Prompt: Terrance Hayes and the Golden Shovel

Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes invented a poetry form he calls the Golden Shovel. You take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire, and use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem while maintaining the order. So, if you choose a line with six words, your poem would be six lines long.

This borrowing method is not without precedent in poetry. One similar form is quite ancient: the cento, in which you make a poem entirely from other poets' lines. Another form makes a new poem by removing lines from an existing poem - that is known as an erasure.

For my own first Golden Shovel attempt, I wrote a poem for my daily writing practice last year. I chose a poem by Gary Snyder called "Changing Diapers" and used his line "you and me and Geronimo." I wrote it in the ronka form that all my daily poems for 2014 used.

Geronimo [after Gary Snyder]

After the reading, talking briefly to you
and recalling another time � when I, Steve and
you shared coffee conversation � you remembered me.
A wonderful lie. We are men, and
we jump like paratroopers and shout Geronimo.

My poem came out of a brief encounter with Snyder recently when he read at the Dodge Poetry Festival in New Jersey. It also recalls a longer conversation we had at another Dodge Festival more than 20 years ago.

In what I believe must be the first Golden Shovel poem, Terrance Hayes used a Gwendolyn Brooks poem. He started with Brooks' often-anthologized poem, "We Real Cool." His poem is called "The Golden Shovel.".

"The rules" for this new form are:

• Take a line(s) from a favorite poem
• Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem and
• Keep the end words in the order they appeared originally. That means that you could read the stanza at the right edge like an acrostic.
• Give credit to the original poet (it can be in the title, an epigram or within the poem) and for our prompt also include a note a reference to the poem, though it doesn't have to be part of the poem itself. It would be great if you could include a link to the original poem online so that readers could see your inspiration.
• The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the original poem, but it can be related.

We know how poets love to play by the rules. Mr. Hayes pushes a bit on his own rules by using more than a line and and using every word from the Brooks poem. Twice. Setting the bar high. In his collection, Lighthead, he also has a poem using Elizabeth Alexander's poem, �Ladders� (for his "Last Train to Africa") and borrows lyrics from songs by Marvin Gaye and Louis Armstrong for others.

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Terrance Hayes' poem �The Golden Shovel� is from Lighthead (2010, Penguin) which won the National Book Award.




Extra Credit: Think you know why Hayes called his poem and form "The Golden Shovel?"   Tell us your answer in a comment on this post.

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Sinkhole

One of life's greatest certainties
is that the ground is solid
beneath one's feet

so the sudden appearance
of chasms, however small,
is unsettling.




From British sinkhole spike prompts warning, David Shukman, BBC News. Submitted by Angi Holden.

I was scared to talk to him, he

was so beautiful that I was all
psyched, his eyes were like...,
his hair were like..., when he
turned to look at you, you turned
into..., so try as I might, I couldn't
do, but then one day, in one of
those moments of courage that
come very, very few, I wrote to
him, being all spruce and fly,
asking him "So why haven't we
met so far?" giving him the cue,
he said: "I was scared to talk to you."

The Famous Squib Case of 1793

Scott v Shepherd

A lit squib
was thrown into a crowded market
by Shepherd

and landed
on the table of a gingerbread merchant.

A bystander, to protect himself
and the gingerbread,
threw the squib across the market

where it landed
in the goods of another merchant.
The merchant grabbed the squib

and tossed it away,
accidentally hitting Scott in the face,
putting out one of his eyes.




From Wikipedia's article on squibs, retrieved 12 September 2014. Submitted by Susan Taylor.

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The Pornography of Everyday Life

Last year,
I woke up
in a hotel room
in Amsterdam.

There was
a woman
in my bed.

I looked
in the mirror
and saw
that my eyebrows
were gray.

I saw
that I was
forty.




Painter Alexander Melamid, quoted in Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm (Granta Books, 2014). Submitted by Howie Good.

Christmas Quotes with Wishes Picture Cards

"May harmony be your gift at Christmas and your wishes all year through...!!!"

~ Author Unknown...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"And see that I am with you continuously; yes, to the end of time...!!!"

