Speak Your Mind

Beyond The Chair

PoeticDzire — Thur, 30 Oct 2008 19:40:43 GMT

Everyday that I continue my ride in this journey called life

Im often stared down by evil indescribable frowns

Because of how I look, not by who I am

YES Ive come to accept that I am who I am

I will be all that I was destined for

Because beyond this chairmy friends is A LOT more

Beyond this chairIm fightingfighting just as you are

But my fighting is no different; it just resembles some type of scar

I fight for respect, I fight for love

Beyond on this chairIm living

Most think that living is about making money and getting by everyday

But I think living is different

Its pushing through no matter what people say

Every pain I have experienced in life is a weight

It has made me better, it made me stronger

It has given the canvas of life to paint the picture of my dreams

For anything in life is mine as long as I believe

So before you stare me down

Pick up this book and turn the page

And youll see that beyond the chair

Im not a picture on a movie stage

Im a person that beats the odds because life isnt fair

Forum: Your Very Own Journal

The Truth inside of Me

Misunderstood — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:43:14 GMT

What is the truth really? Is it something that you feel or something that you know? Does everyone know the truth? Or does it only show up when you are forced to make a decision that could change your life forever. The truth inside of me is that I really don't know that truth and this is so hard for me to admit. Hard for me to sit and read my thoughts as though I was an outsider looking in. Hard for me to see that I am really MISUNDERSTOOD. What more do people want from me? Better yet, the question should be what more do I want for myself? So many questions, and still no answers. So many paths, but none of them lead me to a new place. What is this new place? A place where I can be free from judgment, free from stereotypes, free from anger and most importantly, free from myself.

Forum: Your Very Own Journal

100% Krazy

PoeticSupernova — Thur, 14 Aug 2008 19:21:09 GMT

So, any1 who knows me knows that I am... how should i say this? Special. I tend to have days where I'm nice, and I have days where it's not wise for you to mess with me. Then comes the more often days where you wanna get away from me but you stay because you kno I'll make you laugh. You know I'll brighten your day; and you know that even when you think you don't, you have someone to talk to. I don't make 18 until August 31st, 2008 (Virgo Baby!) but I've seen enuf in my life to say I know enuf about life. I'm sweet, tenacious, vibrant, intelligent, logical, crazy, funny, cool, and most importantly (to me anyway) i have an extensive vocabulary. (I just like words.... twisting them out of context is a bonus.)

So, there you have it. I guess this will be where i come to speak my mind. if you like what i write, let me kno. if you don't like what i write... keep it to yourself. (I am not liable for whatever response I may send back your way.)

If you like what you read here and wanna check out more of my poems, stories, etc... click the link below.

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Ya girl Cortney De'Shaye......... Peace N Faith!

Forum: Your Very Own Journal

Best Friends

blackgirl — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:25:18 GMT

Best friends

Best friends, Best friends

Til the end

Best friends, Best friends

Our friendship will never bend

Jumping rope playing hop scotch

Eating Now & Laters on the porch wishing the rain would stop

Best friends, Best friends

Til the end

Best friends, Best friends

Our friendship will never bend

You taught me how 2 paint my nails

& share secrets we swear we never tell

Best friends, Best friends

Til the end

Best friends, Best friends

Our friendship will never bend

Right?

Wrong! Friends come & go

I moved & came back & found out you were the neighborhood ho

What happened? Where did we go wrong?

I know we lost touch, but how could you sleep with him

Cause he wrote a few hit songs

How could you do drugs, drink alcohol & think everything is all good?

When really your hurting yourself worse than any man could

-But-

Best friends, Best friends

Til the end

Best friends, Best friends

Our friendship will never bend

Forum: Words, Thoughts, Emotions

YOu dnt have to be a child...

IM_JUST_ME — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:20:37 GMT

OK you dnt have to be a child to make childish mistakes. I have come to a conclusion that any age you can be a child to the experience that you are going through. To many people, even me, have blamed mistakes people have made on their age. Oh your to young to understand or your to young to have fully experienced what the other person has gone through. This all in its own is crazy to say. You can be whatever age and still be experienced. So in saying this you are only a child to the experience. You can be 60 years old and never have loved before and when you find love you make all these nieve choices, only because you are a child to the experience. I have made many many childish mistakes in my life. I have done things and people tell me it because of my age. Yeah right because I know people way younger than me that are so much more experienced then me in many departments. Yes with age comes wisdom but at any age you can be more experienced than the next.

Forum: Your Very Own Journal

Words Of My Hart

PoeticLyricist — Thur, 26 Jun 2008 01:00:25 GMT

So much has happened

We both have changed

Little conversation

Less time , more distance in range

My heart beats to the sound of rain

My ears listen but hear nothing being said

My speechless lips cant whisper a word

While your cutting words bring the pain

But its worth much more than going insane

Love of is pain

I guess thats what I get

Now im stuck in the game being stuck in this game.

