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| Feb 25, 2008 @ 3:54 AM |
What writing, stories, books, poems, move you?
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burnslikethesun
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One of my must have I Jonthan Livingston Seagal. It always stuck in my mind. Even when I swallowed and flew with the group.
I am now free. Jonthan has always been one of my literary heros.
What you got?
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| Feb 25, 2008 @ 4:05 AM |
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SweetKalena
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I got Robert Frost...fave poem "The Road Not Taken".
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
And then there is my love for the classic Wilson Rawls: "Where The Red Fern Grows"
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| Feb 25, 2008 @ 4:05 AM |
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burnslikethesun
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I offer my dear friend Tinks,
Promise Broken.
An MD poster. 
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| Feb 25, 2008 @ 4:06 AM |
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burnslikethesun
Posts: 13,112
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Love Frost.
Im related to Emmerson.
But Em. Dick, always gets my full attention.
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| Feb 27, 2008 @ 2:44 AM |
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jendaisybee
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I love the poetry of Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Marge Piercy,
Anne Sexton, Nikki Giovanni, Joy Harjo, and others.
For love and romance, ee cummings is good, but he's not my favorite to read...the other poets I listed have numerous excellent books available at any local library or bookstore.
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| Apr 8, 2008 @ 12:53 PM |
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debbz32
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This is one of my favorits.
The Invitation
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Canadian Teacher and Author
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dreams
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your
fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."
It doesn't interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after a night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
© 1995 by Oriah House, From "Dreams Of Desire"
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| Apr 16, 2008 @ 3:15 AM |
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Makya
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I absolutely love Edgar Allen Poe and Maya Angelou.
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| Apr 18, 2008 @ 9:44 AM |
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lj450
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Yes, I have movements quite often when I read.
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