Tag: words
member name: Bethany C.
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July 17, 2008 11:44 AM EDT --
Say what you mean
When you say what you say
I find that it's always
Much better that way.
It easy to play
With words they're like jewels
Colorful, bright,
But so easily confused. . . .
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July 01, 2008 04:19 AM EDT --
Stir the pot a little bit.
Stir it one more time.
Act like there no reason
To your meddling or rhyme.
Add a tiny pinch of this
And of that, right there.
Strive, connive, manipulate
Like . . .
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May 05, 2008 02:24 AM EDT --
You never know
When a word you say
Might salvage the life
Of a soul one day.
You never know
When your friendly smile
Is the first that a person's
Seen in a while.
You never . . .
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June 18, 2008 03:09 AM EDT --
Ask of me some grand gesture,
Something to produce with courage and aplomb,
Dying for my cause--giving my last dime--
Such heroic sacrifices are my forte.
But do not ask me something common. . . .
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June 18, 2008 01:11 PM EDT --
"Where was God?" She asked me
With storming eyes and jerky movements
As she spat the words into my face.
I was speechless for a moment.
Not because I didn't know the answer. . . .
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July 15, 2008 02:40 AM EDT --
I wish I could put into words.
How much I appreciate the kindness
That you have shown.
I want to shout it from the rooftops
Tell it to the neighbors and all the world.
But I'd just sound . . .
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July 15, 2008 04:25 PM EDT --
Laurie opened the front door.
"Ma'am? I have bad news."
Her whole body shaking, she let the police officer in.
"It's William, isn't it?"
"Are . . .
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February 12, 2008 04:13 PM EST --
On Feb. 11th, twenty-seven years ago, I met my husband.
About three months prior to that, I was living in Rising Star, Texas. A single young minister had come to visit. I liked him, . . .
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July 28, 2008 04:38 AM EDT --
If only…
“There are sad words in this English language.” My grandfather mused once. “Words like ‘if only’…”
A young boy, I didn’t understand, but I nodded.
I understand now. . . .
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July 10, 2008 12:31 AM EDT --
When the Spirit of the Lord is strong upon me
I am fearless.
Do I need to face down a legion of demons?
Bring 'em on!
Do I need to walk on water?
Not a problem!
Do I need the wherewithal . . .
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July 06, 2008 10:55 PM EDT --
Helga remembered her sister among flowers. In her memory, they walked together, through a garden of them. Helga had been a small child, her sister, grown, to Helga's young mind, at . . .
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June 06, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
I love you.
I know this is a foreign concept...
That someone could love you and not
Agree with your sin...
But I do.
I'd like to tell you
That I will never speak
Harsh words or disagree . . .
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June 29, 2008 03:38 AM EDT --
I hurt you
I didn't mean to do it
But I hurt you.
I forgot that most basic,
Of my mother's tenets
"If you can't say something
Nice, don't say anything at all.
Forgive . . .
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July 27, 2008 04:57 PM EDT --
Big words.
They sound so beautiful.
I love to use them
(After I've looked them up
To discover what they mean!)
Sometimes I mispronounce them
Sometimes my friends use them
And I don't . . .
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December 03, 2008 12:19 AM EST --
"You are special to Jesus."
The words seem so pat
Like the kind of platitude
One murmurs to a child.
But, if we could only see
Just how very precious
. . .
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June 30, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
You know, I get to thinking sometimes
About how everywhere is a nice place to visit
But you wouldn't want to live there.
I've been many places in my life and
Each time I arrived, I was . . .
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July 06, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
We all want to look good to people.
To those who, we think, matter.
In public we try to act as if we've never
Done anything wrong in our lives.
A person . . .
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August 27, 2008 09:40 PM EDT --
It moves like a shifting splinter beneath my skin--
This knowledge that there is more to life that you
Disdain, indeed, refuse to see.
It nudges at the recesses of my soul like an throbbing tooth. . . .
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May 10, 2008 04:15 AM EDT --
Sometimes I just say words. Or write them. Whatever.
Sometimes it's like a baby talking. A whole lot of nonsense, but it makes people smile.
Sometimes it is very . . .
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April 16, 2008 01:42 AM EDT --
Words spill onto the page
Like an overflowing cache of diamonds,
Gleaming and shining,
Afire with the beauty of reflected light.
I want to leap into them;
Catch the fire and hold . . .
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