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E WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 ORIGINAL: English DATE: October 2000 NATIONAL BOARD OF PATENTS AND WORLD INTELLECTUAL REGISTRATION OF FINLAND PROPERTY ORGANIZATION FORUM ON CREATIVITY AND INVENTIONS – A BETTER FUTURE FOR HUMANITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland in cooperation with the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Finland, the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Finland and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA), the Confederation of Finnish Industry and Employers (TT), the Finnish Inventors' National Federation (KEKE) Finlandia Hall Helsinki, October 5 to 7, 2000 INVENTORS, INNOVATORS AND CREATORS - THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL OF NATIONS - MEXICAN INVENTORS DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION Document prepared by Mr. Guillermo González Camarena Becerra Acosta, Director General, Guillermo González Camarena Foundation, MexicoCity WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 2 INTRODUCTION 1. Mexico is a country of boundless genius. Creativity is one of the many innate qualities of the Mexican people. However, the development of such talents requires constant support. Today, many sectors of Mexican society have neglected the promotion of invention and scientific research. As a result, many projects have remained unexplored and have therefore failed, while a few others have sought foreign support and have been concluded abroad. 2. Insofar as they cannot find sufficient local support, Mexican inventors either abandon their creative efforts or leave the country in search of better opportunities. This is unfortunate since Mexico could very well benefit from its talents, while promoting the economy and national welfare. Each project that leads to the production of goods and services will bring about the proliferation of employment, and will stimulate economic growth. 3. Over the long, difficult and sometimes disappointing road that must be run before an idea, a discovery or an invention can be applied, we stumble upon conflicting interests, successes, and failures. Intellectual property, patents, bonuses, inventions, technology transfer, skepticism, economic growth, industrial espionage and plagiarism, patent legislation, research financing, sale and purchase of processes and prototypes, rewards for researchers and inventors, and the increasing technological dependence of the Third World upon the First World: all these represent a restriction that prevents us from enjoying today what very few thought of yesterday, for the joy and benefit of many. 4. Invenovation is a term created by Amado Santiago, a Mexican engineer, inventor and researcher. With it, he tries to synthesize in one word the multiple supports that are required for a novelty to be transformed into a community. 5. The essential thing is to consider that a technological novelty is only the consequence of an invention or discovery, and that it could just remain as an idea if it is not subject to the process of Invenovation, in order to be transformed into an innovative commodity. The technological novelty doesn't survive by itself, and, if it is not invenovated, it will not be carried through. 6. There are two parameters that condition Invenovation. One is continuity of effort; the other is evolution. These factors which seem contradictory are very closely linked, one cannot be isolated from the other and the failure or success of what becomes of the invention depends on their handling. 7. Policies should be directed towards the future, taking into account that the most probable outcome will be their continuous modification according to the frame of reference and available means; fixed goals should be characterized in terms of their mobility and transitory nature. The capacity for change in our Invenovation policies should be both permanent and immediate to guarantee stable continuity. 8. With Invenovation it is essential to try and predict the future. To anticipate the future is such a risky undertaking, that we should have the continuous possibility to change the options for technological innovation, to modify what we have today, with the aim that what is obtained tomorrow will not be obsolete and worthless. WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 3 9. Situating an innovation in a temporal context is the main task of Invenovation and surely the most complex, the most difficult and the one that will face most obstacles in the future. 10. Many of the current ideas cannot be integrated into our society today, but they will be functional tomorrow. On the other hand, the day after tomorrow they will be obsolete. This is difficult to understand, mainly for those that condition the world of the future on the economic and social foundation of the present and the past. 11. Technological innovation creates technology and, if you invenovate it as an essential condition, it will produce and multiply the innovation. Invenovation is part of a chain; a link those conditions use, consumption and evolution. Through evolution, innovation has transformed our habits and our customs. Innovation generates in a rapid manner forms of thinking that condition education and social relations. 12. This communication vortex at the beginning of the new millennium is both a provider and a panacea of evolution, a detonator and a palliative, an innovation and a result. The imbalance and lack of adaptability that will produce the innovation will have consequences on the road towards the future. Evolution, as always happens, faces two currents: those that desire it, and those that fear it, but which in a way help to create it by means of the consumption of innovation. 13. It was imperative to establish an Invenovation body in Mexico for the purpose of creating a strategic operation scheme offering systematic support for the development of the capacities of the inventors' community, in addition to promoting the establishment of a national Invenovation culture through an enterprise for the improvement of technological innovations. 14. Being involved in this task, we approached the Micro Entrepreneurial Global Programme, which is being implemented in Mexico by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Mexican Government through the National Development Bank. THE MICRO-ENTREPRENEURIAL GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 15. Almost two years ago the Mexican Government Development Bank, Nacional Financiera (NAFIN), recognized the urgency of instituting a development program specially designed to promote and support the development of the smallest production units in the country; a programme with massive coverage, that not only focuses on effective access to credit, but is also intended to impact on those factors that represent obstacles to the development of micro-enterprises. 16. An investigation was carried out in order to identify what has been done in different countries, mainly in Mexico, to support micro-enterprises, specific neglected sectors and the poorest communities. The methodological proposals made by foundations, bilateral agencies and multilateral organizations were carefully analyzed. 17. It was decided not to wait for the complete methodology to be concluded or for normative procedures to begin. It was decided not to use operating manuals on the desks of NAFIN or consultancy firms, but to advance jointly in the construction of the program with several players from the public, private and social sectors, and mainly with the critical and WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 4 committed participation of micro-entrepreneurs and micro-producers from poor and even excluded sectors and communities. 18. Thus, design and implementation of the Programme was carried out through five initiatives that were termed Pilot Projects, and through the combined efforts of several players such as the governments of five federative entities; the Secretary for Social Development and Environmental Protection of the Federal Government; the Mexican Industrial Property Mexican Institute; the National Women's Commission; the Guillermo González Camarena Foundation and, specially, with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which signed a cooperation agreement with NAFIN in order to promote the Global Programme. For over a year collaboration with UNDP has been extremely important and active. Thus far, more than 1,000 micro-producers have worked intensively on the methodology, underlying the Global Programme. They formed six legally-based development organizations - Organización de Fomento in Spanish (ODF's) - and five Competitiveness and Development Funds in commercial banks representing an accumulated amount of US$235,000.00, which allowed them to activate a credit line beginning at US$270,000.00 and will be duplicated every six months until an accumulated amount of US$17.2 million is reached, in two and a half years' time. I. BASIC PRINCIPLES 19. The pilot experience and committed participation of all the players has enabled the five basic principles providing sustained justification for the Global Programme to be confirmed, adapted and enriched. (a) A Categorical Denial of a Patronizing Approach, recognizing that efficiency and competitiveness are not intrinsic conditions of production establishments. The Programme is not a philanthropic undertaking designed to solve problems, but a strategic plan to promote the initiatives of micro-producers and micro-entrepreneurs so that they will be able to solve those problems by themselves. The Global Programme has not been designed to operate as a public sector instrument. It has been conceived as an action proposal for micro-entrepreneurs and micro-producers to achieve complete development of their undertakings. (b) The Global Program incorporates Financial Sustainability as a fundamental paradigm. It is not accepted that support should necessarily be subsidized. This is in fact the challenge: to achieve a situation whereby all support instruments can operate according to elementary principles of profitability. The essential continuity of the Programme will be achieved only in this way. If a patronizing approach is really eliminated, all the requirements of entrepreneurial practice are accepted as valid. (c) Poverty Alleviation and Community Development are two of the main objectives of the Global Programme. Financial sustainability should initiate a series of 'virtuous spirals' of economic empowerment, and increase the well-being of micro-entrepreneurs and micro- producers. In the case of the smallest production units, simple access to credit can sometimes be useless and even counterproductive. Many other forms of support are required so that communities and micro-entrepreneurs may enhance their welfare levels as a result of their production activity. Financial sustainability is not evaluated by itself; the repercussions for poverty alleviation and community development are also considered. WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 5 (d) The Programme adds a fundamental paradigm: the promotion of equitable development which implicitly helps to eliminate the obstacles and structural limitations that inhibit equal opportunities in economic and social development, maintaining as its principle, respect for human rights. 20. In the Global Programme micro-enterprises are not considered to be high-priorities simply because they are small. The high-priority goal of the Global Programme is to ensure that very small production units, as well as micro-entrepreneurs and micro-producers will no longer be ignored by the formal system of entrepreneurial support. The specific intention is precisely to promote equal opportunities in economic activities. That is why within the implementation of the Global Programme eight specific programmes will be set up, as follows: Inventors/micro-entrepreneurs and/or producers; Women entrepreneurs - women producers; Young micro-entrepreneurs/producers; Elderly micro-entrepreneurs/producers; Disabled micro-entrepreneurs/producers; Micro-producers of artistic and cultural activities; Micro-entrepreneurs/producers of popular art; Micro-producers from indigenous communities and excluded groups. (e) The development of competitiveness becomes a strategic paradigm, within the Global Programme. Support is provided for micro-enterprises not only to survive but also to play an active role in the process of economic modernization. Men and women in non-formal areas are not excluded from the benefits of the Global Programme. On the contrary, they are a fundamental part of it, but support is granted precisely to enable producers and entrepreneurs to participate in the formal economy, while recognizing that it is not possible for them to develop and remain competitive whilst remaining in the informal sector. II. STRATEGY (a) Individual Initiative and Collective Action: A Special Joint Venture. 21. The Programme also recognizes that the main limitation and disadvantage for small producers, in particular micro-enterprises, are due to the fact not that they are small, but that they act on their own. They operate in isolation, in an economy that is increasingly closely inter-linked. 