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We have a Write to Escape

by Dan Sturn

Rated: E · Folder · Other · #861979

and to write is not too wrong!

Intro Rated: E

Size: 51 Items

Created: June 27th, 2004 at 12:24am

Modified: December 27th, 2025 at 3:40pm

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Location: My Portfolio

Genres: Other

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. . . . to me, writing is a form of meditation . . . the works in this folder relate to the art (and meditation) of writing.

PORTFOLIO

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POETRY

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Visitor

Rated: 18+ · Religious · #1718731

To my friend that I met on my porch . . .

Created: Oct 23rd, 2010

Modified: Jun 23rd, 2020

Size: 0.90 KB

Genres: Religious, Spiritual, Self Help

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OTHER

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Stay Now

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1468148

Some of us are lost in hope as much as fear. From Bottle in the River

Created: Aug 29th, 2008

Modified: Aug 29th, 2008

Size: 0.33 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Environment, Nature

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ILLUSTRATION

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Mother (image)

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1463231

This is a concrete poem.

Created: Aug 16th, 2008

Modified: Aug 16th, 2008

Size: 35 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Religious, Nature

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POETRY

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Mother

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1463227

Concrete poem about our mutilation of trees. From Dan Sturn's Bottle in a River.

Created: Aug 16th, 2008

Modified: Oct 11th, 2008

Size: 2.64 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Religious, Nature

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POETRY

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Start Where You Are

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1468809

We should just start writing without regard to what we write. From Bottle in the River.

Created: Aug 31st, 2008

Modified: Aug 31st, 2008

Size: 0.62 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Environment, Nature

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OTHER

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Jour

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1468810

Journaling can help you “listen” to your muse.

Created: Aug 31st, 2008

Modified: Aug 31st, 2008

Size: 1.44 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Environment, Nature

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ESSAY

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Multivalence

Rated: E · Writing · #1476373

A theory of art, architecture, poetry, music, technology, and God.

Created: Sep 21st, 2008

Modified: Sep 21st, 2022

Size: 19.63 KB

Genres: Writing, Arts, Cultural

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POETRY

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Thought Journey

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1468812

Journaling focuses us to be aware of our thoughts. From Bottle in the River.

Created: Aug 31st, 2008

Modified: Aug 31st, 2008

Size: 1.04 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Environment, Nature

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POETRY

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Style

Rated: E · Writing · #1476586

More about my theory of Multivalence. This focuses on poetry itself.

Created: Sep 22nd, 2008

Modified: Jan 10th, 2014

Size: 0.85 KB

Genres: Writing, Scientific, Spiritual

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ILLUSTRATION

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Valence (at least three)

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1512010

Represents Multivalence. Though dictionary lists 3 meanings, notice hotel, curtains, etc.

Created: Jan 4th, 2009

Modified: Jan 4th, 2009

Size: 66 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Philosophy, Writing

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POETRY

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Middle Child

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1468813

This poem is preceded by a blank page. From Bottle in the River.

Created: Aug 31st, 2008

Modified: Apr 30th, 2014

Size: 1.75 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Environment, Nature

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POETRY

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Blade

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1468163

Before reviewing, know what a "concrete poem" is. CTRL - backs you away from the screen.

Created: Aug 30th, 2008

Modified: Jun 14th, 2020

Size: 1.37 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Nature, Environment

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POETRY

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Story

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1468845

Concrete poem about meditation. From Bottle in the River.

Created: Aug 31st, 2008

Modified: Aug 31st, 2008

Size: 1.87 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Nature, Inspirational

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POETRY

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Scent A Meter

Rated: E · Writing · #1481250

Ground rules for protesting meter and form.

Created: Oct 5th, 2008

Modified: Aug 30th, 2011

Size: 1.51 KB

Genres: Writing, Philosophy

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ILLUSTRATION

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Story (The Image)

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1468847

Illustrating Microsoft Word's change tracking in the concrete poem: Story.

Created: Aug 31st, 2008

Modified: Aug 31st, 2008

Size: 25 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Writing, Environment

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POETRY

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Shag Bark Pruning

Rated: E · Nature · #1481268

Does the Muse, organic as it is, really want us to prune the message with form and meter?

Created: Oct 5th, 2008

Modified: Jan 10th, 2014

Size: 0.95 KB

Genres: Nature, Writing, Philosophy

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POETRY

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Truncated

Rated: E · Writing · #1480118

In an ongoing protest against meter, this Poem rues the act of cutting words so they fit.

