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Evil Poetry
Posted Jun 5, 2003
Ok, I've had the beginning (first stanza) of a poem hanging out in my head for quite some time, annoying the heck out of me. Here it is:
At the center of all this creative frenzy
There is a calm, or so they tell me
Floating in the great abyss
Mine eyes will never see
Also, one day I randomly wrote "His name is Ziah" on a piece of paper for no apparant reason. Then I wrote another stanza, perhaps to go with the one above, or not:
His name is Ziah
The last Knight of the Purple Shield
Who weilds a broadsword of blue fire
And to whom all enemies yield
I'll admit that one was rather forced. If you have any ideas, please, just post them. I need to know who Ziah is and what he's doing in my brain!
~ AMC
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Back to School
Posted Sep 9, 2002
Well, it's nice to be back, had a *very* relaxing summer. But oh, is it hard to break the old habits. I was completely out of it this morning, trying to get my brain back into school/learning/paying-attention-to-the-person-who's-talking-to-you-even-if-you-find-it-boring mode. I was better by the afternoon, I think. Oh well. Now I'm putting off doing homework, and I have quite a bit of it too. Not a good start to the year. But I'll make do. I'm looking forward to the rest of it. Maybe once this week is over...
Hey, I'm a *senior*!!! I graduate June 8!!! wheeeheeeheeee!!! That's in 8 months, 4 weeks, and 2 days!!!
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Bah the black sheep of the northern circle
Posted Aug 24, 2002
For anyone who may have found this person hanging around in a convo pretending to be me, well, I've been saying "bah" a lot. And, often, I slip into Bah-ish moods. So, don't worry, Bah the black sheep of the northern circle is Alex Chaser, she is alive and well, and shall return to you shortly. (especially as she has her ACE badge back! yay!!! now she has no escuse to put off greeting newbies...)
Hmm...let's have a little fun with this:
Bah is explained above, more or less, it's a good response to anything that annoys you. Bah! Bah. I haven't tried Bah? yet, that could get interesting...
- I'm really glad they decided to put this one out, it's a lot of fun 
Bah bah have you any wool...
Although, ironically, I am anything but a sheep irl. Don't follow the flock, no sir, no how.
the northern circle is something straight out of a poem, meant to sound mysterious. I'm debating posting the poem on the site. Might be nice.
Bah
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blarble
Posted Aug 17, 2002
I'm just getting tired of my last journal entry being from May, so bah. Lessee...Life has been very interesting lately...see the Smiley of the Month bit for the most interesing news...and I would recommend checking out Theory's space, by the way, he's got links to some really funny posts (and, I'd imagine, it took him some time and effort to find them so go, shoo, )...
In other news I recently returned from a week in Missouri, where I stayed with my cousins and some of their friends at the Lake of the Ozarks, getting sunburn and swimming literally *every day* and going through computer withdrawl...ahem...I also got into scrapbooking and bonded with my cousins, we had a lot of fun. I flew by myself, too, kinda scary, but I survived and now I get to tell the tale. Bah. Got stopped by security on the way home, that was a little weird. Other than that, it was fine. Talk more later, need to get some sleep.
~ Alex
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It feels good...
Posted May 29, 2002
I just had an absolutely wonderful experience. My high school is across the street from a senior citizen residence. While taking the class that inspired me to write Guide Entry A660034, Poetry Therapy, I became exceptionally interested in how poetry can help senior citizens cope with the aging process. I wrote my term paper about it and wanted to see it in action, perhaps in a casual poetry discussion group at the residence.
Well, I became acquainted with the activities director there while participating in an adopt-a-grandparent program sponsored by my school and arranged to have the poetry discussion session today. I found some interesting poems at http://www.emule.com/poetry and typed them up so they'd be in large print and I could make copies. The poems I used were "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Lee Frost and "The Weaver," an anonymous poem, both of which I found on the "Top Poems" list. Five ladies showed up, so we sat at a small round table in their well-lit dining room. I read each poem aloud, and then we went into a discussion.
I had absolutely no idea what to expect. In my class experiential sessions, we would talk about personal experiences relating to the poem. This was...considerably different. Most of the ladies said something about the meaning of the poem: for instance, they expressed an understanding that "The Road Not Taken" was about how sometimes the right road is the one less people choose. Then we had a lovely discussion about getting lost trying to find a restaurant, the boogey man in their kitchen, and why taking a less-traveled road can be scary. What was important to me was that they all seemed to be enjoying themselves and overall the discussion was a casual one filled with laughter. "The Weaver" was a little bit more inspiring to them because it has to do with how we can't control every aspect of our lives and good often comes from what seems bad. Most of the ladies decided to keep that poem; one told me it has a lot of meaning to her, and she plans to read it again. This warmed my heart immensely. It feels good to share such a simple moment with another person. It was exactly what I had wanted, in a slightly different style of wrapping paper from what I had expected.
What I did today was so easy. I brought a couple of poems to a senior citizen home and had a wonderful conversation with five of its residents about them. Yet what I got from it is so much more. I touched five lives and they all touched me, in a small, yet profound way. We shared a lot of laughs and a few specks of wisdom; ten pieces of paper got passed around a table and a myriad of personal attributes were revealed. I wouldn't trade it for the world.
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Alexandra Marie Chaser, Keeper of Voices, graduated Sunday, 8 June - and Very Happy
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