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May.08.2013
Judgement yearns for Empathy, an intense yearning that makes him feel things in his heart and solar plexus that he doesn’t understand, and because of his lack of understanding, he ignores them, discounts them to nothing.
That’s the trouble with Judgement, he rarely thinks beyond what he knows. He...
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May.08.2013
May 8
A Good Ship
Recently my life has taken on a surreal quality. I stand in front of myself as if I were a business to be run or a project to be undertaken. The intensity, uncertainty and drama seem to be on the wane. There are...
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May.08.2013
In time for Mother's Day a beautiful poem about motherhood.
Dahlia Ravikovitch from True Love
In Line For A Show
Translated by Orna Raz
Perhaps you and I won’t remember
how we stood in line together,
hand in hand.
And each time you talked to me
I heard nothing,...
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May.07.2013
The soul is thick and dense,
but hold it up
and tiny pinpricks of light shine through~
each little hole a deep pain
that love failed to heal.
© annettealaine-2013
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May.07.2013
When I was a young girl, I was, in a way, my mother's doll. I was an extension of herself–an extension of all of her hopes and dreams; it wasn't always easy for many reasons, for the choices she made in life long before I was born and had to live with, for the anger she held inside and acted out on...
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May.07.2013
Black Venus: James MacManus
Flowers have a certain alluring aroma when they are newly placed in a vase. The scent is pure, the color perfect and the stems perfectly straight and pronounced. But, after a while the color loses its luster, the scent fades and the odor might become rancid or...
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May.05.2013
May 5
With and Without
With my sponsor- Without my drinking buddies
With my Big Book- Without my contrived dogma
With my home group- Without my dysfunctional family
With my step work- Without my mental masturbation
With my sobriety-...
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May.05.2013
Exodus 34:5-7 And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for...
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May.04.2013
The Romantic eighteenth century.
The final love letters of Lord Huthbert and Penelope M.
England 1769 -1784
(Sent from Port Apotty, Africa, May 34, 1784)
My Dearest Darling Angel Penelope,
Alas! This will be my last correspondence my sweet, as I make my way home across the sea...
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May.03.2013
Many of Ravikovitch’s themes in her earlier work are familiar, and universal. The most prevalent ones are: the child/woman’s feeling of personal deprivation and injustice, perhaps abuse (in the poem below Standing in the Street), problematic love (Love), and death (In Memory of Saint...
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