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Ellenelizabeth Cernek-KashkEllenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-8664879264810458122013-01-12T23:18:00.000-05:002013-01-12T23:18:04.468-05:00Thoughts to Ponder<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise...</span><br />
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<br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Hungarian Goulash</strong><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">from the kitchen of Ellenelizabeth Cernek</strong><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">3 lbs of beef cubes bite size (cooks quicker)</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">32 oz chicken broth</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">3 cubes beef bouillon cubes</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">4 large onions diced</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">1 head of garlic diced</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">1 can of tomato sauce (If you like chunky sauces use a can of diced tomatoes, slice onion and garlic on the larger size.)</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">2 tablespoons Hungarian paprika</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">2 tablespoons red pepper</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">3 tablespoons basil</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">2 tablespoons thyme</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">3 12oz sour cream</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Coat bottom of a large soup pot with oil. When oil is heated add onions, and garlic browning them remove from pot into a separate bowel (you will return them into pot). Brown beef cubes, do it in batches, so you fry the outside of the cubes. Place finished cubes in the bowel with onion and garlic. Continue to brown all beef cubes and remove them all. Pour in chicken broth and clean up bottom of pot to get all the goodness from the fried meat. Return meat, on-ions, and garlic into chicken broth. Make sure all of the meat is covered by the chicken broth, if not add water to cover all of the meat. Add in beef bouillon cubes, bring all to a boil, then lower to a high simmer for about 1 hour. Add tomato sauce, red pepper, basil, and thyme and cook for another hour. When meat is tender, add sour cream and Hungarian paprika cook for another 1/2 hour until sauce thickens).</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Best served over egg noodles or a hearty pasta.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">My family loves this after it is over night in the frig something magical hap-pens to thicken the sauce even more! Great comfort food in front of roaring fire. </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Captured Moments – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat, A Book and A Dish, Think With Your Taste Buds</strong><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Crossroads</strong><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Life again and again</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Finds only crossroads</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Where now and before</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Shall turn into a tomorrow.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Worry not in this </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Crossroad’s time</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">For this will always</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Pass into a yesterday.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Life again and again</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Finds only crossroads,</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Where life will again</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Be always new.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">This has to be one of my favorite. Each time I read these few words, the more I agree what that they say and mean to me. We do have a lifetime of crossroads and now does always become tomorrow. </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">I’m not big on reviewing poetry due to the fact that what I like you might not like, but Ellenelizabeth Cernek has written ‘songs’ that tug at my heart as well as my spirit. "Her Beach Reverie" will make you wonder about ‘Neptune’s fury’. "Empty Space" will have you remembering illusions you believed in at one time. And then there is "To Remember." It will bring back the Could-bes, Should-bes and Would-bes. </span><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><em>Captured Moments</em></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> will keep you stepping in and out of time, life and space. This is a beautiful book!</span><div style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">
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<br />Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-66505914670721259112012-04-20T12:47:00.001-04:002012-04-20T12:47:44.624-04:00Shadows of Sedona<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/60x64AMI608?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-91998648002705746052012-03-11T20:59:00.000-04:002012-03-11T20:59:19.116-04:00If I Knew Then What I Know Now<br />
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The journey is un-mistakenly eventful</div>
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Cherish all the burses, and pick the scabs clean</div>
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Cry the thousand tears of joy for being alive </div>
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And wear each scare as testament of your survival</div>
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Never doubt the paths you have chosen</div>
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You are where you are suppose to be</div>
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Have the guts to always be true to yourself</div>
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By not allowing others to judge your work harshly</div>
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The words of others that can be trusted</div>
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Are a special breed, you will know whom</div>
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With every unsure step or stumble</div>
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You will make strides with the lessons it will teach</div>
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Write the words that blossom from your heart</div>
