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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Thoughts: 6 of 275

It's not the magical fairy tale ending that I imagined. I am not famous. I am not rich. I am in love, but it is not perfect. As a child, I eagerly anticipated the adult life that awaited me. As an adult, I mourn my expired childhood. I live in my memories of my imagined future, The way I expected life to be. I live in my mem...
Relationships & Family > Online Dating Online dating: Should you agree to meet if they don't have a picture posted?: 1 of 28

Four years ago, following the advice of my stepsister, I posted my very first online relationship profile. I didn't feel comfortable including a photo of myself. I worried that I would be judged for my photo and that my words wouldn't be given the focus I felt they deserved. As someone who values communication, I wanted pote...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Secrets: 28 of 161

Post secret garden I have many secrets. Boring human secrets. Un-earth-shattering secrets. Secrets you have too. Not always using a kleenex. Peeing in the shower. 10-second plus quick dust-off rule. Didn't see you coming for the elevator fake-out. Smile while I'm cringing. Nod while I'm nodding off. "Sure, I want to be here"...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Daily struggle: 12 of 59

Daily Struggle: Mocking Time What a life, that of clocks, Never a shift in the sound of their thoughts, Ticking and tocking for tardies to hear, Over and over, the grinding of gears. And I trapped within. The ticking may falter, but time it will not, From room into room, and clock into clock, Ticking and tocking its too-stab...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Humorous poems for children: 38 of 174

Ooga booga toffee and marmalade swirls Not to mention chocolate pudding pie. Ooga booga yummy and Mama-made curls Not to mention chocolate put in pie. Ooga booga happy and pop-up play twirls Not to mention chocolate foot cried. Toffee yummy happy Marma-mama-twirls Pudding put-in cried.
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Purpose: 6 of 27

Always, I longed for the guidance of a passion, one into which I could pour the wholeness of my being - its sorrows, its pain and its remorse, and the curious joys and pure glimmers of hope that are inevitably, unpredictably, dusted over all our lives. I needed to feel as though I finally had a purpose and a direction in thi...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Go on: 2 of 6

Go on. Feet numbed by the cold. Body exhausted by the daily to and fro. Another nine to five. Come. Gone. Go on. Not so cold today. Body exhausted by the daily to and fro. Another nine to five. Come. Gone. Go on. A few more cold days pass. Body and mind exhausted together. Another nine-to-fiver comes. Goes. Go on. The weeken...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Dogs: 21 of 58

Sam and Emma's Guide to Life Hello! We are Italian Greyhounds. We're six months old, full of beans, and love to tell stories. Here's our guide to an awesome dog life. - Part One: Mmm... Kibble... We eat three times a day! We like the round, crunchy brown stuff that our humans keep in the kitchen. We each get about half a cup...
Relationships & Family > Blended Families Is it possible to have a happy blended family?: 12 of 31

A blended family may be at a disadvantage if we consider how easily the ties could be severed forever. It has us looking for the emergency exit whenever times are tough. But are the challenges facing blended families necessarily insurmountable? There was a time when I would have shouted an emphatic YES. Today, I feel more op...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: When I was the one: 1 of 1

"Once upon a time, they lived happily ever after. " That's the fairy tale now. But when I was the one... "Once upon a time, in a land of love and life, a beauty and her handsome, they lived as man and wife. They had many children, they shared many laughs, they shed not a tear or fear for heartaches long since past. And they ...