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We are delighted to announce the recent appointment of our new Supervisory Council Chair, Prof. André van der Zande. The Supervisory Council is in charge of the overall supervision of the course of affairs within Wetlands International and oversees the implementation of its policies and Strategy.
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Wetlands International expresses its extreme concern today over the continued and increasing exploration for and production of oil and gas in the Arctic. Activities like these could jeopardise Arctic marine and coastal wetlands, which are critical for nature and people as well as the global climate.
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Wetlands International takes the 17th spot on the International Centre for Climate Governance top 100 list for climate think tanks in 2014. Read more here.
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10-year Strategy to Safeguard and Restore Wetlands Released
We are releasing Wetland Solutions for People and Nature, our Strategic Intent for 2015 – 2025. Around the world, wetlands are under growing pressure. Implementing this strategy will help prevent and reverse the loss of wetlands and make a significant contribution to sustainable development.
02-Feb-2015, views: 3562
By Kate Pearson and Alizia Kamani
Throughout history wetlands have been integral to human survival and development. How? Simple: Wetlands[i] are life – food, water, fibre. We depend on them – people, business and nature. Yet they are highly threatened. Globally the world has lost more than 54%[ii] of its wetlands and this loss has accelerated by four times in the last 70 years[iii]. People and businesses impact wetlands, creating problems of water scarcity, excessive floods and pollution. So what does this mean for our future?
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At the recent Wetland Solutions Stakeholder Forum in Rotterdam held on 22 September 2014, we interviewed some of our stakeholders on why wetlands are important to them. Here is what they said:
16-May-2014, views: 4219
Wetlands are vital storehouses of biodiversity and important bulwarks against the effects of climate change, while also providing livelihoods for millions of people, but they're being lost at an increasing rate. Geographical Magazine's Mark Rowe reports.
17-Mar-2014, views: 4185
In September 2013, seven European organisations joined forces to create Wetlands International – European Association. This new element of the global Wetlands International network will focus on the development and implementation of EU policy, and on its effects and impacts on global wetlands.
04-Feb-2014, views: 8414
23-Jun-2013, views: 6623
by Jane Madgwick, CEO Wetlands International
A week before US President Obama descends on Senegal to encourage the tracking down of terrorists in the region, I joined our Africa team and my international Supervisory Council there to investigate issues related to a more fundamental security challenge – relating to increasingly scarce water resources. As we witnessed in Mali last year, water security, human conflicts and mass migrations are closely intertwined in this fragile Sahelian zone.
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Update: Since the acquisition by Oracle support has changed. I used to be able to get someone on the phone immediately to assist with any problems, now there is a ticketing system and delay in response.
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A couple of months ago I was nominated (by Angela Corrias – Travel Calling) to take part in a unique and collaborative online experiment called, "3 Best Kept Travel Secrets." Started by the folks over at Tripbase–a new, personalized approach to travel planning–this exercise calls for travel bloggers to write about three obscure places they've been (restaurants, hotels, tours, etc.).
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Been somewhere amazing you'd never even heard of? You want to let your buddies in on the secret, right? Read on for my top travel gems!
What's interesting about travel is that the places / hotels / restaurants that everyone agrees are fantastic, are often not so fantastic.
And even if they are, it can all be a bit predictable.
Now what's really fun is when you find somewhere obscure that is truly out of this world.
You can't believe your luck to have stumbled across this travel gem. How could you not have heard of this place before??
You want to shout it from the rooftops.
So here goes… these are My 3 Best Kept Travel Secrets
Fortunately, my job has taken me to some fairly wacky destinations. Below are three that I would like to share with you.
Akagera National Park, Rwanda
An offbeat, cheaper alternative to the traditional African safari.
From Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, Akagera National Park is only a few hours away. Why pay $700+ to see Silverback gorillas when, for a third of the cost, you can hire a private driver and guide for a personal safari?
Last February, I found a hotel employee in Kigali that had access to a four-wheel drive vehicle and negotiated a $200 day trip to Akagera. We left at 6am, and on arrival at Akagera learned that the ~$30 entrance fee included a complimentary guide. SWEET.
The safari was amazing. We drove around for 5ish hours and saw a herd of elephants, a Masai giraffe, several Cape Buffalo, Oribi, Reedbuck, and an Olive Baboon that tried to climb into our car! If you have more time, you can arrange to stay overnight–lion spotting anyone?