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You will always have beautiful bouquets that surround
you. </div>
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Ellenelizabeth
Cernek ©</div>
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<br /></div>Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-77903082900273517282012-02-09T13:19:00.002-05:002012-02-09T13:19:57.925-05:00My 4 Question Interview From Mad Rush Magazine<a href="http://madrushmag.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/4-questions-ellenelizabeth-cernek-kashk/">http://madrushmag.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/4-questions-ellenelizabeth-cernek-kashk/</a>
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<br />Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-1323082965615914912012-01-26T14:56:00.000-05:002012-01-26T14:56:06.373-05:00Place you can find me<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2012</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>“Dead Chicken”</b> Mad Rush Magazine </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://madrushmag.wordpress.com/">http://madrushmag.wordpress.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Captured Moments"</b> published by Unbound Content 12/20/2011<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.createspace.com/3741270">https://www.createspace.com/3741270</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Whisper"<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Gypsy
Road"<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Way
Home"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
Aquillrelle Wall of Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aquillrelle.com%2Fgrouppoetryw.pdf&h=tAQFhCAI-AQHGXZYIV21SXNQk75D31Anbk25KIobXS4YBdw">http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aquillrelle.com%2Fgrouppoetryw.pdf&h=tAQFhCAI-AQHGXZYIV21SXNQk75D31Anbk25KIobXS4YBdw</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Roof
Deck" </b>Pigeonbike<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://issuu.com/pigeonbike/docs/pb_and_coffee">http://issuu.com/pigeonbike/docs/pb_and_coffee</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> “Exhale of Love”, “Footprints of a Wildfire”,
“Roof Deck”</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.aquillrelle.com/magpoetrymishmash.htm#p6">http://www.aquillrelle.com/magpoetrymishmash.htm#p6</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I Can't Think”</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.aquillrelle.com/maganythinggoes.htm">http://www.aquillrelle.com/maganythinggoes.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"According
To"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.aquillrelle.com/magpoetrymishmash.htm#p10">http://www.aquillrelle.com/magpoetrymishmash.htm#p10</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Dead
Chicken"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.aquillrelle.com/magpoetrymishmash.htm#p10">http://www.aquillrelle.com/magpoetrymishmash.htm#p10</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>“Keeping
Face For You”</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.aquillrelle.com/magsomeprose.htm#p5">http://www.aquillrelle.com/magsomeprose.htm#p5</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Beach
Reverie" </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aquillrelle anthology100, book one</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ©2011</span>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"New
Accident"</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://poemblog.voxpoetica.com/2011/02/19/new-accident/trackback.aspx">http://poemblog.voxpoetica.com/2011/02/19/new-accident/trackback.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Balancing
On Line"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://poemblog.voxpoetica.com/2011/04/26/balancing-on-line/trackback.aspx">http://poemblog.voxpoetica.com/2011/04/26/balancing-on-line/trackback.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Write What Touches Me"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.hipnosis.com/works/kashk.htm">http://www.hipnosis.com/works/kashk.htm</a>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"SOPHIE’S
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.inknode.com/piece/804-ellenelizabeth-cernek-kashk-sophie-s-window">http://www.inknode.com/piece/804-ellenelizabeth-cernek-kashk-sophie-s-window</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"SUN
WORSHIP"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.inknode.com/piece/805-ellenelizabeth-cernek-kashk-sun-worship">http://www.inknode.com/piece/805-ellenelizabeth-cernek-kashk-sun-worship</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>“So
Does God See” , “Hair”, “Today Tomorrow and Yesterday”, “According To”</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://allpoetry.com/eekwrite">http://allpoetry.com/eekwrite</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"My Alexandria"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://members.spree.com/writer/htm6/K-Alexandria.htm">http://members.spree.com/writer/htm6/K-Alexandria.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Shahenda"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://members.spree.com/writer/htm6/K-Shahenda.htm">http://members.spree.com/writer/htm6/K-Shahenda.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Beach
Reverie"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.helium.com/items/31496-reflections-family-memories">www.helium.com/items/31496-reflections-family-memories</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Exhale
of Love"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.helium.com/knowledge/57468-poetry-breathing">www.helium.com/knowledge/57468-poetry-breathing</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Blue"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.helium.com/items/311908-poetry-the-sky">www.helium.com/items/311908-poetry-the-sky</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Poetry
In The Garden"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://members.aol.com/uneamie223/garden.htm">http://members.aol.com/uneamie223/garden.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Obscure
Passing of Echoing Time"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/mo/dot/obscure.html">http://www.angelfire.com/mo/dot/obscure.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"WTC
