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Library of Congress Web Guide - Poetry of September 11

Poetry of September 11 is a guide to print and online poetry about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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		eHow Of The Day How to Survive and Thrive in an Empty Nest by Linda Natali You've just dropped the last of your brood off at the dorm; now it is time to face your empty nest. This generation of mothers often talk with pride about their children and express a sense of relief and joy as they watch their children grow into their own. Moms sending their youngest to college now are less likely to experience the classic empty nest syndrome. Few describe lingering depression, apathy, and loss of identity when children leave the nest. While the question may no longer be "Who am I if I'm not taking care of the kids?" the reality is that many mothers find themselves with a renewed sense of freedom. As it turns out, dads are the ones taking their child's departure to heart. According to a 2008 study from Wheaton College, fathers were actually less emotionally prepared for an empty nest than mothers. The secret isn't so much figuring out how to cope with a kid at college as it is figuring out how to take advantage of the situation. If you're looking to reorient your life after a recent vacancy, the following steps will help you discover that the empty nest isn't a bad thing at all.…Keep reading More Like This How to Survive Empty Nest Syndrome How to Prepare Yourself for Your Child's Departure to College How to Cope With Empty Nest Syndrome How to Deal With Empty Nest Syndrome How to Survive your Kids first Year in College New On eHow "Kung Fu Panda" Hints for a DS How to Report a Lost Birth Certificate Holiday Gag Gifts Waste Recycling Projects Pain Relievers for Dogs With Joint Arthritis		Advertisement Featured Member Articles Kurt Schwengel from Santa Monica, CA wrote: How to Start a Club in School How to Find the Right Private School How to Safely Share Pictures on the Internet You Should Follow Us!

DarkPoetry Poem of the Day: for pride goeth last of all

I want to love you like you were my white whale,
cut to the chase, and give up
all my worldly tangles for dead weight, ore the bow.
Like I gave up cigarettes as an afterthought
to a life spent before there ever was a You

quite like you.

But in these times of introversion,
tapping my fingers to what beats my melody
I still feel like a Smokin' Joe
dropping Pink Manilla bombs; bloom of every page.
Eyes widen and swell
and trickle down to yesterdays
while the world rocks me to buckle in stagger-wither
rock me, never to fell me- no, not this Spartan, blue.

Pride goeth, and here I stay
like dancing butterflies, so bee.stung.hearted

and rebel.yelling,

Come, world.

Put up your devil dukes and let me see you
shimmy round this left hooking heartstring
come over your bend- the bluff,
drinking force from her sigh like the river Styx
not a heel for hate to cull from me. No vulnerability

where there is she.

I'll mark these gloves with valentines and send
bulls in our road to the rafters.

To the wayside.

And love you like you were my white whale.
Stand, naked and fearless on the rocks and let you
Swallow me whole
because after all this time I've spent going Ahab

You are the only one
who gets me

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"STRATITUDE" - New Story from Linda Ellis

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda Ellis' Newsletter September 08, 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     www.lindaellis.net Hello,   Thank you for being a part of my mailing list!  I love sharing my new stories and poems with all of you and I enjoy receiving your thoughts and feedback. I do hope you enjoy my latest inspiration... LIVE YOUR DASH! Linda Ellis *NEW INSPIRATIONAL STORY* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Stratitude"    Excerpt:   Strategy:  a plan of action or policy designed to achieve an overall purpose or intention. Gratitude:  the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation. Stratitude:  Simply put, an imaginary technique whereby one learns to combine these two in order to adopt, hone and maintain a personal strategy of gratitude.    READ "Stratitude"    Quick Links... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   My Website Products More About Linda Ellis More Stories & Poems Join Me on Facebook!     Contact Information...  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda Ellis Linda's Lyrics 1050 E. Piedmont Road Suite E-135 Marietta, GA  30062 Phone:  (404) 966-3349 FAX:     (770) 973-9350 Email:  liveyourdash@bellsouth.net Website:  www.lindaellis.net

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[Poetry Chaikhana] Muso Soseki - Toki-no-Ge (Satori Poem)

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Toki-no-Ge (Satori Poem) By Muso Soseki (1275 - 1351) English version by W. S. Merwin   Year after year           I dug in the earth                     looking for the blue of heaven only to feel           the pile of dirt                     choking me until once in the dead of night           I tripped on a broken brick                     and kicked it into the air and saw that without a thought           I had smashed the bones                     of the empty sky   -- from Sun at Midnight: Muso Soseki - Poems and Sermons, Translated by W. S. Merwin / Translated by Soiku Shigematsu Amazon.com / Photo by CarbonNYC /

============ Thought for the Day: The world is pregnant with miracles. All it takes is for us to approach with quiet and awe, and the most mundane things open themselves into infinities. ============

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Hi Omss -

Don't you like the way this short Zen poem says so much? The spiritual quest is first seen as some sort of construction project, but he doesn't really know what to build or what he's doing so he just digs deeper into the earth -- worldly, material existence -- until he's choked by the experience. It's as if he begins to recognize he's only been digging his own grave, yet even then he doesn't know what else to do.

But insight, that moment of satori or enlightenment, comes almost by accident. "In the dead of night" -- the dark night of the soul when he feels most hopeless and drained, he stumbles and falls. Yet in falling on his back for the first time he is face up and sees the sky. He's stunned and even thought falls away. The sky itself shatters. He pierces through the false sky, which is a construction of his mind -- his thoughts about sky, his concepts and assumptions of all that encompasses his world -- and finally sees clearly sky as it is -- the living, empty spaciousness that overarches and permeates everything.

Earnest seekers labor hard, but the masters seek that strategic stumbling and so see the sky.

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Muso Soseki first practiced Zen under the guidance of a Chinese teacher but he "failed miserably." He later studied with the Japanese Zen master Koho Kennichi and soon began to unfold into profound awakening, receiving inka or certification of enlightenment in 1339.

Muso Soseki went on to teach large numbers of students and, like many Zen practitioners, write poetry. He also became an advisor to the first Ashikaga Shogun and helped to re-establish trade and communications between Japan and China.

Soseki is perhaps most famous, however, for his profound influence in the art of Zen gardening as spaces to cultivate awareness.

Ivan


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For those of you who've been worried about the fire burning in my area, I just want to reassure you that we're safe. There has been a terrible fire burning in the mountains near Boulder, Colorado, areas I know and have visited, but my wife and I live in the flatlands neighborhoods several miles from the foothills. We've seen a lot of the smoke from the fires, and we know indirectly a few people who've lost their homes or think they've lost their homes. It's also tragic to think of that beautiful mountain wilderness burning. But we are safe and everyone we know is okay. Thank you for the concerned notes.

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