Tag: writing
member name: John Harris Beck
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April 18, 2008 10:01 AM EDT --
LOVE IN TIME
So many lost encounters, so much pain.
For years we sought each other.
And now we've had that hour
in the late spring shade
when time does . . .
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November 30, 2007 08:52 AM EST --
Welcome to Friday's Gather Essentials: Writing . What follows might inspire reflections on nature or on writing itself. Any subject is welcome to be featured today in the group, please just . . .
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July 25, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
WATCHING RHINE
It just lies here in its big
curve through Basel
on an early autumn
evening, possibly wanting
to have changed its course
a few times over the years
but maybe not minding . . .
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March 23, 2007 07:51 PM EDT --
A late offering for the unofficial Gatherers Appreciation Day.
Freed Verses
So I’ve liberated four from the drawer.
They’re happy to be out and about.
Andrea had asked, . . .
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November 02, 2007 10:11 AM EDT --
Welcome to Friday Writing Essentials ....
Today, Friday the 2nd of November is an open day for featuring . I'll be looking especially to feature a favorite piece of writing on Gather . . .
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January 25, 2008 01:44 PM EST --
Good Friday, Gather-Writer-ites!
There are slew of new postings that I've approved to the group this morning already. Quite a diverse lot, and if you did nothing else today but look through them, . . .
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February 29, 2008 05:52 AM EST --
Welcome to Gather Essentials: Writing
for Friday, February 29th.
In keeping with this odd-day-out of the
calendar, I am going to be absent
from my post for most of the day,
part of . . .
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December 28, 2007 12:33 PM EST --
Hey, everyone,
I've fallen down on the job lately, just approving articles and not providing a suggestion. Another sad case of "life interfering with Gather."
The obvious suggestion . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:44 AM EST --
Welcome to Gather Essentials: Writing ,
for Friday the 8th of February.
A recent comment by Vijay Kumar to a poem
of mine, about artists' legacies or monuments,
goes like this: . . .
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February 22, 2008 01:47 AM EST --
Welcome to another Friday
in Gather Essentials: Writing .
I'm continuing to sound a note
which is probably tuned to the old
philosophical idealism. It seems to me
to be a useful patch . . .
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March 14, 2007 12:35 AM EDT --
The Better of Words
the words themselves are turning soft
into smears of feeling then beading
like droplets of meaning then being absorbed
into . . .
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October 25, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
For the Thursday Writing Essentials "vacation" topic... Neither the luscious tropic isle nor the vacation from hell, an evening alone in Switzerland's Rhine city Basel, stopping for a little . . .
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February 15, 2008 05:35 AM EST --
Welcome to Friday's Gather Essentials: Writing . Today as every Friday we are open to critiques, though due to eye problems (in process of healing), I may be out of action for a while as a critic. . . .
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November 09, 2007 09:31 AM EST --
Welcome to Friday's Gather Essentials: Writing . I'll be featuring any type of post today , but encourage you to think about criticism and critique .
The great composer Robert . . .
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October 19, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Welcome to Friday Writing Essentials ....
Today, Friday the 19th I'll be looking especially to feature writing about place -- brief stories, essays, poems.
And Friday the 26th . . .
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February 01, 2008 12:30 PM EST --
Talking about critique in
the Gather Essentials: Books group
again this week, I remembered
an old set of variations on a famous
ode of the Latin (Roman) writer
Horace (Quintus Horatius . . .
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March 14, 2008 10:26 PM EDT --
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Joan Deyman (1656)
A REMBRANDT SONATA
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"This," said Rembrandt's anatomy teacher,
folding back scalp (a rich, . . .
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November 23, 2007 12:54 PM EST --
Welcome to the Friday Gather Essentials: Writing : "Expression and Communication."
Today might be part of a long weekend for you, so I'm offering a rather challenging excerpt . . .
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March 21, 2008 12:22 PM EDT --
The Wounded Surgeon
Welcome to Gather Essentials: Writing for this Friday, March 21st, the first day of Spring.
We've had some discussion in past weeks of the sublime in poetry, and of . . .
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December 07, 2007 08:58 AM EST --
Welcome to the Friday Writing Essentials!
Gather is giving a lot of attention to the new book by Tom Brokaw, Boom! Voices of the Sixties which is subtitled Personal Reflections on the '60s . . .
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