not your fault.
Could have fooled me. Sure feels like it is.
You're not the one who decided to wait to go.
I wasn't making leaps and bounds . . . more
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June 06, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The US Constitution gives Americans free speech.
Does that imply that we can freely exercise the power of dissent?
Yes, in some cases it does -- in other cases, maybe not.
Try going to a presidential . . . more
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April 21, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
I fell once
Eyes closed
After just one kiss
He stole my heart
One mistake
Cost me my love
Now I'll take my past
And burn it up
Watch my future
Come back alive . . . more
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June 04, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
I grow old
oak trees of 150 years
come back to life
new green leaves
spreading out branches
I simply decay
just a bit at a time
new buds into . . . more
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July 14, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
incidents of daily life are a dance
in time, a pirouette in learning,
a waltz of happiness, a procession
of confusion, or a jig of
sorrow and shame, the steps
of the dance . . . more
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June 11, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
Here's a few I gleamed from Ted Kooser and several other noted poets, as I understand them:
DO'S & DON'TS OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY
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June 11, 2008 12:47 AM EDT --
silence is an owl ready
to kill, its talons on a branch
alert for prey, flies away
more
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June 12, 2008 06:23 PM EDT --
the sky is filled with so many visible objects,
many can be seen with the naked eye,
others require binoculars or a telescope,
with help the heavens open up to a . . . more
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July 13, 2008 09:32 PM EDT --
lost old poems,
some from high school,
others from college days,
still more about love.
moving like all insults,
allows us to lose these things.
tears and woe, there's . . . more
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June 08, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
Senryu 1
those girls talk too much
when they gather together
excluding all boys
Senryu 2
time has come to stop
complaining . . . more
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July 01, 2008 09:09 PM EDT --
for Donald Hawley - 7/1/2008
soothsayers, seers and saints
have a corner on the future,
perhaps scientists do not,
stuff happens, no longer a dream. . . . more
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June 11, 2008 01:48 AM EDT --
Coyotes, bobcats, owls inhabit our minds and acres.
Who would ever think that oak and pine trees hide
wildlife and fulfill our dreams? A house of a single
story . . . more
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June 21, 2008 04:15 PM EDT --
Like an infant wanting her food,
I'm not really in a great mood.
Being held here against my will,
they may come and get me still.
Like a starving mongrel, I'm ready, . . . more
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June 05, 2008 01:49 AM EDT --
Wisdom,
Knowledge,
Know how,
Crafty,
Creative,
Intuitive,
Trained,
Awakened,
Aware,
At attention,
Tuned in,
Where it's at,
Grown up,
Smart,
Savey, . . . more
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July 13, 2008 10:35 AM EDT --
I once had an old book on Metaphysics
(written before quantum mechanics)
when read front to back it was impossible
to understand, yet if you read it from back
to front, everything . . . more
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June 06, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
That pooch and her stuffed toy puppy,
she confronts, attacks, tries to destroy it.
I suppose confronts is a bit of over simplification,
she does chew it, bite it, throw it, and jump on . . . more
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June 12, 2008 07:24 PM EDT --
Grandpa Joe's favorite possession
his filly "Goldie" a beautiful palomino horse
sired by Roy Rogers' famous "Trigger"
Goldie's dam (or mother) . . . more
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