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Strong

A lump has formed inside my chest. It is heavy, a true burden. I don't know when it became. It just is. It is rude and interrupting, like a telemarketer calling during Christmas supper. It burns inside of me; yearning for attention, wanting to affect my every thought, my every move. It claws at my heart, my lungs, my ribs; its only purpose to cause harm and distraction. It scars my organs and tears at my throat with a passion so thorough it is terrifying. I begin to feel nauseous, as though…

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Added by Steen Krause on March 28, 2011 at 6:47pm — 8 Comments

Creative Writing Challenge #23 - The Fault Line

There are those who say the fault belongs to mining.  Take out so much of the earth's core and it will surely collapse.

There are those who say the fault belongs to Christians who asked God to "open the eyes of the Atheists."

There are those who say the fault belongs to HAARP...  I had to look that one up because I couldn't figure out how old retired people could bring about an earthquake!!

There are those who say the fault belongs Jessica Simpson.  I didn't research…

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Added by Sheree on March 16, 2011 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

Crazy Eights

so the future arives

in full bloom 

and wanting 

 

all i said before 

was candy 

and I glossed my 

eyes over

 

over and again 

'til something rang my bell 

alone on the hill 

I heard the rhythm 

blanking me away 

 

and soon did something else come 

into the empty places 

filling spaces left vacated

by the endless stream of lonelinesses 

dancing in my…

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Added by Bains on March 13, 2011 at 6:59pm — 3 Comments

so the future arives in full bloom  and wanting    all i said before  was candy  and I glossed my  over my eyes    over and again  'til something rang my bell  alone upon a hill  I heard the rhythm  …

so the future arives

in full bloom 

and wanting 

 

all i said before 

was candy 

and I glossed my 

over my eyes 

 

over and again 

'til something rang my bell 

alone upon a hill 

I heard the rhythm 

blanking me away 

 

and soon did something else come 

into the empty places 

filling spaces left vacated

by the endless stream of lonelinesses 

dancing in my…

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Added by Bains on March 13, 2011 at 6:58pm — No Comments

You're IN Love

This is the one I want to enter for contest

 

You’re in Love

Words and Music Sherry Somach

Well, hello

Been such a long time

How are you?

Who’s your friend?

Pretty and special, I’m sure

Is she someone new?



Old memories

Heart skips a beat

Hope starts to rise….

‘Till I look into your eyes



Chorus

You’re in love, I know

When you look at her, you glow

I’m in pain, can’t you see?

Cause that’s…

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Added by Sherry Somach on March 9, 2011 at 4:46pm — No Comments

Written in White









A pear tree drapes herself in white lace,

Blushing behind clouds as she slips on her garter,

Preparing to renew vows to Spring.





A hard mint winter is finished

She trembling in breeze,…
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Added by Dorraine Darden on March 7, 2011 at 1:08pm — 3 Comments

Even So

In those final, strange days, rhyme and reason became irrelevant. Plastic bags rose on balmy breezes, like birds of a feather, flocking together. The mottled sun sank into an oily sea, and indeed few dared openly doubt God was in his Heaven and all was right with the world.

 

Thought, once relegated to the highest common denominator of human endeavour, was reduced to mere flashes of semi-consciousness, expressed in grunts and bulbous gestures by humanoid creatures barely more…

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Added by David Vidal on March 3, 2011 at 6:56am — 2 Comments

What I Like About Sleep

Eloise and Evelyn got to the top of the escalator, eggplant firmly in hand. As they got off, they couldn't help but notice that a priest, a rabbi and Batman were getting on the descending escalator. The de-escalator, as it were.

 

"What is this... a joke?" Evelyn groaned.

 

"We're going to a bar!" Batman boasted.

 

"Why don't you join us?" rasped the rabbi.

 

"Please!" panted the priest. "Bring your eggplant!"

 

"What the…

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Added by David Vidal on March 2, 2011 at 4:06am — 2 Comments

Lyrics for Mad Gypsy Woman

I just entered this for contest. Wrote it a few weeks ago.

Enjoy

 

Mad Gypsy Woman

1) You stole my heart

And ran off like a petty thief

You tossed it carelessly

Like it was a piece of tainted beef



2) You burned my eyes

When you stared into them with desire

Still I can see your swarthy face

Through the images of searing fire

Chorus

If I could find you I would wrap my arms around you

Then choke you half to death…

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Added by Sherry Somach on March 1, 2011 at 11:22am — No Comments

Lyrics to Waiting for Spring

This is a catchy littly ditty that one of my online singer/songwriters put to music. I Uploaded the music.

