Christopher Reilley

YouTube video by Alliterative What's the Difference between Verse & Prose?

Happy #LimerickDay! In lieu of a (bad) limerick of our own, we’ll point you to our video about Verse, which talks about the basics of poetic form, including the limerick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxFz...

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Hometown pride. #Justsaying

Ode to a Ginger A blog of poems, poetry, and writing.

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Conjugal Thoughts A blog of poems, poetry, and writing.

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Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was amazing.

#Justsaying

If 99.99% of people find you unattractive, there are still 770,000 people alive right now that want to get really close to you. Think about that.

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The poem will be part of my upcoming collection (which I'm still working on) but this Anaphora is available as a broadside, with the image you see here.

You can find that here, and thank you.:
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Love ya back!

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"In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit." - Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

The thing about wealth, it erodes empathy.

The thing about poverty, it is a lot more work than you think.

#Justsaying

You know what they say about those who live in glass houses.

They change clothes in the basement.

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Wondering how many times actors flying to LA made the mistake of telling the stewardess that they were gonna "shoot a pilot".

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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." - Shel Silverstein

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity." - Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep." - Salman Rushdie

All languages travel at the speed of sound, except sign language, which travels at the speed of light.

#Justsaying

People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. There is much grief in this world because things are being loved and people are being used.

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Happiness is often like a lost sock. Hunt for it forever without success, when it turns up, it's usually in the strangest of places, and it needs to be shared with a mate to have lasting value.

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"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman (1941 - )

Don’t feel bad about not having a valentine on Valentines Day, you didn’t have a groundhog on Groundhog Day, and that turned out all right.

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Had a good boy, name of Brady, hanging out at the bar. #DogsInBars

Spiders are afraid of mice, who are afraid of cats, who fear dogs, who are afraid of man, who is afraid of woman, who is, of course, afraid of spiders.

Or is that just sexist?

#justsaying

If you raise your children you can spoil your grandkids, but if you spoil your children you’ll have to raise your grandkids.

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Three things that should NEVER be operated for profit:

Health Care
Prisons
Education

Because they are corrollaries for:

Life
Liberty
Pursuit of Happiness

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"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other." - Luciano DeCrescenzo