~ Jesus Christ...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"A little smile on your face, a word of optimism, A moment of love from someone near a little gift from one held beloved...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"I need a weapon," Valkyrie mumbled. "You�re an Essential with a magical ring, skilled in a variety of martial arts by some of the best? Gathers in the world," Trickery pointed out. "I�m justly sure that makes you a weapon...!!!" "I mean a weapon you hold. You have a gun, Taint has a sword. I want a twig...!!!"

"I�ll buy you a stick for Christmas...!!!" 

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and clever men falling to their knees in love of the lovely baby, the avatar of faultless love...!!!"

~ Lucinda Franks...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

"I can�t delay to do all the trip things with you. I want to freeze Christmas cakes, drink eggnog, and adorn the home...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Contentment lies in clemency. May baby Jesus bring you contentment this Christmas and help you to clemency all those who have upset you...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"I heard the bells on Christmas Time, Their old acquainted songs play, and rough and sugary, the words repeat, of concord on earth, good-will to men!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Christmas gifts and your love are certainly the basic parts of a really merry Christmas...!!!"

~ Peg Bracken...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

"Christmas is doing a slight something additional for someone...!!!" 

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"This Christmas, may all your past immoralities be pardoned and may you get a chance to live life anew. May you learn from your faults, and have a beautiful life into the future of you...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Christmas is lastly back here! Let's make the maximum of it. Let's adorn our homes, light up the candles, wrap up the gifts, but most prominently let us clean our hearts to invite Jesus in. Merry Christmas to you...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"There are so many gifts I want to give to you this Christmas. Concord, adoration, happiness, contentment are all presents I am sending your way...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the senses of children, are the children all thirty feet tall...!!!"

~ Larry Wilde...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Christmas time is always so excited. That�s why I�m so happy I have a friend like you to comfort me out in the holidays...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"In old day people not know about Holiday season, they called Christmas and went to the church, Jews called it Hanukkah and went to the synagogue...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"It is not amusing that at Christmas something in you gets so alone for, I do not know what correctly, but it is something that you don not notice so much not having at other times...!!!"

~ Kate L. Bosher...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

"I will respect Christmas in my heart, and follow the lesson throughout the year...!!!"

~ Charles Dickens...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Mail your posts quickly so the post office can drop them in time for Christmas...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"The best gift you could give Jesus on his birthday is a fresh heart...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"The person who do not believe in Christmas in his heart cannot find it under a tree...!!!"

~ Roy L. Smith...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

"Our hearts grow loving with baby memories and love of associated, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time...!!!"

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"All streets and highways lead to the home on Christmas...!!!"

~Marjorie Holmes

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"At Christmas play and make a lot of fun because Christmas comes in just one time...!!!"

~ Thomas Tusser

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"One of the most glorious muddles in the world is the muddle shaped in the living room on Christmas day. Don't unpolluted it up too quickly...!!!" 

~ Humorist...!!! 

Merry Christmas...!!!

"There's no you and me on Christmas Day, It's just us...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Instead of being a time of strange manners, Christmas is maybe the only time in the year when people can follow their natural desires and express their true opinions without emotion embarrassed and, maybe, silly. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself...!!!"

~ Francis C. Farley...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, an extremely sacred time that each of us notices, in his own way, by going to the mall of his superior...!!!"

~ Dave Barry...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"The tree is decorated, the cakes are ready and the gifts are enclosed. Now all that�s left is to wish you a Merry Christmas...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

"If you really want to do something on Christmas, Feed the famished, clothe the bare, forgive the shamefaced, welcome the unwelcome, care for the harsh, love your opponents, and do unto others as you would have done unto you...!!!" 

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"The Supreme Court has announced that they cannot have a origin scene in Washington, D.C This wasn't for any spiritual explanations. They mightn't find three intelligent men and a virgin...!!!" 

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air...!!!"

~ W.T. Ellis...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Let's be naughty and save Santa the journey...!!!"

~ Gary Allan...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

"Christmas is a period for sparking the fire for welcome in the hall, the friendly blaze of aid in the heart...!!!"

~ Washington Irving...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Jesus Christ is the main reason for this wonderful Holy occasion, This Christmas let us together venerate baby Jesus and promise him to try responsibly to follow his teachings...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"Christmas is all about spreading love with your loved ones. That�s why I am taking the time to share love with you and I hope to get some love back...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"When we remember previous Christmas, we typically find that the simplest things not the great times give off the utmost light of pleasure...!!!"