Click here for: my blog post on Akagera National Park
Chernobyl Day Tour, Outside of Kiev, Ukraine
An intimate, exotic and informative tour of the world's most infamous radioactive disaster zone.
Many of you out there have taken a group tour. I'll go ahead and say it–Chernobyl is the wildest and most fun tour I have ever taken. For $180 you can hitch a ride from Kiev with Solo East Travel. During your1-2 hour drive, you'll watch an American-made documentary about the Chernobyl disaster.
The tour group was small–no more than 17 people. We drove into the zone of exclusion to take pictures and to Pripyat, the ghost town next to Chernobyl known for its abandoned school, hospital and playground.
Click here for: my blog post on Chernobyl
Old City, Damascus, Syria
The most vibrant and dashing city I've ever been to.
Get lost in the narrow and twisting conduits of colors and smells and shops. Become wildly intoxicated with the periodic call of the muezzin–an exotic soundtrack of sorts, a strange, permeating presence you have to hear to really..well..feel. Take a trip to Damascus' Old City, the oldest continually habituated place on Earth.
Syria is an enigmatic country, psychologically inaccessible to most of us Westerners. Hop off the beaten path and travel to one of the world's most interesting places, bar none. Take it from me; the culture is overwhelming in the most pleasant of ways, the food (and sheesha) is ambrosial.
Click here for: my blog post on Syria
9 thoughts on "3 Best Kept Travel Secrets: Rwandan Safari, Chernobyl and Damascus"
Thank you so much for posting this! #7 on my life to-do list is go on a safari, and this seems like a better option than the tours I've been looking at.
Also, I'm adding visit Chernobyl to my list. I remember when you first published that post and I'm surprised I forgot to add it back then.
Awesome stuff, man.
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Great post. I want private tours of all these places one day!
Cool! I just found your site through Twitter. Syria has been recommended to me several times in the past few months so I've inevitably added it to my RTW itinerary. It sounds amazing!
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very interesting! i've heard a lot of Chernobyl. Someday i have to be there.
We were just talking to a couple about Syria the other day. They said it was wonderful. It has shot to the top of our list. They told us that they actually serve tea and biscuits on the buses…for free!
Great secrets. We haven't been to any that you mentioned. they are such unique places!
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I have to agree that the best places are off the beaten path. It's when you leave the crowds behind that you stumble across the most interesting stuff. I didn't realize they gave tours of Chernobyl, that sounds fascinating – I wouldn't mind visiting Syria either. If you haven't been yet you should consider the island of Rhodes in Greece – I went last year and it was a trip to remember!
I really appreciate this info especially for Rwanda safaris and destinations like Akagera national park
This is agreat post and infor. Will plan on visiting one of these places. thanks.


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1982 Chevrolet Camaro
I have a 93 Suburban with the 5.7L 350 that runs like a top but trans went out. Also have an 82 Camaro with a 305 in the garage, motor is shot. How hard would it be to take the 350 out of the Suburban and put it into the Camaro? Also, what would need to be replaced ie: wire harness, oil pan, fuel pump, etc? Also, will the engine bolt directly to the trans on the Camaro? Level of difficulty? I have worked on cars alot, never done engine swap to this degree.
October 14, 2012.
October 14, 2012.
Is the camaro carb or fuel injected?
I would think a stock 1982 camaro would have a carb. Another thing to consider would be most of the time truck engines are made for torque and car engines are made for horse power.
Worried about the crossfire system in 82
Ya the camaro is a carb. Not exactly sure what the crossfire system is. I have swapped engines before. But always the same engine. Never done different size engines in different vehicles. A friend says its not hard but I am worrired about the oil pan being too big. The fuel pump not big enough. The wiring harness and firing order. The intake. And the camaro is dual exhaust. Suburban is single exhaust. Lotta variables here. Thanks for the help. ; )
Oct 14, 2012.
Oct 14, 2012.
I thought the crossfires were only on the vettes?The 305 and 350 people swap all the time.
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Brian Danzinger
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Two-year term, $9,887 salary.
