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Photobucket This group is for anyone who enjoys writing or reading poetry.

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We hope you'll share your writings with the group and offer your comments and constructive criticism when necessary (Perhaps even as a PM to the writer). Please make yourself at home and enjoy. ... | posted by DavidV1023
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Free publishing

Just thought I would pass on to the members a way to publish their work for free. It's in ebook/electronic format but it's a start. I just published my first book. You can set the price on it to wh... | posted by DavidV1023
2 replies - last reply: "Great. Let me know when you get done... more" ~ DavidV1023
Rewtoo's profile

Is Forever to Long

Is forever to long Or does the end come to fast When I hold you closely It does not seam to last Life is but a moment yet our love does not pass For it was in the heavens That our lives have been ... | posted by Rewtoo
edv7028's profile

"One Beautiful Bird..."

“One Beautiful Bird…” The barely discernible outline of a lonely cur was visible in the bone-chilling fog as he walked down the street; and on this day, I could feel, and share the lonely animal’s ... read more | posted by edv7028
1 reply - last reply: "Great story and quite the surprise... more" ~ DavidV1023
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BEAUTY

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... I, as an artist, see it everywhere: In the porosity of old wood, the wrinkles of an old woman, the immaculate skin of a new born, the geometric perfection o... | posted by smitty01
5 replies - last reply: "Thank you Jane, but THIS is the "old... more" ~ smitty01
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A Lay Sermon on Greed

The 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy with apocalyptic fury denounces Israel’s succumbing to idols in the past and in the future. For some reason, the last three times I have conducted a service, all the... read more | posted by schlomo
1 reply - last reply: "Great food for thought. Thank you " ~ DavidV1023
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The Gift (A true Christmas story)

THE GIFT The most special gift I have seen at Christmas happened in 1979. It was a gift given to Gary Lawrence the cousin of my oldest daughter, Penny. Just a little background. Penny had learne... | posted by patcelaw
1 reply - last reply: "Very true. Some of the greatest... more" ~ DavidV1023
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Lay Sermon on a Circumcised Heart

A quote from a great-grandson of the Baal Shem-Tov epitomizes our Torah reading this Shabbat: “No matter how low you may have fallen in your own esteem, bear in mind that if you delve deeply into y... read more | posted by schlomo
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A Lay Sermon on Perspective

The Torah reading for this Shabbat contains at least one universal truth: people, as did the representative spies from the twelve tribes of Israel, can have radically different perceptions of the s... | posted by schlomo
1 reply - last reply: "Thankfully I am on the half-full... more" ~ DavidV1023
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BACK TO THE MOUNTAIN

For a long time my abode was on a level plain where round and round I strode looking up and down again. Wondering where I should go and pondering where I'd been. You'd think that I would know the ... | posted by smitty01
4 replies - last reply: "Good to see you Smitty. I've been... more" ~ DavidV1023

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