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On Writing
Why is that writers — and it doesn’t matter which writer you choose — at some point in their chosen vocation end up writing about writing? And why do non-writers see that as so unusual, so self-centered and ultimately circular? … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, creativity, debate, influences, inspiration, purpose, saints, sources, writers, writing
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The Universe
for LJ user ldy For those who praise abstinence, the big bang seems quite an obscene and vulgar notion – that the entire world would just simply hang together, making circular motions without a divine rudder seems absurd. But the … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, daily poems, evolution, poetry by request, sonnet, the universe
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Breaking Silence
It takes but a moment of deliberate breath, a fleeting few seconds of intentional movement, and the fragile cocoon of this world is shattered, its tiny fragments of coherency thrown out into a wild, mad self-righteous cacophony of filled-in spaces … Continue reading