John S. Vander Leest
? Address: 1625 Vernon Court
? Years in district: 60
? Age: 64
? Occupation: Owner, Vander Leest Electric
? Family: Married; two sons, two grandchildren
? Education: Green Bay Southwest High School, NWTC Electrical program
? Political experience: None
? Community involvement: Active in local church, volunteer for Convoy of Hope and July 4th outreaches in Green Bay, volunteer for senior citizens' transportation needs
? What are the top issues facing your district/community, and what would you do about them? Military Avenue redevelopment, property taxes and improving the city's business image. Military Avenue is making progress. I will work with city staff to increase recruitment of new businesses to the corridor. I will listen to existing businesses' input and ideas on improving the corridor, and make it a priority in city hall. Green Bay must keep property taxes and fees down as much as possible. I will examine ways to reduce debt and look closely at all spending. Officials should be more positive about business opportunities and encourage development. The current tone is not a welcoming one. I will support new development projects and be a positive voice for the taxpayers. I will have an open door to help my constituents on all issues.
Brian Danziger
? Address: 1701 King Arthur Dr.
? Years in district: 14
? Date of birth: NA
? Occupation: Assistant vice president for E-commerce, BankMutual|; U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant
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? Political experience: Green Bay City Council since 2010.
? Community involvement: Board of Trustees, St. Norbert College. Executive Board member, LIVE 54218. Board member, Junior Achievement. Event organizer and coordinator, Zumba Day By the Bay. Volunteer, St. Patrick's Food Pantry. Academic Decathlon, Ben's Wish, YMCA; United Way, Current-Green Bay Chamber of Commerce. Global Youth Service Day.
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Mila Kunis has revealed she has no shame and doesn't mind starring in movies with gross out humor.
Mila Kunis has no shame.
The 'Ted' actress doesn't mind starring in movies with gross out humor, something other young actresses might baulk at, because she has finds them funny.
She said: ''I really have no shame. I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of--including myself. I think that you have to laugh at the absurdity of this entire industry and the absurdity of what it is we do. If I didn't, I'd go crazy.''
Mila, 28, also feels lucky that she can pick and choose what roles she takes on because she is financially secure from her long-running roles on TV show 'That 70S Show' and cartoon 'Family Guy'.
Speaking to James Franco for Interview magazine, she said: ''After doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don't have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that. I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day. I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.''


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Drivers who use hands-free commands remain distracted for up to 27 seconds after they have made a call or changed music, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
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So many questions
Did you ask her in the mirror?
So abrupt to point the blame
but did you ask yourself why?
Bitter tongue with acerbity
led to words that cannot be erased
Nescient perverse stubbornness
Did it make you feel proud?
So quick to play the victim but
ignorantly obtuse to the pain that you caused
Your ego is out of control burning you inside
maybe have a conversation, before you become blind
Why did you cry your eyes out - when he died
especially when he didn't exist to you alive
Guilt, regret or crocodile tears - true emotions confused
In your grief why didn't you learn to forgive
still carrying painful memories like rotten fruit
In your tangled state of mind
everything you breed - will be a hateful seed
selfish greed is a demonic need - a vicious circle
Still a little girl lost in an adult's body
seduced by the puppet master
who pulls at your heart strings
but can't you see - he is manipulating your vulnerabilities
like a paedophile grooming his innocent prey!
Maybe one day you will learn to listen
rid yourself of this curse of bitterness
You claim you are unique and different
the black sheep of the family
In reality your are a confused adolescent mortal
lost within the phenomenon of being immortal
One day you will crash right back into realism
sadly though the damage will be done - it will be too late!
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Copyright ©
Silent One
More great poems below...
Devils deadly dime
The sign said no grown-up at the playground.
Tripping on a penny, like a mime!
My hand is in my pocket with the dime I found.
Its all mine, I asked for the devils hand that time.
Echoes in my head, bounded by a screaming sound.
Paying for a forgotten crime,
on what comes around goes around.
A prison with greed that carries an evil musical chime.
Jumping off the merry-go-round!
Encouraged by the devil,
the pleasure of his deadly nursery rhyme.
Now the world is measured by my blood level.
The devils delight feasted on my youth before I hit my prime.
Bashing my mind, with thoughts implanted by evil.
Entering the day with no beauty to my sublime.
Begging him to remove this anvil!
He laughed while he cursed me with a favor for a favor.
A fallout so violently in this world not civil.
One can only lust on the taste that only he can savor.
Hanging out by the swings wounding me with prey,
on two victims to his delicious flavor.
I climb my way to teach a lesson in hate not love.
Two siblings who always scream for each other.
Giggling as I offered each a push and a shove.
Stopping they give each other a big hug.
Defeating and proving love is a stronger disease
The devil wicked eyes looking at me like a bug.