22. It is a fact that in Mexico, for certain micro-entrepreneurs and micro-producers, the only way to expand, and in some cases to survive is to be willing and able to join forces with other economic units involved in similar activities so that they may all benefit and be in a better position to compete. 23. The idea of the special joint venture is not, however, that of a co-operative or merger, but rather a means of collaboration, a strategic alliance which, respecting each micro- enterprise and each person's individuality, encourages and facilitates joint efforts to achieve more negotiating power. WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 6 24. Micro-entrepreneurs/producers may enter into or cease to form part of special joint ventures, provided there is a valid business reason for doing so. There are no formal written undertakings. Experience has proved that joint action works only when there is the freedom to choose whether to participate. 25. Special incentives are also excluded, since they tend to misrepresent the idea of joint effort. Participants should always be sure that it is more beneficial to do something jointly rather than individually. Any collective initiative, which fails to result in increased revenues, has not achieved its objective. 26. Under this Global Programme, members of the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group may collaborate but always have the freedom to act on their own account and advance at their own pace. The outcome and particular profit levels will always depend on the quality and extent of personal effort of each participating individual. (b) Developing Competitive Advantages. 27. It is accepted that micro-enterprises may not only survive without special protection, but in fact they have certain competitive advantages, which will enhance their ability for development. It is, of course, recognized that these types of advantage only become elements of competition if and when they are properly developed. In the pilot projects the following competitive advantages have been identified: Better conditions of flexibility to create or incorporate technological innovation in an opportune manner and with lower costs and investments; Better capacity to specialize in the manufacture of reduced volumes of goods and services of high quality in relation to design and raw materials; Better structural possibilities to achieve profitable and flexible specialization; Better capacity to establish personal linkage in their production relationship. 28. The Global Programme recognizes that one of the main limitations of the smallest production units lies in the wrong choice of market or supply source. Worse still, experience has shown that only in very few cases have the competitive advantages afforded by their size been taken into account, when choosing the products and services they provide. The Development Organization endeavors to correct this limitation. (c) Supply and Distribution Links. 29. One of the most important tasks of the Global Programme is to support inventors/micro-entrepreneurs and help them establish formal links with the right markets as well as reliable and long-term suppliers of goods, raw materials and services. 30. In the case of micro-suppliers, the Development Organizations support them in relation to their normal commitments to supply medium- and large-sized companies in their respective regions. The Development Organization, with the collaboration of the Support Committees, UNDP and NAFIN in particular, not only encourages subcontracting but also specific programmes for supply and distribution systems' development. WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 7 (d) Addition of other Development Initiatives. 31. The Programme seeks to support and to supplement, but not to duplicate or to displace other instruments and support programmes that are already operational in varied public, private and social institutions in the country. It is intended to supplement the efforts of the local, national and foreign players to promote the development of micro- entrepreneurs/producers in support of inventors, and to promote the creation of a national innovation culture. (e) An Integral Support. 32. The Programme accepts that in order to develop inventors/micro-entrepreneurs and micro-producers require effective access to financial support; it also recognizes, however, that credit is not sufficient and that it is essential to offer integral support in relation to promotional and organizational development, information, training, technical assistance, trade promotion and technological alternatives. 33. Within the implementation of the Global Programme, the highest priority is attached to inventors/micro-entrepreneurs and/or producers achieving eligibility for support from formal institutions. II. THE BENEFICIARIES 34. The Global Programme encompasses all Mexican men and women who decide to dedicate part of their time to production activities, as well as those already involved in business that wish to obtain more than just a reward for their work and are willing to make a special effort to do so. 35. The Global Programme has been designed also to support small economic units, which are excluded in structural terms from formal technical and financial support systems. 36. When a man or woman is willing to risk putting his/her efforts, skills, own money and reputation into a business venture with no form of protection other than his/her own ability to compete, the Global Programme endeavors to ensure that he/she obtains the necessary support which includes information, training, financing, technical assistance, intellectual property professional counseling, trade promotion and technological alternatives. (a) Micro-Entrepreneurs and Micro-Producers 37. The Global Programme makes a strategic distinction between producers and entrepreneurs, depending upon the degree of importance and stature that they might attach to the four basic functions of production-entrepreneurial activity: acquisition, production, sales promotion and administration. 38. A man or woman who chooses to concentrate his or her efforts in the areas of acquisition, sales promotion and administration, qualifies as a micro-entrepreneur. Usually, he/she becomes directly involved in production only if he/she has no alternative and, at the first opportunity, he/she will hire one or more workers to whom he/she tends to delegate all production responsibilities. WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 8 39. By contrast, a micro-producer prefers to focus his/her creativity and enthusiasm on production. A micro-producer usually regrets having to use his/her production time and effort to carry out the three additional functions (acquisition, sales promotion and administration). 40. The difference between entrepreneurs and producers has been included in order to highlight the different kinds of support and promotional activities available under the Global Programme, designed not only to support entrepreneurial development but also to give producers the option of achieving an effective, reliable and controlled support operation. It should be stressed that the Global Programme considers both micro-entrepreneurs and micro- producers to be of equal importance. (b) Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group 41. The criterion for defining each project could be one of whether to support micro- entrepreneurs and producers from certain regions or locations, or to strengthen specific branches of economic activity of a more specialized nature. Ideally, the initiatives will come from the communities themselves. 42. To activate initial projects, the Global Programme recommends the following criteria, relating to high-priority and strategic approaches: (i) High-priority approach 43. Projects in marginalized communities, where the Global Programme could actively contribute to overcoming poverty levels. 44. Projects that could be used as prototype and pilot examples, and could be reproduced in different regions to promote the empowerment of those communities. 45. Those projects most likely to be realized and produce good short-term results. (ii) Strategic approach 46. Projects where goods produced can replace those coming from abroad. 47. Projects which, according to their production feasibility and marketing potential, could be sustainable and financially viable in the short term. 48. Production projects utilizing local capacities and raw materials produced within the community or municipality itself. (c) Project participation 49. A specific project is only realized if inventors/micro-producers and/or entrepreneurs so decide, and a Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group has been formed by way of a Letter of Commitment through which participants undertake to: Agree on a Business Plan with their Development Organization for the specific purpose of making bigger profits/income, and agreeing to share profits with said Organization in accordance with the terms laid down in the Global Programme; WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 9 Make regular contributions to the Competition and Development Fund, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Global Programme; Share experiences and provide technical and training assistance to other members of the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group; Participate in taking the necessary steps to increase the collective capacity to compete; Where required, undertake particular commitments with the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group; Appoint representatives to the Development Organizations' Board of Directors. IV. INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE 50. Local players that participate in the support actions for each project include the state and federal governments, local offices and agencies, successful entrepreneurs, universities and training institutes, research centers, industrial associations, professional unions and all organizations concerned with micro-entrepreneurial development, the creation of a national innovation culture, poverty alleviation, and the empowerment of women and indigenous populations. 51. The active participation of certain national players, such as departments and agencies of the Federal Government, private institutions of national scope, chambers of commerce and industrial associations, national universities, NGOs and commercial enterprises offering national coverage, is also promoted. 52. Multilateral financial organizations are considered to be external players. These include United Nations agencies, international foundations, and bilateral agencies for development cooperation, fair-trade organizations and other international institutions willing to provide support for the implementation of the Global Programme. 53. These players can participate in promoting and supporting the projects and the Global Programme through different actions: Some of the expenditures, initiatives and investments that are carried out to consolidate the pilot phase of the Global Programme are financed with resources for the institutional strengthening of one of the loans granted to NAFIN by the Inter-American Development Bank to support the micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the country; Together with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, NAFIN has already begun dealings with groups of Mexican immigrants in the United States, in order to achieve their support for projects their communities and states of origin. The collaboration scheme not only envisages economic support but also technical and promotional assistance so that the communities, through their ODF's, can sell their products abroad. (a) Project Support Committee WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 10 54. For each project a Support Committee is set up with the active participation of local, national and external players. This Committee may carry out its functions and responsibilities in many different ways: Providing or obtaining external support for the Micro-Entrepreneurial project group and its Development Organization in project implementation and problem solving; Recommending to the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group and its Development Organization ways to fulfill project objectives more effectively, together with the basic principles and guidelines of the Global Programme; Helping the Development Organization to conclude specific collaboration agreements with the local entrepreneurial support infrastructure. The first seven collaboration agreements have been signed with local institutions in the pilot projects; Providing grants or temporary contributions to the micro-entrepreneurial project group, designed to create or strengthen their Competition and Development Funds; Channeling purchase orders through the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group, thus helping participants to expand their market alternatives; Making staff available to provide technical assistance and training. In the six pilot projects, more than 15 managers of large and successful enterprises have offered their best technicians to participate as training course instructors; In the case of supply companies, granting Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group members similar treatment to that given to their major clients; In the case of buyers, providing commercial advice and spaces under special conditions, so that the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group can market its products directly, through its Development Organization; In the case of educational institutions and research centers, carrying out research and studies that may be useful to the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group; Proposing to the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group candidates for the position of special members on the Development Organization's Board of Directors; Proposing to the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group candidates for the position of Director General of the Development Organization. 