~ Bob Hope...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

"It's that of the year, when we forget our tears, rejoice, love and cheer...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"For periods men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means companionship, eating, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer at home...!!!" 

~ W.J. Ronald Tucker...!!!

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"May your hearts be filled with harmony and trust in God. May your days of hesitation be changed with days of hope and applaud. May you and your family get cultivated with lots of love...!!!"

Merry Christmas...!!!

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"A man enfolded up in himself always smothers. But his loved ones will always hold in their hearts the memory of that Christmas...!!!" 

Merry Christmas...!!!

My Favourite Fairy

She has very delicate sparkly bright blue eyes
and a red red red red red red dress
That�s why I love her
so much




A small girl talks to her mother. Overheard on the street, 3 September 2014. Submitted by Grace Andreacchi.

New Year and Merry Christmas Wishes Quotes with Greeting Pictures

"I respect Christmas in my mind and heart, and try to keep it all the year...!!!" 

~ Charles Dickens...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"Christmas is not in glitter and lights and external show. The secret lies in an internal glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. Its higher thought and a greater plan. It's magnificent vision in the soul of man...!!!"

~ Wilfred A. Peterson...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"One of the most delightful muddles in the world is the muddle created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly...!!!"

~ Andy Rooney...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"In this Christmas spell May your life be filled with blessings. May the light of love shine upon you...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

"Our emotions grow caring with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better during the year for having, in soul, become a child again at Christmas time...!!!" 

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"Christmas is most really Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most...!!!"

~ Ruth Carter Stapleton...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"Christmas has can win back us to the wonderful childhood days, that can remember to the old man the happiness of his youth, that can transport the sailor and the passenger, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his silent home...!!!"

~Charles Dickens,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"If on this Christmas some fatty men kidnap you and throw down in a postbag, then please say nothing and keep silence, because many people would have Santa Clause for a sweet friend like you...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

"On this most holy day, I wish you love for all your sympathy, and I faith the New Year will bring you many days of contentment...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"My plan of Christmas, even old-fashioned or up-to-date, is very simple: caring others. Come to think of it, why do we have to delay for Christmas to do that?" 

~ Bob Hope...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"Christmas my child is affection in action. Every time we adoration, every time we provide, it's Christmas...!!!"

~ Dale Evans Rogers...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"Taws Christmas presented the largest ale, A Christmas frolic poetry could gloom the poor man's heart through half the year...!!!"

~ Walter Scott...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

"Maybe Christmas, the greedy thought, doesn't come from a store...!!!"

~ Dr. Seuss...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"May this year be more hopeful than the year before! Feast the contentment all around you! It's Christmas...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"Christmas can be commemorate in the school room with long trees, glitter and reindeer's, but there must be no discussion of the man whose anniversary is being celebrated. One miracles how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"Christmas is the season which involves the whole world in a connection of love...!!!"

~ Hamilton Wright Mabie...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

"Christmas is a requirement. There has to be at least one day of the year to repeat us that we're here for something else further ourselves...!!!"

~ Eric Sevareid...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"Every ability which is given, even though is be lesser, is in certainty great, if it is given with love...!!!"

~ Pindar...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"This Christmas instead of gifting your fat sweetheart a balancing scale, try gifting her a good-looking fitness instructor and watch the effects...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"A Christmas candle is a beautiful thing, It makes no sound at all, But tenderly gives itself gone; While quite selfless, it grows small...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

Christmas and Happy New Year Quotes with Greeting Picture

"Christmas is not a time nor a period, but a fact of mind. Value the harmony and generosity, to be abundant in kindness, is to have the real soul of Christmas...!!!"

~ Calvin Coolidge...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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May you find contentment, adoration and relationship right beside you and wherever you may go. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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Johna "said Luna vaguely, pointing at a large bunch of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. "Good thinking," said Luna truly. "It's often infested with gargles...!!!" 

~ J.K. Rowling...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas must to be, Christmas is...!!!"

~ Eric Sevareid...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

"I have always believed in Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, merciful, generous time; the only time I know of, in the long chart of the year, when men and women seem by one agreement to open their shut-up emotions freely, and to think of people below them as if they certainly were fellow travelers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys...!!!"

