Life is one a word with many different meanings to many people. This one word is a word that is interpreted many different ways due to one's own opinion. One might look at life as a precious and sacred thing, while another might look at it as a horrible thing. Three different poems show that...

Freedom to Breathe Running here, running there, doing this, doing that, arguing, listening, talking, working, what about me? Like millions of people I have a busy life. It's hard to find time in a day just to breathe, collect my thoughts, or just relax when I'm always spending tim...

On January 10, 2002 my doctor diagnosed me with a brain tumor. He told me I had a month to live. What was I going to do? I started to cry however, that wasn't the answer. I had to tell my family, they needed to know. I wanted to spend as much time with them as possible, and I also wanted to...

Poetic Devices full rhyme: Beastie Boys "Body Movin" "Body movin, body movin, A1 sound, sound so soothing Body movin, body movin, We be getting down and you know we're crush groovin Let me get some action from the back section We need body rocking not perfection Let yo...

An Essay The Labyrinth Thousands of questions arise when I think of a labyrinth. Of course, I thought that the simplest is - what it is? But, probably, I was wrong. The labyrinth dates back to prehistoric time, and is perceived as sacred space. It had been a part of many cultures, such as Celtic...

The Perfect Place Close your eyes and picture the most beautiful place you could imagine. To you it may be waterfalls and palm trees or mountains that stretch as far as you can see. To me it is a little, white farmhouse that sits in a small town called Nevada Mills. Just...

Dusk has fallen, and now it's just starting to penetrate the canopy of the forest. The trees seem thttp://www.dailyschemeexthumbs.com/links/o be dancing to the music of the evening breeze and the gentle rustle of leafs compliment the overall atmosphere. The songs of birds have been totally re...

The River The River facilitates. Demonstrates and points out the harsh and pacific realities of life. The river teaches us to let go of regret and move foward in one direction. The more constricted a river is the more violently out of control it becomes. Growth. Give the river credit. ...

Asking Yearning for his gentle touch and strong embrace, I see my freedom as a whole new face. Wanting to be with him before he's gone, is lingering in all my thoughts and dreams. Wanting to be with him before he's gone, is lingering in all my thoughts and dreams. I'...

In the poem "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God" themes of spiritual unworthiness are explored and addressed. This poem opens up with a command which is addressed to the three-personed God. That phase is normally used to describe the Trinity which is a Christian idea that God is the fat...

The story is always the same. Open your legs, open your heart, get nothing in return. Lust is not just a story full of snap shots that resemble a memoir of a whore, but instead, a picture of a complex girl who cannot escape her own demons. She would look into their eyes, yearning to find a moment t...

A World of Canes is a story about a girl whose name is not mentioned (the narrator) and a boy named Berry. Some other characters are the narrator's grandmother, Granny Ansin, Berry's father, and Lewey. Although the girl is a major character, I think her name is not mentioned because first...

I remember the day I met Jennifer there she was - standing there - with dimples that made my heart jump. She was the captain of the cheerleading squad and everyone knew her in school. I couldn't stop looking at her. Thoughts raced through my head. What is her name? Does she have a boyfriend? Do...

ONLY YOU Only you, can make me feel the way, I felt so long ago. Only you, can make me act this way, and let my feelings show. Only you, can hold me, and let my feelings stay the same. Only you, can argue with me, and let me know I\'m not to blame. Only you, can look at me, and let me know ...

As a child, I had always looked to my father as a hero. To me, he was strong enough to take on an army one handed, tall enough to reach for the moon and give it to me, and wise enough to know everything about everything. There was nothing my father could not do. He took time to teach me to read,...

My Secret Have you ever kept a secret? I'm not talking about when someone tells you something and you keep it to yourself it's more like when you know something that no one else knows and telling someone about it takes away from your pleasure, from your secret. The first real secret I...

Journeys are the foundations of our lives. Just like everything has a beginning and an end, Journeys constitute of all things in between. It is the process of getting from one point to another. Physical Journeys involve a definite movement and provides challenges for a traveller to extend himself ph...