55. None of the members of the Support Committee may authorize actions or participate in the decision-making process relating to project implementation or Development Organization operation. Such functions and responsibilities are exclusive to the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group and will be exercised by its representative members on the Board of Directors of the Development Organization. The donation of resources to the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group so as to activate its Competitiveness and Development Fund or the provision not of technical, administrative or even financial support, does not provide the right to participate in the fundamental-decision-making process. WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 11 (b) Specialized Support Committees 56. These Committees will be formed by outstanding professionals and will operate at the state, regional, national or international level. Members agree to offer part of their time to provide technical assistance, orientation and advice to the Director General and to the Development Organization's staff. The Committees are being set up according to different disciplines: Production Engineering; Financing; Marketing; Environmental protection; Equal development; Technology; Acquisitions; Industrial sectors. (c) Innovation Committees 57. The Group Coordinators for each project form Innovation Committees, together with students, professors and high-ranking industrial design professionals. The specific task of each Innovation Committee will be to ensure that the innovations, goods and services of the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group meet the criteria of secrecy, originality, excellence and authenticity, as well as the particular requirements of the market niches that have been defined as commercial objectives. (d) Volunteer Committees 58. People interested in helping to promote the development of micro-enterprises, creating an national innovation culture, and alleviating poverty; as well as helping young, handicapped and elderly people and women, and in fostering the empowerment of indigenous populations, are invited to participate in Volunteer Committees which provide different support activities. (e) NAFIN Support 59. In addition to financial support, NAFIN: Is responsible for drafting and updating Global Programme manuals and information; Organizes global training programmes and provides on-going technical support to staff from Development Organizations in order to enhance their professional skills; Actively encourages the establishment of joint agreements between Development Organizations and public, private and social support institutions; Circulates project results to the Development Organizations and arranges meetings to encourage communication and exchanges of ideas and experiences; WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 12 Undertakes a permanent supervisory role to ensure that Development Organizations comply with Global Programme regulations; Acts jointly with Development Organizations in promoting goods and services - both nationally and internationally, and in negotiating with major buyers and suppliers from Mexico and abroad; Promotes and negotiates technical and financial support with multilateral organizations, bilateral agencies and cooperative development foundations, intellectual property organizations, women's institutions, environmental protection institutions, fair trade organizations, as well as Mexican immigrants' associations and clubs overseas. VI. THE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION 60. The Development Organization is a legally-established company owned exclusively by the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group. It works directly with micro-entrepreneurs and micro-producers in designing and implementing business plans and assists in obtaining the necessary information, training, financing, technical assistance, trade promotion and/or technological alternatives, in addition to acting as a link between the entrepreneurial community and the support infrastructure. 61. The Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group hires professionals to manage the Development Organizations. NAFIN, UNDP, UNIFEM and the Support Committee act as back up in order to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. 62. The purpose of the business plans prepared by each member, with the active participation of his/her Development Organization, is to achieve a specific target relating to increased profits/income. 63. These business plans are not a conventional kind of strategy. They are specially designed for micro-entrepreneurs/producers and take into account the local situation and social reality, as well as the prospects for economic activity. These plans are based upon joint analysis; Development Organization staff and micro-entrepreneurs identify and implement those measures which at a lower cost, and with less time and effort, will allow them to achieve their goal of increasing profits/income. 64. Micro-producers request Development Organizations to deal with acquisition, administration and sales promotion tasks, thereby allowing such producers to concentrate on what they do and know best, i.e. production. 65. For the purpose of the Global Programme, being more competitive always means larger profits for micro-entrepreneurs and a greater income for micro-producers, than that anticipated prior to joining the Global Programme. 66. If change does not bring about the required results in terms of revenues, there is no purpose in changing. Likewise, if technical and financial support does not translate into increased profits, the measures taken are inadequate and unjustifiable. 67. That is why Development Organizations can only survive and do business if their support is productive and successful. WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 13 68. Micro-entrepreneurs and micro-producers agree to share 25 percent of any additional profits/income with the Development Organization. However, if the Business Plan proves unsuccessful, then the Development Organization will receive no money at all. The alliance is a special joint venture whereby participants provide the necessary goodwill and means of production, and the Development Organization its experience and expertise, as well as the link to the support infrastructure. 69. It has been considered that Development Organizations will cooperate with each other in order to hire the services of interdisciplinary groups of experts which provide all of them with specialized support and to strengthen their capacity to carry out their functions with greater efficiency and broader application. Respecting the principle of incremental profits as an objective of and explanation for entrepreneurial services, these mutual support groups will share with ODF staff the revenues derived from their participation in the incremental profits. Through the consolidation of the requirements and actions of all communities participating in the Global Programme, the capacity for collective negotiation will be increased even more, mainly in the acquisition of inputs, raw materials and capital goods, and in promotion and marketing tasks both in Mexico and abroad. 70. To promote this initiative, NAFIN formalized an agreement with the Center for Administration Research and Advanced Studies of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (National Polytechnic Institute), the most important technical education institution in Mexico, and an interdisciplinary group of 10 experts, which has already begun to collaborate with the directors of the six Development Organizations in operation, for the specific purpose of consolidating their projects and participation in the Global Programme. NAFIN also concluded a contract with the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), the main public university in the country, to encourage the formation of new Support Groups, once the Global Programme is activated formally throughout the country, at the beginning of 2001. VII. COMPETITION AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDS 71. Participants create and gradually build up their Competition and Development Funds with initial grants or temporary contributions from local, national and international players, but mainly by permanently depositing ten percent of their new revenues. 72. In order to increase the participants' collective capacity to compete more effectively, the Competition and Development Fund utilizes two Sub-Funds in which financial resources are equally distributed. Fifty percent of registered resources go to the Development Sub-Fund. The remaining fifty percent constitutes the Competition Sub-Fund. These resources are administered by the United Nations Development Global Programme, and may be used only to pay for investments and cover expenditures as follows: For technical assistance and training for micro-entrepreneurs/producers and Development Organization staff; For scientific and technological research; To improve the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group corporate image; To strengthen Development Organization capacity to provide services; WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 14 To design and print catalogues, brochures and promotional material; To co-finance programmes and specialized projects with formal entrepreneurial support institutions; To capitalize on experience, by inviting experts from Mexico and abroad and organizing research visits; To produce audiovisual and documented records of project development and successful ventures; To develop and/or acquire prototype production units, aimed at capitalizing on micro-entrepreneurial competitive advantages; To procure samples, designs, prototypes and technological innovations; To allow participation in national and international trade fairs and exhibitions, business trips and sales promotion activities; To provide participants with support in order to reduce domestic work; To guarantee individual or joint efforts with other Development Organizations for central storage, product sales and distribution facilities in Mexico and abroad; To participate in the Global Programme's Micro-Enterprises Specialized Information System and link-ups with other information centers and databases; To carry out studies and market research. 73. At the beginning of the fourth year of the Competition and Development Funds' existence, monies (50 percent) registered in the Development Sub-Fund may be utilized individually by micro-entrepreneurs/producers for one or more of the following five purposes: To pay members' and their dependents' medical expenses; To pay the educational expenses of members' children, in accordance with the criteria established by the Development Organization's Board of Directors; To pay for housing construction and home improvements; To set up a personal retirement fund which participants may use from the age of 60; To make investments in public works of benefit to the community. 74. Each member of the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group will decide how the funds from the Development Sub-Fund are disbursed. Participants will be entitled to whatever percentage his/her personal contributions represent in relation to total deposits in the Fund account. 75. These trust funds, formally set-up with commercial banks, are also used as instruments to make direct payments for credits received by micro-entrepreneurs or directly by Development Organizations, providing not only financial backing for the Micro- Entrepreneurial Project Group, but also access to formal financial support. WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 15 76. When a loan repayment is due, the institution holding the trust fund account utilizes available funds from the Competition and Development funds' account to repay scheduled debts and agreed interest to NAFIN or whoever is the financial intermediary. 77. Where the amount of funding held by the trust fund for the repayment of loans exceeds the amounts replenished by Development Organizations and/or accredited micro- entrepreneurs, the amount in the Competition and Development Fund is subsequently reduced. In such cases the Development Organizations' Board of Directors would issue a notice of non-fulfillment of commitment to members of the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group. 