Dear Mr. Postman I think maybe you lost my letter It’s from my father who lives up North he said he would write when he got better Please check your bag and truck really good He said he will write me he promised he would. Dear Mr. Postman it’s now been a year And there ...
I usually had my work in the Kali Puja every year. I work in a back office. I usually had morning shift on this day when the Goddess Kali is worshipped by many people in India followed by Diwali. Houses are decorated with lights and people burn crackers to celebrate this auspicious occasion. In this ...
I owned a horticulture company for 26 years, so I know the importance of pruning (sometimes called “pinching” for indoor plants). One of the easiest plants to keep beautiful is the Pothos, also called Devil’s Ivy. It is primarily available as three different cultivars: yellow variegated, white variegated, and plain green. The botanical name for ...
I have to be quite honest or this will not make any sense. I personally am not a dog lover. Never have been, of course I was always politically correct when I would see others with their dogs always gave the correct praises (great looking dog, it looks very smart, etc.) Anyhow, never in my ...
“That which cannot be spoken can be sung, That which cannot be sung can be danced.” The words of this old French saying ring so true when referring to lyrical dance. Recently I’ve been asked a number of times “What exactly is lyrical dance?” I have even asked myself “What exactly constitutes lyrical and makes ...
It seems really ironic that a poem could be both an outcry during the Harlem Renaissance and a rallying song for Winston Churchill to persuade his country to fight against the Nazis, but that is exactly what this poem was. Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” was originally written about the race riots in Harlem ...
Karrine Steffans set both the hip-hop world and Hollywood afire when she penned last year’s best-selling Confessions of a Video Vixen. Now Karrine Steffans is ready to rock the world again with what is sure to be her best-selling diaries series follow-up: The Vixen Diaries. The Vixen Diaries is already causing buzz in many circles, ...
Y is a weird letter for at least three reasons. First, it can be a consonant, a vowel, or a vowel suffix. Second, when it is a vowel, it has no sound of its own; it has to borrow sounds from other vowels. Third, it acts in a strange way when it is at the ...
Cross my palm with silver, the gypsy fortuneteller always says in the movies, and I’ll tell you what your future holds. Chiromancy – palm reading – has always been concerned with foretelling what is going to happen. But few realize that a palm reader is better at telling you the past, and how illuminating your ...
The sestina is a very structured form of six sestets (six-line stanzas) followed by a triplet (or tercet, a three-line stanza) for a total of 39 lines. What sets it apart, however, is the re-use of the final word in each line of the first stanza in a specific order that is different in each ...
