Tag: people
member name: Michael Platt
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December 10, 2006 03:16 PM EST --
When I hear opportunity knocking, I quickly run to my door, fling it open and yell out across the street, "Hey! Over here!"
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December 10, 2006 05:00 PM EST --
When Sensho was seeking enlightenment (though not looking in the wrong places,) he desired to become a student under a great master who had become a hermit and lived in the wild hills. So he journeyed . . .
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December 09, 2006 11:51 PM EST --
God walked into a restaurant one day, sat down at the counter and ordered a coffee. The waitress poured it and brought it to Him. He waited until it cooled before tasting it.
"Ugh," He said . . .
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January 21, 2007 02:33 PM EST --
I had an experience this past weekend that I felt the need to communicate to the Gather public. I was hasty in responding to an ad I found ON GATHER and was almost burned by a shady company. I mass . . .
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January 25, 2007 10:58 AM EST --
I love and respect the concept of God, in whatever form or aspect He may be represented in... it's His fan clubs that scare me to death!
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November 15, 2006 02:21 AM EST --
I tripped and fell the other day,
Quite unexpectedly,
I'd only turned along the way
As someone spoke to me;
With thoughts aligned for witty quip
I walked back toward the call
When vision's . . .
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February 09, 2007 12:45 AM EST --
Two sharp, arrowlike beams of intense silver-shining light pulsed starward into the dark stillness of the night, reaching out towards the obscure pinprick that had for so many long months captured . . .
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December 14, 2006 01:12 AM EST --
One day, a thousand years ago, Sensho and Bishu were walking around in a circle, seeking enlightenment through action-meditation, trying to find insight to the mysteries of Life.
"One must know Life," . . .
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December 15, 2006 12:20 AM EST --
We met across the faceless miles, amidst the massive night,
The voices of our fingertips bespoke each other’s light.
We touched and held the words we sent, our interest sparked to see
That feelings . . .
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December 14, 2006 01:05 AM EST --
There once was a man who lived in the city who one day took a train to the country. It was a long ride and he fell asleep, thinking that the conductor would wake him when they arrived at his stop. So he . . .
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December 11, 2006 01:24 PM EST --
I search, I find, I learn
And then,
I turn around and search again.
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January 14, 2007 10:30 PM EST --
The mood was a cornucopia of euphoria, a blithely overflowing wave which engulfed and swept all before it. Harpstrings of bliss and joy (the chapelgray sky a shroud) weaved their notes into the fabric . . .
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November 06, 2006 12:55 AM EST --
That pain in life we all have had,
that moment of great loss,
A feeling felt that can't be cured,
a line we cannot cross.
It lies within as we would have
. . .
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May 01, 2007 01:38 PM EDT --
In Cattus Requiem, 4-23-07
Someone once said, "Hi" and smiled, but such a dream is gone before it really started, the dream become the dreamer and the night held for another . . .
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January 03, 2007 11:18 PM EST --
At the Age of Three
In the Faraway Land of Make Believe
(That I keep right next to me,)
Are Happy Friends and Magic Things
That only I can see;
I can find the things I want
With a simple nod of my . . .
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January 14, 2007 11:39 PM EST --
Birthdays
A birthday is a funny thing,
I'm sure you will agree,
Caught as we are within each year's
Inevitability;
As time rolls on and we grow old,
The seasons slip away . . .
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January 24, 2007 09:49 PM EST --
I palm the spell: spill. To be captivated, ensorced in the swirling greenish depths of the liquid flame that is in this bottle ... fire up another round. What is reality (definition, not question.) . . .
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December 10, 2006 09:31 PM EST --
Bishu was out walking along the beach in Tibet one fine summer day when he noticed something unusual sticking out of the sand. He walked over to it, saw that it was some kind of handle, reached down and . . .
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November 10, 2006 11:53 PM EST --
I stand on the heights of a mountain
I view the depths of the sea
I hold the world in the palm of my hand
When your eyes are looking at me;
I flush with the heat of desire
I chill in the strength . . .
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December 31, 2006 02:27 AM EST --
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