78. Thus, the Competition and Development Funds act as direct sources of payment for loans granted to Development Organizations or micro-entrepreneurs, both of which deposit funds to replenish and even increase the amounts held in the fund. Through this mechanism, the responsibility they assume for making loan repayments on time basically lies with the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group, rather than with NAFIN or the financial intermediary. VIII. FINANCIAL SUPPORT 79. NAFIN opens direct revolving lines of credit for the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Group and its Development Organization, for an initial sum of up to twice the amount deposited in the Competition and Development Fund during the first three months of operation. 80. The amount of the credit lines can be doubled every six months or even decreased where the financial commitments of Development Organizations and micro-entrepreneurs allow. Over a two and a half-year period, the credit line can be increased until it reaches the equivalent of sixty-four times the amount of the initial deposit. 81. NAFIN has opened five lines of credit of approximately US$435,000 but the Micro- Entrepreneurial Project Groups have requested and received only 30 credits for fixed asset investments totalling not less than US$30,000.00. In the first stage, Development Organizations are using new negotiation capacity to obtain preferential financial support from suppliers and, in some cases, they have used the resources of the Competition and Development Funds to finance their working capital requirements. Communities have started to more than double their monthly income with virtually no financial support, which proves that credit is not essential in all cases. 82. Credit is granted directly to the Development Organization once it has been authorized to administer the collective working capital or when funds are to be used for fixed asset investments. In the latter case, the Development Organization transfers fixed assets through a leasing scheme with the final right to buy at a symbolic price being granted to a micro- entrepreneur. 83. The infrastructure of commercial banks or reputable non-banking financial intermediaries is also used for operational purposes so that they gradually replace NAFIN in the taking of credit risk (through a strategic alliance with the Development Organization). (a) Amount of credit WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 16 84. Thus it should always correspond to the amount recommended by the Business Plan, but where a micro-entrepreneur is granted credit and makes the repayments on time, the member will gradually pave the way to receiving increased financial support. In such a case, he/she will automatically be eligible to receive subsequent credit of up to 1.5 times the amount of the repaid loan. Thus, the Global Programme acknowledges the creditworthiness of those micro-entrepreneurs who comply with their obligations and commitments. (b) Interest rates 85. As regards the cost of funds, the Global Programme recognizes that, paradoxically, it is absolutely true that micro-enterprises can more readily assimilate the impact of higher interest rates, since this represents an inverse proportional relationship between the size of the business and the financial internal rate of return. 86. This greater capacity to pay higher interest rates allows micro-enterprises to cover their also relatively higher operational costs when accessing credit and also compensates for the lack of conventional collateral and the fact that they are traditionally seen as a high risk by the formal banking system. Of course, dynamic schemes and specialized micro-credit technology are necessary if operations are to be profitable. The Global Programme works in this direction with the system of financial intermediaries. 87. Although it is healthy to discard the myth that micro-enterprises need subsidized interest rates, it is also clear in the Global Programme that this does not mean that micro- enterprises can always absorb excessive and disproportionate interest rates in real terms, particularly in relation to the financing of manufacturing activities and fixed asset investments. 88. It is recognized that what is really important to the smaller producer is effective and timely access to an appropriate source of credit, although it is equally relevant to understand that extremely high interest rates affect micro-business development and only contribute to financial intermediaries' profits - this of course does not help to alleviate poverty in economic or social terms. 89. Under the Global Programme, Development Organizations and micro-entrepreneurs in receipt of loans, make fixed repayments of capital and borrowing costs at the same interest rates they would have to pay to a bank, if they had access. In other words, they receive similar treatment to that offered to a commercial bank's preferential customers, despite the fact that their initial loans are only for relatively small amounts. This is possible owing to the fact that the Development Organization does all the necessary work prior to credit authorization. 90. However, NAFIN does not purport to remain indefinitely as the first-tier financial institution. The purpose of the Global Programme, in relation to financial support, is that micro-entrepreneurs and micro-producers have the opportunity to demonstrate their creditworthiness to formal financial intermediary institutions. The idea is also to show commercial banks and other formal credit institutions that micro-enterprises can be attractive clients from a business point of view. (c) Leasing scheme WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 17 91. The Global Programme attaches special importance to fixed asset investment, as it is only in this manner that micro-enterprises can modernize production and achieve gross capital formation. 92. The financial scheme offers a means whereby a Development Organization is given credit by NAFIN or another financial intermediary, and directly acquires the fixed assets required by entrepreneurs. The Development Organization in turn issues a leasing contract with each of the micro-entrepreneurs, under which they are obliged to pay an agreed rent on a due date, and have the right to retain the asset at the end of the lease period in return for a very small sum of money. 93. For their part, beneficiaries agree that in the event they are unable to meet their financial commitments, the goods and rights are automatically transferred to another micro- entrepreneur who agrees to assume responsibility for forthcoming repayments. In that case, a micro-entrepreneur receives and utilizes the goods, and capitalizes on any repayments already made by the previous lessee. IX. TRADE PROMOTION 94. This part of the Global Programme focuses on design improvement and product quality so that goods may be sold in more sophisticated markets where handiwork and individual skill, as well as specialized production, are properly valued. Any intermediaries are eliminated and the products are sold directly by the Micro-Entrepreneurial Project Groups through their Development Organizations. 95. In fact, one of the Global Programme's fundamental guidelines is to encourage micro- entrepreneurs and producers to gear themselves towards particular market niches, where small producers have important competitive advantages. 96. At the same time, the setting-up of alliances and working agreements with branches of shops, super and mini markets is important, just as it is necessary to try and encourage participants to produce the goods required and accepted by those markets. 97. The Global Programme promotes and encourages the establishment in Mexico and abroad of micro-entrepreneurial trade centers, which are to be owned by participants through their Development Organizations and must operate in accordance with the principles and support of the "Fair Trade" Organizations that promote the practice of fair and equal development in several developed countries. 98. Micro-entrepreneurs and micro-producers participating in this Global Programme are not looking for charity or subsidies: all they want is fair trade in their business dealings. It is fair treatment which allows lower income producers to remain in their own communities, yet increase their families' well-being and improve their business potential through their creativity, collective efforts and entrepreneurship. X. FUTURE PROSPECTS 99. Mexico is facing a period of historical political change. For the first time in more than 70 years, a democratic process led to victory for an opposition party candidate; the prospect WIPO/IP/HEL/00/4 page 18 of support for the creation of a national culture of innovation, as well as for the development of micro-enterprises, holds great promise. 100. The magnitude and scope with which the Global Programme will continue its opening phase is now being discussed with the elected President's team. According to a conservative scenario during the first year (2001), it will be possible to implement all the projects that are in preparation, in other words 120 in poor communities in 22 States, with approximately 24,000 participants, a figure which would increase twofold before the end of the year, provide results similar to those of the six pilot projects obtained. 101. The number of Global Programme projects and ODF's could be doubled each year, if it were possible to grant the operating scheme broader autonomy in terms of contributions and participation of state governments, together with external agencies and bodies and provided that the Global Programme had independent resources, which could be incorporated in the groups and the communities that had been partially supported by different civil and non-profit making associations, in addition to micro-credit organizations wishing to remain detached from the significant risk of politicizing the projects. 102. The plan for the future regarding inventors of the micro-entrepreneurial group is to diversify and promote the creation of different ODF's, according to the specialization of the technological innovations concerned. In the future we might therefore refer to a Medical Innovation ODF, a Construction Innovation ODF, and a Communications ODF, just to mention a few possible organizations. 103. It is known that scientific and technological innovation needs support if it is to be channelled towards the production of goods and services. Support for and recognition of the efforts of our outstanding men and women should not be considered a charitable act or a good deed done by public or private institutions. Much more likely, it is a just reward earned by those who have displayed genius. Creators must find fertile ground so their ideas can bear fruit. This will enrich and simplify the lives of millions. [End of document]
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change from Master to slave?
When booting into Safe Mode, my computer shows me that it boots into Slave or Secondary instead of Master. This change was made by a computer technician at a shop I took it to for repair. I don't understand this change, and shop has closed, so no answers can be had there. I plan to re-install my O,S. and want to know if this change is going to be a problem during install. Can anyone understand what I mean, and help me out with this? Thank you in advance.
Explain what you see that gives you the notion you are on the slave drive.
I suppose it is possible the tech rearranged the DVD and hard drive on the ribbon cable so he could have the CD as the first drive sought during startup. Not necessary of course because this is usually taken care of in the BIOS settings.
Click Start, click My computer and you should see the hard drive/s and DVD player listed, what letters are allocated to each of them?
What was the problem the tech was supposed to correct?
My computer shows (C) as the hard drive, D and E are DVD and CD=rw. I had the cpu in as I had replaced the hard drive. I was having trouble installing O.S. He changed out my original ribbon for the hard drive and made the change then. Yes, when I boot, I do have access to the operating system. The screen that shows me that it is secondary or slave drive first order, instead of Master is one I get to by using F8 or F11 when booting. I want to re=install the operating system, I think it's been installed twice and have been having trouble with it since this trip to computer repair store. I can't do a lot of the things I used to be able to do, have no use of any icon across the top of page, home, email, print. Printer only works from and internet page. Not at all from any program. Have done the uninstall and reinstall of printer, newest drivers, all troubleshooting I can find, both in XP and on printer mfg. site. Many other problems will post seperate questions for. I just want to know why I get this chart where you can only use the up and down keys to change what is highlighted for Master or slave.

