Tag: thoughts
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September 06, 2008 09:32 PM EDT --
My Dairy (Part 2)
An exquisite aroma was in the air
as my mother approach my dreams,
silence always was normal inside my realm,
time after time I dreamed
of becoming an adventurer, . . . more
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February 27, 2007 03:55 PM EST --
Many of you know that my mom has cancer. She was diagnosed with 4th stage, inoperable lung cancer a little over a year ago. The doctor told her that without the treatment that she was refusing, . . . more
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June 30, 2008 02:24 AM EDT --
I am a spent bomb,
Shell of a woman.
The fragmentation
Of somebody's dream
The remnants of a nightmare
She never knew she had.
I am without self
A mass of tissue
Mutated to human . . . more
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May 18, 2008 03:19 AM EDT --
If I'd died while you still loved me,
Then I would never know the pain
of watching you walk away
and being all alone again.
If I'd died in the beginning,
before I memorized your face, . . . more
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August 26, 2008 07:15 PM EDT --
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
What do they pack Styrofoam in?
Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
If you can't drink and . . . more
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July 05, 2008 03:59 AM EDT --
In the park
a chubby pink child
rests on a bench
in her mother's arms,
eating long strands of blond hair
in affectionate clumps,
and staring at embracing lovers
who smile back.
In . . . more
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March 04, 2007 01:11 AM EST --
Heartache
Longing
Loneliness
Friendship
Connection
Joy
Today
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Love
Grief
Despair
Hope
Happiness
Grace
Time
Space
Density
. . . more
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October 03, 2007 10:45 PM EDT --
Growing up, I was always told that I was shy. I admit that I was not a talkative one. To this day I am not the talkative one in a group. I used to believe that I was shy. When people . . . more
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June 10, 2008 12:54 AM EDT --
They say that tomorrow is as yet unwritten,
yet each day for me is a repetition of yesterday,
and predicting my own future is as simple
As recollecting my sordid past.
Unfulfilled dreams and . . . more
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June 28, 2008 04:50 AM EDT --
Mementos of memory crumble
Like Spring clover breaks,
Brittle between pages
dry and stained.
My fingers sadly soothe
Tear moist eyes, blurred by time
And I feel destined
To run a perfect . . . more
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June 30, 2008 02:51 AM EDT --
Alone in the darkness,
I stand at my window
and gaze down on my deserted block,
barely lit by a single street lamp.
Suddenly, I see him,
The old man sitting lonely
On the September cold, . . . more
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July 03, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
Leaning on the cracked, discolored concrete wall,
I stare down into the sluggish green creek.
My eyes focus on faded beer cans,broken bottles,
And semi-shredded pampers.
My thoughts slide inevitably . . . more
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June 30, 2008 04:28 AM EDT --
At the foot of a tree
Brown wisps of memory
Clutter the ground
and choke the grass
But the tree stands unconcerned.
Gnarled and wrinkled from ages of wind and sun,
It is old with the wisdom . . . more
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December 25, 2007 10:32 PM EST --
Can you believe it? 2008 is right around the corner! Share your hopes, dreams, and thoughts about the coming new year, and what you learned from your last resolutions and 2007.
Just click . . . more
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August 08, 2007 12:09 PM EDT --
When I was in college, I was forced to take a Career Development class. It’s funny, I graduated with full honors, but I despised that class. It was the only class I went into with a closed mind, . . . more
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October 21, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
When I was 18 or 19, I had great plans for my life. I was in college studying abstract painting when this brilliant thought came to my mind one day while I was working in the studio, carefully applying . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:43 PM EST --
PART III
When I first moved back to New York the summer of 1977 and after I had settled into the apartment I shared on 103 street, I was pretty much consumed by two things: finding a job . . . more
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February 29, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
Last night, when I was saying my prayers, I asked God to make outer space a little bit smaller and to make everything in it a little bit closer, so we could visit some of those places without having to . . . more
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January 07, 2008 08:01 PM EST --
I wrote last week that the results of my ultrasound were normal. Today I had to go to the ER because I was in so much pain. They did a CT scan and found a large mass, about the size of a baseball, . . . more
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May 16, 2008 01:57 PM EDT --
It is you who starts my morning.
I think of you at the close of each day.
You are part of everything I do.
Your permeate each word that I say.
You're the smile that lights my face
And the . . . more
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