Archive for July, 2007
Posted in July 31st, 2007
Posted in July 30th, 2007
George OrwellWhy I Write [d]
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true […]
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Posted in July 30th, 2007
Posted in July 29th, 2007
Meteorologists warn against natural disasters
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-07-29 08:40
Rainstorms will hit China’s northern and southwestern regions while the southeastern and northwestern areas will experience temperatures up to 39 degrees Celsius from midnight Saturday to Sunday, said the Chinese Central Meteorological Station.
Meteorologists warned that strong rainstorms would cause floods in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Sichuan, […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Experts contest CO2 emmisions report
Officials and experts have contested a recent report that said China had for the first time overtaken the United States as the world’s top producer of carbon dioxide (CO2).
The report, released on Tuesday by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, said China overtook the US in emissions of CO2 by 8 percent […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Posted in July 29th, 2007
On May Morning
Now the bright morning Star, Day’s harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The Flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire, Woods and Groves, are of thy dressing, Hill and […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Wild nights! Wild nights!Were I with thee,Wild nights should beOur luxury!
Futile the windsTo a heart in port,Done with the compass,Done with the chart.
Rowing in Eden!Ah! the sea!Might I but moorTo-night in thee!
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Wonder
Wonder,A garden among the flames!
My heart can take on any form:A meadow for gazelles,A cloister for monks,For the idols, sacred ground,Ka’ba for the circling pilgrim,The tables of the Torah,The scrolls of the Quran.
My creed is Love;Wherever its caravan turns along the way,That is my belief,My faith.
- Ibn Arabi
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi (1165-1240)
Ibn Arabi poems
Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhammad Ibn ‘Arabi is one of the world’s great spiritual teachers. Known as Muhyiddin (the Revivifier of Religion) and the Shaykh al-Akbar (the Greatest Master), he was born in 1165 AD into the Moorish culture of Andalusian Spain, the center of an extraordinary flourishing and cross-fertilization […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Human Family
I note the obvious differencesin the human family.Some of us are serious,some thrive on comedy.
Some declare their lives are livedas true profundity,and others claim they really livethe real reality.
The variety of our skin tonescan confuse, bemuse, delight,brown and pink and beige and purple,tan and blue and white.
I’ve sailed upon the seven seasand stopped […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Passing Time
Your skin like dawnMine like musk
One paints the beginningof a certain end.
The other, the end of asure beginning.
- Maya Angelou
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Phenomenal Woman
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I’m telling lies.I say,It’s in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I’m a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That’s me.
I walk into a […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
A Woman Unconscious
Russia and America circle each other;Threats nudge an act that were without doubtA melting of the mould in the mother,Stones melting about the root.
The quick of the earth burned out:The toil of all our ages a lossWith leaf and insect. Yet flitting thought(Not to be thought ridiculous)
Shies from the world-cancelling blackOf its playing […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Old Age Gets Up
Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks
An eye powdered over, half melted and solid againPondersIdeas that collapseAt the first touch of attention
The light at the window, so square and so sameSo full-strong as ever, the window frameA scaffold in space, for eyes to lean on
Supporting the body, shaped to its old […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Meditation Walks for Writing
Objectives: Students will be able to…1. use visualization to stimulate writing2. write descriptively3. use listening skills4. relax for 20 mins.
Materials:1. composition paper2. pen/pencil3. tape of relaxing instrumental music (can be used, but not necessary)
Preliminary Activity:1. Ask students to move the desks into a circle and to get […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
George Bernard Shaw1856-1950 Playwright, born in Dublin into a loveless and genteely poor household overshadowed by his father’s tippling, but filled with music and musicians by his mother. Shaw was educated both at Wesley Connexional School, in the National Gallery of Ireland, and by his own wide reading. In 1876 he joined his mother who […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), poet.Christina Rossetti’s first productions were printed privately, 1842 and 1847. She contributed to the Germ under the pseudonym “Ellen Alleyne” in 1850. She also published Goblin Market (1862), Commonplace (1870), Sing Song (1872), and subsequently composed mainly devotional literature.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), painter and poet.Dante Gabriel Rossetti studied at the […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
Arthur Symons1865-1945 Arthur Symons was a poet, translator, critic and editor who captured Colbeck’s attention like no other writer. Educated in Devonshire, Symons befriended many artists and writers of the nineties in England and France. He published several volumes of verse and criticism, notably “Symbolist Movement in Literature” (1899), contributed regularly to Athenaeum, Saturday, and […]
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Posted in July 29th, 2007
The Inlet
Here again, the rough-cut jetty, the ridgeworn flat by men trolling bass and bluefishand boys with plastic buckets full of porgies.The hooks are taut in their mouths.I comb the crevices for mussels, finda baby flounder, stiff and gray, a shell.Right side down a huge crab bakes on a rock.
Behind me, vacant, boarded up, the […]
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