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Ding! Dong! Who's that ringing my doorbell? That ding-dong-dinging's hard to ignore. Better get out of my shell. Have they got nice stuff to sell? Or are they collecting for the poor? Who's that ringing my doorbell? Someone with a tale to tell? Or my needy neighbour needing more? Better get...

How long? Sly serpent creeps, grim dragon flies O'er all this world he strews his lies. In souls benumbed they spread their roots. In lives bewitched they bear death's fruits. Mankind is blind, the walking dead, Step stumbling hell-ward with each tread. In pride he thinks he steers his ship...

So imagine you're the USA's president, or someone rich enough, or powerful enough to make things happen. What would you do? Not just to deal with the immediate, impending invasion of the USA but what to do about the world-wide mass migrations that have now become the norm. A river of people...

A Definition To think is To sink into To link into Realities Centralities Past passing banalities Through ephemeral peripheral Wool pulled over eyes To take hold of To make bold with All That is Solid Satisfying Useful. ><> Unzip file to play the audio.

This, Part 5, should be the last in the series, Fifty-traditional-poetry-forms. These are the links to the other four parts. Where are You? Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 2 Fifty Traditional Poetry Forms - Part 3 Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 4 42 - Song Poem The People's...

Links to the previous three parts of Fifty Poetry Forms:- Fifty Traditional Poetry Forms - Part 3 Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 2 Where are You? 32 - Rispetto A 15th century Italian verse form still popular today. It is usually a love poem, hence the name "respect" for a loved one. The...

Hello - I see there is already a 'Persecution' thread here started by Lik3 but I'd like this one to be focused on the question in the thread title. I've chosen this forum rather than the 'Christians only' alternative as I'm interested in the common human dilemma involved at the heart of the...

Links to Parts 1 and 2 - Where are You? Fifty traditional poetry forms - part 2 20 - Minute Poetry The Minute Poem is a rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The...

Cool cat sat on cold snow. Coal black cat, Cheshire Cat grin, Looking up to see within. White flakes floating down carpeting, covering all around. Snow can cover such a multitude of sins. Cool cat sat on the white mat, Softly he began to hum a song. He though of his lost love long gone Over...

“It doesn't matter what it means.”, seems to me a lowly view. A man may sublimely sing and to the party his talents bring But if his view is such a thing, It means to me he prizes not What is true and what he's got. ><> Does it matter?

Part 1 of Fifty traditional poetry forms is the thread titled, Where Are You? 11- Fable A fable is a poetic story composed in verse or prose with a moral summed up at the end. Usually using animals as characters to teach a valuable lesson. The Lion and The Unicorn In earth's early days under...

When I read in the Bible such words as, 'righteousness' and 'purity' I sort of understand. Even the biblical meaning of 'perfection' as maturity I can take hold of. But when I come to 'holy' and 'holiness' it always brings me up short and disturbs me. I still can't grasp it and find it a rather...

@Goodbook - You out there? Is you good? Mmm probably gone skiing. ><>

So folks, as well as expanding our global botanical knowledge let's do the same for zoological. Beasts, birds, creepy crawlies, if it moves take a picture, describe it, is it a garden goodie or a paradise pest? Yesterday I got some great video of a red squirrel which came right up to our...

I'm going to try, over time, to do one each of the fifty traditional forms of poetry. But it will be as and when and if allowed. Traditional Poetry Forms 1-Acrostic 2-Ballad 3-Cinquain 4-Clerihew 5-Diamante 6-Didactic 7 Epic 8-Epigram 9-Epitaph 10-Etheree 11-Fable 12-Free Verse 13-Ghazal...

So, a couple of years back I started digging a hole in the garden. This year may well see this hole become a finished 'water feature'. Some years back I had the privilege of bring in to being a small wood and now, if The Lord allows, I hope to bring into being a watery ecosystem teeming with...

Modern English Version Modern King James Version KJV2000 KJ21 I'm looking to get something to replace a NKJV I've used for 30+ years. I want something based on the same base texts as the KJV but with the language modernised. Any one used the KJV 2016 version by someone in Australia called Nick...

Meeting Greeting “How are you?” “Oh, you know. The tides of time wash along my coastline And one day The cliff of my existence will crumble and tumble Into their waves.” “And how about you?” ><>

Tinsel Time T'is tinsel time when midst the grime Of muddied minds shines, What can it be? Electro-lite silver gilding This gingerless bread of strife? Celebrating the survival of the fittest, The feel good factor? Forgetting for the festive moment The fate that awaits. Or, could it be the...

https://barnabasfund.org/news/UK-preaching-tour-by-Muslim-clerics-who-glorify-murder-of-politicians-supporting-Christians?audience=GB When one knows that such people are not only allowed to come spread their message in Britain but also are welcomed by the Church of England's main man, it makes...