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These Free Verse Dream poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Dream. These are the best examples of Free Verse Dream poems written by international PoetrySoup poets
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Last night I lay in the darkness of my room
like i always do
Me, a dim lamplight and thoughts of you
my only companions
Everything was still
Till I could listen to first pit pattering of raindrops
Upon my. Windowsill
Falling, falling gently
down my amber rose leaves garden.
Falling gently ,wildly, gushing , drumming,
Like your heart beat on those scented nights
in the hallway by the fireplace, face to face
I wondered if water shadows were there too
In a distant land, in another path and in a different time
I wondered if you think of me too,over a cup of tea
whilst reading your newspaper,
or just sitting in your porch..I wondered..
Last night I sat, staring off into space.
My newspaper not opened.
My lemon tea gone cold.
Everything so still,
until the rain started to fall,
dripping slowly, rhythmically, then faster, faster,
harder, harder, quicker, quicker
splattering onto the broken concrete sidewalk
pounding like the beat of my heart
when we cuddled under the moonlit sky.
I wondered do you ever think of me
does the moon bring back memories
do you lie awake at night in your room
dreaming of me....I wondered..
Inside a knowledge turning cogs on this wheel
born from the darkness a heart rules supreme
fear in one wish looking towards tunnel light love
All that will remain when all turns to dust threads of life dance
kneeling weak alone humble and meek finding a balance
Weeping rivers flow haunting sea waves turn the key
truth is something beautiful touching deeply chords
Chilling whispers rise warm oasis warmly embraces hold
creeping inside beauty beams within shadows
Dancing starlight kissing ocean reflections twinkle
sparkle glisten teardrops coldly ripple out
Floating on a cloud of breath precious beauty
a mystery that means something special
finest mother of pearl gem coloring rainbow jewel shines forever
Frozen dew quicksilver lining echoes time answers always
cold as ice crystals dazzling diamond stillness pure
Frosted vision clear cutting ivory white one cool snowflake falls
baptism in regal glowing crowning full face splendor enchants a ball
walking along golden strands looking across the sea midnight strikes
Sleepless nights held over and back destiny calls your name
utopia faraway dreaming our love complete
You're a maiden so hot burning thoughts
whom melts ice inside deep waves salted
unfolding ocean swells kissing your feet
For once spoke those hot lips the truth shining
Sunshine pleasing warm beholding to
one's eye golden crowned jewel beauty
rainbow luster coloring pearl treasure
It's giving off their beauty pure free
that does not require something in return
A lady whom pleases the heart warm
Princess cut with deep class sparkling pure
utopia's adorable sun rise
How the body is heated and hear
her echoing heart beat in the chambers
Shining a future path dreaming ore
every single moment precious links
each one spent with you falling under spell
Love is like pure sparkling magic gem
unpredictable true and marvelous
Magic silk covers batting eyelids
enchanting soft lovingly flowers
beautiful petals held within the shell
Let the rose live forever and the sun
shines always endless times glistening gold
Written by Liam Mcdaid and Anne- Lise Andresen
a co write in a 9/10 syllable count
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
- Thank you my friend Liam !
Gazing faraway reaching to the stars twinkle silver
shooting distant light of life orbiting inside one fantasy
Blazing hot burning trails upon a flaming kiss
from out of this world flies to You a dream
You lift me from darkness, it lives a star in your heart
Come with me and see tomorrow, where happiness replaces sorrow
Smiling weightless floating on magic dust spells cast
the heart golden overflowing deeply sweeping sands
A small moment of a lifetime, unaware of what it really was
Creates art is demanding but ride the wind, catch a star
Love flows pure washed surf inside the ocean waves crash on shore
Tides turning emotions swell unfolding feelings wild horses at your feet
Of music golden notes feels the dream really, but it's just fantasy
Honesty precious way even with storms and lashing rain
Enlightening eyes in one vision of a mind circling angelic beauty beholding
love who openly smiles pure in amazing grace always and forever shines
A co write written by Liam Mcdaid and
Anne-Lise Andresen :) - 04.01.2015 -
- Thank you my dear friend Liam -
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Tell me that this fear is just paranoia in my mind,
we're not straining, we're not struggling,
we're not sinking, we're just fine.
I'm not perfect my dearest, but damn have I tried,
and I'll try harder but I know I'll have the same results every time.
Do you want me all the ways that I am?
With all the struggles and the tears and the clinging to your hand.
I fear your getting further and Im left on the shore to stand,
watching you in the distance with a bullet in my hand.
Tell me all this worry, its just clutter in my mind,
tell me not to worry that we're doing just fine.
Cause Im scared to run you off and I feel Im falling deep.
And Im so frightened of these thoughts that its getting hard to sleep.
All I know is that the heart wants what it desires,
because of you the match inside has turned into a fire.
And I feel the broken glass thats sticking from my skin,
Wondering if you'll remove the pain or push it back in.
My hearts frantic wondering if you feel the same,
pleading and begging for more than just a saying,
but to feel and to see that im not alone,
with being in this love thats overwhelming.
Once I told you that we didnt have a spark,
but you were lighting up and I was sitting in the dark.
And this fire, this blaze its wrapped in desire.
Im terrified to lose you, I think I might die or,
maybe disappear from all the pieces falling out,
im going crazy but when i open my mouth, nothing comes out,
and I cant explain to you why I just need to hold you close,
why every time you leave Im scared to let you go,
why these tears are building up behind my eyes,
all I know is that the heart wants what it desires
and it desires to be your wife.
So tell me in my panic, that your words are true,
tell my my dearest what I mean to you,
tell me that this paranoia is all within my mind
we're not struggling, we're not sinking tell me we're just fine
I know you are there
On the other side
Waiting anxiously for me
There at Dreamland's Gate
So I close my eyes tight
To hurry myself to you
Hoping sleep comes quickly
To carry me to your arms
Which are reaching through the portals…
Ready, anxious, longing
To envelope me
And whisk me away
To places that are forbidden to us
On this side…
Keep us apart
And so we rendezvous
In enchanted Dreamland!
There…I see you!
And I run into your arms
And I feel the warmth of your breath
On my neck
And the strength of your arms
Around me
And I hear your voice
Whispering in my ear…
"I thought you'd never come!"
And I let you lead me
Through the flower strewn pathways
The profusion of vibrant colors
Are dizzying in their beauty
Their fragrance heady
You hurry me on
To a secluded spot
Beside a murmuring stream
An enclosed garden
Hemmed in by weeping willows trees
Their branches- the curtains that you sweep aside
As you carry me in
And lay me down on the bed of love
You've prepared
I gasp for breath
As I realize for the past moments
I've been holding it all in
Afraid I'll awaken!
I look up at you
Drinking in your beauty
I caress your face, my fingers
Running along your full lips
As my body
Slowly melts
At hearing your pledge of love
Flowing like the voice of the stream
Promising that you've forsaken all others
And I'm the only one
Who makes you feel truly alive
Who makes your heart beat quicken
And ignites the fire in your soul
I try to speak
But I'm silenced by your kiss
A questioning kiss
And so my lips speak to you
In a language my voice cannot
"You're the ONE! Take me…here now…
Take me…do with me what you please…
Do all that as young lovers we were
Deprived of doing because they tore us apart!
Here…now…my love, make up for lost time
I'm yours!"
You pull away and look into my eyes
Wanting to be absolutely sure
Satisfied by what you see
You start to undress me
To claim me
You do with me what you please
With no living soul to hear
I cry out your name in throes of ecstasy
Again and again
Till I am spent…
You run your hands through
My damp hair
Waiting for me
To resurface
My eyes flutter open to see
Your smile of victory
Of possession
Of love realized…finally!
And I smile, contentedly…
That though you will never be mine,
We are in a place that no one can invade
This place is ours
On the other side of Dreamland's Gate
Is our secret meeting place
Now and forever
Every time
I close my eyes!
I know you are there
On the other side
Waiting anxiously for me
There at Dreamland's Gate
So I close my eyes tight
To hurry myself to you
Hoping sleep comes quickly
To carry me to your arms
Which are reaching through the portals…
Ready, anxious, longing
To envelope me
And whisk me away
To places that are forbidden to us
On this side…
Keep us apart
And so we rendezvous
In enchanted Dreamland!
There…I see you!
And I run into your arms
And I feel the warmth of your breath
On my neck
And the strength of your arms
Around me
And I hear your voice
Whispering in my ear…
"I thought you'd never come!"
And I let you lead me
Through the flower strewn pathways
The profusion of vibrant colors
Are dizzying in their beauty
Their fragrance heady
You hurry me on
To a secluded spot
Beside a murmuring stream
An enclosed garden
Hemmed in by weeping willows trees
Their branches- the curtains that you sweep aside
As you carry me in
And lay me down on the bed of love
You've prepared
I gasp for breath
As I realize for the past moments
I've been holding it all in
Afraid I'll awaken!
