A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body’s immune system to recognize the agent…
Epic Poem Traditionally, an epic poem is a long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero. Before the development of writing, epic poems were memorized and played an important part in maintaining a record of the great deeds and history of a culture. Later, they were written down and the tradition…
Originally posted on The Qwiet Muse:
I remember writing this the night my husband returned home from Iraq, it was his third and last homecoming from that faraway place . . . He’s since retired, the sight if those boots laying there was one of the most beautiful things I can remember seeing. Dust from…
Originally posted on Ranting Crow:
This picture has always been something I wanted to do a piece on. And today I finally did. Hope you enjoy this small piece of poetry. Click for larger size. Writer’s ballerina. Free On virgin sheets she dances Thrived by music she stains the sheer paper Toes dipped in blue…
Written by Steven Clapp and Hastywords He stood angry; freezing Watching them leave Hurried footprints marking Their narrow escape Leaving him to grieve Their witnessing voices And the dead silence he Couldn’t bring. ♦ Over blood and ice; His eyes follow into Tomorrow’s endless night, Where the wraith of regret Would lie in wait…
Another duet with Toad. I love writing with Toad and discovering all the places we can go. Also, he has moved blog addresses so follow his new blog here! Written by Chris Jensen and HastyWords We attempt a dream of a fantasy throughout the inner child’s eye imaginativeness twinkle upon a wish we gleam. …
Written by Lizzi and HastyWords The sun trickled magically down Lighting the very tips of my toes Oiling my skin with glowing warmth Glittering in the air between those Canopies of red and orange blurred As my eyes searched for morning I didn’t know; my ears had not yet heard The blackbird’s cry of warning…
Written by Mark Schutter and HastyWords Visions of memories long since lost Silent voices cry from beyond the looking glass Frozen emotions flow like rivers of ice Eyes of stone gaze upon pacification by force Ancestors once prayed long and hard For the freedoms they hoped would endure But time ticks away all false pretenses…
Check out this wonderful new duet partner! WRITTEN BY HARSH AND HASTYWORDS I lived inside fuzzy dreams Behind old shredded drapes Held captive by irrationality And broken by all my regrets Darkness surrounded me, And pain shattered my soul, Yet, I stood there, powerless. Hoping that someday, I’ll be happy. But someday…
Written by Primal Night’s and HastyWords She presses her breath gently from her lips Unaware that she had been holding it in The quiet breaks slowly; a sad sort of beauty Numbness threatens every bony limb And chills the length of her spine As he fills her tub with liquored sin She stills…
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