Forum: Words, Thoughts, Emotions

Love is what u make it

Eklipz2109 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:00:04 GMT

Love is a what u want it to be. It is a compromise a union between two people who has trust and understanding between each other. It took me awhile to understand how love works. Now I have a new start at it with the understanding i have now it is no way to dissolve it. I have a wonderful woman I was introduced to and its not gonna always be peaches and cream but that's life. We have alot in common and enjoy each others company. When we are apart I think of her often that's one reason why I no I love her. Some times she trys to hard to make me happy but how can I be mad at that. All I need to do is respect what we have and do what I need to do and work hard. She supports me at what ever I do and who can ask for anything more.

Forum: Let's talk about Love.

Back In The Saddle

Eklipz2109 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:02:49 GMT

What up to all my poetic brethren. Its been awhile since I have been on this site I missed it alot. Alot has changed in my life so I know my poetri will most likely be a bit different. I have moved to Cali to pursue my comedy career. I had to leave my son in buffalo its hard but hopefully it will work out in the end. Ive been out here for three weeks and it fantastic.I have met a few people and hopefully I will start at a club this week on the 19th. Wish me luck .

Forum: Your Very Own Journal

Right wingers nicer!

rockfly — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:15:28 GMT

Don't listen to the liberals - Right-wingers really are nicer people, latest research shows

By Peter Schweizer
Last updated at 10:25 PM on 14th June 2008

George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. 'One sometimes gets the impression,' he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, 'that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, nature-cure quack, pacifist and feminist in England'.

Orwell was making an observation. But today a whole body of academic research shows he was correct: your politics influence the manner in which you live your life. And the news is not so good for those on the political Left.

There is plenty of data that shows that Right-wingers are happier, more generous to charities, less likely to commit suicide - and even hug their children more than those on the Left.

Come on, you miserable Lefties...

Prove Peter Schweizer wrong and tell us below why Left-wingers are really more lovable. The three best replies will win a bottle of Bollinger champagne and a donation of 100 to the Red Cross appeal to help Burma cyclone victims...

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Tory joy: Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill shows his caring side when meeting a little girl in London in 1950

In my experience, they are also more honest, friendly and well-adjusted.

Much of this springs from the destructive influence of modern liberal ideas.

In the Sixties, we saw the beginning of a narcissism and self-absorption that gripped the Left and has not let go.

The full-scale embrace of the importance of self-awareness, self-discovery and being 'true' to oneself, along with the idea that the State should care for the less fortunate, has created a swathe of Left-wing people who want to outsource their obligations to others.

The statistics I base this on come from the General Social Survey, America's premier social research database, but they are just as relevant to the UK, as I believe political belief systems drive one's attitudes, regardless of where you happen to live.

Those surveyed were asked: 'Is it your obligation to care for a seriously injured/ill spouse or parent, or should you give care only if you really want to?' Of those describing themselves as 'conservative', 71 per cent said it was. Only 46 per cent of those on the Left agreed.

To the question: 'Do you get happiness by putting someone else's happiness ahead of your own?', 55 per cent of those who said they were 'very conservative' said Yes, compared with 20 per cent of those who were 'very liberal'.

It's been my experience that conservatives like to talk about things outside of themselves while progressives like to discuss themselves: how they are feeling and what their desires are. That might make for a good therapy session but it's not much fun over a long dinner.

Research also indicates those on the Left are less interested in getting married: 30 per cent of those who were 'very liberal' said it was important, in contrast to 65 per cent of Right-wingers.

The same holds true when the question of having children arises. Progressive American cities such as San Francisco and Seattle have become 'childless liberal boutique' cities, according to Joel Kotkin, an expert on urban development.

While 69 per cent of those who called themselves 'very conservative' said it was important for them to have children, only 38 per cent of corresponding liberals agreed.

Many on the Left proudly proclaim themselves 'child-free'. While some do not want children on ecological grounds, much has to do with the fact that they simply don't want the responsibility of having a child.

When asked by the World Values Survey whether parents should sacrifice their own well-being for those of their children, those on the Left were nearly twice as likely to say No.

'I'll have babies if you pay for them,' one Leftie blogger said on the social networking website yelp.com.

Billionaire Ted Turner, a self-described socialist, publicly regrets that he had five children. 'If I was doing it over again, I wouldn't have had that many,' he says. 'But I can't shoot them now they're here.'

All of this should not come as a surprise to anyone watching the drift of progressive thinking over the past 40 years.

Starting with British anthropologist Edmund Leach, who said: 'Far from being the basis of a good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all its discontents', feminists, progressives and others have seen the family as an oppressive force.