I look up at you
Drinking in your beauty
I caress your face, my fingers
Running along your full lips
As my body
Slowly melts
At hearing your pledge of love
Flowing like the voice of the stream
Promising that you've forsaken all others
And I'm the only one
Who makes you feel truly alive
Who makes your heart beat quicken
And ignites the fire in your soul
I try to speak
But I'm silenced by your kiss
A questioning kiss
And so my lips speak to you
In a language my voice cannot
"You're the ONE! Take me…here now…
Take me…do with me what you please…
Do all that as young lovers we were
Deprived of doing because they tore us apart!
Here…now…my love, make up for lost time
I'm yours!"
You pull away and look into my eyes
Wanting to be absolutely sure
Satisfied by what you see
You start to undress me
To claim me
You do with me what you please
With no living soul to hear
I cry out your name in throes of ecstasy
Again and again
Till I am spent…
You run your hands through
My damp hair
Waiting for me
To resurface
My eyes flutter open to see
Your smile of victory
Of possession
Of love realized…finally!
And I smile, contentedly…
That though you will never be mine,
We are in a place that no one can invade
This place is ours
On the other side of Dreamland's Gate
Is our secret meeting place
Now and forever
Every time
I close my eyes!
Eileen Manassian
May 8, 2013
I don't join many contests. I join ones that really MOVE me, and ones that I feel I can really do well in. I join contests where I can try out a new form. I didn't join contests for the longest time, and I remember being encouraged to do so. I joined Kim's Free Verse contest right before the contest closed with this poem. I had written it and deleted it due to its sensuous nature. Then I decided to repost and enter it into my very first contest try...and it won first place! It will always be special to me. I wanted to relive the moment.
I haunt subconscious
wells. Alone in the vast,
unconscious realm of man's dreams,
I heal. Mistily, floating in moonbeams
I spell love and truth.
These are my essence and dimension,
no intervention. My dust reveals all.
Down the twisting spiral
of minds I go, touching each chamber
of mood. Nightly, embedding crystals of hope,
I span eternally good.
My hair holds the fragrance
of all the worlds' flowers,
my breath is the mist of miracles.
My voice pleads to soldiers in battle.
My grief fills earth's oceans with tears.
I am the comfort of mothers.
I am the keeper of fears.
Infinity cannot contain me,
for, I am the Messenger of Peace.
Suzanne Delaney
At a carnival- in my dream
I saw an old man had made
a rocket - and blasted off
I saw it go overhead and at first thought
It was a decoy
because no-one could come back to Earth safely
From such a blast
Then - I assumed because he was old
he wanted to die in a
Blaze of glory
Next I see his rocket turn into a parachute
And he has on snow skis and poles
We all make a space for him to land.
As he lands - the street turns into a river-
and he manages to land upright
on the skis - on the water.
But I think then he had a heart attack
From the joy of landing
Suzanne Delaney
It seems like everybody around me has forgotten,
they're stuck on a thought again,
saying alot and whining more.
Preying on their own self-doubts,
they have so much,
yet see so little.
so stubborn.
Can't they see that 64 inch TV,
or feel the beating of the jets in their hot tub ?
They measure their lives too much,
they have fallen into the "Great American Dream Sham"
as my friend "Chad Williams Lowther" would say !
Its a ruse,
an antidote,
so they can make changes in their lives which they normally wouldn't do,
because they lack the strength and insight,
so they get stuck in their minds.
Wheels spin,
tears fall,
marriages crumble
and the damn kids are really suffering,
cause they don't have the latest video gizmo box.
Thoughtless over-reactions of self- abuse,
much like an addict who is never satisfied.
"The Great American Dream Sham" sucked them in,
they forgot,
macroni and cheese,
saturday morning cartoons and matinees.
All replaced by todays goals and desires,
which are masquerading as tired souls trying to find solice,
stuck in "the Great American Dream Sham"
and now saying all there is to say,
Hail, Hail to me
and all who are free,
all who go their own way
and all who see though it !
You're the finest man I have ever seen
You are handsome and strong
Full bodied
Beautiful to the eyes
Alluring to the hands
Your lips
Send messages
"Come and taste
And never thirst again"
Your eyes
Changing hues
Like the sea
The sky
In between
Iris pools where I love to swim
Liquid pleasures draw me
The depth….unfathomable
I dive deep
Deeper still
Till I am breathless
Needing to resurface
Your mind
A garden
Laden with fruit
For my hungry soul
I devour your wisdom
It is sweet to my mouth
Honey clings to each word
and sweetens my inner soul
I can listen spellbound
As you expound
The mysteries
Of existence and time
The intricacies of the world above
And the world below
And the world within
Oh…the world within
The best of them all
How you enter it with confidence
My little world
You stride
Confident and bold
I worship the ground you walk on
I worship you...body and soul
I stop breathing
With your proximity
Afraid that my breath
Will betray me
forming itself
Into a perfumed message from my heart
confessing my idolatry
So I keep silent
I hold my breath
I look away
Overwhelmed by your beauty
You are the ultimate MAN
The incarnation of
Every woman's fantasy
Your body a haven
Your arms the walls of safety
You protect
A bastion of strength
A fortress of comfort
A perpetual knight
To my damsel in distress
You hear my unspoken cries
And come galloping
You whisk me away
To your castled heart
Where you allay
Every fear
With that smile
the drawbridge to your soul
The royal seal
You've sealed me with
"All is well
I am here
I am...HERE.
Lay in my arms
Put your head on my chest
Oh...that slow easy smile
That rivals the sun
For it cannot compete
With the heat
Your smile births in me
The sun scorches from outside in
You scorch from inside out
I melt
With that sweet smile
Oh what of your touch?
A brush of your hand
And I grow faint
And your smile broadens
Sending flares
For you know
I'm prepared
For your entry to my inner sanctum
You are the ultimate in creation
Desire's ultimate desire fulfilled
Passion's passionate plea
For perfection...
You are
And here is the mystery
You are here with me
In me
In my body soul and mind
You reside
You reign...supreme
Never to be dethroned
But to be adored
And my muted celebration of praise
Is heard only by the stars
But you will see its sparkle
Here in my eyes
When our two worlds
Flaming into paradise
Eileen Manassian
On A Bed Of Roses - A Collaboration
"On A Bed Of Roses."
A Collaboration.
On a bed of roses The scent of passion deeply inhaled
Passion drives our Loving Soul Lips now meet In adorations kiss
Caressing now the child of light A body glistening with Love's dew
Stars within our eyes Precious saphires the pools of Love
Eyes shining fire at their heart The fire of Love's desire
We live our memories In dream sublime Lie now here within my arms
Together In our heart of desire Our passion thrives In night's embrace
Love Is sublime on a bed of Roses.
Burning desires from passions heat tonight.
Two eyes mirrored in loves sweet gaze.
Two bodies lay bare glistening in moonlight.
Whispered sighs softly upon your ear.
Breaths quicken 'neath fingertips tender touch.
As loving arms pull me closer.ever so warm.
Breasts rise and fall to loves gentle touch.
Oh,the ache of sweet release to finally come.
Burning desire from ruby lips as passions flames do lick.
Succulent like the peach with sweet nectar to taste.
Oh, lay with me now on downy covers and hold me close.
Enveloped in heavenly wonder on the velvet bed of roses.
A collab from Michael P. Clarke & Mary Jo Hoose
*Thank you so much Mike for letting me join in again on a romantic collab with you...love always..xxx*
Between me and empty sheets
you've painted my colorless dream
you took me to places
to your heart's oasis
There I bathed, gowned only
with burnished autumn leaves
I could smell the rich oaky fire
that burnt in flames of desire
There I danced in my sleep
awaiting our spirits to soar in the breeze
On the left side of freedom
where I lay my weary head
next to the cool pillow
in the comfort of my bed
That's where I met you
on that restless Autumn night.
Stoking the glowing campfire
our spirits took flight
we soared over treetops
slow danced under the moon
sparkled amid the aurora borealis
on our whirlwind rendezvous
I dreamt that you were there,
In a haze, I could see your familiar face
The sun providing a spotlight for our awe-drenched moment
As I drew near,
Your features became more and more clear
You were smiling from ear to ear,
Like an angel fragrant and bright,
My soul beamed like an on-switched light
And we were so close to bonding edges
So close to each other's face
I was captive in your touch
And yet I felt fully free
I saw your alighted lips
Curved, smooth and pining
As if they had waited for the moment I would find them
And how they trembled with joy and longing
As they took their inevitable, suspenseful plunge
Two lips leaped and landed like panthers on the prowl,
Magnetic, crazed and ruthless
Made for this moment
I cannot fathom the strength I received,
Kissing those celestial lips…
He was drinking in all of my sorrows
In the sacred force of our impact
I felt his struggles he bore,
Ball and chain-
Though I did not feel burden or pain
I felt his purpose in his moist embrace
The cuddle of dew and rosebud,
The glow of this thumping heart
I felt him release the reigns of life's blisters
For the conjoining of our truth
In the kiss of wholesome bliss,
He wrapped his arms around me,
Tremulous and tight
Caressing and knowing every spot needing light
Eternal moments passing in our sweet blend,
Tenderly, his voice,
With comfort and assurance,
Knighted by cream-lit clouds
His voice, a deep bell scooping water from a wishing well
Pertinently held my ear in trance:
"This is the part where we never let go…"
. . .
