Love is selfless, yet it exhilarates the self. ~ Karen Casey, Each Day a New Beginning A conundrum, it is. Confusing, difficult, seemingly contradictory. Love is selfless… unselfish, concerned with hopes and dreams, wishes and needs of someone…everyone…else before your own. […]
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Stratospheric Recovery
And up in the front was this big long table, raised way up there and that was where the trustees sat… stratospheric recovery! ~ Vicki W Importance. Prominence. Achievement. Some people just have it made! And others look up to […]
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Fifteen hundred eighty-nine days I write a poem the night before, post it usually before six the next day but I went to bed early, didn’t. How could I have missed? An evening at home, not on a ship, not […]
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Annoying, critical, inane. Love them. Lying, cheating, scheming. Love them. Tedious, boring, irritating. Love them. Ubiquitous chatter, maddening. Love them. Critical, uncouth, dishonest. Love them. Pitiful, time-consuming, helpless. Love them. Bring them to your standards, embrace them despite it all, […]
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. ~ Rosa Luxemburg [Is a quotation less a poetry prompt when you Google her and disagree on every aspect of life? Is truth truth or is it limited to the truth meant when […]
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