Tag: writing
member name: Debra B.
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June 18, 2008 05:14 PM EDT --
I couldn't sleep last night so I let my mind wonder. When I finally harnessed my thoughts, this is what I had come up with. I'm not sure where the idea came from, but while I . . .
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December 04, 2008 01:29 PM EST --
I love Christmas, what it means, and the good it seems to bring out in people. On the flip side of that, though, I also hate the season for the commercialism and the pressure that the commercialism . . .
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June 12, 2008 11:55 PM EDT --
Floating on air
Nothing under my feet
Suspended 'tween high and low
Hanging.
No ground on which to stand
No walls on which to lean
The air has lost all warmth
Its chill wraps me
Cold. . . .
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June 29, 2008 08:09 PM EDT --
I was thinking of an old Red Skelton routine--the one of an old man at a parade caught up in emotion when the American Flad was carried by--and came up with this. So, with Independence Day coming . . .
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April 22, 2008 02:17 PM EDT --
It's early -- the house is cloaked in silence, making my quick steps seem lonely and loud. I wash my face. Leaning against the sink I look at my reflection in the mirror. I . . .
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May 01, 2008 07:01 PM EDT --
(This happened a couple of years ago, but is a true story.)
I don't consider myself a "coffee lover." Mind you, I have a cup in the morning, but it's not to . . .
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May 06, 2008 07:03 PM EDT --
Looking to the distance
the sun is kissing the earth.
A calico sunset 'neath a patchwork sky;
the shadows grow deeper,
the air smells sweeter,
I can hear the trees sigh.
And calm shrouds . . .
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May 01, 2008 08:01 PM EDT --
Here I am in this empty room
with no one to share my tea,
taking notice of the silence
that encircles me.
The light goes faint and then I see
the figure on the wall.
Suddenly it occurs to . . .
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February 20, 2008 06:04 PM EST --
The aged woman sits on her front porch
shelling some beans into an old iron pot
in her chair rocking back and forth
while humming a hymn. She's thankful for what she's got.
She went . . .
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May 14, 2008 04:38 PM EDT --
One reason my ex- is my ex- is because we stopped talking. If the kids were gone for the weekend, we would maybe say 10 words to one another during the entire period. . . .
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April 18, 2008 07:06 PM EDT --
For a period of 21 months I was working full time and going to school full time. I know-I know; others have done it, and have done it successfully, but I often thought that (at my age) I . . .
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