 

Here are lyrics

 

Waiting for Spring

1) I

I am

I am waiting

I am waiting for the beauty of Spring



2) I

I am

I am listening

I am listening for the robins to sing



Chorus

Wanna shed my coat

Wanna walk in the dark

Wanna hear the sounds of the ice cream man

Wanna thaw my heart

Wanna see…

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Added by Sherry Somach on February 24, 2011 at 8:22pm — No Comments

Coffee with Qadaffi

Coffee with Qadaffi



(M elodramatic and world weary )



My life is so boring; there is nothing left undone

Everything is la de da and just so damn hum drum

Though I’ve been to gay Paree and seen the wonders of the world

Sometimes I want to take off on the run….or get a gun



Bridge

Because my life is stinkin’

I have done some thinkin’

Gonna hop an airplane; here’s what I’m gonna do:



(This part, time to swing it!)

1) I’ll…

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Added by Sherry Somach on February 24, 2011 at 11:03am — 1 Comment

for Uncle Tom

Last Thanksgiving Uncle Tom said, “In all these years, I’ve never so much as gone in for a check up”. Mom says it was because he sensed that something was changing with his health, and he was letting us know in his own way. For a while, he talked about moving back to Oklahoma to be closer to us. He didn’t want to be alone anymore. But then, when it really came down to it, he changed his mind again. Decided he’d just stay on his old place up in California. He’d been living on his own little plot… Continue

Added by Faith Phillips on February 22, 2011 at 12:06pm — 8 Comments

Rick Reiley's 'Mud & Bone' Defies the Grave - An Album Review

Nature’s vibrant colors scarcely register on the cover of Rick Reiley’s new record, Mud & Bone, before the realization sets in that the musician’s ghostly visage sits among the headstones of a cemetery. Early assumptions abound, suggesting an album that might serve as the regretful pining of a man morose and resigned to the confines of the grave.



But the album’s inaugural track, Gulf Breeze, fans away any reservations with island energy layered atop a folky backdrop. What follows… Continue

Added by Faith Phillips on February 21, 2011 at 10:52am — No Comments

The Nest

Made of twigs, perched high in the sky 

atop a smoke stack, not hidden from thine eye.

The twigs they poke, let in the smoke,

it hurts and I feel blind.

 

Safety is fleeting in the nest,

it's positioning is quite volatile.

I'm going, you're coming, I'm coming, you're going,

yet we watch over it all the while.

 

I know it will not last forever,

the wind will eventually blow it down.

But not until all that we…

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Added by Karrie Chambless on February 16, 2011 at 9:56pm — 6 Comments

The Discreet Charm of the Discrete

I've just written a new essay and submitted it to the FQXi Essay Contest: "Is Reality Digital or Analog?"

If you are interested in science, please have a look!

Here is a link to my essay, entitled:

The Discreet Charm of the Discrete

Added by Paul Halpern on February 16, 2011 at 6:51pm — 3 Comments

Creative Writing Challenge #22--Write what you like , but you must use the words eloise, escalator, evelyn, edmund, executioner, and eggplant.

Eloise was just stepping onto the escalator in the lobby of the hotel where she'd gone to have her usual Friday "nooner" with her ex-boss, Edmund, who had, over the years, begun to approach their trysts with all the excitement and interest of an executioner  (hmmmm, wonder would he perk up a bit if she made him wear a black hood?), when she heard her name begin called and, turning 'round, discovered her neighbor, Evelyn, wearing a hat that looked for all the world like a huge eggplant and… Continue

Added by Sheree on February 10, 2011 at 11:14am — No Comments

Creative Writing Challenge #21--Your subject: a priest, a rabbi, and batman go into a bar...

A priest, a rabbi, and Batman go into a bar…  I've worked on this for days and I've got nothin' so I'm putting it up on FB and I'll bring you what my more creative friends write.

Added by Sheree on February 10, 2011 at 10:48am — 1 Comment

Indulgences

Indulgences



Brownies éclairs chocolate ice-cream

Massage facial steam room mist

Brazil Samba Salsa Tango

Lobster pot wine kiss



Meringue Marengo Marimba martini

Ocean waves bikini sun

Snap jazz blues Bossa Nova

Rainbows blue sky fun



Saturation

Mystification

Inclination

Vacation



Passion Fruit incense fragrance

Sandals scandals bandits books

Eyes smile arms embrace

Mountains nature antique nooks…

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Added by Sherry Somach on February 9, 2011 at 10:06pm — 2 Comments

Creative Writing Challenge #20 - Talk about a life lost that would change your life significantly if that person were still here.

In the late 1980s our family was blessed by a baby boom that brought us five little boys.  As they reach their landmark years of high school graduation and legal drinking age, it's hard not to reflect back on the one that didn't survive and wonder what our family would be like if he had.



All of these boys were special in their own way; Xavier was my mother's first great-grandson, Jesse was my baby brother's first child, Shane was my older brother's first grandchild, Josh was my… Continue

Added by Sheree on February 7, 2011 at 9:33am — 1 Comment

Creative Writing Challenge #19-"I don't make New Year's Resolutions for myself, but one I'd like to make for someone else is...."

I would like us all to resolve to be kinder in the coming year.  Let's pretend that 9/11 happened only three months ago and we're all still in such a state of shock that we can't possibly be rude or nasty or dismissive of each other.

Added by Sheree on February 7, 2011 at 7:32am — 8 Comments

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