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  The Problem of Perspective

  

  By projectwarbird, Cordova, TN

  Perspective is a word you will hear often in this age. People, now more than ever, have many different viewpoints on everything from art to politics to religion. But how much does perspective really matter? Post-modernists today will tell you that everything is perspective and opinion. In short they...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Give Me a Word

  

  By projectwarbird, Cordova, TN

  Give me a word; I'll make you think, give me a sentence; I'll make you wonder, give me a paragraph; I'll make you question, give me a page; I'll make you believe. Give me a noun; I'll make you see, give me an adjective; I'll make it real, give me a verb; I'...
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  Story and History

  

  By projectwarbird, Cordova, TN

  Any storyteller will attest that writing is as much of a practiced science as it is an art form. There are principals of storytelling (such as antagonism, structure, substance, etc.) that must not be ignored. If you ignore these principals your story will be dry, dull and unreadable. But as the sayi...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  As the Pendulum Swings

  

  By projectwarbird, Cordova, TN

  Time ticks by in the Earth and Sky, The birds they sing as the Pendulum Swings, The sun and Moon are setting soon, and all ears ring as the Pendulum Swings Seconds make hours and the hours grow sour, We live our life so full of strife, The days drag on and tire the the strong, but our songs...
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  Dear Apathy

  

  By projectwarbird, Cordova, TN

  Dear Apathy, Despite your growing popularity with single white men between the ages of 15 and 30 you are not doing me any favors. You encourage me to lie around all day and do nothing. This may be suitable for some but not me. I have things I have to do and I can’t do them if you continually ...