Tag: essay
group name: criticscorner
|
July 02, 2008 01:55 AM EDT --
A cut-n-paste from my earlier writing, but prompted to publish at Gather thanks to KEO and her writing prompt .
On the beach to the Baltic Sea , a saltwater body that eventually divests . . . more
|
|
June 12, 2006 11:43 AM EDT --
My dad died several years ago.
You didn't know him.
Then again, maybe you did.
My dad was the guy on the boardwalk wearing black socks and sandals, the guy at the checkout counter who couldn't . . . more
|
|
June 23, 2008 06:51 PM EDT --
When I was eighteen years old, I didn't want to go to college. High-school with its petty dramas, popularity contests, disenfranchisement (both economic and social), and utter and undeniable . . . more
|
|
May 28, 2007 11:26 PM EDT --
Butchie Roth had it right.
Drive it slow. Keep it in low. Let the potential do the talking. Butchie Roth had it right.
Butchie's car was an Oldsmobile F-85. It was red and . . . more
|
|
August 01, 2006 09:00 PM EDT --
Somewhere, out there, is a house. In that house are some stairs. Up those stairs is a door. Behind that door is a room. And in that room are some drums. Big, expensive, shiny and loud drums. They are my . . . more
|
|
May 20, 2007 10:51 PM EDT --
Critiques appreciated. Thanks!
I realize that my readers may not have read Gloria Anzaldua's book or the snippet of that book. I hope that my reflection of her essay does not confuse you. This . . . more
|
|
April 26, 2007 10:55 AM EDT --
The road to work starts like all others, at the point beneath my sole.
I swing my leg up and in, on to the seat, and I’m off. Reverse left, and then straight, two turns left and I’m . . . more
|
|
May 09, 2006 12:09 AM EDT --
My dad and I were driving to some forgotten destination one afternoon when we passed a McDonalds. Now there is nothing unusual about seeing a McDonalds on a bright, sunny day, but what struck me . . . more
|
|
June 15, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
How NOT to be a writer.
For a several years I made it a habit of backflushing the e-mails and faxes calling for business cards to complete a card collection and fulfill little Craig Shergold's dying . . . more
|
|
December 16, 2007 07:54 PM EST --
Is Barrack Obama Handicapped by Race?
(A Poetic Diatribe of Hope, Positivism, Patriotism, Vision and Dreams)
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more . . . more
|
|
October 14, 2007 08:13 PM EDT --
Walkin' down the street, smoggy-eyed
Looking at the sky, starry-eyed
Searchin' for the place, weary-eyed
Crying in the night, teary-eyed
Don't you know that it's true
That . . . more
|
|
May 05, 2006 03:22 PM EDT --
Bad news.
Nuclear war has broken out, volcanoes have erupted, armed Canadians are pouring over the border, and out in deep, deep space, a mammoth comet of unimaginable steaming death is streaking towards . . . more
|
|
August 29, 2006 11:48 AM EDT --
I have a fear of talking. Not really of talking, but of . . . more
|
|
April 26, 2007 08:09 PM EDT --
An alcoholic is addicted to alcohol. A drug addict is addicted to drugs (obviously). Yet, what do you call someone who’s addicted to argument? And what do you call someone who’s addicted to . . . more
|
|
December 20, 2006 08:14 PM EST --
I know very little about Islam. This is an essay I wrote for an intro to Islam class a month ago...I'm curious if the people on here who really DO have a solid understanding of the stuff I'm TRYING . . . more
|
|
May 04, 2007 01:10 AM EDT --
Well, today we made it to a favorite (secret) hiking spot. I have not been to this hiking spot since January during the thaw, when I had seen these...
. . . more
|
|
March 12, 2007 05:29 PM EDT --
Tired of winter and buoyed by a recent warming of the weather, I tell my wife, "We need to see waves on blue water. Let's take a weekend trip."
"Are we going to Florida?" . . . more
|
|
June 29, 2008 02:12 PM EDT --
Second photo essay on the 2008 Sandcastle Competition at Hampton Beach NH will show works in progress and finished
From the Sun
To the angry sun
Check out the skull on the . . . more
|
|
October 08, 2007 09:35 AM EDT --
POETRY CENTRAL Volume 4, Number 1 ~How to Read a Poem~
The poem must resist the . . . more
|
|
January 02, 2007 03:12 AM EST --
another repost. maybe like 9 of you saw this. no one commented it. I think it is interesting and i guess i want to know if others think such things are interesting.
I wrote this actually as a . . . more
|
|
|
|
