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    Metaphor and Humor

    APRIL 28, 2012 7:01PM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: understanding, humor, metaphor

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    APRIL 26, 2012 2:26AM

    By Slaubham


    Topics: metaphor, planet, fruit, apple, fiction, poetry

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    A MUCH NEEDED GIFT FROM DAVID MAZEL

    FEBRUARY 10, 2012 2:26PM

    By Barbara Smith Stoff


    Topics: open+call, music, books, metaphor, family, love, akashic field, "the gift", david mazel

    • 1 Ratings
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    Cats and Dogs: A Work Metaphor

    JANUARY 23, 2012 5:20PM

    By Pensive Person


    Topics: cats, dogs, work, metaphor, experience, fairness

    • 42 Ratings
    • 1010 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    Word

    JANUARY 19, 2012 10:52AM

    By Nikki Stern


    Topics: metaphor, friendship, illness, life, sorrow, change, grief, bad news

    • 12 Ratings
    • 351 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    (Poem) For You That Love

    OCTOBER 27, 2011 12:30AM

    By dunniteowl


    Topics: self improvement, reflection, patience, wish, desire, understanding, hopeful, lonely, hurt, metaphor, despair, loss, love, non rhyming, poetry, poem

    • 0 Ratings
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    • 3 Comments
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    Metaphor As Verbal Cement

    SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 7:14AM

    By Nick Weber


    Topics: practical language, poetic figure, metaphor

    • 1 Ratings
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    Threesome at the FiveSeven Grille

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 10:18AM

    By Jewellya


    Topics: minute maid park, astros, fiveseven grille, date, setup, blind date, entendre, game, flirt, friends, break the ice, polar bear, smart phone, facebook, metaphor, fishing, laugh, man, legend, college, big fish

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    Fruity Wisdom

    JULY 29, 2011 8:22AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: metaphor, humor, poetry

    • 1 Ratings
    • 98 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Revisited

    JUNE 21, 2011 10:04AM

    By Philip Martin Cawlfield


    Topics: poem, coleridge, mariner, albatross, metaphor, water, resource, future

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    Prefixed and Suffixed: The Grammar of Our Lives

    JUNE 5, 2011 9:06AM

    By Jerry DeNuccio


    Topics: prefix, suffix, life stages, metaphor, grammar

    • 2 Ratings
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    Teachers Who Change Lives

    MAY 25, 2011 10:51AM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: teachers who change lives, teachers, lifelong learning, high school english, university english professors, plan ii, sociology, social theory, metaphor, life is a continuing studies curriculum, danagram, daniel rigney, open call, acknowledgements, loren pope, herbert sprouls, anne griffin, judy allen, ambrose gordon, dale mclemore, gideon sjoberg, sharon mcmahon, nancy baker-brown, nancy geyer, stephen klineberg, tom hall, college guidebooks, colleges that change lives, glasscock+rice university, power of metaphor, life is a continuing studies curriculum, continuing studies, belief/religion, music, family, books, nerdy is way cool

    • 12 Ratings
    • 348 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Blind Spot

    MAY 16, 2011 1:50PM

    By Sarah Cavanaugh


    Topics: versions of sight, blindness, metaphor, braille

    • 1 Ratings
    • 279 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Hooked

    APRIL 14, 2011 7:04AM

    By Nick Weber


    Topics: elizabeth bishop, fishing, poetry, metaphor

    • 0 Ratings
    • 235 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Art and Suggestion

    JANUARY 27, 2011 7:10AM

    By Nick Weber


    Topics: figurative language, suggestion, metaphor, simile, terrance hayes, shakespeare

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    The Puzzle of Egypt

    JANUARY 26, 2011 7:10PM

    By Eric Hanson


    Topics: metaphor, protest, middle east, egypt, politics

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    • 128 Views
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    Light Bulb Earth

    JANUARY 20, 2011 11:29AM

    By Eric Hanson


    Topics: politics, economy, design, metaphor, illustration, environment, light, earth, technology, science

    • 4 Ratings
    • 203 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Teachings of Water

    JANUARY 3, 2011 5:49PM

    By wrenaw


    Topics: metaphor, verse, poem, zen, teaching, poetry, water

    • 60 Ratings
    • 1206 Views
    • 66 Comments
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    WinterBirds

    DECEMBER 28, 2010 10:15PM

    By A Persistent Muse


    Topics: presence, awareness, remembrance, longing and loss, mysticism, beauty, metaphor, reflection, cold winds, true friends, remaining open can be the hardest thing

    • 10 Ratings
    • 727 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    Obama Needs to Fish or Cut Bait

    NOVEMBER 19, 2010 10:05AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: barack obama, obama, stepping aside, step aside, stepping down, step down, 2012, 2008, re-election, reelection, role model, role, spin, vision, picture, terminology, imagery, metaphor, duty honor country, country, honor, duty, fighting for their political lives, fighting for her political life, fighting for his political life, fighting for their lives, fighting for her life, fighting for his life, fighting, sacrifice, war, philosophy, politics

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