Not one word
can describe
the essence
of who I am
and what I stand for.
It changes.
Tag: <span>words</span>
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It probably started
in a whisper, a murmur,
a low tone hardly caught by the papers,
a sticker, a poster,
Can’t is the worst word that’s written or spoken;
Doing more harm here than slander and lies;
On it is many a strong spirit broken,
And with it many a good purpose dies.
It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morning
And robs us of courage we need through the day:
It rings in our ears like a timely-sent warning
And laughs when we falter and fall by the way.
“I still have to do laundry and prepare for dinner. I have to play ball with our dog Vader, quickly water the hanging plants outside, and feed the dogs,” and while I’m piling up the daily I-have-do-mountain in my head, old familiar feelings rise again.
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I have spent a lifetime saying ‘I am sorry’ until one day an older gentleman asked me to stop. “Stop being sorry all the time,” he said and I thought about it.
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One word?
Imagine!
Stuffed in a drawer
of just one word?
The F-Word, many of us use it without knowing what it actually means and what it stands for. Where does it come from? How did it start?
If English is not your first language, you will struggle with some words. Like brussels sprouts. You hear all the time, “I hate brussels sprouts,” and you start to wonder what the poor guy did. Everybody talks about him, he must be a celebrity.
Trilogy for My Father
IMPRINTS (Part 1 of Trilogy for My Father)
His shoes by the front door make me cry,
like his glasses resting atop an
unfinished crossword
and his toothbrush in its holder
the bristles still damp.
And I wonder…