Created: Oct 2nd, 2008

Modified: Dec 30th, 2012

Size: 0.90 KB

Genres: Writing, Philosophy

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POETRY

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Obscure Demur

Rated: E · Writing · #1493323

duh DUM DUH dum . . . against a form, this poet is . . .

Created: Nov 7th, 2008

Modified: Sep 30th, 2013

Size: 1.26 KB

Genres: Writing

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POETRY

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Sonnet Zero

Rated: E · Writing · #1479029

My rebuttal to form, meter (or do you say metre?), and forced structure!

Created: Sep 29th, 2008

Modified: Sep 22nd, 2011

Size: 1.01 KB

Genres: Writing, Philosophy, Opinion

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POETRY

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Rites

Rated: E · Religious · #1485656

Form and Meter . . . . is it a religion? Do we have a rite to use free verse?

Created: Oct 16th, 2008

Modified: Jul 15th, 2011

Size: 1.19 KB

Genres: Religious, Writing, Philosophy

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DIAGRAM

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Pruning Poetry

Rated: E · Writing · #1600985

This is what writing is about.

Created: Sep 19th, 2009

Modified: Feb 1st, 2011

Size: 48 KB

Genres: Writing, Philosophy, Technology

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POETRY

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Waves of Love

Rated: E · Spiritual · #860982

for those who find writing is meditation

Created: Jun 23rd, 2004

Modified: Jun 23rd, 2004

Size: 1.26 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Writing, Nature

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POETRY

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The Book

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1602799

We writers wrestle with sleeplessness.

Created: Sep 26th, 2009

Modified: Nov 29th, 2013

Size: 1.58 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Writing, Philosophy

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POETRY

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The Book (Religious Version)

Rated: E · Religious · #1602759

To those who journal through insomnia!

Created: Sep 26th, 2009

Modified: Sep 26th, 2009

Size: 1.29 KB

Genres: Religious, Writing, Inspirational

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POETRY

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Unificity

Rated: E · Philosophy · #1512699

An ode to to the Poetic Responses of the Armorbearer.

Created: Jan 6th, 2009

Modified: Jan 6th, 2009

Size: 0.48 KB

Genres: Philosophy, Writing, Spiritual

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POETRY

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Reviews

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1486850

This started out a signature, but Flower liked it so I made it a poem.

Created: Oct 20th, 2008

Modified: Oct 20th, 2008

Size: 0.25 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Writing, Nature

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POETRY

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Revision

Rated: E · Nature · #1482732

Do the words in our journals hibernate until we return to "prune them?"

Created: Oct 8th, 2008

Modified: Oct 16th, 2009

Size: 1.48 KB

Genres: Nature, Philosophy

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POETRY

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Small Talk

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1474527

Though called "small talk," the weather is actually not so small after all.

Created: Sep 16th, 2008

Modified: May 25th, 2013

Size: 0.71 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Nature, Environment

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POETRY

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Drive-by Not, Please

Rated: E · Writing · #1481458

An appeal for an in-depth review.

Created: Oct 5th, 2008

Modified: Mar 26th, 2010

Size: 0.95 KB

Genres: Writing, Philosophy

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POETRY

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Journatation

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1462743

Introducing the art of journaling as a form of meditation.

Created: Aug 15th, 2008

Modified: May 25th, 2013

Size: 1.66 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Religious, Nature

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POETRY

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Geometry

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1463386

Journaling, as a form of meditation, can open the window to the Muse. But is it safe?

Created: Aug 17th, 2008

Modified: May 25th, 2013

Size: 2.06 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Religious, Nature

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POETRY

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Stuck

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1464851

The Poet longs for the euphoria that meditation used to bring.

Created: Aug 20th, 2008

Modified: May 25th, 2013

Size: 1.49 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Religious, Nature

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POETRY

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Un-repressing

Rated: E · Spiritual · #1464858

Warning: “cleaning your closet” brings monsters into the rest of the house!

Created: Aug 20th, 2008

Modified: May 25th, 2013

Size: 1.29 KB

Genres: Spiritual, Environment, Nature

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POETRY

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Molière

Rated: 18+ · Philosophy · #2352054

Molière was a French playwright who wrote about pretension in healthcare.

Created: Dec 27th, 2025

Modified: Dec 27th, 2025

Size: 0.81 KB

Genres: Philosophy, Health, Writing

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POETRY

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The Four Noble Truths and Commentary

Rated: E · Writing · #2046749

I felt the review of my haiku, and my response, would make interesting reading.

