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Quote of the Day

KEEP THE MOTH OUT OF THE FLAME

When you are trying to help someone, you have to have humor, self-existing humor, and you have to hold the moth in your hand, but not let it go into the flame. That’s what helping others means. Ladies and gentlemen, we have so much responsibility. A long [...]

Poetry Friday

NOVEMBER NIGHT

Listen. . . With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees And fall.

  — Adelaide Crapsey

IT IS THE TIME OF RAIN AND SNOW

It is the time of rain and snow I spend sleepless nights And watch the frost Frail as your [...]

Poetry Friday

COMING TO THE MORNING

You make me remember all of the elements the sea remembering all of its waves

in each of the waves there was always a sky made of water and an eye that looked once

there was the shape of one mountain and a blood kinship with rain

and the air [...]

Video Poetry (Rancid Edition)

RANCID – LAST ONE TO DIE

Everybody saying we gotta take a chance And telling me what the hell went wrong We only listen to the words that we sing Now a million are singing along

(Last one) We got it right, you got wrong, We’re still around (Last one to die) We’re [...]

Video Poetry (Mad Edition)

Continuing a tradition wherein the cover version of a song is more powerful than the original … or at least different enough that it stands on it’s own as a new work.

GARY JULES/MICHAEL ANDREWS – MAD WORLD

All around me are familiar faces Worn-out places, worn-out faces Bright and early for the [...]

We Are The Ones

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the next major primary, which could ultimately decide which Democratic candidate gets the nomination. It’s do-or-die for Hillary Clinton, because right now Barack Obama what seems to be a commanding lead, if not in delegates, then in the support of the people …

But what is still most important … [...]

Haiku

Solitude looms high,          alone in the canyons, silence—       take time to listen.

Copyright © 2007, Steven L. Sheffield