~ Charles Dickens...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"My child Christmas is a love season. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas...!!!"

~ Dale Evans...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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This Christmas as you sum your blessings sent to you by the God, don't forget to pray for those you aren't able to participate in this delightful celebration. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"On this blissful day, and in entire coming year, may your life be full with good luck and wealth...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

"Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more......!!!" 

~ Dr. Seuss...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the existence of a cheerful family all draped up in each other...!!!"

~ Burton Hills!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"Christmas is the mildest, prettiest festival of the revolving year and up till now, for all that, when it expresses, its voice has 

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strong expert...!!!"

~ W.J. Cameron...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"The best gift that you can give lovely Jesus this birthday is a helpful heart...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

"May lovely Jesus brings you and for your family lots of adoration. May the host of spirits fill your life with bliss and pleasure...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"I hope you know how much I value your relationship. I wish you a very merry Christmas and may we enjoy many more years together as friends...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"How many observe Christ�s birthday, how few his respect...!!!"

~ Benjamin Franklin...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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The best Christmas trees come very close to beyond nature.

~ Andy Rooney...!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

"Its true Christmas can feel like a lot of work, mostly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you have created family civilizations and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long tow...!!!"

~ Caroline Kennedy...!!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"On this Christmas I pray to God fill your homes with harmony and bliss. May this you come closer to God...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"On this Christmas make a decision you will bring smile on every those faces love you...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

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"May your heart be filled with the joy of giving, as it is the appearance of the love in your heart and the sympathy in your humanity...!!!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...!!!

This is not fair, Bombay,

to get me in the habit of the sea, as if
you do not know, I am from and will go
back to my land-locked Delhi. Now the
next time I feel blue and all the world
comes crushing on to me, what do you
suppose I should do, with no sea, no
waves, no sand, no grey, wet boulders
on this calming edge-of-land, that tell you
the world's too big to carry on your shoulders,
so let it be, so let it be.

(thanks to Kyla Pasha)

No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Bront�

No coward soul is mine,

No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.

O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life - that in me hast rest,
As I - Undying Life - have power in Thee!

Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts, unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds
Or idlest froth amid

Merry Christmas and New Year Wishes Pictures and Quotes

"Christmas seas a magic baton over this world, and behold everything is calmer and more beautiful...!!!"

~ Norman Vincent Peale...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

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"Every year on this beautiful time, we appreciate with adoration, trust and closeness. I thank God for blessing me with such a caring family...!!!"

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

"Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas maybe means a little while more...!!!"

~ Dr. Seuss...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

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"May your life be filled with happiness and pleasure and may each new day bring you moments to appreciate...!!!"

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

"Somehow, not only for Christmas, but all the long year through, the happiness that you give to others, is the happiness that comes back to you. And the more you pass in blessing, the poor and lonely and sad, the more of your emotion�s possessing, returns to you happy...!!!"

~ John Greenleaf Whittier...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

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"I wish Santa brings you the gift of never ending happiness this Christmas, May you and your family be blessed plentifully...!!!"

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

"On this blissful day, and through the New Year, may your life be filled with a profusion of love...!!!"

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

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"One can never have anything like socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will asking me on giving me books...!!!" 

~ J.K. Rowling...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

"Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of affection, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should succeed over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our opinions and activities and the spirit of our lives visible the existence of God...!!!"

~ George F. McDougall...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

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"Christmas is a time when you get nostalgic, even when you are at home...!!!"

~ Carol Nelson...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

"I hope this Christmas bring a lovely in change your life. My wishes will find smile on your face. I wish you the best in life on this Christmas...!!!"

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

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"When we were kids we were thankful to those who to the top our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not thankful to God for satisfying our stockings with legs...???"

~ G.K. Chesterton...!!!

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree...!!!"

~ Roy L. Smith...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

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"Holy is the period which engages the entire world in a scheme of love...!!!"

~ Hamilton Wright Mabie...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

"It is Christmas in the spirit that puts Christmas in the atmosphere...!!!"
~ W.T. Ellis...!!!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!
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"At Christmas, all roads lead home...!!!"
~ Marjorie Holmes...!!!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

"Merry Christmas and may you live a long and happy life filled with kindness and relationship...!!!"

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

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"The main motivation of Santa is so cheerful is because he knows where all the ruthless girls live...!!!" 

