Tag: life
group name: firsttimewriters
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July 20, 2008 11:00 PM EDT --
The robin's alarm and the crow's rude cackle are all to be sensed...
The world still sleeps, except for the birds of pre-dawn...
So complete is the darkness here, no laws exist, . . . more
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October 01, 2008 04:55 AM EDT --
Forever New
My friend packed her just-used wedding dress, a beautiful thing, saying to me, "I'm saving this for the daughter that I will have; she can wear it and pass it on. It will be . . . more
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December 18, 2006 11:15 PM EST --
(I wrote this one on June 6, 2004. Esperehwon* is what I call the little "nature refuge" that surrounds our house.)
Chip - chip - chop chop chop!
Sparrows into Esperehwon*, my how they . . . more
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July 07, 2008 09:55 PM EDT --
See the sly boy's face...
Between the thicket of two pines...
Look up, see the sunshafts...
Busting through branches, through leaves and tangle...
Of maple fronting . . . more
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July 17, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
He's quite certain that his parched throat, his squint means no disrespect to the sun.
Morning breaks and with comes the bravery of songbirds seeking food
It humbles him ... . . . more
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February 06, 2007 09:41 AM EST --
Critique is always appreciated and gladly accepted - Marilyn
I couldn't take my eyes off it. There it sat, right in Annes window, the crystal that I'd fallen in love with the very first time I'd . . . more
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July 03, 2008 10:13 PM EDT --
It was a gift... unexpected... and unaware you needed it until it was there.
The best kind of gift.
Lunchtime in downtown StP. The tension of a work morning at a terminal . . . more
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July 08, 2008 10:42 PM EDT --
I swore off the whole damn thing not a week ago. I vowed that I would shun for the rest of the baseball season a team that I had long rooted for - the New York Mets.
"resolute" . . . more
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November 29, 2006 02:58 AM EST --
I have read a lot of articles here lately that have talked about suicide. I have also read a lot of articles that people have republished in order to bring them to the attention of newer members, . . . more
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November 25, 2006 09:03 PM EST --
This is my first article and It comes after a few posted comments from gather members and a few nasty e-mails from people who had things to say but weren't willing to put them in forum. . . . more
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December 11, 2006 05:56 PM EST --
T'was the month before Christmas
when all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying
Nor taking a stand.
See the PC Police had taken away
The reason for Christmas - no one could say.
. . . more
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May 22, 2008 09:10 PM EDT --
Liberty should always be interwoven into the human experiment that we call life. It is as vital to a humane society as the sun is to the vegitation on this earth. For most of those . . . more
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June 13, 2008 10:57 PM EDT --
Babbling Idiot; Temper Tantrum (two word challenge)
She sounded like a babbling idiot, but look at him - he was throwing a temper tantrum right in front of the world! So, as usual, I just watched . . . more
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October 01, 2008 05:10 AM EDT --
Cracked Cup
I'd seen the cracked cup on my grandma's diningroom table, painstakingly glued together, for years. Nobody, and I mean nobody used it, but from time to time, it was filled with . . . more
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December 06, 2006 11:38 PM EST --
THESE are the worthy linesI read yesterday so i thought to share with you all:
1.There are three kind of humanbeings-one who live for others , the second : who live for themselves, last:who are . . . more
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December 01, 2006 05:10 PM EST --
I live in missouri and we were hit with a big snow. At 1:35 am my loving husband woke me up to tell me the snow was covering the back porch. The back porch is about two feet from the ground. I told him . . . more
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January 20, 2007 11:46 PM EST --
I grew up in California.
I always wanted to live were it snowed.
The only time we got to play in the snow.
Was when we took a trip to the mountains.
I now live in Missouri.
It snows every . . . more
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December 27, 2006 09:50 PM EST --
My life is not just for living with you, its living for you. Its about your happiness, your smiles, sharing your miseries, easing your burdens. Its about loving you till it drives you crazy, its about . . . more
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June 30, 2008 10:29 PM EDT --
Tell me if you uber-amateur musicians have this experience.
I pick up the old axe (well, it's a cheap Fender acoustic so maybe axe isn't the right word)... maybe pocket knife.
. . . more
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June 11, 2007 09:54 AM EDT --
Last night I did laundry as per usual with my friend. He is a doctoral student at Temple and has been for I’d say the last ten years. I worked for our department at Temple and that is . . . more
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