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Shavkat @Shavkat (141905) • Philippines 19 Aug 21

I am sure you are wondering. As of today, I got my reading glasses. I claimed to be my best friend because it will be used while working online. It has anti-radiation that will protect my tantalizing eyes especially in front of my...

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The Drinking Glass

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 24 Oct 20

The image of the glass has always been used - 'the glass half full or the glass half empty' or 'fill the glass to the brim, walk around the block, what do you see?' The glass is for drinking. That is a given. Eighty per cent of...

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Eight Minutes Forty-Six Seconds.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 5 Jun 20

"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans... The emptiness of ages in his face, ... Who made him dead to rapture and despair, ... Stolid and stunned, ..." Verses from American poet Edwin Markham, written a century ago, and yet...

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"Choose your plague, America."

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 6 May 20

23 September 2017 was a dire foreboding. It was the day America celebrated the eclipse that crossed across the entire country. The people were seen excited and jubilant, as if the spectacular solar scene was a harbinger of good...

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Five Stones from Our Lady of Medjugorje. For Lent.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 3 Mar 20

Never mind if the Apparitions of Medjugorje has not been validated by the Catholic Church. Verifying and validating take time, especially when politics try to interfere. Sigh. In time, all will be well. What is important is the...

our lady of medjugorje

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Why is it said that 'Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus'?

amirev777 @amirev777 (4117) • India 29 Dec 18

I think it was name of a book written by American author and relationship counselor John Gray, and deals with most common relationship problems between men and women, Which are a result of fundamental psychological differences...

men are from mars

women are from venus

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I will promote one of my own songs

The Horse @TheHorse (238306) • Walnut Creek, California 27 Mar 18

Vanny and DJ have helped me post a bunch of songs to YouTube. Some are my own, and some are covers of others' songs. Some feature me on all instruments (though the miracle of overdubbing), and some feature one of the bands I play...

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How often you use metaphores to make others understand

Aditya sharma @spaceseed (2843) • India 7 Sep 17

I am not good at using metaphors but trying to improve. I when googled the definition come out as "Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally...

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Climb Every Mountain

Inlemay @Inlemay (17712) • South Africa 11 May 17

Many years ago while traveling through Austria, our tour guide told us to look out over the Dolomite Mountains of Austria and Imagine the Von Trapp Family escaping the Nazi's by walking over the mountains . . . It was a imaginary...

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Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Silk Pajama's

PsalmOneCares @everwonderwhy (7355) 12 Sep 16

Monday early morning welcomed me with my annoying old cat in her pajamas. Again. She's a spoiled darling, that one. It's not my fault that she's a brat. She says she's superlatively fit to dip her paws on the exotic dip of tuna...

cats deplorable antics

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Do you prefer more? Or better?

The Horse @TheHorse (238306) • Walnut Creek, California 17 Jun 16

I'm kind of a weirdo, and I tend to see analogies or metaphors in everything. My balcony sunflowers seem to be compensating for the relatively small pot they're in my throwing lots of small sunflowers, instead of a few big...

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We Built this City on Rock and Roll

Peter B. Giblett @pgiblett (6524) • Canada 28 May 16

Listening to the radio this morning the song wit this line it was played. I think these words to be one of the greatest metaphors of all time. We know cities don't literally get built of the music playing on the radio, or do...

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rock roll

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Whats your writing style?

Vinit Gada @mindthoughts (32) • Mumbai, India 12 Nov 15

My writing skills emerged from a website called bubblews. I had never attempted to pen down things or thoughts before. But out of the blue I thought to test myself & started to write something..anything! After a while I could...

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rainbows after the rain

cherigucchi @cherigucchi (15932) • Philippines 27 Apr 13

After the short rain fell, my kids decided to swim at the top floor of the house and called me right away. They showed me two rainbows in the sky! It was a magnificent sight to hold. I can see them right now through the window of...

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Are you a glass half full or glass half empty kinda person?

todster88 @todster88 (61) • United States 19 Aug 11

For most people its probably half full for me it depends on whats in the glass! haha What about you and what are your views on the metaphor?

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Selective indignation about violent metaphors in politics.

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 10 Jan 11

Apparently these violent metaphors are ok.. unless they were uttered by a Conservative. If they bring a knife, we'll bring a gun! Battle ground state. Carpet bombing a district. Scorched earth campaign. In the...

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Deeper Layers of Meaning...

RebeccaScarlett @RebeccaScarlett (2532) • Canada 25 Nov 10

This is a small example of how I overthink things. There is a song I have heard many times, where one of the lines is: "and I miss you...like the deserts miss the rain." On the surface, you would think, well, the deserts are...

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Thinking with a labryinth.

Linkeree @Linkeree (6) • United States 17 Oct 10

Ways of thinking about whatever. Walking to the center of a labryinth and a wonderful thinking excersice if you want to try it I am sure you could find a labryinth near you. Take your time and do realise the bigger the labryinth...

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Can you think about a perfect metaphor of life?

careguarden @careguarden (5670) • Philippines 13 Apr 10

For you what is the best and perfect metaphor of LIFE? Can you think any? Is it life is like a box of chocolate? life is like a game? life is like a river? or anything?

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Driftwood - An Original Poem

Chalea Hutchinson @zoey7879 (3092) • Quincy, Illinois 20 Feb 10

The lights fade. Sunrise, Sunset... As the tidal flows ebb. I lie here choking On your salty waters Still hard and smooth to the surface But soft at the core Washed out and washed up As everyone expected me to be. It's...

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