Tag: writing
member name: Sandy F.
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December 22, 2009 03:59 PM EST --
I'm sharing here an interesting article about the Senate Health Care Bill which is about to pass, with additional comments on the House Bill which has already passed. I received it from an organization . . .
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December 15, 2008 02:29 PM EST --
"Git yer dirty hands outta that bowl," Grandma growled. "I don't truck with lickin' the bowl afore the cake is turned out of it."
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January 01, 2008 10:35 PM EST --
You know the ones I mean. They can be friends or family--even partners, children, parents, anyone you might trust with your heart. They are those who come in under our radar, . . .
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January 31, 2008 03:37 PM EST --
Here's a poem I'm still working on: too wordy, unclear what is being said, needs focus. Too many "I" beginnings, the "I should" repetition is distracting.
Rough . . .
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July 16, 2007 06:45 PM EDT --
Japanese Tanka Poetry Form
syllable count first line-5, second line-7, third line-5, fourth line-7, fifth line-7.
first two lines plus third line = nature
third line plus last two . . .
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November 30, 2007 07:19 PM EST --
Wait! Oh, wait just one moment, she said.
I so wanted to dance a bit more.
The clock struck and she ran
losing a shoe and
unfinished dances
kisses untasted.
That waltz music sang in her . . .
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December 09, 2007 04:02 PM EST --
It was December 15, 1991 . My daughter and her husband had just lost the baby they hoped would complete their blended family. . . .
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March 20, 2008 10:19 PM EDT --
We are surrounded by strangers, each one intent on his own life. We can live a long life this way, with few really . . .
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February 09, 2008 07:46 PM EST --
My mother is dying. Not today, but possibly tomorrow; for sure by next month. We are doing the hospice thing. . . .
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December 23, 2008 04:22 PM EST --
If dreams of paradise should come
and put reality aside,
How will the hope of years abide
Within our hearts, or whispers of humdrum
Existance fail to be forgotten . . .
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August 27, 2007 01:35 PM EDT --
In my town there is a Farmer's Market on the Tri-County Fairgrounds every Saturday morning beginning at 9 am during the growing season. From two to six vendors set up tables and cash boxes . . .
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November 30, 2007 07:44 PM EST --
Poetry
Music from the Heart
So much depends upon
words
set in motion
a comma here,
a dash-- there.
So much depends upon
feelings
held in check
a tear there
a sigh here.
So much . . .
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November 30, 2007 08:04 PM EST --
Mid Summer Night
I wake to darkness
moonlight shining silver through
a cool window pane
Rarified Lunch
Fresh tomatoes sliced
red rose in a drinking glass
cup of cool water
Night . . .
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January 19, 2008 08:31 PM EST --
A STALINGRAD REQUIEM
For My Historian Friend
I have seen history only through your eyes.
Its drums have pounded death into my head.
I have watched a billion soldiers die,
Yet . . .
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August 30, 2007 09:28 PM EDT --
Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language
By Kendall King Ph. D. and Alison Mackey Ph. D.
The authors of "The Bilingual Edge" are both Georgetown University professors in the . . .
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September 07, 2007 08:25 PM EDT --
Fiction is my passion, but really good, gripping fiction is hard to come by. I don't mean action adventure; not my style. Give me a story about real, fleshed-out people, not flat . . .
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February 02, 2008 09:40 PM EST --
The path they may have walked
is slippery with the late-spring snow.
My feet move on new clover ~ edged in ice
so like my heart ~ remembering
frightened children crying in the dark. . . .
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May 02, 2008 09:00 PM EDT --
We've had a strange spring in Bishop, CA where I live. In late February we had a 10 day warm spell when our trees leafed out and our fruit trees budded for fruit. Sadly, all . . .
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December 15, 2007 11:23 PM EST --
Already this Christmas I have received many lovely and treasured cards. However, the one I want to share with you was selected by my daughter. A rather small card really, and simple in design. . . .
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March 01, 2008 06:48 PM EST --
"I gave them to my housekeeper," my mother says.
She is eighty and frail.
"Those old green beads of mine, the earrings too.
You never wear earrings."
A small thing, yet it . . .
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