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Reading and Decoding English

Dennis Brooks over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

English text has two different forms, which are alphabetic and phonetic. When we read, we decode, recognize, read and each word mentally or subconsciously before reading it in context: vizibal and visible. The better we learn and understand the phonetic and alphabetic relationship, the faster we can decode and process the alphabetic words. People who […]

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The Smartphone Adjuster

Sharon Wishnow over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

“Henderson Atwell,” a woman announced. She stood in an open doorway to a small office, a wane smile on her face, and a clipboard held protectively in front of her light blue cardigan. “Yup, that’s me,” a beefy man said. He hoisted his large body from the waiting room chair. In three strides, he stood […]

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Jason’s Daddy

Kristin Leonard over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

The sun was just beginning to push through the clouds that draped over the Greyhound Bus Terminal on the corner of Mission and First in Downtown Los. Angeles when the six o’clock bus screeched to a halt. It was nearly half an hour late when it pulled into Gate 2, and the line of passengers […]

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Artificial Sonnets

David Davies over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

III. The poet stared at the blank screen and sighed:Procrastination is my only skill.His office – sparse, clean, pale – made him feel ill.Employment seemed to eat at his inside.He didn’t know what fate may yet befall himBut knew he must deliver on the hype,So reached out to the keyboard set before him,Stretched out his […]

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Pi Mysterium

Bobbi Phillips over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

… and the Mathematician Who Made Me Believe “It simply goes on forever.”I am not convinced.Wary of things immeasurable,Such as love, infinity,Creator, existence. Suppose you divideForever by four,Now, forever is a fraction;Leaping, and then divingToward no definitive action. And, what did Stonehenge know of greek? – Her transcendental rock, mineral-stackedIn sly mockery,Asking that we compareHoly […]

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Counting Expectations

Scott Urquhart over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

Her floral hands weptwhile holding the stillborntheir only chanceand the fatherwith his whiskeybreathsitting in the smokehe madewhile staring at the wallpaying no attentionto her wailsto her achesto her painhe just drank Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.

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Free Solo in Seattle

Matt Otey over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

I’m not sure how Tom Hanks and Free Solo and poetry and golf and the truth somehow all relate to my divorce, but they definitely all crash around my mind, elbowing each other for more room and, hopefully, top billing in my sad, sad play. Maybe that’s why my eventual expiration date on my life […]

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A Christmas Carol (Stave Five)

J.L. Scheuermann over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

Over the span of five posts, I have been looking at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a wonderful story about the dramatic process to effect one man’s complete change of heart. Dickens arranged the novella into five chapters or staves, as he labeled them. “Stave” has its roots in the word “staff,” as in a […]

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Christmas Grave

Scott Beard over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

Sara found the dead dog another fifty feet from the footprints in the fresh six inches of snow.  She froze.  Eggnog yellow beams shone from the Ford Focus, the slow drip of crimson made bloody breaks across the brightness of the beams that illuminated the dog, its brindle body buried in a shallow blanket of […]

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A Christmas Carol (Stave Four)

J.L. Scheuermann over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

Over the span of five posts, I am looking at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a wonderful story about the dramatic process to effect one man’s complete change of heart. Dickens arranged the novella into five chapters or staves, as he labeled them. “Stave” has its roots in the word “staff,” as in a musical […]

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