These are the birth pangs
While they are called "contractions"
They are not shortened!
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Blooms resilience.
Endurance brightly flowers.
Purple crocuses.
[EDIT 1: to change second line, but Zenlunatic was in so quickly it became an edit.]
[EDIT 2: meant to say that I adjusted Shaun's last line to fix the syllable count. These things don't bother me overmuch but they drive some people to distraction
so it's best to be gentle with their sensibilities.]
Endurance brightly flowers.
Purple crocuses.
[EDIT 1: to change second line, but Zenlunatic was in so quickly it became an edit.]
[EDIT 2: meant to say that I adjusted Shaun's last line to fix the syllable count. These things don't bother me overmuch but they drive some people to distraction
so it's best to be gentle with their sensibilities.]
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The open-eared dance.
The Zen of one Lunatic
drowns in hippy honey.
The open-eared dance.
The Zen of one Lunatic
hippy honey drowns.
[EDIT: to fix syllable count
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The Zen of one Lunatic
drowns in hippy honey.
The open-eared dance.
The Zen of one Lunatic
hippy honey drowns.
[EDIT: to fix syllable count
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Sound pretty good now:
("resilliance"- four or three)
Peace, ussusimiel.
[Edit: For irony, I'm not certain how many syllables "ussusmiel" is.
In the case of three syllables, my haiku should replace "Peace" with "Blush not".]
("resilliance"- four or three)
Peace, ussusimiel.
[Edit: For irony, I'm not certain how many syllables "ussusmiel" is.
In the case of three syllables, my haiku should replace "Peace" with "Blush not".]"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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