Tag: writing
member name: gautami tripathy
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September 13, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
Smell of smoke and gunpowder filled the air. There were explosions all around the tower. Tom sounded the alarm and began returning fire, trying in vain to stop the screams of his fellow soldiers reaching . . .
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September 26, 2006 02:14 PM EDT --
what is poetry?
a few have asked.
i don't blame them
they know not'
rhyme and rhythm
is that all?
no my dears,
it's not!
i write what I see
i write what I feel
i write about love
i write about . . .
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October 16, 2006 12:52 PM EDT --
This has been in my mind for sometime now, to be precise, some months now. It involves most of us in our present life style.
The big question is: have we really become so depraved that we are almost always . . .
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September 18, 2006 01:26 PM EDT --
Most of us are often confused about when to use an apostrophe (') and sometimes insert them when they are not needed.
Lets try to learn when and where to use apostrophe
When two words are run together . . .
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September 22, 2006 07:06 AM EDT --
I had picked this book long time back. I only got around reading it recently. After I finished it, I felt nothing has changed. A woman is still dubbed a scarlet one if she has a child outside of marriage . . .
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September 13, 2006 12:45 PM EDT --
My silhouette and I,
close yet far away
hounding each other
©gautami.tripathy
~7 Sep 2006
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September 21, 2006 03:23 PM EDT --
I was tagged. Posted this on my blog. Enumerating what came first in my mind. There are too many....I left out Kafka, Nietzsche....
BOOK MEME
1. One book that changed your life?
Fountainhead by Ayn . . .
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September 10, 2006 12:43 PM EDT --
Whatif by Shel Silverstein
Last night, while I lay thinking here,
some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
and pranced and partied all night long
and sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I'm dumb in . . .
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September 11, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
The Brain -- is wider than the Sky -- by Emily Dickinson
The Brain -- is wider than the Sky --
For -- put them side by side --
The one the other will contain
With ease -- and You -- beside --
The Brain . . .
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September 14, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
Than and Then
These two words are used indiscriminately. Many people are either unaware that they are two separate words, or if they are aware of the two words, they have no idea of which is which.
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September 16, 2006 03:35 PM EDT --
I love Pablo Neruda's work too. Here is one of his Poems for all of you to read and enjoy!
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
by Pablo Neruda
I do not love you except because I love you; . . .
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September 22, 2006 02:57 PM EDT --
the little voice within me
does not let me sway
when i go astray
it gets me back on my way
(c)gautami.tripathy
~Nov,24, 2005
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September 30, 2006 02:25 PM EDT --
"At last," he thought, waiting for her to check out. He was elated as he was going to see her after 12 years.
Though they had been corresponding all those years but had no opportunity . . .
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October 08, 2006 01:04 PM EDT --
Plutonium
Plutonium...nuclear fission
Or is it nuclear fusion?
Does it matter to common man?
If the whole world is gone!
Arsenic
What made the serial killer tick?
Serving tea with Arsenic.
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October 27, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
Look at the following photo and write poetry or prose. There is no word limit. You can link this article to your post and /or tag ecphrasis.
Ecphrasis or ekphrasis (from Greek ek out + phrasis . . .
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November 13, 2006 01:39 PM EST --
Posting this sonnet from my archives, Thought it might dispel the dry feeling within me.
Sonnet---On a Journey
if you ever change your mind, give me a ring
we'll check out the weather to take . . .
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November 19, 2006 09:52 AM EST --
Alliteration
Alliteration is the name for repeating sounds in words.The repeated sound is usually at the beginning of words.
examples
She sells sea shells on the sea shore
Peter Piper picked a peck . . .
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November 29, 2006 09:41 AM EST --
I simply hate posts in all caps. It puts me off reading. Do we need to shout to be read? Am I the only one who feels like this? I would like your comments on this.
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December 13, 2006 06:30 AM EST --
(c)gautami.tripathy
~Dec 13, 2006
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December 13, 2006 01:48 PM EST --
flowers that
we both picked;
sent to me
warped and stained,
stay unwrapped,
precisely like letters-
as from me to you
(c)gautami.tripathy
~Dec 04, 2006
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