When I woke from the dream,
I realized we were embracing always,
Since the day of our union
My eyes became wise,
And I knew that I never let go of him
Not once, not ever...
An unusual pair, yes,
Like vines to a gargoyle
Though eternal too
For the gargoyle's eyes never blink
For fear of missing the most
Her cold-stoned exterior senses the vine's bold hold
Feeling and bearing his thorns forever…
Clad in the ornaments of each other
Warmed and invigorated by the sun
Open the gate and step into the night's adventure
A golden full moon hovering in world of his own
The moonlight is magical
Night darkness under the moon dew glistens
Where the diamonds - the emeralds and
the jewels shine among all the golden
Golden light envelops water pearl luster
in a bed of cotton
As the waves swell
in the ocean
Carefully the wind plays
over the harp
Interaction with the moonlight
and the dream that is my own
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I was a fool.
I was a fool searching for reasons why.
Reasons why I
Grin with sudden boy giggles
As if Karma was my DJ,
Playing cotton candy woven riffs
Of rhythmic whispers
I savor dark chocolate Peanut M&Ms
Tasting her sincerity
With each Pacific Ocean observance
Her dialect portrays within
My sunset smiles
I was a fool.
A slightly nervous kid
At his first Sadie Hawkins dance
Holding a paper cup
filled with swirly colored punch...
...not spiked
Futile attempts to stifle these vibrating legs
From crippling my exhaling urges
I was a fool.
Searching for irreplaceable reasons
Why my smiles became
An 11 year old innocence
I smile.
I blush.
I embrace a new dream
Written on embossed bucket list
To hold her
To hold her
To hold her
towards sunrises' incipience
One day
With no reasons why
©Drake J. Eszes
As you and I swim the same ocean
I swim the vastness of it in search of you
There are no boundaries to what we can do
If I love you and you love me
The hidden shores are awaiting us
let us go then to paradise
You bring me in like a love struck dove
sitting on her perch
You have put a light in my heart that I
never thought was possible
Your love unwinds me like a ball of yarn
as we lay together as one soul
The love I have inside is just for you alone
as I feel the softness of your words
Your warmth fills my aching soul
I dream of your lips on mine
I had a dream that we shared a kiss once
It was a kiss that lasted forever
(a conversational collaboration with Christine Ueri)
"remember the dream I had when we were 10?
(waves and waves of cornflowers everywhere)
about the boy and the closet?
(sunflowers, circle, glass house?....closet, yes)
cornflower blue
(the closet was cornflower blue?)
the light in that dream was cornflower blue
(the air, the atmospheric light?)
yes, especially in the closet
I had that dream for so long
I'll never forget
little boy blue and the kingfishers --
the blue and white china plates
with the bridge and the lovers; the two doves in the willow tree,
that made me look for japanese letters....horse.
the funny things we do as children
(you are writing a poem....)
catch the words, my love
(you already wrote a poem up there; bridge it together --
I dried cornflowers with dandelions in a blue and white book; but it wasn't a dream.
Well, in a way it was, because at the time, I was floating in the clouds)
he wore a blue and white striped top in my dream
and I remember him
when I look at the sky,
the clouds and the golden sun --
I caught the words!
(yes! did you string them all together?)
not yet!"
August 29th, 2012
She painted her emotions with a dark brush
My heart sunk into her canvas
Transported to an endless sadness
She greets me there with a smile
Her light not visable from the other side
"Come" she says
"There are many rooms to explore"
She skips along yesterday's corridors
I follow in tentative foot falls
She looks back, "Here it is, this is where we'll begin."
Through the door we go in
In an instant she disappears
I wonder was she ever here
Then a silent voice whispers in my ear
"Watch and listen, all will unfold"
I watch in silence, my heart feels cold
A mother in a hospital bed
Two baby girls
One of them dead
Tears of joy now sad instead
She whispers "do you see?? Happy Birthday, little me."
I hear her giggle in another room
So I walk through another door,
a toddler alone on the floor
Mom sitting, at a table with a drink
Little girl starts crying
Mom doesn't even blink
The scene changes
A parade of men
Mom needs her lovers
Over and over again
In the night
When mom's asleep
Into the girls room, the demons creep
On the bed, there she lays
She leaves her mind
While the bad man plays
I scream
I want him to stop
Her so helpless
Him there on top
The whisper returns "There is nothing to do,
I want you to know the source of my blue."
I say "please I can take no more"
With that she says "there is just one more door."
She is back, she takes my hand
I walk through a door to her promised land
The darkness, is all stripped away
She is young once more, it's bright as day
She turns and smiles, " I'm okay,
long ago I learned to pray."
I said "I do not understand,
how could he let that happen to you?
Is he not to blame for your world of blue?"
She looks again with knowing smile
"You will understand in a while.
One day all anwers he will reveal,
best understood when you learn to kneel."
From her canvas
My mind wishes release
Flowing into my heart, an ancient peace
On humbled footsteps, my journey within
A world of shadows, canvas thin
I see beyond sadness
I search within
This dark picture,
brushed stroked on my mind
Her life touched by sin,
Is now redefined
No longer is she broken
I watch her light grow
She says "I'm okay,
it's time for you to go."
You are so very beautiful darling
behind the mirror a soul sings
stirring hotly emotional feelings
how the passion burns flower of flowers
regal crowning desires petals touching
Silken lips purse blushing one rose holding
sunshine beams inside warm fingers of light
Stroking hair gently halo radiating chords deeply dance
looking into jewels of a treasure gem shines
gifted I am to have met your beautiful soul
Over and over in the heart skips
beams jumping over the moon silver whispers
silently makes love to you in every single thought
hot sexy kissing every inch nibbling
within the deepest love inside loving
I often have the same dream
Of castles in the air
With a knight in shining armour
To give me love and tender care
He'd help me fight my battles
To ease my troubled life
We'd live in perfect harmony
Maybe I'd become his wife
I wonder do our dreams come true
Where are you my love... I'm so missing you
Jan Allison
20th November 2014
a resilient soul
hoists his drooping wings
dreary but dreamy
soars far
so high
he keeps on searching for his illusive dreams
regardless of the storm and height of mountains
goes through miles away
in his equanimity
straight with vision of sunrays
on plight are failures
not too bad
tries again
the mighty swords in his heart
so much patience and love help him to survive
in every vicissitude and kinks of his life
we can get the melody of what we want
if we allow the cacophonies to come
Dec. 5, 2012
Form: Suzette Prime
First Place
Contest: Suzette Prime: Prime Numbers and Philosophy
Judged: 12/14/2012
Poet Sponsor: Suzette Crous
I remember how I would cry myself to sleep
Night after night then I would wake the next morning
Dreading the moment I stepped into the
School's doors where you would all be waiting.
You'd smile and pretend like we were the best of friends
Till my parents left the car park then the words
Would fall from your mouths slashing and cutting,Burning into
my brain. You would all stand around me mocking me,jeering.
When you saw your words didn't effect me,you moved on to
The physical. I remember how your hands would wrap
around my throat,preventing me from breathing. You'd laugh at
My struggle to breathe. I remember how they would hold
Me down so I couldn't run while you would punch me repeatedly till I
Could no longer stand up right,till I lay in a pool of my own blood. How people
would just watch and laugh but never stop and intervene. The pain and
humiliation I felt only enhanced your glee.
I've grown stronger, now nobody would dare mock me. Sometimes
people aren't strong enough to survive this so they leave but some
people come out stronger...like me. I remember how you'd get so angry
Because I never cried,I never screamed I just took it silently.
When I look back I see how small you were and I try to feel anger at what you
did to me but I feel nothing. I try to hate you but I can't.
Maybe it's because I'm now successful and you have nothing to look forward to
but another gruelling day of pain and little food.
I feel no hate only sympathy towards the person I once feared but no longer do.
Now I look back and smile at how I could've stopped you and I know you
realised this too, now I know why you only ever hurt me when your friends were
around to hold me down. I admit you've ruined me in many ways. I can no
longer trust people,love people,no longer look people in the eye,but I look back
and smile because if you had never hurt me like you did I wouldn't be the
person I am today, I wouldn't be as strong and independent,as successful and
happy as I am today, I would never feel such a strong sense of justice like I do
now so I would like to thank you for making me a better person.
Thank you.
A Dream
I patiently waited for you all the day long, my beloved.
Even the tired, orange, afternoon sun long ago drifted off to sleep.
Nighttime arrived in a hurry shoving away the short-lived evening,
With rhinestone stars dotting a shimmering, dark, velvet sky,
And a pale, silver moon shyly venturing on the horizon.
After the lamps were all lit, I struggled to stay awake,
But my heavy eyelids drooped as I was weary from the long day.
So forgive me, my lord, as I unwittingly succumbed
To the potent spell of the Sandman's magical dust;
And sly Morpheus sneakily captured me in his soothing embrace.
Come share with me this dream of tranquil enchantment,
In a watercolor field of delicately perfumed lavender and clover.
