Tag: life
group name: criticscorner
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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
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June 24, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
Now the porn star seemed to be bleeding to death in the young man's hands.
If this were a movie, the flashback would have had him thinking of how he met her. How he saw her from the stage and . . . more
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May 16, 2006 04:11 PM EDT --
A Trilogy of Coincidences
(Call them coincidences, divine interventions, willpower or whatever. These are true events.)
I had married quite young. I had fallen in love much before that. We two . . . more
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June 02, 2006 12:19 PM EDT --
If you're a serious writer and want to earn good money writing, there's a site where you can post your articles for sale.
I have belonged to Constant-Content for a year and a half and have made . . . more
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April 20, 2006 03:01 AM EDT --
It's clear here
underneath star-lit skies
No moon, no you
Just myself, alone
Funny isn't it
what happens between us
in the space only lovers know . . . more
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September 01, 2006 03:03 PM EDT --
You know who you are
Sitting at the Piano Bar
All gussied up to strike a pose
If power people walk the row
It wasn't enough to invite yourself
It wasn't enough to delight yourself
In vulgar displays . . . more
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April 17, 2006 12:36 AM EDT --
Originally entered in the Travel Writing Contest, I am now posting to new groups.
Being handed a hot cloth after a long night's flight was a nice gesture, but mine was so hot that I was surprised . . . more
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February 08, 2007 01:35 AM EST --
For Nathan Shauer, Gather’s quiet Dantean guide to what we’ve built and left behind.
My inspiration for this story poem came from an article by Jeff Kleiser entitled Synthespianism, which . . . more
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May 13, 2006 05:57 PM EDT --
Being a believer in the cosmic balance of the universe, I have come to the conclusion that someday, somewhere on this planet, there will be... a Museum of Embarrassing Purchases. I hope someday to be regaled . . . more
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December 04, 2006 01:40 PM EST --
for Douglas Gilbert, sensitive teacher, soulful poet, wise children's storyteller, who has taught me new ways to express brotherly love in the emptiness.
Note: I wrote the first draft of this poem . . . more
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May 13, 2006 05:55 PM EDT --
Seasons
Each one traverses
this path only once
I too must, but
for my own reasons
I carry on my shoulders
a bagful of seasons
When hunger calls
I pause, take one out
and put it in my mouth
Candy floss . . . more
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April 28, 2006 03:46 PM EDT --
Springtime leaves
were dollar bills
greenbacks
payment
of winter debt
Relief
Tattered carpets
were rug seeds
Persian
soft fuzz
on bare feet
Renewed
Harsh words
were spring . . . more
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September 21, 2006 03:15 PM EDT --
Book Review: Marilyn Johnson's the Dead Beat
Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
--This Bit Here by Ken Pothier--
Marilyn Johnson has written not only the bible . . . more
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May 07, 2006 01:01 PM EDT --
Where lie eternity's mansions?
Do they loom within the nuclei of atoms?
Unchanged while civilizations die?
Even 4.5 billion rings around the sun
Is not eternity.
Or is it,
For this world . . . more
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May 08, 2006 08:33 AM EDT --
You've put your all into a poem, essay, story, image, or novel. It is your child, a piece of you. It is a third or thirtieth draft, something you've really worked over, and now you are putting . . . more
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April 30, 2006 07:36 AM EDT --
Desert cell
solitary mats
women walking
no baby carrier
babies hand-carried
my daughter
head wrapped in towel
clothes, shredded
pioneer woman
ran, blood-soaked skirts
feet bare
Desert cell
solitary mats . . . more
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May 28, 2006 04:21 PM EDT --
Gentle stranger
There is only One you can always be sure of
But I bid you stop awhile
And let me give you what I can
I make no promise
But that I will try to know you
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June 05, 2006 05:41 AM EDT --
TO ALL THOSE ON WHOSE HEELS I STAND.
Let me not into the company of true minds-
For my footprint is lagging-
The firmness of symmetry-
To stand on the heels of their universe.
I dare not thread or encroach . . . more
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May 04, 2006 08:10 AM EDT --
King Xerxes Grand Monarch of The Persians
Watched his vast forces at the Hellespont
Cross into history. He cried
"In a hundred years," he said, " we are all dead."
But Artabanus, . . . more
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May 29, 2006 05:52 AM EDT --
Many millennia ago, God caused the firmament and our universe to be. To say these things happened to exist by a chance occurrence is to . . . more
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