Clawing at my inner guts with remorse that he will win this war.
Until another day one skips the penny,
and begs a poor fool like the devil for his dime.
Tossing heads for his tail when times hits rock bottom.
I will stray away from his deadly reaction time.
He will not own my soul so freak'em,
and his greedy deadly beg of a dime.
Copyright ©
Poet Destroyer A
**Back smile/smile Back **
With your heads way up your :]ssa[:
You will never accomplish the win
I got shots that will protect me from your rabid ways
After you fell into a non-stop falling disease,
Your movements weakened
Straight from a dried up well,
Every day you frolic in a disorder that causes more brain damage
With progressive mental retardation
You continue to lick the top of your cleft lips
He is the saddest sadist human that ever lived!
So sad he has to live with himself every night
Kissing his young ones Goodnight
In ways I can't even breathe to tell
The way he follows rabbits down the bunny hole
Killing each laughing hare
Wiping smiles, leaning in,
The madness in Alice's Wonderland
Madder and Madder The Hatter
Your boldness is nothing more than baldness
A man in a monkey suit
Molesting the minds of his idiotic circle,
Trying to kill the joy, not knowing
We don't care about his false Harvard WAY
I rather stay here dropping out, than pretending
Following his made-up perception, a cropped out waste
His taste, my best copypaste, he jacked on
A stench, they left behind when open mouths laugh
He educates by attacking women better than his own
Silently to the top of his knife, he stalks nakedly
Removing a few poems he plagiarized
His Poorness, brought many to donate to the salvation of his army
Sadness Delivered by the Joy Killing Poet and his little pigs
Cross My heart and hope to die!!!
Copyright ©
-"x+2 = 4"-
Enigmas of the soul
Do you know how it feels?
Never tasted before
Invisible Sun
I worked through the day and the night
Got the syllables and spelling just right
My imagery was 'simply divine'
I hoped that a placement was mine
Got awarded the Poem of the Day
'Congratulations' the folks they did say
I sat back and relaxed in my chair
At my perfect poem I did sit and stare
I was really so proud of my work
Saw the winners… felt a right jerk
My eyes scanned down the winner's list
There was an error - my name had been missed!
My Members Contest list was showing N/A
Guess it really just wasn't my lucky day
Contest:-Contest – Jerry T Curtis
~awarded 1st place~
Copyright ©
You, who are so perfect in my eyes, so beautiful- adorable, and I, so flawed, ugly, damaged and crawling with defects; why do you enjoy my company?
You, who are so sleek and slender, humming with a quiet intellect and a serenity about you, and I, so grossly overweight and pretentiously boastful and nervous; how can you abide my company?
You, who are a paragon of patience, so understanding and self-assured, and I, so insanely impulsive, so myopic and brimming with self-doubt; how do you stand my company?
You, who are so sweet, so considerably kind, so thoughtful and generous, and I, so bitter, so selfish, so self-absorbed; why do you choose my company?
You, who are so self-composed, full of self-control, so sound and stable, and I, so very neurotic, so completely compulsive and verily volatile; how can you tolerate my company?
You, who are so diligent, so driven and ambitious, so achieving, and I, so lackadaisically lazy, so uninspired, so complacent; why do you settle for my company?
You, who are ethical, so moral, so very virtuous, and I, so corrupt, so unprincipled, so wholly wicked; how can you endure my company?
You, who are so normal, so well-adjusted, so conventional, and I, so maniacal, so unbalanced and irrational; why do you condone my company?
You, who are bubbling with charm, who loves unconditionally and is absolutely accepting, and I, boiling with rage, fueled by misanthropy and incredibly intolerant; how can you welcome my company?
That you love and accept me for who and what I am, is a treasure beyond measure. I cherish your company, but why you cherish mine is something I cannot fathom. All I know is that I love you, my dear, beloved friend.
**This was written for two very dear friends: Karen and Tommy :)
***I also love palindromes ;)
Copyright ©
Just That Archaic Poet
Politician chops a tomato
in his kitchen
Now he's chopping a lettuce
in his kitchen
He's saying things at the same time
in his kitchen
He's endowed with multi-skilled sets
Yes he must live in the real world I've guessed
He can chop a tomato
And then a lettuce
And talk at the same time
I've never chopped a lettuce in my life
in my kitchen
I have chopped a tomato though
But it wasn't in my kitchen
It was in someone else's
It was a pretty weird situation
That pretty weird kitchen situation is for another poem
And probably one you won't want to read
if I'm being honest
So I won't be honest..honest.
