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  1. Midnight Philosophy: A Sestina

    by , 01-13-2008 at 12:36 PM (Ramblings from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia)
    Midnight Philosophy

    It’s silent and lonely here in the dark,
    yet my pulses pound with unreasoning fear.
    I know that here, in this room, there’s nothing to hurt
    me. A shadow is, after all, only a shadow!
    Yet I wonder: how can one separate the unknown
    from that which is unmistakably real?

    But is there any substance to what we call “real”,
    a line of demarcation between “light” and “dark?”
    Unexplored territory is the only ...
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  2. Renaissance Imitation

    As mentioned above, here's a sonnet I wrote in imitation of the early 16th century poet, Sir Thomas Wyatt's "They flee from me." I post Wyatt's original first and my meager updated version below it. Comments are welcome, but keep in mind it was written in a jovial spirit. Of course I also welcome any discussion about the original Wyatt, which is a great poem.

    The Original:

    THEY flee from me, that sometime did me
    seek,
    With ...
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  3. Yarn and Surf

    Hi again, all! Thanks for the welcomes to the blogging world. Had a little time to put in another post, since I recently turned in the teaching applications I had been working on for next school year. The applications were more complicated than past years because, in addition to the usual teaching as a course assistant and as an instructor for the writing program, I'm also applying to be a teaching assistant/program planner for University London program in the fall, and pitching my first self ...
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  4. Finding the Love

    I've been trying to write this entry for a long time, but I get worried if entries like these get too personal. And then I realized, what can anyone do with my thoughts? They could harangue me, tease me, or just ignore me, but the freedom I feel releasing my feelings is too valuable for such a price.

    Okay, so in the last entry I mentioned something about being committed to something. You'll probably laugh at me, thinking it's not a big deal, but it is to me. I hardly get the chance ...
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  5. More story!!!!!!! yippee!

    by , 01-13-2008 at 01:26 AM (My Blog...How original.)
    weird, i swore i posted this.... anywho, it doesn't matter, i am now. hope ya like it, this is where i get darker then my normal self... i mean, it isn't really dark, but normally when i write, the bad dude gets worse and worse... no he's just bad from the start, it's distinct.hope ya'll like this one! -argetlam
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    Auni was in another perfectly white room. But this room was much more larger and closer to a auditorium. There ...
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