Tag: writing
group name: originaliterate
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July 18, 2008 02:15 PM EDT --
I sat alone in the small café, trying to appear worldly and confident enough in myself to have dinner alone. After all, lots of people eat alone. I, myself, had seen many a woman sitting at a table . . .
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October 13, 2009 04:01 PM EDT --
Crit Welcome! I wrote this piece today just for this Tuesday's Child challenge. Help me make it better!
Autumn had fully descended upon my little town of Dead Cricket, Missouri. . . .
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April 18, 2008 10:01 AM EDT --
LOVE IN TIME
So many lost encounters, so much pain.
For years we sought each other.
And now we've had that hour
in the late spring shade
when time does . . .
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December 04, 2007 12:59 AM EST --
It swam around her
Like sparkling Koi in a coral reef,
This quality of idea and capture.
Her eyes washed color all around,
With just a glance she stole feeling
The . . .
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June 18, 2008 02:06 PM EDT --
I see you across the room...with her...the one I despise with all of my being. She smiles at you and bats her eyes like she has something special to offer. You smile back and take it . . .
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June 20, 2007 05:22 PM EDT --
Hi Crew/Fellow Gather Members:
You might have noticed that I recently joined your group. It was because I just recently joined Gather. I noticed you were a supporter of Barack Obama, and I . . .
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July 21, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
This poem is based on true events reported in a local newspaper.
She loved him so much
She shot him twice
Left him once
For dead
In love’s name
Anyhow, he lived, somehow
Her guilt drove . . .
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January 06, 2008 10:40 AM EST --
Rememories Interlogue to Quarter Til Judgement Day
In my studio, the wind flipped through . . .
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January 17, 2009 11:37 PM EST --
Words float
just out of reach.
Taunting, teasing
as they elude.
Reach out
and snatch for one.
It flies away,
laughing.
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July 25, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
WATCHING RHINE
It just lies here in its big
curve through Basel
on an early autumn
evening, possibly wanting
to have changed its course
a few times over the years
but maybe not minding . . .
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January 09, 2008 09:03 PM EST --
I want my own burger, why can't I have my own?
Honey, we've already talked about this in the car, please don't make a scene.
I don't care, I want my own. I'm tired of sharing. . . .
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January 29, 2008 06:25 PM EST --
I look up and see the time 05:57, blink ...57 F.
Really?? Mmmmm...
Close my eyes, open... 05:58 followed by 58 F.
Smile...stretch...Cramp cramp...alert alert...noooooo..bend knee...grab calf ...rub . . .
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July 21, 2009 10:57 AM EDT --
I have searched for you through the ages Only glimpses of your magnificent beauty Full of the light and glory of the Almighty Never seen with my own eyes Only the testimony and the blood of martyrs In . . .
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March 31, 2007 10:58 AM EDT --
Alone forever?
Standing on the dock
My voice echoes in black sky
And travels to stars
Dogs within two miles
Can hear my cry in the night
The sky hears nothing . . .
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August 23, 2007 06:25 PM EDT --
I spun the wheel until the knotted center mark was in my palm. I lifted the engine’s lever and the diesel hummed as I quickened my step along the deck, grabbed the stinger and lifted the mooring . . .
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November 23, 2006 05:32 PM EST --
I woke up and though I did not dare say it, I was surprised to be alive. I pulled back the curtain to look outside, but the light hurt my eyes. Putting the curtain back in place I . . .
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May 27, 2007 10:12 AM EDT --
All I wanted was for my poem to appear left justified in a standard Windows font other than 10pt Arial and not single spaced. I even tried to put in blank lines. It even looked right . . .
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October 16, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
Blank white canvas with no expectations
Smooth cloth grain, thirsty to absorb pigment
Catching light and reflecting back all, indiscriminately
Dip a putty knife into a pool of pigment, thick . . .
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June 04, 2007 02:33 PM EDT --
This is question for writers. Have you ever written something that you think is original, but after looking at it found yourself wondering how in the history of humankind, you could have been the . . .
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January 09, 2009 11:10 PM EST --
asdfjkl;
asdfjkl;
My fingers know you well.
asdfjkl;
asdfjkl;
They rest on you so often.
asdfjkl;
asdfjkl;
You are the center of a universe.
asdfjkl;
asdfjkl;
Worlds of words created . . .
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