Monthly Archives: March 2021

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Saturday November 14, 2020

I Don’t Exist

By: Tara Kimberley Torme

In this world

Where I walk amongst

You, talk, socialize

With you, I am

Apart from you.

I hear you make

Plans with others,

Do cool things

Together in front

Of me.

You do not realize

My hurt feelings

I chock back with

Tears of anger, bitterness,

Despair. You do

Not bother to ask

Me to join you

On your cool things.

I want to belong.

But I do not.

You don’t answer my

Texts, email, call me

To see how am I doing

While you have your

Own circle of friends.

I am all alone in

This world. I walk

Amongst you, a

Ghost, unseen and

Unheard by you.

My voice – silent

As a grain of sand

In the Sahara Desert.

In this world

I do not exist.

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Monday March 29, 2021

Ghosts

By: Tara Kimberley Torme

Ghosts chase me

Ghosts haunt me

Ghosts taunt me

Drowned ghosts rise

From the past

Out of ashes

Risen Phoenixes

Dementors

Undead vampires

Life sucking blood

Draining energies

Souless zombies

Each ghost killed

Rises faster, stronger

Resilient, immune

Taunts me relentless:

Water torture;

The rack, thumbscrew

Beaten down

‘Till I’m silent;

Submissive to ghosts’ will.

Name Days For Wednesday March 31, 2021

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Name Days For Wednesday March 31, 2021:

Ferenc October 4 (Hungary)
Fides October 5 (Poland) October 6 (Croatia)
Filips April 6 (Latvia)
Fintan January 1 (Ireland)
Firmin October 11 (France)
Flawia October 5 (Poland)
Flawian January 28 (Poland)
Fleur October 5 (France)
Flora May 4 (Latvia)
Florians May 4 (Latvia)

Word Of The Day For Thursday December 19, 2019

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Thursday December 19, 2019

logodaedaly

PRONUNCIATION: (log-uh-DEE-duh-lee)

MEANING: noun: Skill in using or coining words.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin logodaedalia, from Greek logodaidalia, from logodaidalos, from logos (word) + daedalus (skillful). Earliest documented use: 1727.

USAGE: “No, I think that Burgess, a consummate practitioner of logodaedaly, chose ‘atomy’* for deliberate ambiguity, implying that the love borne for Roxane by Cyrano had started out as a skeletal friendship but later became a grand Herculean passion.” Jeff Aronson; An/Atomy; BMJ: British Medical Journal (London, UK); Oct 14, 2000.

*In his translation of Cyrano de Bergerac: “But the tough atomy I thought to seize And crush, turned out an infant Hercules.”

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: And the evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders / But the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers / And a world of hunger in vengeance will always remember. -Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976)

One Word By: Tara Kimberley Torme

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Monday March 29, 2021

One Word

By: Tara Kimberley Torme

One word makes

One word breaks

One word helps

One word hurts

One word heals

One word damages

One word uplifts

One word defeats

Just one word

Could mean life

Could mean death

One word matters

One thoughtless word

A shattered life

A broken Soul

A despaired person

One thoughtful word

Enlightened life

A lifted soul

A joyous person

One word stymied:

An angry soul

Bitter grudges

One free word

A grateful soul

A free spirit

One word’s everything.

Which one word

Will you choose?

How will you

Speak to others?

Choose words wisely.

Name Days For Tuesday March 30, 2021

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Name Days For Tuesday March 30, 2021:

Felicija January 24 (Lithuania)
Felicijan January 24 (Croatia)
Felicita January 15 (Latvia)
Felicja January 24 (Poland)
Feliks January 11 (Poland) January 14 (Estonia, Croatia, Poland) January 30 (Poland)
Feliksas January 14 (Lithuania)
Felikss January 15 (Latvia)
Felix January 14 (Denmark, Sweden)
Félix February 12 (France)
Ferdinands April 3 (Latvia)

Word Of The Day For Wednesday December 19, 2019

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Wednesday December 19, 2019

corbie messenger

PRONUNCIATION: (KOR-bee mes-uhn-juhr)

MEANING: noun: A messenger who does not arrive or return in time.

ETYMOLOGY: noun: From allusion to the crow that Noah had sent out from his ark. From corbin (raven), from Old French corbin, from Latin corvus (raven, crow). Earliest documented use: 1525.

NOTES: In the Bible, after months of floating around, Noah has his ark parked on Mt. Ararat. He picks a raven from his menagerie to go scout the scene. The bird never returns. Then Noah picks a dove and the dove does dutifully return. The moral of the story?

All you need is Dove.

But let’s not be too hard on the raven. Every body is beautiful.

Everyday moisture is the key to beautiful skin Yes, but “forty days and forty nights” of moisture is a little too much.

USAGE: “I will be no corbie-messenger in mine old age — your message to your son shall be done as truly by me as if it concerned another man’s neck.” Walter Scott; The Abbott; Archibald Constable and John Ballantyne; 1820.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. -John Milton, poet (9 Dec 1608-1674)