Friday, May 7, 2004
"I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?" - the best i muster TGIF
An apposite poem for the occasion: "I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us - don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. "How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell you name the livelong day To an admiring b[l]og!" No kiddos, not my poem. Belongs to my...
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Yep, last week's question about "dirty brown Gandhi" is finally answered.
I enjoy some of almost everyone's writing; each has a unique perspective. If we believe we should be anywhere WE want, and stop others having the right of FREE EXPRESSION or movement, we are doomed as was Alexander, Caeser, Napoleion, Genghis Khan and their lackeys. No one enjoys every single piece...
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Hate REARS its white tail; Education fails when insecurity abounds
Word Wars and World Wars... WHICH ONE DID U CHOOSE? TWO WORLD WARS or WARS AMONG WESTERNERS? (Definitely not OF, BY and FOR the so-called Third World Peoples). There are many things we take for granted, for instance that The First World War was truly the FIRST World War, and that the same goes for...
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OLD Haiku, New Haiku (Still fresh from 10 this Morning)
See Blog and Emily Dickinson Trick Question below. To whet your Dickensian appetite, heeere's EMILY: MY LIFE CLOSED TWICE BEFORE ITS CLOSE; IT YET REMAINS TO SEE IF IMMORTALITY UNVEIL A THIRD EVENT TO ME, SO HUGE, SO HOPELESS TO CONCEIVE AS THESE THAT TWICE BEFELL. PARTING IS ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN,...
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Guess the Poet, Win $$$n (Like a Moth to Fame, yes fame, not FLAME)
See the details in the Blogging of this Morning: Blogging this Morning I exhumed nurses and poets Like a moth to FAME
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WIn$"Winds of summer fields Recolect the way, -Instinct picking up the key
Winds of summer fields Recollect the way, - Instinct picking up the key Dropped by Memory." Anyone recognize this? I will edit this post in an hour to reveal the author's name. Anyone who guesses or knows the answer before then will win $$$$OOO?OOO$$$$$ Answer will be posted in Blog containing the...
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Clara BARTON Haiku when 17 yr Cicadas come a-calling (AMERICAN RED CROSS)
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, CLARA BARTON When cicacdas call, Daughters are mothers of man - Clara gets her due
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CLARA BARTON tidbit: She nursed her brother after an accident & discovered
In the period of the Civil War, women did not take on jobs outside the home. Teaching in one's community was one of the few outlets. Clara Barton - a spinster - became a teacher, and saw some of her former students die as soldiers in the Civil War. Her HOME-Hospital is in Maryland, if you want to...
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