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76. Assault on Nature (5219 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 17-03-2013 | Poems
Assault on Nature: Media, Cash or Charge, War on Nature, Bridge, Two Visions Media Powerful light splits the night. Cameras and crew lust the suffering that is the entertainment of the people. Trapped in violet despair, the helpless victims can’t escape the consuming dance of TV. ...

77. Dawn in Cities (5373 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 17-03-2013 | Poems
Dawn in Cities: 'Effluvia', 'Tidal Sweep', 'Fruitless Search', 'Hope', 'Doomed' Effluvia Before dawn waves break loudest on beaches when no one suns, or fumbles under blankets. Morning light makes little whispers and horizons are attracted to sand dun...

78. Song of the Conquerors (5166 times seen)
By Raanan Geberer | 23-02-2013 | Short Stories
Josh glanced at his watch. It was a Rolex, one of the few relics of the comfortable life in the former United States, along with his pipe, his clarinet and his biology book, that he’d taken with him when he came to this remote corner of the world in search of a new life. Four o' clock. ...

79. The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within You (5663 times seen)
By Raanan Geberer | 23-02-2013 | Short Stories
“I geev you de el-lis-dee, yah?” With those words, Tomas Sladek walked from the kitchen to the gigantic 1920s-style living room, carrying two tabs of acid. Rob hoped that they would be as good as the orange sunshine he had tripped on at the State University at Albany, almost 10 year...

80. Letting Go of My One True Love (6964 times seen)
By Miscellany | 23-02-2013 | Love Poems
Looking into your beautiful eyes, I fell in love with you. Further into the relationship I knew what we had was true. I thought of you as a gift from above. To show my gratitude I tried to shower you with my love. I guess maybe I tried too hard, or gave too much away. Because now I am all alone...

81. Lies... (5453 times seen)
By Miscellany | 23-02-2013 | Love Poems
You told me you would always take care of me. Now that my world has turned upside down I realize you lied. You told me you would always be there for me. Now that I'm all alone I realize you lied. You told me countless times you would always love me. I see you with her now and realize you l...

82. Metaphor, Metonymy and Synecdoche (22877 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 20-02-2013 | Language
Metaphor forms part of our way of thinking, of understanding the world. At times, it lexicalizes (that is, it becomes very common), and we are not aware that we are using a metaphor: Life is not a bed of roses. We base on previous models to produce communicative units, and a transmitter, a receiv...

83. Taboo Words, Euphemisms And Dysphemisms (10785 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 20-02-2013 | Language
Taboo words are those that are considered in bad taste by some people or that are better to be avoided because they mention realities that are stark or vulgar. They refer to sex, religion, necessities such as the act of emptying the bladder or the bowels, and so on. Examples: fuck, fornicate, mastur...

84. A New Star in the Firmament (3872 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 20-02-2013 | Love Poems
Fortune-tellers said that there’s a new star in the firmament, that if I close my eyes, and listen to my heart, I’ll see her, that everything a man asks for is in this star. Fortune-tellers said that I could only perceive her with my heart, that I should never try to use my eye...

85. Old Age (6589 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 20-02-2013 | Letters
Dear Old Age, It seems just yesterday that I was only a kid, and played in the garden with my parents. It seems just yesterday! Now I feel lonely and desperate: nobody loves me! I don’t think I deserve to end my days so lonesome. I have given the best of myself to help others, but now no...

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