“A Sonnet of Invented Memories” by Miles Walser – Used Furniture Review I told you that I was a roadway of potholes, not safe to cross. You said nothing, showed up in my driveway wearing roller-skates. The first time I asked you on a date, after you hung up, I held the air between our phones against my ear and whispered, “You will fall in love with me. Then, just months later, you will fall out. I will pretend the entire time that I don’t know it’s coming.” Once, I got naked and danced around your bedroom, awkward and safe. The last eight times I told you I loved you, they sounded like apologies. You recorded me a CD of you repeating, “You are beautiful.” Into the half-empty phone line, I whispered, “We will wake up believing the worst in each other. You photographed my eyebrow shapes and turned them into flashcards: mood on one side, correct response on the other. I bought you an entire bakery so that we could eat nothing but breakfast for a week. I whispered, “I will latch on like a deadbolt to a door and tell you it is only because I want to protect you.
COMPLETE COLLECTION OF POEMS BY RUDYARD KIPLING Kipling gained renown throughout the world as a poet and storyteller. He was also known as a leading supporter of the British Empire. As apparent from his stories and poems, Kipling interested himself in the romance and adventure which he found in Great Britain's colonial expansion. Kipling was born on Dec.30, 1865, in Bombay, where his father directed an art school. In 1889, Kipling return to England. Kipling composed many of his poems while living for several years in the United States in the mid-1890s. In 1896, Kipling returned to England from the United States. In 1900, Kipling went to South Africa to report the Boer War for an English newspaper. Before World War I, Kipling became active in politics. he widely lectured and wrote for the British cause both before and during the war.
(Images) 56 Inspirational Picture Quotes That Will Motivate Your Mind Now and then when we need a little Inspiration we often reach for a daily quote or motivational video. So I decided to share 56 of my favorite picture quotes, share them with your friends or plaster them on your wall and desktop for your daily Inspiration. Beauty of you - a love poem (wowzone.com) WOW Magazine, Lyrics, Stories, Poetry, Poems, Music, Classics, Inspirational, & more The beauty of you leaves me breathless. You will always be loved, cherished, protected, wished only well. Be grateful! Be of good cheer! Your heart is pure and blessed with Peace. And though you err like everyone, your heart remains pure. You would never knowingly inflict pain. Your word is better than gold. You shine! So brightly that it blinds both friends and foes. But they do, and they study you, to find your Achilles' heel. And then you're putty in their hands... Oh mercy! Stop. Realize! You are so bright that you blind everyone, INCLUDING YOURSELF to the magnificent, wondrous, BEAUTY OF YOU. Your soul is brighter than the sun. You are "unique in all the world" You owe no explanation, no justification to anyone. You are loved. And you will forever
100 Exquisite Adjectives By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives: Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! 21 Responses to “100 Exquisite Adjectives” Rebecca Fantastic list!
25 Great Quotes to Inspire and Brighten Your Day Here’s a collection of great quotes by some of the most inspirational men and women that ever walked this earth. Hopefully you’ll find them inspirational in some way. If you do like them and find them helpful, check out our similar posts by visiting the links listed below. We have created over 20+ of these galleries, so there is lots more to be seen. More popular quotations: – 25 Inspirational Quotes – Great quotes to ponder upon Check out all of our galleries with nice quotes here: More great quotes:
For Better for Verse accent: emphasis given a syllable in ordinary usage, as provided by a pronouncing dictionary. See also stress. accentual-syllabic: the prosodic mode that dominated English-language poetry 1400-1900, and that this tutorial exclusively addresses. acephalous line: a “headless” line in iambic or anapestic meter, which omits (a) slack syllable(s) from the first foot. alexandrine: iambic hexameter line, usually with a strong midpoint caesura; most familiar in Romance-language poetry but not rare in English. alliteration: repetition of the same initial sound in nearby words. anapest: metrical foot consisting of two slacks and a stress: υ υ / anaphora: repetition of a word or phrase in initial position. assonance: harmonious repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words. ballad meter: quatrain in alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter lines rhyming abxb, traditionally used in folk narrative and during modern times adapted to lyric poetry. blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter. caesura: consonance: