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Print a poem. Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? - DFCOvideo. I Forgot My Phone 393 Views2 Likes Written by Charlene deGuzman & Miles Crawford Directed by Miles Crawford Starring Charlene deGuzman With (in order of appearance) Jacob Womack Nick Luciano Ani Baker Sabrina London Sean London Garrett H...

Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? - DFCOvideo

A New Story of the People 260 Views3 Likes How do we change the world? The Culture Of Reddit 392 Views2 Likes Since its creation in 2005, Reddit has grown into one of the most influential communities on the internet. PressPausePlay 339 Views3 Likes The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. He's Counting Down From 21, And By The Time He Reaches 15, My Stomach Is In Knots. To All The Mothers. Poetry 180 - Entrance. A Drinking Song by William Butler Yeats. Virginia Schaefer - Mudlark Flash No. 9 (2001) Absolutely Nothing by Osoanon Nimuss. Life and Death and Knowledge. Poetry - Frederick Perls - Gestalt Prayer. The World Dream Bank: Some Things Are Dark. Goods by Wendell Berry. Friday Apr. 25, 2014 Listen Download E-mail Share A Rainy Morning by Ted Kooser A young woman in a wheelchair, wearing a black nylon poncho spattered with rain, is pushing herself through the morning.

Goods by Wendell Berry

"A Rainy Morning" by Ted Kooser from Delights & Shadows. © Copper Canyon Press, 2004. It's the birthday of poet Ted Kooser (books by this author), born in Ames, Iowa (1939). He started writing poetry seriously as a teenager. He wanted to be a writer, but he flunked out of graduate school. Every morning, he got up at 4:30, made a pot of coffee, and wrote until 7. It's the birthday of the poet and journalist James Fenton (books by this author), born in Lincoln, England (1949). James Fenton said: "The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. It's the anniversary of the 1719 publication of Daniel Defoe's novel The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (books by this author). The project yielded some surprising findings. Production Credits.

HOW TO BE COOL : a newspaper blackout poem by Austin Kleon. The Aliens by Charles Bukowski. There will come a time. You know those tears... by Sebastian. Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath. TO KEEP BUSY. You Are Tired (I Think) by ee cummings. Suicide in the Trenches. Suicide in the Trenches I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark.

Suicide in the Trenches

In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain. No one spoke of him again. Stumble phrases. Univited by Angela holt. Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky, You Call It Drowning, I Call It Breathing by Saul Makabim. They ask me if I still love you. by Reed Kersey. Haiku Forge - Moments Lost in Time. Google Poetics. Cataract - Ferlinghetti-2. Previous – Next Hear it, if you have the free Real Audio Plug-in. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~ Cataract Table of Contents – Previous – Next Cataract Title Page.

Cataract - Ferlinghetti-2

Shane Koyczan - Tomatoes (spoken word poem) - StumbleUpon. Poetry of Nazim Hikmet Ran. XVII (I do not love you...) by Pablo Neruda. "The Spoon," a poem by Richard Jones. Charles Baudelaire. English 50 Exercises for Poets. Quotes by E E Cummings - maggie and millie and molly and may.

Solitude - Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Gabriel Gadfly. Lucid by Roberta Day. I know you don't watch me walk away. I know you don’t watch me walk away.

I know you don't watch me walk away

I know you don’t press your forehead against the double glass to keep me in your sight. There is no straining for that one last look, no time suspended in the final unblinking stare. You don’t stay with me until I am just another city glow fading in to night. Tonight I have said I don’t want to do this anymore. George Watsky- 'Drunk Text Message to God' There's a reason by A Thomas Hawkins. Failing and Flying- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. - StumbleUpon. » Three Oddest Words. How to Make Your Own Beauty Products from Scratch. Let's keep things simple this week.

How to Make Your Own Beauty Products from Scratch

When it comes to personal-care products, we are big believers in streamlining what you use—see "Eight Products You Think You Need But Don't" for a refresher—buying less in general, and getting creative. We have both always loved experimenting in our kitchens and our bathrooms, checking ingredients in products we love, isolating the main ones, and then trying them on their own. Sometimes it works: A favorite hair leave-in contained aloe, for example, so one day we tried aloe alone and found that, lo and behold, it worked just fine on its own. And sometimes it didn't. Over the years we have tried dozens of DIY beauty recipes to find ones we like—and that work.

Simple body scrub Honey face wash We already told you about our new favorite homemade face wash last week but here's the recipe: In the palm of your hand, combine a tablespoon of raw, unfiltered honey with a half a tablespoon of baking soda, mix it together, and apply to damp skin. Perfume Shave oil. Instructions by Neil Gaiman. Shel Silverstein: Poem of the Week. “My beard grows to my toes, I never wear no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.” – “My Beard” Where the Sidewalk Ends “Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail To catch me the wind.” – from “Needles and Pins” Falling Up “Millie McDeevit screamed a scream So loud it made her eyebrows steam.” – from “Screamin’ Millie” Falling Up “I will not play at tug o’ war.

Shel Silverstein: Poem of the Week

I’d rather play at hug o’ war” – from “Hug O’ War” Where the Sidewalk Ends “If you are a dreamer, come in.” – from “Invitation” Where the Sidewalk Ends “Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.” – from “Listen to the Mustn’ts" Where the Sidewalk Ends “Balancing my ABCs Takes from noon to half past three. Lips by Montana. Get (Almost) Any Book For Free: 100+ (Kosher) Sites Offering Gre. A Love Poem For Girls Who Read. Gabriel Gadfly. If I were a love poet. You Learn. The Secret. Don't worry, nobody has the beautiful lady, not really, and nobody has the strange and hidden power, nobody is exceptional or wonderful or magic, they only seem to be it's all a trick, an in, a con, don't buy it, don't believe it. the world is packed with billions of people whose lives and deaths are useless and when one of these jumps up and the light of history shines upon them, forget it, it's not what it seems, it's just another act to fool the fools again. there are no strong men, there are no beautiful women. at least, you can die knowing this and you will have the only possible victory.

The Secret

Shake the dust. Why I Hate Reading Maps. If by Rudyard Kipling. For The Foxes by Charles Bukowski. Throwing Away the Alarm Clock by Charles Bukowski. Share my father always said, "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Throwing Away the Alarm Clock by Charles Bukowski

" it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee, frying bacon and scrambled eggs. my father followed this general routine. I Met A Genius by Charles Bukowski. A quote by Charles Bukowski. Syntax Issue 4 - Poetry - Why I'm Still Here. Whole by Katrina Wendt. If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda. One Fine Day. I am Loud by Subconscious on Parade. Print a poem.