Well that tells us all we need to know
I'm convinced
I always wondered whether he could chop a tomato
in his kitchen
It's not easy at the best of times
You know that
I know that
Let's not pretend
And he did it all in front of the cameras
in his kitchen
Chopping a lettuce truly earns my respect
And should earn yours too
A man who can chop a lettuce and talk about not wanting to be prime minister for a third term
When he's still in his first
To think that far ahead
in his kitchen
While chopping a tomato
and then a lettuce
in his kitchen
Talking at the same time
in his kitchen
About not wanting to be prime minister for a third term
When he's still serving his first
That truly earns my respect
Like watching a marine punch a gazelle..
And regardless of whoever's kitchen I happen to be in
Were I to be in your kitchen for example
I would feel that same swell of admiration
And I promise I would never chop a tomato
in your kitchen
And definitely not a lettuce
Just in case you're wondering
I don't eat lettuce
And even if I did
I would never chop it in your kitchen
Even if I were to be in a really bad mood..
And here's another politician
This one is in his second kitchen
Conversing with his wife while drinking tea
in his second kitchen
I know that could never be me
I don't have a first wife and I don't have a second kitchen
(and I don't really sip tea for I'm an uncouth gulper
probably my Indian upbringing)
Thus I could never be a democratic socialist leader
Although I'd like to be
Who could believe in me
When I don't have a second kitchen to sip tea in
with a wife which I don't have
Listening attentively to my democratic socialist thoughts
While sipping tea which I wouldn't sip anyway
Being more of an uncouth gulper probably because of my Indian upbringing
in my second kitchen
which I also don't have..
To be that man who can sip tea so nonchalantly
Not even in his first kitchen
But in his second kitchen
The one that he's not used to sipping tea in
That's beyond the call of duty
So beyond you
And me
So who really lives in the real world
Well I think that's plain to see
Copyright ©
Suki Spangles
of love of war
the staff of a prophet, seen
fairness not imagine, sings
shouting out, obscenity
recognized, yet
in search of fame, seeking stance
the moment arises, seek
of voice of power, godsend
renown supremacy, yet
prophet not acknowledged, kept
desire of a great life, sought
skill of voice, articulate
hardly ever, cheek
no longer free, famous self
seldom bite snarls dogma, link
of country of faith, kinship
all that's true, fair play
desired fame acknowledged, pent
the home front, covetousness
war or peace love or hate, just
yelp puppy love, nice
Penned on September 28, 2014!
Copyright ©
Verlena S. Walker
I don't want to die,
But my mind feels old;
My body is so tired
And my heart grows cold;
Hands itch to slice--
Just the skin--just the skin,
Blood flows out as the pain seeps in.
They wanna give me pills
To treat a pain they haven't seen;
They try to cure the symptoms
Without knowing what it means,
To pick apart my brain
Without dirtying their hands,
While I drown in a sorrow
That I can't understand,
While unhelpful friends throw
Such unhelpful advice:
"Stop feeling sad!"
"Think of things that are nice!"
Meanwhile I wish
for an end to the pain.
I don't need any pills--
Just send me a train.
Copyright ©
Tara Andre
One day I started climbing;
without question I climbed.
Until finally I had reached the peak of Mt. Everest.
I wanted to beat my breastbone
yell like Tarzan King of the Apes.
I saw a tree.
was the highest peak.
I climbed.
"Ta da"!
there was an escarpment,
I climbed.
Once again I...
stairs at the end of the land.
I climbed
Reached the top of the stairs.
I saw a huge bird.
"I can go higher" I told myself.
I reached up with my arms,
miraculously the bird accepted my hands.
We reached the space beyond Earth's pull;
there my magical friend released me.
I kept floating up
until I reached a tunnel in space,
a hole on an incline that led up.
I climbed!
For an eternity,
maybe longer.
The higher I got...
An enormous amount of nothing.
I was going nowhere and I was doing it in record time.
Then I stopped.
I mean I hit the brakes,
reflected on my journey.
The wildlife?
Had I done damage?
The escarpment?
What was the vegetation,
were there flowers?
I should of gone barefoot felt the land under my feet;
smelled the coffee.
Were those really stairs I climbed?
Was it friends and associates I was stepping on?
I opened my eyes.
The climb was like trying to walk to the end of the horizon.