And I in peaceful repose await your arrival, my lord,
To gently awaken me with tender kisses, sweet as nectar.
I look for you, my dearest love, in a dream!
Entered in a contest "A Dream" sponsored by Isaiah Zerbst
A soul was broken to make room
For dusty halls and labyrinths.
A gossamer, nylon bed-sheet shroud
Enwraps the remnants of that mind.
And no excuses can be made;
This disease does not justify that one.
I do not sleep deeply, I do not wake easily,
I dream of cities built on sand,
Next to the swelling sea.
Oh, they should have lasted.
Why should they fall?
I dream of timber horses,
Brought between those city walls.
We should have known; we should have known better.
But, I am not an honest mystic;
Beware what you ask of me.
I will show truths within the liar's tapestry.
But, you will not believe; no, you cannot believe.
I howled for my motherland
When the mutiny began.
I heard the cry of treason; heard the cry and ran.
I saw blood be spilled,
Some of it my own, then
Felt the rest boil, that this could happen in my home.
I saw the battle through, until the very end,
Then wished the traitors pardoned,
Because they were my friends.
I cannot tell the difference
Between the sleeping and the dead,
So, I will dole out blankets, and keep the kettle on.
The streets are cracked and dirty,
And they all appear the same:
Shattered glass and roofing tacks
Where I place my bare and weary feet.
I don't want to go on.
But, I must rebuild; I must rebuild.
I have no grass to lay,
The trees and flowers will not grow,
So, I shall use nothing, but mortar, brick, and stone.
It's not the same; it is not the same,
But, I shall call it home.
Daybreak in a foreign land
Sights so bright
Drenched in history
The sun sparkling through the morning mist
Vision blurred by squinted eyes
A silhouette draping a wooden bench
The baby sparrow hungrily cries
Walk right past she looks at me
Was she the one from my dream
I stare right back to let her know
Our two eyes lock, there is a gleam
Oh vision bright and beautiful
Come take my hand and walk with me
A journey we both do need
Turn around and comfort me
It would cloud the sun forever
in one instant the sea would dry
shift the axis of the earth
as a weak crystal
all of this would happen!
resulting in death
cover me with its funereal crepe
but you could never shut me
from the flame of your love...
Last night I dreamed
we were standing in cold grey weather
under the proudest stars
no escape from the ocean breeze
we looked beyond
as the pale moon put on a white cloth...
~ ~ ~ ~
A silver creeping mist
falling one cloud
capping the mountain
Like a great waterfall
in a faraway distance
I began dreaming gold
Inside the vision silver fingers
pointing out spears slowly
crumbling forward
Embracing one pure gift
relic treasure memory of love
Warm sweet glowing jewel in deep beauty
Happiness inside shining diamond
joy beaming your sunshine baby a star
lighting one gem brightly dazzles a pearl
I drew with a 6/stepping up waves to 9 syllable count then we reach cloud 9/9/9 10 is the perfect ending 10 out of 10 a mad way I am trying to draw a jewel
Last night I dreamed
your eyes were lit
in a world of fire
your kisses struck
like heat lightning
many moons rose and fell
tides pulled the shoreline closer
you transparent as a ghost
and in the heat of this frozen night
we were still there...
You the porcelain doll
eyes that open and shut
words yet to crack
mute rain between us
eyelashes black and shiny
sitting on the edge of the mountain
with just a shallow stare...
My body gliding to you
I try and break through
waves that have become mountains
that cover the pale skyline...
~ ~
You Man
-a request by Mam Aiyah
You as a man can fill up this world
With the love of your heart,
Let them flow into your veins
As the oxygen of your spirit
Goes into the lungs of your kindness
You as a man can share the thoughts of your brain,
Even though your memory is not that enough to complete the story
Let your axon abound and connect to the spinal cord of your dreams
You as a man can smile with your lips
Let there be a good quotes for every word
Of your mouth as they slip,
Swallow all the sorrows,
Cut the sadness of your teeth, make them fly away
You as a man can show your eyes with happiness,
Mix this with inspirations
As they blink in with visionaries
You as a man can smell the fragrance of nice posture
Strain the bad from good using your cilia,
As your thumb and index made it concrete
And threw them at a distance
You as a man can hear solutions,
Can fight all the negative pictures
With your muscles in your skeleton,
You can build a problem killer device
Energy is your emotions,
You as a man can face all of your knotty points
You can hold the sky,
As your feet stay on the ground…
Because you as a MAN,
Is H U M A N…


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In love with my garden
Ok, maybe not in love, but so happy with how it's going this year. I plowed and planted a regular garden late this year. Had planned on tilling the area and then using this year to get it just the way I wanted soil wise and planting it next year, but I could *not* resist the freshly tilled soil. I planted those extra tomato and pepper plants in it and put some radish seeds in and then decided to go ahead and plant soem cucumbers and watermelon plants I bought. The pole beans, okra, peas and sunflowers were already planted and doing ok.
I was getting a little disappointed seeing everyone posting about harvesting so much, but had to remind myself that ya'll got a much earlier start so I decided to just be happy with whatever came of it. I got some mulch on sale at Walmart a week or more ago and spent all day last Saturday mulching around all my plants. In addition to it all looking so much better, the plants seem to be thriving so much better after being mulched. They seemed to have doubled in size in a matter of days and have started getting blooms on them, and the little pepper that was growing on the pepper plant is growing so much bigger already. The difference in how the garden looks from Saturday to now is amazing!
I need to get some mulch down in the little side flowerbed garden I have. The tomatoes and peppers over there have gotten huge overnight and set fruit and the soil there is a little sandy, so it's not super supportive. I've been staking them but they have gotten so heavy that they are pulling the stakes over...if I mulch, not only will it protect them from the heat and preserve the moisture, but maybe will add some support at the base of the plants.
I must say that I've been dealing with some health concerns that make daily gardening difficult. Spending a few hours in the garden on Sat wiped me out the last few days and I haven't had any energy or strength to do much else besides go to work and come home. Last night I thought "I better go out and check my garden" and I am so glad I did...it just made my heart glad to see those plants growing so well...My little garden has come a long way in a couple of months...and I just had to share..:)
I have not posted for a long time, but when I saw the title of your post it just hit me how much I love my garden. It provides so much relief from stress and gives me energy for the day. I usually spend the early morning out in the garden, working and watching the sun rise. It is my quiet time.
I understand the happiness you receive from your garden. For what it's worth, I love my garden too and even if it did not produce a single veggie, fruit, flower or herb for the house, I'd love it anyway and I'd keep on gardening. While the end result--the harvests--are fun to tote into the house, it provides lots of intangible benefits including joy, peace and fun. Produce from the garden may feed our bodies, but the gardening process itself feeds our souls.
And, about the mulch---it does make a remarkable difference. I'm a mulching maniac.
Mark, Nice to see you posting here and to know you're still there.
I think all of us are having a better year this year than last year, and I think we earned that just by surviving last summer.
Us too, y'all. Dh and I get up every morning and go straight to the garden. From the time I was 7 years old helping Dad pick those "free" vegetables in our backyard I have been hooked on gardening and have never understood why everyone with enough land doesn't raise one. I am convinced that if they knew how much joy, and what wonderful tastes, they could experience, that everyone would have a garden plot. (In Italy, where very little land is available to individual families unless they are wealthy, there are thousands of small garden plots in villages, towns and cities. Americans have lost that tradition.)
LOL, Mark. My family and friends think I am obsessed with compost and rotting food :)
Keep up with the mulch, it is excellent for your ground. There was a video going around not too long ago about a guy who lived in the dry, dry part of Washington state (12 inches of rain a year?) and grew everything in mulch. He never waters. It was WAY WAY too long, but it was interesting. I'm growing squash in a very deep pile of tree grindings. They seem very happy.
The film was Back to Eden. The music drives me crazy and the Pennsylvania part is a waste, but I endure that part in order to watch the rest. I have watched the first part many times.
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Call her madam! Lou Bunch ran the most successful whorehouse in Central City back in the days when the mining town was known as the "Richest Square Mile on Earth." These days, it could be the saddest square mile on earth, since Central City's plan to mine the wallets of would-be gamblers was blocked by nearby Black Hawk, which literally moved mountains to make sure that its big casinos would snag all the suckers before they could head farther up the hill. As a result, though, Central City has managed to retain some of its classic character -- and you'll never see more classic characters than at Lou Bunch Days. Held every Father's Day weekend, the festival features includes bed races up and down Main Street (complete with appropriately attired female riders), costume contests and a dance; a recent, unofficial addition to the lineup is the return of many old Zekes, Central City residents who were frightened away or pushed away by gambling but return for this wild, wacky weekend. "It's a great time to be in Central City," says Lew Cady, publisher of the Little Kingdom Come newspaper ("published whenever we damn well feel like it"). "Especially for people who are longtime lovers of the town." And current lovers of good old-fashioned frolics. "If New Year's Eve is amateur night," Cady adds, "this is for the professionals." And no one was more of a pro than Madam Bunch.
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Through autumn's kaleidoscope I see
The changing of the leaves
Falling so beautifully
Shades of red and burgundy
Oranges and greens