A life in words

  • By Very Small Means

    A drip, a drop, Percolate, plop, Pooling, puddling, Flowing, flooding, Torrent tearing, Eroding, wearing, Gully grinding, Chasm winding, Until is seen from outer space A Grand Canyon on the planet’s face. And so this thought: It happened drop by drop. ((As seen on The Curiously Poetic Altoids!))

  • A Quick Rebuttal

    I wish to respond to this. Do you really consider Putin’s presidency—which so greatly improved incomes, security, and national self-confidence—disastrous? George W. Bush did not cause the rise in commodities prices, nor did Barack Obama’s election lead to their collapse. If anything, the economic crisis is improving the prospects of an opposition party in Russia,…

  • But I Do

    With words, sweet words—the currency of the day— He tells how you’ve won his heart. Giving roses, dozen roses—Earth’s love letters loaned— He says he’ll always, ever be true. And maybe, By the swoons, the gasps, the thrills, It’s justified. The symbols are so sweet because of What they signify. But allow me to observe…