All leading to more vast "I don't know what" but definitely up.
"No!" I said aloud.
"So what!" I whispered.
I slid down the best slide you ever saw.
I felt like a child again,
I could see, smell, feel and hear,
I could taste the sweetness of freedom in the air.
I love sweets.
Now, back to my land
I plant myself firmly.
I am one with all,
a Giant Redwood surrounded by other Redwoods.
I am at peace.
Here, at the bottom of everything is my highest point.
I bask in the heat of the sun.
Feed from the richness of the land.
Drink the cold water gifted to me by the skies above.
What an incredible sense of strength I feel
comfortable in my own bark.
Just happy to be rooted.
I am the smallest tree
satisfied just "to be"!
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Maurice Yvonne
Fifty-year class reunions are stricken with sadness:
Former classmates falling apart before my eyes.
Jane uses a walker, and Stan exhibits madness.
Wages of age foreshadow classmates' demise.
In youth's green age I could not fathom this,
A time when peers would be withered and worn.
How I wonder could life have gone so amiss?
Surveying the scene, my heart is heavy, torn.
I give proud thanks that I'm not like the others,
Having been spared of time's toxic touches.
"But what has befallen my sisters and brothers?"
I ponder the question as I reach for my crutches.
Copyright ©
Paul Schneiter
Your wishes can't regain,
A thrill so long ago.
To once again reclaim
A past you wouldn't know.
You view a different dance,
With unfamiliar tune
You pine for lost romance,
Yet treasure not the Moon.
Meter - Iambic Trimeter (Cataletic).
A-B, A-B Rhyme.
Gene Bourne.
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Gene Bourne
Now down at our local pub
I noticed McGee at the bar
So I pulled up a chair, A bit unaware
That he was a bit under par
He said to me "Last night,
I tried to take me own life
I wanted to end my misery
In this world full of struggle and strife
So, I started to take a thousand pills,
and wash them down with wine
but after the second aspirin
I started to feel just fine
Copyright ©
Jerry T Curtis
Oh why oh why don't you clean your room
I wish I had heeded my mother's words
For I'm sure many a mother has said this to their child
But fate intervened and the dust still hasn't settled -
In fact I've not spoken to my mother for over a week
Last weekend I met the man of my dreams – James
Tall, dark and oh so handsome, like a young George Clooney
His number was etched in the thick layer of dust on the dresser
My mother took matters into her own hands
She decided to dust and tidy my room
His number is erased forever -
I have no way of contacting him
Guess I have learned a VERY valuable lesson
NEXT time I meet someone …
I will write his number in my diary!
25th February 2015
Fictional write for the Gathering Dust' Contest - John Lawless
And The Piper Played On
The mystic piper paid his earthly dues
strange tunes he did so often choose
Notes that ring so loud and so clear
wiping away doubt and darkened fear
Yet each found this a false delight
shadows that lurched in evil night
Music set to lowly goals and greed
easing pains from a desperate need
Dancing in a deepened hollow ring
woes trailed all that shout and sing
Piper plays on in his standard way
as his victims spin and gaze far away
Stars spin away so very far, far above
this world needs more, always more love
Robert J. Lindley
note: Inspired by the words of a fellow poet here. Such inspiration is in great abundance here as this site offers the writings of so very many talented artists!
I am humbled to read such poetry and any subject can find inspiration from the tremendous number of offerings presented here each day! From seasoned poet to newbie the talent here is simply amazing..
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Robert Lindley
Isn't it ironic?
That the plague called the bubonic
Killed the man but not the rat
And did not even kill the cat
That caught and killed the guilty rat
Isn't it ironic?
That in this age of the electronic
Ebola is running unabated
It's deathly thirst left quite unslated
Just like the plague as earlier stated
Isn't it ironic?
That in this age of progress so terrific
A plague is not spread by a rat
Nor by bat and not by cat
But by technology - imagine that!