Winds"</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://gallery.poetshaven.com/bookcontents.php?action-=&section=1&page=688&viewis" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://gallery.poetshaven.com/bookcontents.php?action-=&section=1&page=688&viewis</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>“WTC WINDS”</b> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.poetshaven.com/singlepage.php?html=bookcontents.php&footer=1&section=1&page=688">http://www.poetshaven.com/singlepage.php?html=bookcontents.php&footer=1&section=1&page=688</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Sinai
Traveler"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.justjans.com/sea/poetrycove/Writers99/ellen2.html">http://www.justjans.com/sea/poetrycove/Writers99/ellen2.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"The
Artist’s Gift"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.justjans.com/sea/poetrycove/Writers99/ellen1.html">http://www.justjans.com/sea/poetrycove/Writers99/ellen1.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"To
Be Attached"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.poetry.com/dotnet/P3610752/999/2/display.aspx">http://www.poetry.com/dotnet/P3610752/999/2/display.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Sun Worship"</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wings, Vol. 7 No. 1 Fall 1997</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"Soaring
Deep"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Treasured
Poems of America Fall 1996</span></div>
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Her friends she places first</div>
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Always dismissing my presence</div>
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If she felt so inclined</div>
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This has gone on for so many years</div>
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She knows just how to treat me</div>
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To belittle me in front of all</div>
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Even now, our golden years</div>
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My own boys against me</div>
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I remember those chairs</div>
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Old Parisian men drinking wine</div>
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I traveled from New York to Belgium </div>
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Rocking and rolling along the beautiful </div>
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Farmlands and villages between the two locations</div>
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All along the way with suite case and</div>
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Carrying blue and yellow sneaker roller skates</div>
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I traveled with nine other want a be models</div>
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All hoping and praying to make it big</div>
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Because I
was lost on the cobblestones of Paris</div>Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-46119730732863752592012-01-22T10:16:00.001-05:002012-01-22T10:16:20.995-05:00SUNRISE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another poem accepted for this New Year! Look for it Soon here!<br />
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<br />Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-22729869411332518472012-01-09T03:25:00.000-05:002012-01-09T03:25:56.018-05:002012 THE FIRST SUNSET OF THE NEW YEAR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first Sunset of the New Year.</div>
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Just Love the Colors!</div>
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The saying here is </div>
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God Created the Grand Canyon </div>
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But he lives in Sedona </div>
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I wait for God's painting lesson</div>
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Each night an original </div>
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Knowing I can never follow </div>
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A show like this!</div>
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I am me</div>
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I am me</div>
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No more being abused</div>
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I am me</div>
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I am me</div>
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I am me</div>
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The actions of others</div>
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do not define me</div>
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I am me</div>
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I am me</div>
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I am me</div>
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The place I want to be</div>
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Is here and now</div>
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I am me </div>
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I am me</div>
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I am me</div>
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Where else can I be me?</div>
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<a href="http://www.writingourwayhome.com/2012/01/river-forget-about-words-advice-from_04.html">http://www.writingourwayhome.com</a><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">“And by the way, everything in life is writable
about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to
improvise."</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><br />
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I have been caught up in the strings</div>
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Tangled like a marionette </div>
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Someone else always knowing</div>
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Which ones to tug or pull on for my heart</div>
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Leaving strands of color swirling in my sight</div>
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Was it this Christmas or last</div>
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Where all the tree lights changed to only white</div>
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Christmas’s past, was filled with colored lights</div>
