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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time management
- I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date. No time to say "hello", "goodbye", I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!Have you ever felt like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland? Rushing from one thing to the next with no time to rest or relax? If so, perhaps what you need is some time management.The problem is, you can't really manage "time". You can't take a few hours from the morning...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is toastmasters?
- Toastmasters.... Toastmasters....What is Toastmasters?Is it a bunch of guys in stuffed shirts & suits standing around and pontificating about people. Is it a secret society where everyone looks furtively from side to side before giving the secret handshake? Is it a cooking class where everyone brings in their breadmaker and makes the latest recipe and then toasts it to see how it tastes? Or...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You too can be a public speaker
- Have you ever watched a speaker and said, "Wow, I wish I could speak like that"? or "That person was just so wonderful. I could never do that." Well, I've got some good news for you. You too can be a public speaker. Public speaking is a learned skill, so anyone can do it. You just need to follow some simple steps and practice, practice, practice. If you know how to talk, you can become a public sp...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 13 publicity tips for professional speakers
- In a funk because other speakers seem to be snagging all the media attention? It's time to start claiming your share. Here are a baker's dozen of tips that will boost your publicity efforts and help you finally get noticed.1. Every time you speak before a group, offer to submit a short summary of your presentation for the group's newsletter. Don't forget to send your photo. It gets you in f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Using your natural style on stage
- We were both speakers at the same convention presenting on the same day-but what a difference. I am tall, while she's short. I am a magnetic speaker-I draw people in with stories and examples. She's a dynamic speaker- humorous and vivacious. We both were hits-the audience loved us. How could we be so different onstage but the same in capturing the audience's attention? Each of us was authe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to write powerful presentations, speeches and talks
- Most of us get nervous about making a speech, whether it's to 2000 convention delegates or a PTA meeting at our child's school. Often, though, people find that's the worst part of the whole process - the anticipation. The reality is often a lot easier to handle and can even be quite enjoyable, provided that you take the necessary precaution of doing your homework beforehand - preparation.Th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 15 tips for making a great speech
- 1. Listen to your internal dialog. 2. Visualize a positive out come. 3. It's not all your fault. 4. Do you believe in your message, do you have something to say? 5. Look at your audience as an extension of your family. 6. Prepare a good introduction and conclusion. Open with impact, close with direction. 7. Be Natural. 8. Tape Yourself....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Four poems: harvest of apoplectic horses [katrinas pathway]
- Four Poems: Katrina's PathwayHarvest of Apoplectic Horses ((Dedicated to: Katrina)) crisis)It has happened before: Nearby and afar, Where the four-horses of Apocalypse With their flaming nostrils Breathed in the fury of the winds Only to vomit out, disaster; - Then galloped away, Against pale faces!...#824 9/2/05The Vanishing [Ded...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Birthday messages
- I WANTED TO SAY IT WITH A BUNCH OF FLOWERS A CARD WOULD HAVE SUFFICED.I WANTED TO SAY IT WITH A PACK OF SWEETS A' HI' WOULD HAVE SUFFICED.I THOUGHT TO SEND A POETIC WISH. POEMS ARE MEANT FOR MEN & WOMENDOES A POEM NEED A POEM FOR A WISH? I WOULD SIMPLY SAY.....,HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! ************************************************ Morning I went to th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - It was not me
- It was not me as I am now. It was not me as I was then. It was then when God was truly in me. When God was in me, I was a young man. A young man with hope, will and desire. Desire to give my love and the gift of God to the ones in need. You see, that was me.Thus, it was not me who hurt you so, But it was me as I was then. It was then when God was not in me....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - I shall wait...
- I Shall Wait..On all the new mornings, and every singking evening, I wear a small crescent, in the finest of my accent...Those memories come up storming, that tender touch so warming, That lovely soothing weather, Feeling as light as a feather, With hands across each other, And nothing else to bother...With a feeliing as to fly, in the open blue sky, That lonely bank of the ri...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Give me a lily pad & the continuum [two poems]
- What can I do to keep this world in its orbital spin? I gave up trying to win the hearts of the many-. Throw the meat-balls against the wall, stop, stop!! Trying to make them spin, like God did in the heavens!Sexual longings-a pathway to anger and rage- Turn the page to the cheap hotels, turn the page Give it a pathway to run, tell your friends, they've won. And don't answer to anyone; hang...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Contract of death [now: in spanish and english]
- Contract of DeathI heard today, the preacher say: "Daniel has warned us long ago, Of the trials and tribulations we Are now facing, with our foes?"He says the 'Antichrist' was now In Europe crying: 'peace,' and the 'Axis of Evil,' had already placed Hidden Atomic Russian weaponsUnder our feet, here in the good Ole heart of the United State...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The goat and the rope [a poem: in spanish and english]
- The Goat and the Ropewhere there were devils I saw none. nothing. the air is hot. milky substance. I am and we are looking at this deep. souls lost. we are looking at this terrain. the moon is dead. over my head. like a shadowy curtain. hanging. most of the kings in westminister abbey are here. all the rest of us are on the hill. no ice-cream down here. we...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Daybreak at pikes creek [a poem]
- Daybreak at Pikes Creek [Summer of 2005]Daybreak by Lake Superior Rising out of the woods like: A swamp mist I'm waiting for breakfast(at the B&B) I pace the grounds The scent of green shrubbery: Trees, flora, flowers-rain Intoxicates me- Branches like big brown arms Descend? The embankment, to the right Blue eyed, like mine-reflect From the creek beneath me (my wife says 'be careful...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Blind designs [a poem] and a note by rosa on the other door
