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What Seeds You Water
This weekend was a whirlwind of activity and celebration; weddings, graduation parties, fun and not-so-fun endings. But one of the slower moments came from watching Wayne Dyer on Super Soul Sunday, in case you don’t know, Oprah’s alternative to Sunday morning sermons and televangelists. A snapshot would be this: you can’t afford to think anything…
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#POETRY Last Day 30/30
So this was just as challenging as it was last year. So I leave you with the last two. Enjoy. If I Can If I can steal awayfor a few precious momentshold fast and take breathinto this full-throttle paced lifestep back from the stormwatch it passthere might be some space leftto create something newout of…
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#POETRY 21
<!–[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]–> Twenty-One I just got started: Community college class-load Part-time employed Starving student vegetable rice dinners Cheap tennis-shoes Growing out dyed hair Retro-fied hippy wardrobe Minimum payment on maxed out credit cards Running slippery rain hills Boyfriend at the 4-year university Push start Volkswagon Super-beetle. I went on to waste my time…
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#POETRY "To the Maidens"
To the Maidens;You less than skinny,stockings runned, pock-marked, less than perfect beautiesYou who can not compete with airbrushed liesBut live full out in your speckled skin wonderWorsened by the unknown chemicals in foodSupposed to feed but poisoning us.Those earned feathery eyesSparkling behind oceans of tears,Shed in moments of pain or joyThey do not compareTo the…
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#POETRY catchup 22, 23, 24
Suntanning Let us just call itwhat it really truly ishot red angry skin. Lollipops Childhood sweet delightsSticky mess when stuck in hairgood until the stick. Treehouse My husband wants oneA chance to live in the wildBut I am the wild.
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#POETRY or lack thereof
Can’t live without you Tasty deliciousonce black now creamy goodnessmy morning coffee. An Love Letter to Chocolate So many ways you have come to me:hot chocolate with marshmallows milky goodness or dark mysterybitter bars used for cookingmelted goodness for dippingsometimes dipped and then hardened over bananas or pretzels heated by flamed marshmallows between layers of…
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#Poetry so far behind I don’t know where today will land
SixteenWe’ve been here beforeand yet we repeat the same wordshoping they’ll mean something elsebut their truth holds strongerthan those items on the old crazy glue commercials. And all those needs for normalall those holes trying to fillwith cigarette smoke and clairol hair dyeshort skirts and big haironly further pollutes the environment,kills the fish and the…
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#POETRY 15 of 30
FrostingBirthday partyFriendsBouncing Baby BoyFrench onion dip deliciousnessBirthday candles never litFreezing in Southern California WaterBadmintonWandering mallardsBocce ballsWomen talkingBrilliant IdeasWords of WisdomBarbecueWind No one lit themselves on fireNo one shot their eye outNo one got food poisoningNo, it was a good day.
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#POETRY co-written by Tiffany Tang
I’d post a link to her blog but I can’t find it!We wrote this on text messages back and forth.We may add more later. Death Death sits on the couch,doesn’t like the drapes,hates the furniture,and wonders when his time will come. Death sits on the couch,contemplating suicide and thinking,“Well, that’s just redundant.” Death sits on…
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a blog post a little #POETRY
My thoughts for the day: I still stick my foot in my mouth, I just have learned not to chew on it. This pretty much applies every day. And it’s a little atrocious sometimes. But I’ve also learned to keep my mouth shut and THAT actually helps. A LOT. Now here’s the Poetry, I’m behind…
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