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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
The real name First you call it magic 'cause you never felt so light. You're seeing right through it, blind for the second sight. After many daydreams, you're getting your first kiss. Now it's called love, at least you think it is. It lasts a little while before you call it doubt. This isn't what you thought it was. You're falling off your cloud. Then you call it a piece, a piece of a broken heart. Now you're back on the ground, ready for a brand new start. Julie Detavernier (2012) rOZZ Music Pictures |
Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
Cardboard City Cardboad City residency. Life-style graced with difficulty. Always ready for new vistas. Jobs, aplenty, as baristas. They are found in inner-city; clustered, for our scorn and pity. Favorite places under bridge-spans, housing teachers, cabbies, dead-pans. Making do with what they garner. Sterno-heat, in winter, warmer. Send their kids to local schools. Food-stamps, pantries, go by rules. Making sure that they will vote. For their children's future, hope. * * * j. r. martin 23 Octobe 2012 |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
I will always be me I always wanted to be someone else. To be everything I was not. I was not happy with all the things I got. I wanted a new life, one world I've made but every time I tried to change I made the same mistake. I was stupid and I wouldn't see. I finally found out what was wrong with me. I was not good enough. I was not good as myself. I was a stupid girl and I was a fool. Now I've learned and now I'm free. I will never change and always be me. Julie Detavernier (2012) rOZZ Music Pictures |
Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
Julie -- For once, you're wrong. Continue to use your unique perspective on life, to help enrich others'. jim |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
And, I'm glad that you're fine, as well, Julie. You had me concerned for awhile, never-the-less. :o) jim |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
Even though I'm a new-comer to your Seti Cafe, Julie, I do have developed some good attachments to you good folks. I look forward to continuing on, with everyone, into the Seti sunset, when we should meet even more interesting folks in the Milky Way. (This could provide grist for a poem, Julie. You, first?) ;o) |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
Even though I'm a new-comer to your Seti Cafe, Julie, I do have Lol:)) rOZZ Music Pictures |
Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
Julie -- If I may assist (This is fun.) . . . SETI Sun-Set When the day fades, quite away, and LGM have said, "Hello!" -- When we've sent our best, their way, and speak a language we all know -- When technologies unite, and arts have blossomed, quite anew -- When priorities seem right, and all do prosper, not the few -- When relationships appear, and new-found friends are common-place -- When sports-events are not quite near, and children set another pace -- Then, we'll lift ou glasses, high -- let toasts and cheers to SETI, fly. * * * j. r. martin 17 November 2012 |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34253 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Very nice Jim. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
A bow, to you all . . . .. /-Q-\ _ _ ! ! _ _ |
Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
Question: Can "left-justification" be over-ruled, in favor of, say, vertical center? jm |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
OK, Julie. In Microsoft's "Wordpad" editor, one has the option to center the document in the middle of the page ("Rich" Text). To be honest, with you, most of my poems are created, that way (Form is important.). I've never raised the question, before, because I didn't think it would be all that important to the rest of my fellow poets -- and, your own editor might come with its own constraints. On the other hand, perhaps I need to play around with it, a little more? Hope this sheds a little more light on things, for you. :o) |
Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
As a follow-up, Julie -- If you'd like to view "SETI Sun-Set", as my poetry groups, (There are two, here.) have received it, just transfer/retype it, using the "Rich" format (or, its equivalent). Let me know what you think! Remember, it won't be transferable (as far as I know it) into Dan's Poetry Corner -- just as a print-out, or for mailing, on-line. ps (apologies), All lines are double-spaced, except for triple-spacing between stanzas, and between the title and the first line of the poem. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
The only place I can read Seti sun-set is here. I wouldn't know how to open it in WordPad, unless you send it to me through Email of course. As for the lay out of a poem in a word document, sometimes I center them in the middle of the page or in the bottom right corner but most of the time I just leave them in the upper left corner. rOZZ Music Pictures |
Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2473 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
Julie -- I know that email is discouraged, in Seti; however, if you sent me your address (via private message?), I'd be glad to mail you an attachment. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
Faithfull strangers Peaceful living is an understatement. God's creations die underrated. Frightened of the ones who claim to be übermensch. Changing manners won't fade behaviour. Animals outclass their human superiors. They won't lie and they live and die and will go to heaven. Faithful strangers, all God's creatures. We're trying to be one in society. What we need is to give our love. Surely we'll try to get us above the clouds, for they are the gate to His Paradise. Julie Detavernier (2012) rOZZ Music Pictures |
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