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Daniel Human
Butterflies cover my eyes with beauty beyond my own desires
Overwhelming lush sweeps through my skin as if I had bathed in aloe or wore an expensive silk attire
The power from the sun rejuvenate my spirit
Heart filled with joy and mind filled with so much peace that you could hear it
Flowers start dancing every time the wind walks by
To the rhythm and beat along the riverside
My God, what a mighty love you are
Thank you for staying near me and not afar
In the dark, I fear not, for you are with me
You are the true guide and light to thy destiny
For my ways are not yours and that's what makes you great
You gave the Gift to me for my soul's sake
As I walk around this cold and rugged world
A light of your face shines out like the word
For you are not hard to find
Protecting me from all that's unkind
So my life each day becomes new
In my view
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Natasha Horton
On these bare walls
there once hung
artwork that was picked by you,
which you'd then picked over,
leaving only a needlepoint
your mother made for our wedding
and a picture an alcoholic friend gave you
of a bear
How ironic now,
it seems, they're not so bare
since I've hung a painting of
dancing bears on the bare wall where
I took down the needlepoint
and a butterfly,
in the bare spot you left
by the front door
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David Brown
Take Me For Granted
Maybe I'm just crazy
or my views are slightly slanted.
But I love when you don't have to ask.
When you take me for granted.
I need it when you're needing me
when push comes down to shove.
I love when you take it for granted
that I'll show you my love.
How when you know I'll be beside you
and I'm not afraid to fight.
And how you take it for granted
you'll be loving me tonight.
Go on baby you can look away
the seeds already planted.
I love the way it feels to me
when you take me for granted.
Not everyone will get this poem.
But those that do, have known love at a depth not everyone will ever see.
They've been hurt. Taken advantage of and they have been betrayed.
Still they have known love.
They were open to it. They've been warmed by it's fires and chilled by it's North wind.
They've flown where eagles fly. And they've crawled through hell and back.
None of it for them but for one they loved.
Because if you know love, you soon find that it's not love until you give it away.
Edwin C Hofert
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Edwin Hofert
a man and a woman
lucky in love and precious
fate walked in and kissed them both
kisses wet, sloppy, thirsty
from an unplanned tenderness
romance fluttered
love came next there was no doubt
their chemistry delicious
played one off the others substantial
in the beginning of her purring
on purpose as fate
walked them down the primrose blushing
passion concentrated and gifted
translovely dream cooing
across the abyss
separating them from their naughty
they talked of love needful
secrets were confessed fragile
vowed to leave the past behind
shredded and troubled
their bond will be sewn husky
he closes his eye tender
she holds out her attractive
together they are damaged
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Race Benoit
A chance for eternity is at stake.
Life is too important to make a mistake.
Some try to get rich playing the lottery,
Odds are against them, but they play merrily.
Some think we are a product of natural selection,
Enzymes and molecules, in some random collection.
Trillions to one, against it, yet they still believe,
A Designer with a purpose, too hard to conceive.
Our life is too important, to risk it on the odds,
It's actually more intelligent, to believe in God.
Life, comes from life, not some chance of fate,
Trusting in an organic soup, isn't that, blind faith?
Life's not a game of chance, we all have a choice.
Believe in our maker, and make him rejoice.
The ridiculers laugh and scoff, but they are rolling the dice,
With the odds against them, they are betting their life.
John Derek Hamilton October 15,2015
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John Hamilton
For "Show Me the Funny (part two)"
There once was a fellow a woggin'*
Who bumped into one who was loggin'
They had quite a spat
The ax was a bat
And the first had a lump on his noggin
* Woggers are those who get all dressed for jogging, but only go at walking speed, while vigorously pumping their arms to delude themselves that they are jogging.
Copyright ©
Isaiah Zerbst
Creative writers are never given flowers while they still breathing poetry.
Biters wait patiently for the last breath to pay their respect and get paid with your work.
Claiming being sent by callings to keep the legend's work alive till infinity.
No doctor has the cue for this sick world.
But guess what we writers do care.
We keep writing spiritually we don't care.
Atleast i don't care, i know you'll be speaking my language with your theft.
Evidently i do share.
You are that invisible disciple i recruited to speak for me in my death.
It's the life of an artist who cares.
We don't seek recognition.
Recognition come to us that's why we endlessly spread.
We are angels with no wings heaven is closer to us we don't fly.
Paradise is home for holidays filled with dead writers.
An escapism from you hooligans.
Its a crime not a mime when you speak rhyme in my rhymes.
Thank God i'm still an infant in this poetry, i have a chance to fill up the grave you dug for me.
Your patience will have to patiently await my departure patiently.
I have enough time to unleash these constipated rhymes.
You think you got me.
I speak better in my rhymes like a machinegun tone spraying pee.
My skeleton is covered in mics louder i do speak rhythmic bones.
My skeleton is made out of cables transporting poetic stones.
My soul will be kept in your brain's museum.