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And strands of popcorn, beads of multi colors</div>
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When the tree was finally trimmed and plugged in</div>
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The entire world tasted </div>
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The rainbows of Christmas</div>
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And kissed in New Year’s </div>
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<br /></div>Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0Sedona, AZ, USA34.8697395 -111.760989634.817628500000005 -111.8399536 34.9218505 -111.6820256tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-68688182571025871802011-12-27T20:06:00.000-05:002011-12-27T20:06:57.403-05:00WHITE BOX DRESSED IN RED RIBBONS<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">You placed a small wrapped
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">That I am the only one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">You trusted to have this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Then you added<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">But you can never open it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">I looked at this white box<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dressed in red ribbons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">I smiled at you, and asked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Does never really mean
never<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">You laughed at my question<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">You may never open <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">This white box dressed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">With these red ribbons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Until I am no longer with
you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">I flung my head back
laughing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">And replied<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Even when you leave this world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">You will always be with me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Space and time will never
separate you and me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">So I will rewrite my will
and include <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">This white box dressed in
red ribbons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> To stay with me until my demise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">You smiled and said it was
only your heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">In this white box dressed
in red ribbon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">That you can give for
Christmas this year<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">I cried and through my
tears <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">All I could say was thank
you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">© 12/2011 </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Ellenelizabeth Cernek</span>Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-5763504281326422842011-12-20T22:31:00.002-05:002012-01-01T19:27:15.394-05:00<br />
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-50475883799246659912011-07-28T15:33:00.000-04:002011-08-11T18:34:19.246-04:00Freight Train with no lights painting rainbows<p> </p> <p>The freight train had no lights,</p> <p>yet fire spurred from its belly</p> <p>it ran through my house</p> <p>catching it afire</p> <p>I’ve always have painted rainbows</p> <p>about me and all bad stuff</p> <p>but fire destroys all you own</p> <p>so now I am painting rainbows with embers</p> <p>while thanking God everyone is ok</p> <p>for you see religions are man-made shades of grey</p> Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-76885519916321748772011-06-24T11:51:00.000-04:002011-06-24T11:51:37.057-04:00Way Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BSeWfQedM4c/TgSyTPhJu0I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/mp48LiPBifI/s1600/MOON+WITH+BRANCHES.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BSeWfQedM4c/TgSyTPhJu0I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/mp48LiPBifI/s320/MOON+WITH+BRANCHES.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Stars glittered overhead</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"> <span class="messagebody2">I stared as my neck twisted<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="messagebody2">Against the car window<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="messagebody2">And the road takes another turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="messagebody2">My eyes strain to see through<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="messagebody2">the thick canopy of the forest.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="messagebody2">Where are the glittering stars?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="messagebody2">That shows the way home!<o:p></o:p></span></div>Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-29963651826910847592011-06-13T22:14:00.000-04:002011-07-16T01:06:53.268-04:00Got Poetry Prompt #8<p>Anticipation </p> <p><font color="#ff0000">Wings fly around a world of make believe</font> </p> <p>Through green dells, soaring above rust colored mountains </p> <p>Where dreams manifest to reality, from childhood tales </p> <p>Of happily ever after which was shoved down your throat </p> <p>Flying through this world of make believe </p> <p>The Love Monkey dances in freedom </p> <p>Within his cage he know as home </p> <p>Being born of captivity knowing no true jungle </p> <p>Daily dreams manifesting to your reality </p> <p>Giving blue and pink iridescent wings upon your shoulders </p> <p>Flight as they glisten in the dawn of every new day </p> <p>Anticipating happily ever after would show up today </p> <p>©</p> Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-45522110823542670282011-06-11T12:45:00.000-04:002011-06-11T12:45:22.322-04:00ATTENTION ATTENTIONI am pleased to announce the publication of my first book of poems which is due out by the end of July 2011!<br />
