Tag: nature
group name: oddinsights
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November 25, 2007 08:27 PM EST --
A few months ago, I was sitting in the living room when I noticed a large green spider on the glass of my front door. This spider was beautifully large and well proportioned. . . .
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October 25, 2007 01:09 AM EDT --
These gladioli
Blooming from bottom to top
Butter yellow smiles
O still water pond
Your serenity beckons
Balm for my tired soul
Waving grasses tall . . .
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July 11, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
I bought a bike last night. I did! I did!
This is a weird year for me.
It's the first year I've lived alone in my whole life.
This is the first year . . .
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July 11, 2008 10:20 AM EDT --
Why is it that human nature is always thirsty for blood? Take the games played at the Roman Coliseum. The masses loved that they were bloody and gory. They wanted the deaths of some . . .
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July 08, 2008 07:37 PM EDT --
I watch the sky, colored in pink ,
I feel the tender air, smelling new,
I stare and dream, unable to think,
I remember the sea , my favorite view.
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September 04, 2008 05:55 PM EDT --
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS
The Sea is angry again
The destructive power
of Mother Nature,
when she wants us
to listen.
We don't pay attention.
She wants what belongs . . .
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December 10, 2007 10:22 AM EST --
ICE STORM
MAY HINDER BIRDS
From being able to leave
their nests to forage
for food.
Experts Loony the Birdbrain
and Mildred the talking Flamingo Ironworks . . .
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June 13, 2008 07:15 PM EDT --
As the silver, glowing moon
Rests on horizon, all too soon.
The sweet dew builds on grass
Naturally.
As the burning golden orb
Of the sun doth absorb
The dew from . . .
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March 09, 2008 01:04 AM EST --
Pre-California, post Colorado, I lived in the desert at the end of a road, which was tucked into the foothills, next to the wash, that meandered up into the mountains, and turned into a . . .
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November 21, 2007 03:23 PM EST --
Trees cede leaves to air
Broken connections linger
atop winter grass
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November 26, 2007 07:09 PM EST --
When he closes his eyes
a fold of wizened skin slips quietly
to rest atop another tender pleat
then another and then yet another
until restive becomes settled
as lethargic . . .
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February 26, 2008 11:02 PM EST --
In the Western Zodiac, there are three dual signs: Gemini, Libra and Pisces and, while Gemini is usually given the most "press" over its dualism, it is those born . . .
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October 07, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
"Silently I slide along
measuring Creation with my scales.
You must listen closely to hear my sibilant song
for there is Wisdom
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October 11, 2007 03:10 PM EDT --
Voices dry as desert tears,
yet moist as rankest fen,
this Singer teaches us
the patience of Zen...
"Waste not, want not!
Your trash is my treasure.
Humming, hard at work, or
strolling at my leisure... . . .
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October 28, 2007 11:59 AM EDT --
Mingo Park located in the tiny town of New Eagle, just around the corner from the town (and river) of Monagahela, is a favorite with our kids and dogs. They have a huge open no-lea sh where . . .
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November 11, 2007 12:11 AM EST --
"I've been where the eagle flies, rode his wings 'cross autumn skies. Kissed the sun, touched the moon, but he left me much too soon -- my ladybird..come on down..." --
"Ladybird" . . .
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October 02, 2008 06:43 AM EDT --
On September, 30 (new style), Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the day of the Holy Martyresses Vera (Faith), Nadezhda (Hope), Lyubov (Love) and their mother, Saint Sophia (Wisdom).
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December 12, 2007 04:01 PM EST --
the sacred dyad
not the monist’ miracle
life’s essentialness
takes two to tangle ova
makes three to bear the future
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March 11, 2008 01:11 AM EDT --
First the soil moves, exposing a small incision in the crust.
Then the earth pushes upwards, but not so you would notice.
Like a concerto at its climatic point, a . . .
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October 06, 2007 06:05 PM EDT --
"My broad green hands
hold aloft a slender wand.
Drink me, bathe in my essence
and I will wave away pain,
cleanse blood, banish poison.
Yet I am thought a weed . . .
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