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26. Sports Betting Jargon (1186 times seen)
By Miscellany | 22-01-2022 | Sports Betting
Today I will talk about sports betting jargon, which can be useful for learners of English, and for those that are not familiarised with those terms. I have visited the following website: onlinebetting.nz, and I have come across the words below:   punter / bettor (American English): Someo...

27. Online Sports Betting (1255 times seen)
By Miscellany | 21-01-2022 | Sports Betting
It is a fact that many people like playing the lottery, doing the pools, gambling at casinos, betting on sports, and so forth. Some of them even dream of becoming rich, which is a long shot.   Some types of gambling, such as playing roulette or slots, do not require any previous knowledge...

28. Lottery and Sports Betting (1263 times seen)
By Miscellany | 21-01-2022 | Sports Betting
The word lottery has two meanings: 1. Governments sell lottery tickets as a way of raising money. They have a number printed on it. If you buy a winning number, you win a cash prize. If you win the first prize, it will make you rich. However, as you know, that is the same as looking for a needle ...

29. Shaken Words (1153 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 15-01-2022 | Poems
No sad light inside this golden eye. No long finger pointing to the end of nothing. And the mad man cried out, inside the heavy walled room, like a bird trapped in a cage, like a man tied to a family. White clouds like cotton sealing the landscape, and at the mountain top, a woman scream...

30. Purpose (1254 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 29-08-2021 | Poems
Gary Beck/Purpose   Assessment I sit among the aged, infirm, in the hospital room and know I am aged, infirm.   Unlike some I do not cry: 'where did the time go?' I know where it went. A lot of excitement. A lot of fulfillment.   Frustrat...

31. Where is justice? (1533 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 03-05-2021 | Pseudopoems
Where is justice? I find her nowhere, but she does not seem to care. Where is justice? I have looked for her everywhere, but she is to be found nowhere. Where is justice? She does not appear to exist, but some people want to make us believe she does. Where is justice? S...

32. Maybe (1420 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 02-04-2021 | Poems
Seven days, seven drinks, seven nights and seven nightmares. Seven flowers, just only one for you, seven storms and seven shipwrecks. Seven headaches, all of them for you, seven weapons and just one wound. Seven armies to do nothing, seven deserts and seven losts. Seven chairs and nobody...

33. Lacerations (1400 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 19-03-2021 | Poems
Gary Beck/Lacerations   Oglescope The weather is still warm enough for women to wear short skirts, tight tops, bare midriffs, a visual pleasure for those who care to look, soon to be removed with the first chill of fall.   Ponderous Changes In the ...

34. Learning Curve (1472 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 02-11-2020 | Poems
Gary Beck/Learning Curve   Urban Reaches Alone in a great city strangers pass, intent on jobs, crime, shopping, terror. I know not what. They all look remote, don’t say ‘good morning’, don’t meet my gaze, except the hostiles, when I qu...

35. Section 8 Leased Housing (1927 times seen)
By Raanan Geberer | 07-09-2020 | Short Stories
By Raanan Geberer It was an ordinary day at the office of the Section 8 Leased Housing Bronx Team No. 2 at the New York Housing Authority’s Central Office. Today was one of the two days a week Rob Bergman went out on apartment inspections. First he’d have to wait for his partner, Manu...

36. Calm Before the Storm (1492 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 28-08-2020 | Poems
No birds singing, no leaves swinging; oh baby, it's the calm before the storm. No lightened houses, no cars running, no people wandering the streets; I tell you, brother, it's the calm before the storm. No breathings emitted, no sounds heard, no words spoken; take it for granted,...

37. The Heartbroken Song (1505 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 07-06-2020 | Poems
Come with me lonely cowboy, come with me for a walk, I'll show you lovely things You've never seen before. Both of us know what's the matter, She's gone away, she's gone away and won't ever come back. So, forget her pale blue eyes, her long blonde hair, and ...

38. Fractional Disorder (1577 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 28-04-2020 | Poems
Gary Beck/Fractional Disorder   Dread In the prevailing climate of imminent destruction of civilization, it may no longer be in our nature to save ourselves before it is too late.   Exploration I will no longer go down to the river, follow its flow...

