Tuesday, April 22, 2008
One who accepts you no matter what you are
One who gives their life to you no questions, asking for no answer
One who looks inside, not out
One who's always there, never lost no matter when
One who never takes you for granted over and over again...
The meaning of the perfect friend.
Copyright Jill Melissa Jenkins 2008
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Bless The Beasts
When we can't even save ourselves...
Animals are considered beasts
As we sit in our towers to feast
Animals have the right...
To Dignity
Should come natural despite
Us, we are born with the right...
To assume the human role so bright
To mindlessly do what we're doin'
Who cares as we roll along?
How can we save the animals?
When sure can't save ourselves.
© 2008 Jill Jenkins
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Imagine Perfection
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
How to Write Good
We don't know where this came from, but some is derived from William Safire's Rules for Writers.
*Always avoid alliteration.
*Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
*Avoid cliches like the plague—they're old hat.
*Employ the vernacular. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
*Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. Contractions aren't necessary.
*Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English quid pro quo.
*One should never generalize.
*Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
*Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
*Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous. It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.
*Avoid archaeic spellings too.
*Understatement is always best. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement. *One-word sentences? Eliminate. Always!
*Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
*The passive voice should not be used.
*Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
*Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
*Who needs rhetorical questions?
*Don't use commas, that, are not, necessary.
*Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
*Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
*Subject and verb always has to agree.
*Be more or less specific.
*Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
*Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
*Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
*Don't be redundant.
*Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
*Don't never use no double negatives.
*Poofread carefully to see if you any words out. Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
*Eschew obfuscation.
*No sentence fragments.
*Don't indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
*A writer must not shift your point of view.
*Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
*Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
*Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
*If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
*Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
*Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing. *Always pick on the correct idiom.
*The adverb always follows the verb.
*Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
*If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007
The Kreeping Rash!
Oh dear, oh my,
This rash does make me sigh
Like Alpine ash
or maybe, even
a flashing sasafras
Oh dear oh my,
This rash does make me itch
Like a blanket stitch
With a rolling hitch
When will it end?
My Dear Best Friend
Will I be doomed
As I fully bloom
And am consumed.
The term ichthyosis is sometimes used to refer to the specific condition ichthyosis vulgaris. Ichthyosis was formerly referred to as "pseudo-leprosy," as it can produce an appearance superficially similar to that of leprosy।
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Weasels & Measels
My Weasels & Measels
I woke up this morning to view what's left from my weasels!
I have the measels!
It's making me sneezle...
And what about my easel?
Will it be filled with diesel?
Oh yeazel...
Just me, my weasels & measels!
Copyright 2008 Jill Jenkins
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measels
From Wikipedia:Measles, also known as rubeola, is a disease caused by a virus , specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus। Reports of measles go as far back to at least 600 B.C. however, the first scientific description of the disease and its distinction from smallpox is attributed to the Persian physician Ibn Razi (Rhazes) 860-932 who published a book entitled "Smallpox and Measles" (in Arabic: Kitab fi al-jadari wa-al-hasbah). In 1954, the virus causing the disease was isolated from an 11-year old boy from the US, David Edmonston, and adapted and propagated on chick embryo tissue culture.[1] To date, 21 strains of the measles virus have been identified.[2] Licensed vaccines to prevent the disease became available in 1963.
Measles is spread through respiration (contact with fluids from an infected person's nose and mouth, either directly or through aerosol transmission), and is highly contagious—90% of people without immunity sharing a house with an infected person will catch it. Airborne precautions should be taken for all suspected cases of measles.
The incubation period usually lasts for 4–12 days (during which there are no symptoms).
Infected people remain contagious from the appearance of the first symptoms until 3–5 days after the rash appears.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
The Dreaded Pink Eye Oh My!
Aye…The Dreaded Pink Eye…Why
As I sit here and sigh
Why oh why
Will I die?
The dreaded pink eye
Maybe some lye
In the eye
Would stop my sighs
As I cry
Oh, my eyes feel so dry
From the dreaded pink eye
Copyright 2008 Jill Jenkins
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Conjunctivitis - "Pink Eye" An eye with viral conjunctivitis
Conjunctivitis (commonly called "pinkeye" or bloodshot eyes in the USA and "Madras Eye" in India) is an inflammation of the conjunctiva (the outermost layer of the eye and the inner surface of the eyelids), most commonly due to an allergic reaction or an infection (usually bacterial or viral).
Blepharoconjunctivitis is the combination of conjunctivitis with blepharitis (inflammation of the eyelids).
Keratoconjunctivitis is the combination of conjunctivitis and keratitis (corneal inflammation).
Episcleritis is an inflammatory condition that produces a similar appearance to conjunctivitis, but without discharge or tearing.
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2007 Recepient of "The Editor's Choice" award from poetry.com
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