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November 20, 2009 10:45 PM EST
(shared with group: November 20, 2009)
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An Honest Prayer: It is a rare find, the honest prayer, one spoken with truth, and felt in the heart. The faux prayer, the pompous, arrogant prayer, the proper prayer, the spiteful prayer, the hollow . . .
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November 20, 2009 08:37 PM EST
(shared with group: November 20, 2009)
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Balloon home for the aged
Our family lives in a basket
attached to a helium balloon.
This morning we have chicken omelettes
then I leave my feelings hang on air
go to work . . .
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November 20, 2009 04:03 PM EST
(shared with group: November 20, 2009)
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This week's genre is “ Your choice” .
The story should be 100 words or less and written for the following prompt:
It's time for those Thanksgiving stories. . . .
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November 19, 2009 08:31 PM EST
(shared with group: November 19, 2009)
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Neighborhood
She could have been living in the center of earth
emitted just this moment without a care for
the twenty years passed in between. A teenaged love . . .
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November 19, 2009 08:06 AM EST
(shared with group: November 19, 2009)
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For those of you who don't know Kim, she is a fellow Gather member, author of the zany Shannon Wallace Mystery Series , and several contemporary romances, all available from Red Rose . . .
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November 18, 2009 08:20 PM EST
(shared with group: November 18, 2009)
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Timed out messages
Perspective thins out. Then all turns black.
Grandmother used to apply a crème.
The smell of memory in blackout
is like that; subtle and vanishing. . . .
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November 18, 2009 11:56 AM EST
(shared with group: November 18, 2009)
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You know a thriller is a good thriller when you feel you should watch it twice to make sense of it all. Such was the case for me with "State of Play." The first time I watched it I wasn't . . .
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November 18, 2009 09:02 AM EST
(shared with group: November 18, 2009)
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I was watching the movie "State of Play" this weekend, which features Jason Bateman in a supporting role. Then I got thinking, hasn't he made one of the greatest comebacks in Hollywood history? . . .
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November 17, 2009 08:45 PM EST
(shared with group: November 17, 2009)
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Hemlock for a drink : dinner for one
He knew what I was serving.
The nothing in his expression
could be called as calmness.
He drunk the hemlock as night fell.
I never . . .
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November 17, 2009 05:32 PM EST
(shared with group: November 17, 2009)
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I wanted to make sure you all know you can read my Origins of Christmas Songs and Traditions absolutely free online here:
The Origins of Christmas Songs and Traditions
Then, if you want . . .
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November 16, 2009 08:31 PM EST
(shared with group: November 16, 2009)
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Forced diet
“What we are is just what we believe.”
I tell this to my lunch hour glass of
water. The whole lunch consists only
transparent liquid and opaque grief. . . .
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November 15, 2009 08:32 PM EST
(shared with group: November 15, 2009)
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Imperceptible conspiracy
My eyes are not adept for those sounds
she listens;
it is not that easy to believe
what she sees.
White flakes fall on the cedars . . .
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November 15, 2009 08:05 AM EST
(shared with group: November 15, 2009)
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In this month's Poetic Monthly Magazine , my column reflects on Thanksgiving and the poetic form known as the cinquain. You can read this, along with other columns about poetry and writing and general, . . .
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November 13, 2009 08:38 PM EST
(shared with group: November 13, 2009)
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Roadside philosophy
Once you know more, you cannot escape
this evening tilting at an angle,
the straw strewn path for a walk with girls,
unnatural . . .
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November 13, 2009 07:27 PM EST
(shared with group: November 13, 2009)
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Well, not literally. I'm writing this with my feet solidly planted on Mother Earth. But I just got my new shipment of Young Living Essential Oils and I'm surrounded by scents that are lifting . . .
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November 13, 2009 03:45 PM EST
(shared with group: November 13, 2009)
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Read the review here
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November 13, 2009 02:20 PM EST
(shared with group: November 13, 2009)
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There's nothing in the world more lovely than a sleeping child.
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November 13, 2009 10:59 AM EST
(shared with group: November 13, 2009)
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There are good independent films out there. There are even good independent films about nerds, such as "Free Enterprise." Then there's "The Sasquatch Gang," which I unfortunately stumbled . . .
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November 13, 2009 06:10 AM EST
(shared with group: November 13, 2009)
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It’s over.
No longer will I hold my arms open and welcome you to my home as “friend,” waiting for your eyes to bore into me and squash me to the ground.
No longer . . .
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November 13, 2009 01:02 AM EST
(shared with group: November 13, 2009)
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Dear Answer Man: What's the deal with Friday the 13Th?
Joe C. - Birmingham
There are many explanations as to how Friday the 13Th started and why it is bad luck.
One explanation is that the . . .
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