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Feb.17.2012
It really began with "The Swing." I heard it, I read it, I memorized it, I wrote it, and then I wrote my own poem. I was in love. Truely infatuated with words. Ripple, why that rhymes with pimple-and I was off writing a poem about pimples on that boy's face. Before...
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Jan.06.2012
"Mom always said she wanted to go to Paris," my youngest brother said.
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I am going to Paris in the summer. My name is Denise; and with her french accent my grandmother always pronounced it just a little differently than anyone else did. I learned early on in my life that my...
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Jul.07.2011
When you walk in the sun, no matter how hot, remember the winter that's been. -daw
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May.27.2011
Dad is 92; he was born in 1919 and served in WWII in the Army Air Corps. Every year his squadron still holds a reunion and every year he still wants to go. I think my mother is glad she doesn't have to go any more. Every time I phone him, or see him he always has a story; usually the story is...
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May.03.2011
Hypomania, a symptom of manic depression disorder or bipolar disease, can have devestating effects on the body. It's 1: 33 a.m., you look at the clock an hour later it's 1:34 a.m.. Then it's 3:03 a.m.. Where did that 2 1/2 hours go? Were you awake, between sleeping and waking or doing something...
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Apr.01.2011
My friend, in the middle of a MN winter said, "Come on I want to find out about this 3-Day for the Cure." I said, "You've got to be kidding!" Well, out we went, in 12º weather, to an informational meeting. And out of the meeting we came, signed up to walk 60 miles in 3 days...
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Mar.18.2011
Why do men have short hair, I mean buzzed, and women have long hair, I mean full? Yes, there will always be the exception, we'll call them unisex, which means-Well, what does that mean since anytime you buy something in a unisex size it really is a mens' size, it is just the style is not offensive...
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Mar.06.2011
Impermanence; clear your mind and write about it. You sit still and focus on the nothingness about you, five, ten, time passes; the muse speaks and you begin to write. Has your mind focused on a single object and left all the background noise in a blur, like a wide aperture lens opening or are...
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Feb.15.2011
What do you see, hear, feel, with your body; what touches you, when you read poetry? Where do you feel it? Where do you find that feeling when you write within yourself? Where are the spaces, or places in life that you've gone to seek solace?
What I hear with my eyes,
What I see...
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Feb.13.2011
When I got my new camera I found this beautiful sunset right outside my porch window. As I got better at taking pictures so did the sunsets get better; they were directly proportional to each other. Then last night I found the best sunset ever, not in the setting sun but in the reflecting sky. ...
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Feb.11.2011
I don't know how I found "The Dot and The Line," but it was second to none when it came to mathematical stories. It captured the heart, was fun, and taught many lessons along the way. I taught mathematics for 32 years; not every child learns math from the book or by pencil and paper I...
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Feb.11.2011
I don't know how I found "The Dot and The Line," but it was second to none when it came to mathematical stories. It captured the heart, was fun, and taught many lessons along the way. I taught mathematics for 32 years; not every child learns math from the book or by pencil and paper I...
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Feb.09.2011
When I in still place/
I have a muse, she washes/
Stillness, pen dormat-daw/
Photo in my mind/
Washes a certain stillness/
Pen like its dormant-daw/
Stillness sometimes does not bring on the picture or word or words that resonate with the haiku. I have to force feed the poetry. It...
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Dec.25.2010
My favorite foods all seem to have red in them. This I can thank my mother for.
I am entering the house, a place I've never been before, which I can now call home because my mother is there. It is Christmas. The pot on the stove is boiling water. I set my bags down and get ready to help. Not...
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Nov.27.2010
my dad, a man
of many
words;
i his daughter,
a woman
of few-
one of our hours
of words
flow;
well, you learned
something
today,
didn't
you?-daw
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Calling to mind the work of naturalist-poet Mary Oliver, White paints a handsome yet arresting portrait of the joys and pains of living.”
—Press release from AuthorHouse
About Denise
I taught mathematics for 32 years during which time I had my jr. and sr. high school students write books showing their knowledge in words and in numbers. I have been a poet and journaler since about the age of ten. I have poetry published in Northern...
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Denise’s Favorite Books
House by the Sea, Dot and The Line, The Three Miss Margrets, The Kite Runner,The Zen Of Creativity, Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone