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Discoveries (71 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 11-02-2023 | Poems
Gary Beck/Discoveries   Strange Surroundings I have always lived in alien enclaves. never taking root no matter ... [more]

Stillness (193 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 02-11-2022 | Poems
Sixty-nine tears dropping from only one eye: sixty-nine tears and the sound of a heart splitting in two. In some corner of the gl... [more]

Double Envelopment (265 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 16-09-2022 | Poems
Gary Beck/Double Envelopment   Unfair A child asked me: “Why do some people have so much and some so ... [more]

A Carnival of Freaks (241 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 27-07-2022 | Poems
The monkey's praying, the baby is asleep and the monk goes on a trip. Grandma's shouting, playing free, under a palm tree.... [more]

Last Words (247 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 12-07-2022 | Poems
To western sites I retreat, so dark and so deep. In a winter palace my soul bleeds, in a battle field my body splits. To eastern ... [more]

Unillumined (548 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 08-05-2022 | Poems
Gary Beck/Unillumined   City Fixture The homeless sit on unrelenting streets cardboard signs advertising need. ... [more]

The Answer (325 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 11-04-2022 | Poems
"Tell me why," the small poet asked the cold wind, "I'm so tiny and the stars are so big; crowded houses, everyw... [more]

Benefits of exercise (571 times seen)
By John Smith | 24-03-2022 | Articles
Benefits of Weight Training: Get Fit, Lose Weight, Build a Greater Body, and Prevent Disease. Many have benefited from our training, bu... [more]

Unveilings (423 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 28-01-2022 | Poems
Gary Beck/Unveilings   Political Sketch Too many of us have become so angry, so self-righteous we don’t ca... [more]

Amazing Echoes (424 times seen)
By Josep Maria Garolera Carreras | 23-01-2022 | Poems
Crazy horses for the dead boys, wild horses for the still boys; so they can run the last ride, before dying again. Fast cars for ... [more]

Metaphor, Metonymy and Synecdoche (19645 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... [more]

Taboo Words, Euphemisms And Dysphemisms (9257 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 t... [more]

Letting Go of My One True Love (5773 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 yo... [more]

Old Age (5413 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! N... [more]

Best 17: The TOP vendors for IT training resources (4715 times seen)
By Miscellany | 16-10-2014 | Articles
There are many sellers which are accessible to give you the best preparing for IT. Each of them contend with each other, yet just few o... [more]

The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within You (4385 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 li... [more]

Dawn in Cities (4227 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 17-03-2013 | Poems
Dawn in Cities: 'Effluvia', 'Tidal Sweep', 'Fruitless Search', 'Hope', 'Doomed' Effluvia Be... [more]

Lies... (4173 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 alwa... [more]

Assault on Nature (4087 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 cr... [more]

Song of the Conquerors (4017 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 pi... [more]