Tag: life
member name: Corinna Parr
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October 07, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
Wind-swept,
My life has been
Stormy seas and leaf-dance,
Cast adrift on careless currents,
Random.
Two steps
Forward or back,
And sometimes side to side,
No path ahead, no safe harbor,
Life's wile. . . .
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October 27, 2007 09:27 PM EDT --
I'm a charity fundraiser. Some of you may cringe at that and if you do, let me just say that I understand. While few will argue that we don't work for a good cause, there are many who question . . .
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October 20, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
I grip the pole to keep from falling,
Knuckles bloodless, palm aflame.
Swaying, swinging, music in my ears,
The floor shimmies below and I above,
Straining through negative space.
Modesty lost to . . .
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October 20, 2007 11:19 PM EDT --
A. Four jobs you have had in your life:
1. Health & Safety Educator (HIV/AIDS, CPR, First Aid, First Response, Pet First Aid, Lifeguarding, Instructor Training, Emergency Response . . .
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October 22, 2007 10:50 PM EDT --
I remember when I first came to really believe in magic. It was the summer after I turned five years old. My family lived on the Air Force base at Colorado Springs. Stepping outside of our front door, . . .
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July 30, 2009 02:10 PM EDT --
Unedited version:
Busy hands nimble fingers focused curve of spine has you touching nose to green soldier the single notch missing from the perfect pink shell of the ears that stick out from . . .
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June 17, 2009 11:56 PM EDT --
The past six months have been difficult ones for me; life-changing, in many ways, and there will be good coming from it... eventually. It isn't always easy to see that when immersed up to one's neck . . .
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October 30, 2007 08:44 PM EDT --
There are ghosts of leaves,
Dark imprints on dull cement.
Soon, snow will hide them.
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November 21, 2007 06:11 PM EST --
There is no pain too great to share, my love,
For I am tall and have strong shoulders,
Hands made for holding, hips made for bearing,
And a heart large enough for two or three,
at the very least. . . .
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May 27, 2009 08:43 PM EDT --
My hands are fragrant with lemon and rosemary and my nose is tipped in flour. I may have added too much yeast to the bread; I'll know soon if it's going to become a monster loaf, bent on conquering my . . .
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June 03, 2009 03:54 PM EDT --
I have had a lifetime to count these bars. There are thirty-two; shining like my song, divided by the sun's hungry kiss. It limns me too; I shine like silver, happy canary in her open cage.
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November 17, 2007 09:38 PM EST --
Yesterday I stood at King and Hess, waiting for someone to walk by
So I could tell them about the little boy, so badly burned that he couldn't hold a pencil, and how the government wouldn't allow . . .
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June 11, 2009 03:41 PM EDT --
When I slip my fingers into his pocket and fill my palm with the concealed curve of muscle there-- sweet flesh, firm in both laughter and passion-- I feel leashed to my maker, and only occasionally . . .
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November 18, 2007 10:47 PM EST --
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? - Hot chocolate. Eggnog makes me sick to my stomach, unfortunately.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? - Elves wrap presents, Santa sits them . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
This is a repost of a collaboration between myself and the oh so talented James Ciriaco, done for the Poetry Please challenge. He has already published it to his namespace, and now I'm publishing . . .
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June 14, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
Time for another installment of Corinna's blog-style rambling! This week's subject is
"The Internet: It Makes People Crazy"
If I were a more scientifically-minded person, . . .
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