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Heard With New Ears

My first and only attempt at poetry

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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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Sandralynn

about 23 hours ago
In response to "Procrastination"

Now the words of Tomorrow are echoing in my brain.

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Sandralynn

a day ago
In response to "Wishes"

Me too! My favourite reads are mysteries followed by comedies.

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Beholden

Oct 8, 2025 at 11:28am
In response to "Wishes"

Amethyst SkellyBones Angel

I wrestled with horror for a few years after joining WdC. It's not really my thing but I figured that horror included disgust, so that's what I aimed for. My real breakthrough came when I gave up and wrote comedy horror instead. It's amazingly easy.

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Beholden

Oct 8, 2025 at 11:24am
In response to "Wishes"

🦉 Owl-oween

The trick is to live in the imagined country. Then, if you need to know something about the place, all you have to do is see for yourself. After all, it's your head that the country inhabits and vice versa.

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Amethyst SkellyBones Angel

Oct 8, 2025 at 11:15am
In response to "Wishes"

I don't think I'm really capable of writing horror... Every time I work one out and say "there, that's some scary stuff!" it'll be reviewed like "meh, this isn't really scary, this is more of an adventure drama, etc..." It comes down to whether I want to or not... Maybe someday.

🦉 Owl-oween

Oct 8, 2025 at 11:10am
In response to "Wishes"

I wish I could write Fantasy. I just don't have the patience to create "other" worlds and keep track of all the details.

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Beholden

Oct 8, 2025 at 11:00am
In response to "Wishes"

As would we all, no doubt.

Ned

Oct 8, 2025 at 10:59am
In response to "Wishes"

I would write something that makes me rich and my pseudonym famous. I don't seem to be able to do that.

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Beholden

Oct 7, 2025 at 8:23pm
In response to "Something for Chewsday to Chew On"

Ah, such familiar feelings...

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Oct 7, 2025 at 7:41pm
In response to "Something for Chewsday to Chew On"

I've sometimes wondered who I was when I wrote some of my poetry. It seems too good for me. haha Today, I struggle with words. It takes forever and a thesaurus to recall what word I want to use. Old brain sand ... kind of like fog but much rougher.

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October 9, 2025 at 11:56am

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Procrastination

Procrastination

I don’t know about you but I am endlessly unkind to my future self. Whenever a task proves too irritating or annoying, my tendency is to consign it to the future. The expectation is that tomorrow I will feel differently and somehow the task will be more doable. Sometimes, this is even true, but more usually I just find myself in a developing groundhog day of putting things off until the next tomorrow.

Strangely, this behaviour is successful in an unexpected way. After being trapped in a procrastination series, I often face the inevitable and admit that I will never manage the task. It can then be given up without remorse or further reflection. It’s an outcome of sorts, after all.

Ideally, it would be best to develop one’s ability to assess a task before accepting it, so that only those well within possible range be accepted. That would be worth working on.

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