Feminist Gloria Steinem says on behalf of women: 'The truth is, finding ourselves brings more excitement and wellbeing than anything romance can offer.'

Linda Hirshman tells women not to have more than one baby so they can concentrate on a career. 'Find the money,' she advises. Ah, the important things in life.

Even when they do have children, research carried out at Princeton University shows liberals hug them less than conservatives. My wife thinks they're too busy hugging trees.

Most surprising of all is reputable research showing those on the Left are more interested in money than Right-wingers.

Both the World Values Survey and the General Social Survey reveal Left-wingers are more likely to rate 'high income' as an important factor in choosing a job, more likely to say 'after good health, money is the most important thing', and agree with the statement 'there are no right or wrong ways to make money'.

You don't need to explain that to Doug Urbanski, the former business manager for Left-wing firebrand and documentary-maker Michael Moore. 'He is more money-obsessed than anyone I have known - and that's saying a lot,' claims Urbanski.

How is it possible that those who seem to renounce the money culture are more interested in money?

One might suggest those on the Left are simply being more honest when they answer such questions. The problem is that there is no evidence to support this.

Instead, I believe the results have more to do with the powerful appeal of progressive thinking.

Many on the Left apparently believe that espousing liberal ideals is a 'get out of jail free' card that inoculates them from the evils of the money culture.

Cherie Blair, for example, never lets her self-proclaimed socialist attitudes stop her making money. She is even willing to be paid (as she was in Australia) to appear at charity events.

Such progressives, sure that they are not overly interested in money and possessions, believe they are then free to acquire them.

Studies also indicate that those on the Left are less likely to give to charity or to volunteer their time to charity. When they do support charity, it is often less the sort of organisation that helps people and more one that advocates political action.

Uber-progressive Barbra Streisand gives lots of money to charity but the largest recipients are not organisations that feed the hungry - the cash goes to advocacy organisations such as The Bill Clinton Foundation.

Similarly, Michael Moore gives to film festivals and elite cultural institutions such as the Lincoln Center - but barely a penny goes to needy people.

Progressives see economic equality as the highest form of social justice, so they have become obsessed with questions of income inequality.

Can there be any surprise then that those on the Left tend to be more envious and jealous of successful people? That's what studies indicate.

Professor James Lindgren, of Northwestern University in Chicago, found those who favour the redistribution of wealth are more envious than those who do not.

Scholars at Oxford and Warwick Universities found the same sort of behaviour when they conducted an experiment.

Setting up a computer game that allowed people to accumulate money, they gave participants the option to spend some of their own money in order to take away more from someone else.

The result? Those who considered themselves 'egalitarians' (i.e. Left of centre) were much more willing to give up some of their own money if it meant taking more money from someone else.

Much of the desire to distribute wealth and higher taxation is motivated by envy - the desire to take more from someone else - and bitterness.

The culprit here is not those on the Left who embrace progressive ideas but the ideas themselves.

As John Maynard Keynes reminds us: 'The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and wrong, are more powerful than commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.' Or, as the American theorist Richard Weaver once declared: 'Ideas have consequences.'

And it seems that today modern progressive ideas can often bring out the worst in people.

Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His book, Makers And Takers, is published by Doubleday.

Forum: Let's talk about Politics

PRAYER MEETING OPEN TO YOU

Qween — Thur, 29 May 2008 02:03:09 GMT

The House of Majesty will be hosting a Prayer Meeting

for all those who are interested. . We know times are

hard. . .Times get hard. . . And we believe in the power

of prayer. . We will be hosting this WEDNESDAY, MAY 28

( and ever wednesday after) at 6:05 pm CALI time. . .

We ask that if you come in the middle, please do so

quietly as to not interrupt what is going on . . Please be

respectful . .

the number to call is (218) 486 - 1616 . . . the code to

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see you there. . . be blessed

~The Royal Family of the House of Majesty

Forum: Entertainment

Letters to Ditto

poetri — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:29:33 GMT

May 3rd, 2008

Dear Ditto,

Just like Genesis, your sister, Ditto will be your name until we figure out if you are a boy or girl. Right now you are only about the size of two grains of rice, so we have a minute before we can find out what you are. I already know that you are beautiful. Anyone that comes from your mother and me has got to be. Really just your mother. If you are anything like your sister, you won't let us know until you pop out. She was stubborn like that. She hid her identity from us until the very end. It was crazy, but very exciting.

Anyhoo, lemme introduce myself. I am your daddy. By the time you read this, I would like to think that you would know that. Your mother is that beautiul young lady that you look up to. The woman who gave birth to you. And last but cedertainly not least, Genesis, that little girl that is always kissing you, is your sister. We all adore you. We are a kissing family. There are more of us...like your aunts, cousins, grandma and grandpa and stuff like that. But more about them in future letters. Like I said you are only the size of rice right now, but we love you the size of a thousand dinosaurs. And I pray that these letters express that when you think we don't. There is nothing that you can do in all of the days of your life that can make our love die. You are stuck with it like your skin.