~ George Carlin...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

"This is the message of Christmas, we are never alone we are together...!!!"

~ Taylor Caldwell...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

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"Those who has not Christmas in their heart will never find it under a tree...!!!"

~ Roy L. Smith...!!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...!!!

Missed Connections

I get frustrated with things in my personal life sometimes,
especially her.
I�m missing consideration, and a loved feeling.
My life is being spent in a back seat to others
whom I always take care of with little reciprocation
and even less thanks.
I spend time fantasizing about the feeling of woman,
giving a damn,
and of the random,
uninitiated touch or smile.
Why must I work so, so hard
just to get so, so little?
All I want is someone's time and consideration
without the feeling that I owe them for it.




From Craigslist Miami, Missed Connections MfW, March 2014. Submitted by Dawn S. Davies.

The Shores of Tripoli

1
Never sell the bones
of your father and mother.
Every damn fool thing you do
in this life you pay for.
The bastards tried to come
over me last night.
I guess they didn't know
I was a Marine.

2
Is it not meningitis?
All right then, I'll say it:
Dante makes me sick.
Damn it! How will I ever
get out of this labyrinth?
Useless � useless �
My vocabulary did this to me.

3
Don't ask me how I am!
I've got the bows up � I'm going!
I understand nothing more.
The bastards got me,
but they won't get everybody.
This is the fish of my dreams.




Last words from Wikiquotes. Submitted by Howie Good.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas Wishes Pictures with Quotes

"The major reason Santa is so bright is for the reason that he knows where all the bad girls live...!!!"

~George Carlin

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"For centuries men have reserved an engagement with Christmas. Christmas means partnership, feasting, charitable and in receipt of, a time of excellent cheers, home...!!!"

~W.J. Ronald Tucker...!!!

"Isn't it amusing with the intention of the Christmas amazing in you get so feeling alone for, I don't be familiar with what precisely, but it's something that you don't brain so much not having at other times...!!!"

~Kate L. Bosher...!!!

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"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can summon up to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles absent, backside to his possess hearth and his quiet home...!!!"

~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers...!!!"

"Christmas is a occasion when children tell Santa what they desire and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the administration what they want and their kids pay for it...!!!

~Richard Lamm...!!!

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The most excellent of all contributions in the region of any Christmas tree: the presence of a pleased family all wrapped up in each other...!!!"

~Burton Hillis...!!!

"Our hearts produce kindhearted with childhood reminiscences and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in strength, become a child again at Christmas time...!!!"

~Laura Ingalls Wilder...!!!

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"There has been only one Christmas, the rest are anniversaries...!!!"

~W.J. Cameron...!!!

"Christmas is a need. There has to be at slightest one day of the year to be reminiscent us that we're here for amazing else in addition ourselves...!!!"

~Eric Sevareid...!!!

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"Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest celebration of the revolving year, and so far, for all so as to, when it speaks, its tone has strong power...!!!"

~W.J. Cameron...!!!

"Christmas broach�s the mightiest ale; Taws Christmas tell the merriest story; A Christmas frolic oft might optimism The poor man's heart through half the year...!!!"
~Walter Scott...!!!
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May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through...!!!
~Haim...!!!

"Christmas is the time for kindling the fire of kindness in the hall, the sociable flame of charity in the heart...!!!"

~Washington Irving...!!!

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"One of the most magnificent messes in the world is the mess twisted in the existing space on Christmas day. Don't hygienic it up too rapidly...!!!"

~Andy Rooney...!!!

"I by no means supposed in Santa Claus because I know no white dude would approach interested in my locality later than dark...!!!" ~Dick Gregory...!!!

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"My thought of Christmas, whether traditional or present, is very simple: loving others. Come to believe of it, why do we have to remain for Christmas to do that...???

~Bob Hope...!!!

"In its place of creature a time of strange behavior, Christmas is maybe the just time in the year when people can act upon their natural impulses and communicate their accurate sentiments exclusive of emotion self conscious and, possibly, stupid. Christmas, in small, is regarding the no more than opportunity a man has to be him...!!!

~Francis C. Farley...!!!

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"I will admiration Christmas in my spirit, and try to stay it all the year...!!!"

~Charles Dickens...!!!