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How to clean a slate worktop
263 views (5 votes, average: 3.20 out of 5) Loading ... I am putting this in as I searched all over for this on the net and found nothing, no thats not quite true I found all sorts of fancy preparations and the like, but nothing that told me how to get stains such as... »
Mullah Nasruddin
3 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Mullahs Arms. Mullah Nasrudin began a long journey armed with a saber and a spear. Along the way, a bandit armed with nothing more than a cane jumped him and took his belongings from him. When he arrived at the next city, he told his friends of his... »
Surviving Depression
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Surviving depression and accepting the cracks Sometimes I wonder what it is I believe, if anything, and at times I look within and see only the black maw of the empty space. The sense of loss of questions unanswered, of the frailty of human and I suppose my... »
Hidden – Naomi Shihab Nye
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I first came across this poet on Elise Bauers Website…see the blog roll listing for a link to her site, and loved it I thought this one was worth putting up, its probably against copyright but I hope you go and buy one of her books …..good poets... »
Clinophobia – Fear of Going to Bed
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Clinophobia (fear of going to bed) What a great poem, so refreshing, or not if you havn’t slept. CLINOPHOBIA Fear of Going to Bed Nathalie Anderson Here’s the toad. Here’s the edge of the well. Steeped leaves, steep water. Still noctambulist. Bolt hole. Bed rock. Never see, never go under. Yes you will. Shut eye. Drowse.... »
A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
18 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A Brave and Startling Truth I heard Maya Angelou being interviewd on the Radio one day, and she really blew my mind with what she had to say, this is an amazing inspired poem. —UnderThisSeparatorIsLatterHalf— A Brave and Startling Truth We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through... »
Asthma and breathlessness
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Asthma I have written about Eczema, now heres Asthma. I have suffered with asthma most of my life, less and less as I have got older, and now mostly as an allergy or if (rarely) I get a chest infection. I have tried many different things... »
Away on the North East Coast
8 views (1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ... Filey in North Yorkshire is an amazing place, My Grandma lived there and my Mother lives there now, I often take my children to visit her and it is a step back in time to a simpler way, people are friendly, food is cheaper... »
A Time for Everything!
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a... »
Chief Sealth ( translation of a speech to Governor Stevens)
34 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Yonder sky has wept tears of compassion on our fathers for centuries untold, and which, to us, looks eternal, may change. Today it is fair, tomorrow it may be overcast with clouds. My words are like the stars that never set. What Seattle says, the great chief, Washington,... »
If Stones could talk – Jonathan Spencer
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... If Stones could talk by J. Spencer If stones could talk, this one Might tell of journeys Long forgotten, through lava, ice and mud Of the march of mountains and tectonic plates Recall how, starting sharp and hard with crystal clarity Its surface polished smooth through time Its end as legend has it dug from the forehead... »
Kate Moss – “Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First Stone”
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So you are telling me that of all these people vilifying Kate Moss, that none of them ever took drugs, or, are in fact still taking them. This reminds me of the way Gay people used to be treated, and those most willing to tear them down... »
Paint it Black – The Rolling Stones
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Ahh the darkness, I remember once saying to someone that it was important not to deny your darker side…what colour is your jumper what colour is your heart. These early lyrics of the rolling stones, really point up for me the difference between the beatles and the stones…the McCartney... »
Emmett Fox
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Having gone through a period of great popularity, his moon has waned, but his work still stands the test of time. Read this beautiful and inspiring piece on the power of love… There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door... »
Little Gidding – T.S. Eliot
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Little Gidding is one of the most pwerful and spirtual poetic works of the twentieth century, its lines are dense with meaning and it needs a number of readings. Its englishness and its ordinaryness actually appear to elevate the spirit and feeling of the poem…read it and read... »
You already Know!
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Are you utilising what you know already the story goes like this, a man is walking along when he sees a large piece of stone, on the top is carved a message “to know the answer turn me over”…so he heaves the stone over, underneath is written…. …“Why are you... »
A View of Christmas
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Have you Had Enough ( or give and lets give ) Well if you are about to hit the time of excess….. and please I don’t get this, “we have lost the spirit of Christmas”, I mean surely the Christmas period just started as a pagan festival which the... »
I Knew a Woman – T. Roethke
15 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... What’s freedom for? To know eternity. This line alone makes this poem worthy of examination, yet it is about some other sensual energy, and it swept me up. I Knew a Woman Theodore Roethke I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when... »
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