There i said it.
Ye i meant it.
Copyright ©
Raymond Ngomane
On an unsinkable ship's maiden voyage, it sinks.
The pastor who preaches against alcohol, drinks.
One's surrounded by people, yet remains all alone.
Confessing sins to another, our sins get atoned?
A nation's chief tax czar, who cheats on his taxes?
An animal lover hunts deer to relax.
Sing praise and kill humans, in the name of a God?
Destroying our enemies, lasting peace we applaud?
The lifeguard fearing water, who remains on dry land.
American foot...ball, is played with the hands.
A high school track coach, who's morbidly obese.
The steakhouse that's owned, by a vegan!
A priest preaching sermons on love, is a pedophile.
Repeat charity builds dependence, over time.
Nations war against drugs, while beer they endorse?
Adolf Hitler's Grandmother, was Jewish!
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Michael Wegman
Primose path leads to the slaughter of American
dream delete pause proficiency with internetty
webbegone after thoughts of yahoo googleyed
interred intracacises that shed benign capsules of
mom entary apple pie delquiences cooling
the soul shopping for the next alias avenue of
pointless me procurement mauling an ongoing
onerous dildodate vis a vie meme.com/me in
an engaging omnipresence of sextext no tact
spell ckeck chicshicshakplak no sense tic tac.
Talk? Walk? Balk? Chalk? Sue? Sulk?
Dinosaur diligence posse with the senior
gestages gestulating, we r forevre 21 and ying yang
dung. Yes, good f ing luck with that!! Look at your
petridish parents and see what box u check to lid close
and abscond with the lost liberal leftovers. That
is you in reverse in a few carnal years after Hilter youth
children decide to screw us as the new
generation which skewer post present parental postulates
to the oldster outhouse outlets so u can be "youf" free. Little
do they notknow as they cumulatively co opulate
that they set the stooge stage for no thanx ahole actions.
The DOS does'nt fall from the Apple tree. Leave it,
love it, learn it while ye may, the kid crisp cosmos of
offspring social dicktates are biting at your heartbeatbit
empty elmo enterprises. Pause parenatal prenatal
preferences prepearing perinatal persons pretasking
postnatal practices, in which you have veno papa preparation.
Think before you For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Analyze
your ass-incarnate initiate. Borrow berofe u basterdize,
condomize before u copu culminate, decide before
u dicktate, envision before u envy, fail before u foil,
grasp before u germinate, halt before u hinder,
illuminate before u illerate, jump before u jinx,
kill before u keep, love before u lay, meaning before
moaning, neutralize before u now, obilerate before
u ooops! presence before predicament, quit before
quake, resilience before ridiculous, sanity before
sexusensuality, thinkth before u thumpth, utilize
before u unionize, victory before victimization, we
before want, xx nor xy, zen before zeal. Pocket
passion files fly in the face of ruined reason residules
to the point of pronounced perplextion plagued
prominantly with no recall references to problematic
protocals for near north normalicies in my buckeye
life measures of simpatico silly symbiosis sublime
of mini me monophile mucous made misdemeanor
milktoast memories. Pass go, collect $200.
Copyright ©
Dave Collins


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Market Oriented Strategic Planning (Philip Kotler Summary)
Aim: Shape/ Reshape companies business & products so that they yield targeted profits and growths.
Strategic Planning has Action Areas :
– Managing companies business as an investment portfolio.
– Assessing each business activity by considering market's growth rate & companies position & fit in that market.
– Developing a strategy (game plan) to achieve long run objectives.
Strategic Planning takes into account that large organizations consist of four organizational levels.
– Corporate level.
– Divisional level.
– Business unit level.
– Product level.
- Corporate HQ creates strategic plan to guide the whole enterprise to a profitable future.
- Each division creates a divisional plan covering the allocation of funds to each business unit within division.
- Each business unit develop a business unit strategic plan to carry that business to a profitable future.
- Each product level develops a marketing plan to achieve its objective. In its product marketing.
- Marketing plan made up of
- Strategic Marketing Plan.
- Tactical Marketing Plan.
Strategic Marketing Plan develops / outlines.
– Broad marketing objective.
– Strategy based on analysis of current market situation and opportunities (based on STP).
Tactical Marketing Plan outlines specific marketing plan. It may include
– Advertising
– Merchandising
– Pricing
– Distribution Channels (4 P's of Marketing)
– Product Variants
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