- Blind DesignsBorn today, gone tomorrow Like a butterfly with no stomach Born n the morning, dead by night Oh-let me whisper Oh-let me cry What man has not learned? What man will not learn! In his pomposity, his rhetoric With his abstract concepts With his intellect With his creativeness He has become enslaved By-them? By them all, he will...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ole bulky jeeps & paper, ink and rain [two peoms]
- Ole Bulky JeepsThrough late summer's heat These bulky shaped jeeps Ride by house and farm City and barn-Hungry for Spring-again, hoping to avoid The Slipping and sliding Of winter's ice and wind?[s]Their weighty legs are dirty From moving dust and rain (Here and there, everywhere) Through all kinds of terrain Like moving clouds caught In th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Poetry and popular culture
- Is poetry too complicated for the average reader? Is it too cryptic, scholarly? If you ask a large group of average people what they like or don't like about poetry, you'll get a few different answers, but there is an overwhelmingly common category of responses.One of the main reasons that people say they aren't addicted to contemporary poetry is that they feel it is too cryptic. The langua...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Infected ideologies [a poetic portrait]
- the disease of extremism is infectious-; whoever cannot think of their child growing up without it is part of the phenomenon! (the choice of the day). fanaticism,-- with a powerful ideology are seeds for suicide! murder: giving reasons to rage!... ask: leninist che hitler bin laden they will show you to a noble act of deat...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Wars, air of ambiguity [for: lt. laura walker] in spanish and english
- Wars, air of AmbiguityDedicated to 1st. Lt. Laura Walker (From an old soldier/Vietnam Veteran)[Advance] We fight in foreign lands not because we necessarily love its culture or land, but because we believe in pragmatism (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness); simply as it may be, it can be costly.The Poem:We all lose something in war And sometimes gain som...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ceasar vallejo: black roses [in english and spanish]
- Cesar Vallejo: Black RosesBow down your head ol' poet- To face God's grace ahead There are no more trenchesTo dig today? In the forest of your head,So-: Bow down, bow down,Ol' barbaric poet! Death rides the horse ahead I hear the crackling of a whip See the crazed eyes of death.He summons you to his den- The devil and his wind,So-: Bow down, bow down Your ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Memoirs of a wastelands rim [a poem: now in spanish and english]
- Memoirs of a Wasteland's RimIt still was light when she paused at the wasteland's rim- Over, the rim rest like a sleeping brute, a wooden frame Adjacent to the blue where early stars hung like oil lamps Hanging from old beams and shade?the wooden frame Her footing caught the beams, as she had fallen onto it Alone, she watched the forenoon, climbing around her A drifter woman, marked by life...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Uamaks aquatic [suspense: now in spanish and english]
- Delicately, my mind was selecting a muffled tune, out of the dead dark empty space surrounding me?I saw a shape on a rock, not sure who it was; I had a sensitivity though, a feeling call it, or second-sight; I've heard that before, not sure if I want to put a lot of credence into it, but so be it, the sensitivity and numbness was there. I didn't' sense any danger in the moment, in the moonl...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Grandpas house & from iraq with love [two poems]
- Grandpa's House [The ole Real House]The house needed painting Sun-blistered and flaking Grandpa started to have us Boys-Mike and I- start Doing some scraping-While he, pealed off the ole Paint, and started painting?Just a humble wooden house With several rooms, but Strong enough to keep the Winds and winter snows out, How he loved th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Breathing-in, minnesota [a poem: now in spanish and english]
- In early fall, in Minnesota, the rain falls, falls, In buckets, buckets and more buckets-: drops Likened to music from its many streams-land Of ten-thousand lakes; moistened gravel, gravel Everywhere?Grandpa sits on the porch-daydreaming of, of Something, perhaps winter around the corner-; As the flies disappear, with the mosquitoes? Leaves will soon vanish, shadows will come earlyMa...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - An old wood pile [a poem with notes]
- Old skin, once held tight Against her skeleton- Rose no more, just draped Loosely over unpadded flesh; Un-tightened muscles, and tissue, Lost its courage, no-fortitude-, Gone are the days and years That stood against the Indomitable elements; The skeleton, now a landmark Hidden under flesh and blood Guts and moral fiber, backbone? Collapsed from dr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The exit poems [iron and fire & no heroes]
- The Exit Poems [And Socrates]Iron and FireIron can be soften by fire- grows hard in the cold; and all the gates therein are, as it was, closed again. So, often are those misled? by luxury and pride, who push humility aside-: thus, redemption their vanity and perfection their virtue? and in the end, they all collided.#789 [7/9/05]...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Arizona blue--gunfighter: the wolves nest [chapter one of seven: the north]
- [Episode Five]Arizona Blue-GunfighterThe Wolves Nest-in the North[Episode Five]Northern Minnesota Area?Winter of 1877Chapter One of Seven: The NorthThe area was known as Pigs Eye [St. Paul, Minnesota]; Northfield was a little more notorious since Jessie James robbed the 1st National Bank, in September of last year, and more to the West. But that was...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The crusader: a search for the virtue inside (an excerpt of an epic poem)
- On through the darkness she searches the bones Seeking the hand of her love; Deep in the stillness, the maid searches on, Petitioning help from above. Onward she gropes through the flesh and the blood Of the warriors disfigured and maimed; She carries no hope for the life of her love - For naught but his body she came. To see his face and cradle his head, Hold h...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Colorful talk
- "I heard what you said, Red. Yet, I have to disagree. There's nothing wrong with my voice, You're just filled with jealousy.""You just don't understand, Tan. Let me alleviate your fears. It's not about how well you sing, But can you inspire listening ears?""What do you think, Pink? Am I right or am I wrong?" "I'm not really sure, my friend, I have ...