I will keep you informed!Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-61145620367084539462010-12-01T15:43:00.000-05:002010-12-01T15:43:25.492-05:00God Grant Me<h5 align="left">God grant me the insight<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Kl_MjJojVAI/TPaydvHPH9I/AAAAAAAAAHM/zILr28pyoNA/s1600-h/CAPE%203%201979%5B6%5D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="CAPE 3 1979" border="0" height="307" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Kl_MjJojVAI/TPayd5bKGxI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/WarrO212bYQ/CAPE%203%201979_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="CAPE 3 1979" width="199" /></a></h5><h5 align="left">To find patience in other’s wrong doings</h5><h5 align="left">God grant me the time </h5><h5 align="left">To find love in myself</h5><h5 align="left">God grant me the silence</h5><h5 align="left">To find kind words, when others are judgmental</h5><h5 align="left">God grant me the kindness</h5><h5 align="left">To find good in all who wrong me</h5><h5 align="left">God grant me the knowledge</h5><h5 align="left">To find resolution in other’s plights</h5><h5 align="left">God grant me the love</h5><h5 align="left">To find beauty in other’s faults</h5><h5 align="left">God grant me the spirit</h5><h5 align="left">To find flight within other’s degrading</h5><h5 align="left">God grant me the quiet</h5><h5 align="left">To find your beauty around me</h5>Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-45218430960603075012010-09-10T21:30:00.001-04:002010-09-10T21:30:43.377-04:00Tribute To World Trade Center<p>Glistening<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Kl_MjJojVAI/TIrbvez5NaI/AAAAAAAAAG8/jwk9Jnu1chA/s1600-h/wtclights4.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" title="wtc lights" border="0" alt="wtc lights" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Kl_MjJojVAI/TIrbwODXu7I/AAAAAAAAAHA/X-_Mwe2L89o/wtclights_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="158" height="237"></a></p> <p>Oriental children close up</p> <p>To the ebony plateau</p> <p>Gaze at the thin layer</p> <p>Of water gliding over</p> <p>The lobbies sculpture</p> <p>Hands out stretched, smiling</p> <p>They must touch it</p> <p>Giggling in glee of amazement</p> <p>As they run upon</p> <p>The ebony plateau</p> <p>Glistening</p> <p>As the water glides</p> <p>Center Plaza</p> <p>At the center is a ball</p> <p>Of crimson and ebony</p> <p>As water flows upon the sculpture</p> <p>It is surrounded</p> <p>Among the man made walls</p> <p>Towering the highest in the land</p> <p>Casting shadows, as the day proceeds</p> <p>Many visitors pass</p> <p>This man made wonder</p> <p>Foreigners, locals, commuters</p> <p>Everyday, at many different times</p> <p>See such a sight in awe</p> <p>Causing all who pass, to stop and stare</p> <p>Embedding it’s self</p> <p>Within their minds forever</p> <p>Is a crimson and ebony sculpture ball</p> <p>In the center plaza of New York City’s</p> <p>World Trade Center</p> <p>World Trade Center Wind</p> <p>Creepy sounds the wind</p> <p>Crawling through the World Trade Center</p> <p>Sounding like space creatures</p> <p>Hearing – Listening</p> <p>Darkness falls upon the City</p> <p>Black Out</p> <p>Creepy sounds the wind</p> <p>Whoever needs to hear</p> <p>They are only to listen</p> <p>To find the </p> <p>World Trade Center’s Creatures</p> <p>Observing the wind</p> <p>While one watches the Center’s sculpture</p> <p>Shaped, like a darker world</p> <p>Let one’s imagination form</p> <p>What the World Trade Center’s Creatures are</p> <p>Truly to be seen only in darkness</p> <p>While listening</p> <p>At the World Trade Center</p> <p>In a city wide Black out</p> <p>I hear these creatures</p> <p>Or is it just the wind</p> <p>Newscaster Announces:</p> <p>“The World Trade Center has been hit</p> <p>By an unidentified airplane.”</p> <p>The world watches flames in disbelief,</p> <p>Astonishment, grief, this is insane</p> <p>A newscaster yells in the background</p> <p>During a live broadcast</p> <p>“What the hell is that?”</p> <p>As the world watches the second plane </p> <p>Intentionally crash into Tower Two</p> <p>Engulfing flames spew from the Towers</p> <p>Darkness swallows the New York Skyline</p> <p>The newscaster announces:</p> <p>“The Pentagon is hit”</p> <p>The World holds it’s breath and watches</p> <p>Within an hour Tower Two collapsea</p> <p>Then Tower One,</p> <p>Lost are the Twins of the City</p> <p>Thousands lay trapped dying or dead</p> <p>As the world watches</p> <p>The flames consume</p> <p>Changing the Skyline </p> <p>And the World forever</p> <p>Vivid Images Left</p> <p>A police car’s windshield blown out</p> <p>A man jumping from the building</p> <p>An amateur video depicting</p> <p>Half of an American Flag</p> <p>Hanging off a twisted lamp post</p> <p>A mangled fire truck</p> <p>A woman covered in soot</p> <p>A fire fighter crying</p> <p>The World Changed Forever</p> Ellenelizabeth Cernek - Kashkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976840980271477251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266761324727110810.post-83841191191156488432010-08-14T18:38:00.001-04:002010-08-14T18:38:25.004-04:00Sophie's Window<p align="left">Ten-foot green shutters <p align="left">Grace the street's first floor balcony. <p align="left">A wash line emptied each night <p align="left">From the daily boy's wear. <p align="left">The 26th of July Street <p align="left">Is a 35-mile long, 6-lane main drag <p align="left">Which stretches in front of the sea. <p align="left">Palm trees along the middle island rustles <p align="left">As the traffic whizzes by. <p align="left">The night air, filled with barbecue corn, <p align="left">And salt sea freshness. <p align="left">The trot of a horse drawn carriage <p align="left">Break the noisy people and taxi horns. <p align="left">The sun sets, and the noisy people are now just a hum, <p align="left">We sit upon the balcony, late into the night <p align="left">Emptying all thoughts, <p align="left">Finding lost souls, <p align="left">Connecting a love of femininity, <p align="left">Crying for our husband's fates <p align="left">Praising our children's accomplishments, <p align="left">Opening to each other heart's desires, <p align="left">Fusing to the end of time. <p align="left">As the night grows into dawn, <p align="left">And the sun rises <p align="left">The fishermen in their boats <p align="left">Silently begin their day <p align="left">Rowing west, past the Sultan's castle, <p align="left">Through the harbor, <p align="left">Then disappear. © <p align="left"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Kl_MjJojVAI/TGca3scKXQI/AAAAAAAAAFg/j3Wd7Jkz55I/s1600-h/MVC-011S%20a%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="MVC-011S a" border="0" alt="MVC-011S a" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Kl_MjJojVAI/TGca377L-MI/AAAAAAAAAFk/KhUnyH9WH0U/MVC-011S%20a_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="345" height="179"></a></p> Ellenelizabeth Cernek - 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