February 27th, 2009 at 3:56 am by Colleen (Uncategorized)
gentle wind on velvet skin
fertile moon of glow-stick blue
sated geese settle in beside the waving mirror
cool air caresses grateful lungs
gravel footsteps pass behind
hands entwine and then relax
a distant train howls unseen
a carp erupts and then returns
two travelers love without words
Colleen Miller 2-27-09
February 27th, 2009 at 2:18 am by Colleen (Colleen's Poetry)
Ivory skinned, doe-eyed devastation.
A slight tilt of her head elegantly murders time
she sighs
We again exhale.
Yet for all the grace in her delicate, musical fingers,
happiness seems to slide through them – unclaimed.
She runs from desire, but baits it.
It is her wound and balm.
So quiet is her heartsong
muffled by trivial distraction, demanding patrons
and whiskey-soaked comfort.
Though her true worth is in the melody,
she fears the fleetingness of form and
desperately claws for purchase.
To many, she is cast in marble.
flawless, feminine and frozen.
To those who listen closely,
she is friend.
copyright cmiller 2-27-2009
February 10th, 2009 at 8:55 pm by Chad (Chad's Blog)
Read this:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-stocks-tumble-biggest-drop/story.aspx?guid={01F6F134-2ECE-4D6B-8829-18D411D5FD94}&dist=msr_1
Or maybe just this excerpt:
“Everybody is looking for the silver bullet to fix the economy, but there isn’t one,” said Chris Johnson, chief executive of Johnson Investment Research in Cincinnati. “I think what they’re doing here is too little, too late.” Johnson has recently been using options contracts and exchange-traded funds to go short, or bet on a general decline in the stock market.
Okay, I have a REAL problem with this, Chris. Get it right. Silver bullets kill lycanthropes. So, if the economy were rampaging through the village terrorizing innocents, as it did before the tech bubble burst, then this analogy might have been appropriate. In its current lethargic state, however, shooting it with a silver bullet would, presumably, cause it to moan and die. Aren’t we worried that it’s not well as it is?
If you’re searching for an analogy, here’s a better one:
Everyone’s hoping for a crack pipe to pass to the economy to really pep it up and make it feel great and like nothing is wrong, despite all the evidence to the contrary, but the main dealer left Washington in January.