39. Mickey (1758 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 21-11-2019 | Poems
Mickey Mouse is in the house, and it's alright, it's alright, it's alright now, everything is right now, Mickey Mouse is in the house, he's come back right now, and he's bleeding, he's bleeding, and the lonely rose set in the middle of the sitting room, is bleedin...

40. Earth Links (1910 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 26-06-2019 | Poems
Gary Beck/Earth Links   Celebration Independence Day may have meant more in the 1780’s, liberty just won, a new nation not yet as corrupt, oppressive, as the old world, new citizens hopeful the eloquent promise of new government would bring freedom.   Smolde...

41. Transitions (2145 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 29-08-2018 | Poems
Gary Beck/Transitions   Do As I Say Primitive man didn't understand the nature of the universe and developed superstitions when answers were needed to make sense of life. When tribes gave way to church and state the new leaders promptly took charge of ...

42. Dark Future (2585 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 14-08-2018 | Pseudopoems
Year 2164. Computers, mobile phones, and the like, are a thing of the past. Microchips, which were implanted in our heads, govern our minds, our thoughts, our health, and everything we do. There is no escape. There is no privacy. They can read our minds. We are being indoctrinated....

43. Break me like a horse (2230 times seen)
By Peaches Alexander | 28-07-2018 | Poems
A gentle breaking takes time Ironically time is what we’ve had the most of Both time and gentleness breeds trust A horse and his rider slowly learning to gallop together The bit is placed in her mouth first, Leading by example yet steadily steering The stallion to the pasture of his drea...

44. The MAN'S name is PARANOIA (2390 times seen)
By Peaches Alexander | 28-07-2018 | Poems
EVERY MOVE WE MAKE EVERY STEP WE TAKE IS WATCHED BY THE MAN SO WE THINK PARANOIA IS HIS NAME MAHOGANY CLAIM TO FAME IS THE MAN WATCHING YOU STOPPING YOUR DREAMS FROM COMING TRUE AND WE SWEAR TO BE THE CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH REMEMBER? THE ONE WHO CAN DO ANYTHING Y? R WE SO EASILY DI...

45. After My Shower (2122 times seen)
By Peaches Alexander | 28-07-2018 | Poems
After my shower I lay on my bed wondering why depression is visiting again my life is on track and I'm living my fame but somehow I'm stuck in this purple-haze My mind starts to wander about cousin Andre' he put a rifle in his mouth while he was in college then my thoughts switche...

46. The Cadman Wall (2114 times seen)
By Peaches Alexander | 28-07-2018 | Poems
My sugar walls are asking for your bitter walls to stop blocking your heart The Wall of China cannot compare to the magnitude of your wall, I declare Walls make people fall, ask Humpty The fast pace of Wall street can't describe how quickly you replace your lovers Lovers with no faces ...

47. The Things That Women Carry... (2344 times seen)
By Peaches Alexander | 28-07-2018 | Poems
The things that women carry are all hidden inside. The closet of no-end holds the tears of our lives. From the unborn children to our most secret fears. The threat of their exposure seems to always be near. Some of us wear acrimonious exteriors while others transpose themselves into pass...

48. Sticky, Faggot, Nigger, Bum (2337 times seen)
By Peaches Alexander | 28-07-2018 | Poems
I heard a voice and guess what it said? Sticky get away from my young man, Why do people have to use mean words 2 get their point across, Absurd!! Somebody told me just the other day, that a Faggot had come their way, U don't even know them well And you're telling them to burn in...

49. Sometimes... (2406 times seen)
By Peaches Alexander | 28-07-2018 | Poems
I wish that I could be that little girl, "Simplicity"... Care..Free Job....Free Black.....Free Male.........Free Sex.............Free Just, Simply Me   Copyright © 2000 Peaches Alexander...

50. Southern Reality (2025 times seen)
By Peaches Alexander | 28-07-2018 | Poems
The stolen land of the Aborigini..... Sri Lankan's fight for equality.... Haitian's plight of rejection..... Colombian cocoa economy......... Hawaiian tourist invasions.... Southern states' dialect.... Galapagos' seclusion..... Poverty of Jamaica..... Cuba's internal war....

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