In this household, we believe in our Lord, Jesus Christ. He died on the cross for you, me, Genesis and all of mankind. He is GOD's son. I know, I know, this might all be confusing to you right now. But, as the years grow you will understand where our heart lies. You will understand why we try to treat everyone equally. You will get why we try to bend backwards to help as many people as we can. You will see why we may not know what the future holds, but we remain confident cause we know who holds the future. And since we know that, than life is all good. Cause GOD (the one who holds the future) is all good. HE will protect us. And give us all the tools to protect you. Yay.

Well, I might be giving you too much to grasp in your first letter. By the time you read this, however, you probably would have been told this a million times. I have to go. Your sister is hungry and so is your mother. Chances are, you in your mommy's stomach, are hungry, too. Matter of fact, so am I. Let's eat!!!

But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Keep it Natural.

Forum: Dear Ditto

It's Simple Math

Lyric — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:16:22 GMT

Here's a math problem my sister gave to me. If you think you know the answer then send me a pm with your answer and i'll let you know if you're right. Or you can post your answer here and I'll let you know if you're right via pm. Either way, here goes...

btw, i got it in like 15 minutes AND i was doped up on muscle relaxers. I'm not bragging or anything. I'm just saying.....

There is a bus with 7 girls in it.

Each girl has 7 bags.

In each bag there is 7 big cats. Each big cat has 7 little cats.

Each cat has 4 legs.

How many legs are on the bus?

This is not a trick question. It is simply a math problem. Oh and FYI, this question came from Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?...

no pressure

Forum: BRAIN BUSTERS

I Used To Love Him Pt 2

blackgirl — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:47:03 GMT

Ive never written a love letter, I dont know how to start off so

Should I serenade him with a song?

No! Ill write him a letter, and pray it doesnt come out wrong

How can I write a love letter when I dont know how

2 show him how I feel deep down

How can I write him a love letter and tell him whats deep in my heart

I really dont know how so heres a start

I just wonder.

Could I write you a love letter exposing my true self

Because Im tired of walking around pretending to be someone else

Could I write you a love letter and tell you the truth even though my heart says no

Can I write you a love letter and not be afraid to let my pen flow the words that show

Can I write you a love letter telling you that even though we drifted apart

You never really left my heart

Could I write you a love letter and tell you I was always your friend

I would have stayed til the end

Could I write you a love letter saying it hurts that were not friends anymore

Its not that easy to kill memories from my hearts door

Could I write you a love letter saying even though we never had a start

I will still think of you at night in the dark

Could I write you a love letter expressing what I really feel

Cause I cant go on til I know if we could even be real

Could I write you a love letter telling you
I would do anything just to switch places with her for one day

So I wont have to burn jealousy when I hear you talk about your baby

Cant tell him the truth cause he already got a girl

I dont want to break up their lovers world

Could I write you a love letter telling you how I feel even though its a deal or no deal

Chance you will believe in what I really feel

Could I finish my love letter and have the guts to show you whats really up inside my heart

Forum: Words, Thoughts, Emotions

Words from the broken hearted in a broken home...healed

deepdesire — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:35:05 GMT

I will put my poems here together from the oldest to the newest, if i can tell wht order they are lmao
if not, at least they're all together.i will also finish my poems as i put them up, so tht might get them out of order a little bit. MOST OF THEM CAME FROM THE TOP OF MY HEAD AS I TYPED WHICH IS Y SOME ARE NOT FINISHED.first is....

"show me your heart"

Feelings for you have gone unexpressed

just hearing your voice reminds me of my regrets

the tables have turned and love has gone blind

no matter how i try i cant get you off my mind

though this is not the first time this occurred

I'm sorry i misjudged you according to your word

you're right! feelings don't go away but it seems you already have

though things are permanently bruised i remember what we had

took a while for me to see that maybe i wasn't so smart

you put on a shield but still you showed me your heart.

my mind wasn't real i was on fairytale

while i thought i loved you you put me through hell

you're wondering what i had to say that nearly tore me apart

but sweetheart i love you and that came from the heart

feelings don't go away but they do go apart

i've poured out my soul

now show me your heart

Forum: Words, Thoughts, Emotions

essence of a man pt2

blackgirl — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:43:55 GMT

brown sugar skin
so so so
sweet to touch
his chocolate demeaner
a gorgeous prince
who doesnt realize his potential
as he walks past me
I shiver
his presence
is
so strong.........

(to be continued)

Forum: Words, Thoughts, Emotions