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• I'm Not Strange

  Published: June 5, 2007, 9:26 pm

  Tags: Poetry

  I am a girl that likes snakes. I think they are so neat. Bugs do not creep me out. I will even dare to pick up a big black spider. I am crazy about trees even though I am allergic. As a child I hugged trees and talked to them. I adore cats and like to hug them. I used to kiss my cat on top of the head and hold conversations with her. I am a adult

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• The Indulgence Of Ingratitude

  Published: May 1, 2007, 8:30 pm

  Tags: Poetry

  the earth. From the book of poetry The Greatest Treasure by Amy Romaine Buchanan copyright 2005 published by

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• Exploring Eicha

  Published: July 23, 2007, 10:18 am

  Tags: 9av, Torah, Poetry

  and complicated piece of poetry. So many of our sacred texts have the most important piece right in the middle. As though the words and verses surrounding it were a cradle, a nest -- or rays of light radiating out from what we hold most dear. For this reason the traditional understanding holds that Leviticus is the most important book in

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• BUILD YOUR OWN COMIC EMPIRE: Part 1 - Writing

  Published: July 10, 2007, 4:19 pm

  Tags: Writing And Poetry

  By Jason Thibault, writer and artist of Battles Without Living WitnessesThis is going to be a multi-part series of 5-7 resource pages for all aspects of creating comics. I'll try to make it weekly or ...

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• THUGLIT.COM & OUT OF THE GUTTER MAGAZINE

  Published: June 21, 2007, 8:03 am

  Tags: Writing And Poetry

  Six years is a long time to wait between James Ellroy novels. I've been waiting since 2001 for the conclusion to the American Underworld Trilogy.At least David Peace and Andrew Vachss have been puttin...

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• Poetry Corner: I know I am winning

  Published: June 23, 2007, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Disability, General Nonsense, Bad Poetry

  I guess it's some comfort that, if I had any pretensions whatsoever, this stuff would not appear. Anywhere. But I am free of all pretension. I'm barely half awake today (the only state in which it is possible to compose verse of this standard), but there's nothing like the progress of a bloody rotten cold to teach you that, all things considered,

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• Friday Random 10

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Poetry, Music

  Well, here’s the last 10 songs that have come up: She Bangs The Drums by The Stone Roses What It Is by Bad Religion Midvikudags by Bj rk Hang On To Your Ego by The Beach Boys I Am A Rock by Simon & Garfunkel In The Garden by Bob Dylan Get It While You Can by Janis Joplin Through The Dark by KT Tunstall Breakout by

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• Writing Blogs as Entertainment and Bonus Story

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:28 am

  Tags: Blog, Blogging, Editing, Entertainment, Journal, Poetry, Story, Writing

  I am new to this site. That is to say that I am new to this blogging community, but not to blogging in general. I am a writer. And by that I mean someone who sits down to write almost every day. For a long time now I have kept a journal. I reflect on my life and try to write about any scrap of story idea or image that comes to mind throughout

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• So...

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Creativity, Love, Poetry, Romance, Writing

  I haven't been on for a while do to my heavily increased amount of work. A lot of weird things have been happening lately. I'm not really sure what to write at the moment. But here's some of my writing that I've done in my spare time.

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• The long walk home

  Published: August 1, 2007, 3:43 am

  Tags: Life, Poetry, Write

  i[b] have been lost on the roads in my mind forever...My childhood got lost on these same roads of wild love and hot summer nights...My heart was found on these same roads with gentle love and sweet memories...At the same time my heart was lost with tears and angry words...Roads all lead somewhere don't they?Now I am on a road that turns and twist

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• Autism Limericks

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Poetry, Stereotypes, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Education, Family, Health, Limerick, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Poem, Poetry

  4 autism limericks courtesy of the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form (OEDILF). Three speak of autism and “rotten,” “grisly reflection,” and “despair”; one ends with Autism’s taught us “as is”-m. I am working on my own attempt…….. Share This

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• The World’s Worst Poet

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Poems, Poetry

  An interesting tidbit: The late 19th century poet’s [William McGonagall] work is so bad he carried an umbrella with him at all times as protection from the barrage of rotten tomatoes he faced wherever he recited.

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• What Does Your Handwriting Teach You?

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:27 am

  Tags: Creative Process, Writing Poetry

  I’m not sure which poet said that, for her, writing is a physical process. She had to feel her arm and hand doing the work of the writing and the thoughts came from her mind down her arm and into her hand. An article about children and handwriting reminded me of that quote. In our house, the little one has gleefully been writing the letter

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• The Memoir - Does Our Privacy Die When We Do?

  Published: July 19, 2007, 8:16 am

  Tags: Poetry Books, Reading List, Writing Books

  Last night, I finished Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett. In this memoir, she writes about her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. Grealy attended the Iowa MFA program with Patchett, and they struck up a friendship there (at about age 21) that lasted until Grealy’s death at age 39. Grealy was most famous for her memoir Autobiography of

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• Colombian Poetry Festival

  Published: July 17, 2007, 7:50 am

  Tags: Poetry Readings, Poetry, Travel

  My Colombian friend told me about this Poetry Festival in Medellin. If you visit the link, you’ll see a photo with hundreds upon hundreds of people present for the closing reading. —- I’m a bit behind on responding to comments. Will do so soon.

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