Created: Jun 27th, 2015

Modified: Jun 27th, 2015

Size: 2.63 KB

Genres: Writing, Philosophy, Religious

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POETRY

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Journatation

Rated: E · Writing · #1958922

Was journaling about journaling, and this came out.

Created: Oct 19th, 2013

Modified: Oct 19th, 2013

Size: 2.01 KB

Genres: Writing, Philosophy, Spiritual

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POETRY

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Et Cetera

Rated: E · Writing · #1958698

Just thinking too much!

Created: Oct 18th, 2013

Modified: Oct 18th, 2013

Size: 0.51 KB

Genres: Writing

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POETRY

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The Book (Pruned)

Rated: E · Other · #1919762

This is a modified version of "The Book," rearranging the stanzas to tell a story.

Created: Feb 16th, 2013

Modified: Feb 16th, 2013

Size: 1.33 KB

Genres: Other

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POETRY

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Words

Rated: E · Writing · #1917121

An ode to English and Grammar before the days of modern media.

Created: Feb 3rd, 2013

Modified: Feb 6th, 2013

Size: 1.86 KB

Genres: Writing, Spiritual, History

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POETRY

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You Can't Read in a Dream

Rated: E · Other · #1912911

Trying to "become one" while lost in my journal.

Created: Jan 11th, 2013

Modified: Jan 15th, 2013

Size: 1.47 KB

Genres: Other

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POETRY

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Epigraph

Rated: E · Writing · #1910951

Overcoming white paper phobia.

Created: Dec 31st, 2012

Modified: Dec 31st, 2012

Size: 0.66 KB

Genres: Writing, Business, Career

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POETRY

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An Ode To My Critics

Rated: E · Writing · #1849005

Tongue and cheek -- no offense intended, and I see myself in some of these descriptions!

Created: Feb 18th, 2012

Modified: Feb 18th, 2012

Size: 0.95 KB

Genres: Writing, Writing.Com, Reviewing

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ESSAY

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The Long Dash

Rated: E · Writing · #1847672

Reviewers often say, "I don't like the long dash."

Created: Feb 12th, 2012

Modified: Feb 15th, 2012

Size: 1.07 KB

Genres: Writing, Philosophy

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POETRY

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Revision Too

Rated: E · Writing · #1840524

While "pruning" old Poetry, this came to me.

Created: Jan 14th, 2012

Modified: Jan 15th, 2012

Size: 0.78 KB

Genres: Writing, Writing.Com, Philosophy

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POETRY

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Double Agent

Rated: E · Political · #1822364

I was thinking about politics while looking at my piano, and this came to me.

Created: Oct 29th, 2011

Modified: Sep 2nd, 2012

Size: 0.85 KB

Genres: Political, Community, Philosophy

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POETRY

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Word You

Rated: E · Writing · #1820684

Bored in the journal, I pulled out some dictionaries.

Created: Oct 23rd, 2011

Modified: Oct 23rd, 2011

Size: 0.55 KB

Genres: Writing, Nature

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POETRY

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Journatation Made Easy

Rated: E · Writing.Com · #1781044

Journation (what causes me to hear my Poetry) is writing 3 pages every day without fail.

Created: May 31st, 2011

Modified: May 31st, 2011

Size: 1.52 KB

Genres: Writing.Com, Writing, Spiritual

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POETRY

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Sloganography

Rated: E · Other · #1727214

Irritated during journaling, this emerges.

Created: Nov 24th, 2010

Modified: Nov 24th, 2010

Size: 1.02 KB

Genres: Other

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POETRY

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The Wind is the Breeze

Rated: E · Writing · #1720886

Among Other Things (like how we write)

Created: Oct 31st, 2010

Modified: Nov 2nd, 2010

Size: 1.19 KB

Genres: Writing, Nature, Spiritual

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POETRY

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The King's Daughter

Rated: E · Family · #1649305

What started as killing time in the journal, ended with an hour of playful pruning.

Created: Feb 24th, 2010

Modified: Jul 25th, 2016

Size: 2.61 KB

Genres: Family, History, Romance/Love

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POETRY

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Days of Rays

Rated: E · Writing · #1611456

Transition. From: Journal to Portfolio? Summer to Winter? Rebirth?

Created: Oct 24th, 2009

Modified: Oct 24th, 2009

Size: 0.96 KB

Genres: Writing, Spiritual, Nature

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