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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Mirrors: 1 of 80
I am the mirror upon the wallI see you whether short or tall.I see when you are looking goodI see the place where you just stood.I see your glance as you walk byIt's fun to catch that look so sly.You make one face then many morebefore you head straight out the door.Another stops to grab a gazeto seize the look of cool malaise... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Contemplation: 3 of 86
BEFORE THE EARTH SLEEPSThere is a timebetween the end of falland the beginning of winterwhen the fallen leaves have left the trees in skeleton,the clouds paint the sky in various shades of greyand the snow has not yet softened the stark realityof bare earth.It is a time of catharsis.A time to examine the cobwebs collected in ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Words: 10 of 260
Pure LanguageBreak down all the conventions.Replace the worn out words.Rip out the cliches.Throw out the anecdotes.Dump the metaphors.Trash the similes.Junk all the simplistic homilies.Drop the antonyms and synonyms.Eliminate ill-conceived alliteration.Get rid of the analogies.Leave out the articles.Eschew punctuation.Get dow... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Stars: 5 of 130
The Nursery of StarsThere is almost nowhere to stand toWatch the nursery of Stars.They grow in the kaleidoscopic dark of spaceNo greater a privilege is ours.Set spinning the cosmic rainbow of dustBillow the clouds of creation.Compress the energy into a sphereExpressing it's brilliant elation.Light and warmth and guidance afar... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Mother: 10 of 213
Prelude to : I Remember Mom....T'was in the month of May it was,a spirit for you to birth.A child, a charge to hold and love,with sadness and with mirth.I know not, from whence you came,Assume it was from God.To rear and raise an innocent child,right here on earthly sod.I REMEMBER MOMYou've scrubbed the floors and washed the ... More..
Personal Finance > Real Estate Will the real estate market rebound soon?: 1 of 20
A better question than "Will the real estate market rebound soon?" would be, "CAN the real estate market rebound soon?" The short answer is no. Investors talk about the fundamentals. A majority of housing fundamentals for the foreseeable future are not promising. The negatives are wide, deep and extend well into the future. ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: The future: 3 of 58
AND OF TOMORROWI peered into the pool of time to see what I could see.I there beheld a star of green, two red, and of blue three.From there extended webs of glass, with filaments silk fine.Entangled threads all twisted round a paranoid design.A desert dune of driven sand demanding now its due.An icy arch upon it lined, a micr... More..
Politics, News & Issues > News Industry Do mainstream media outlets favor bad news over good news?: 1 of 19
If you do a survey of a newspaper, television news show, radio news show or even a host of news oriented web news pages and add up the stories that could be identified as good, bad, informational or entertainment, you'd discover that the percentage of stories you might defined as bad are as low as 2 to 5 per cent. The proposi... More..
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: A dog's perspective on life: 2 of 35
Blue AirIt was my master's wife's fault from the very beginning. I really didn't even find out about it until I was older, old enough to have earned some respect. For the first six months of my life, I thought my name was Kipper, a reasonably fun name for a studly square-faced boxer like me. I don't like to brag, but I was be... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Government & Policies Should the national drinking age be lowered to 18?: 1 of 17
THREE YEARS OF CONSEQUENCE During the years, eighteen to twenty, nearly all young men and women crave peer approval, adult independence and youthful freedom. Mix them with a lethal sense of total invincibility and you have a deadly combination. Sadly for some, these three desires and the belief of being invincible, all too f... More..