Mark Graham
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I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Grimm's Fairy Tales #8
Here is another Grimm's Fairy Tale entitled 'The Death of the Little Hen'. This is the story that could be about being greedy for the little hen did not want to share a nut with a friend. The friend did try help by trying to fetch some water, but when he went to ask everyone wanted something. The friend was too late to save the little hen, and she died. The friend cried for his friend so loudly that other animals came, and they built a carriage and helped him take the little hen to be buried. They came to a stream and to figure a way to cross. They all tried to help but in the end the friend was alone to bury the little hen and cried till he died. This could be a lesson on learning about death and coping and how one copes with a death of a friend. It did seem that the other animals wanted to help, but could their real reason be for helping the friend. Please share your thoughts and it will be greatly appreciated.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Grimm's Fairy Tales #7
Here is another very short fairy tale from Grimm's Fairy Tales entitled 'The Water Nixie'. This a tale of two young children who were playing beside a well and fell in it. The nixie appeared and took them to her place and made them work using tools that made the jobs very hard. The children had to find a way to escape this magical place and get home somehow. They used a few tools from a brush to a comb to a mirror to keep the nixie from catching them. I am not sure of this one, but I think the lesson would be to be careful when playing around wells or any place where water is present for one never knows what may be lurking in the depths. This one could teach about trusting others as well as maybe teaching about 'Stranger Danger'. Please share your ideas on this one. I would appreciate it very much.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Grimm's Fairy Tales #6
Here is a very short Grimm's Fairy Tale entitled 'The Fox and The Geese'. This tale is only a few short paragraphs yet to me very descriptive. To me this is a very short story for the power of prayer. The fox one day came up to a group of geese and told them that were going to die for he planned on eating them. Then one goose spoke up and asked for one thing before they were set to die and that was to say a prayer. The fox will be given his choice of the fattest goose but will he for the story is still going on for the prayer the geese are saying is still going. "Ga, Ga."
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
California
Dana Fuller Ross does it again in Book Six of the Wagons West series. This one is set at the time of 'The Gold Rush', San Francisco flood and rampant crime of all sorts in the soon to be state of California. This is a perfect description of Early California.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
A Living Love
One day these two will look at each other and see each other and wonder. The little boy is peeking around at her. Will she turn her head? Maybe is playing hard to get even at this age or not sure on if she likes this little boy or not. Do you think she will share her teddy bear? Living love at any age is a confusing thing. Right now, I think these two are just waiting to become friends with one another. Who knows what these two will become one day. Their heads will turn and voila it strikes.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
Love, again
Roses are red Love is everywhere here and there for The One.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Poets
Tin Cans?
What can one person or a whole group do with a bunch of tin cans? What good are they? To me there are a lot of good uses for these objects of various sizes. Looking at the picture they can be used for target practice. You could set up for a game of nine pin or something along that route. Tin cans can also be used for planting seedlings for some varieties of flowers and vegetables. Some have even used them to make alarm systems for various reasons. I just thought of this they could be turned into little lights of some kind. Maybe if a person is good with wiring, one could drill little holes in the bottom of the can and put a plug there and on the inside the fixings for the little light bulb. Who remembers the game of Telephone where two cans are joined by a string and a long time ago young kids would act like they were calling their friends like their parents do. As you see I have came up with a lot of uses for old tin cans. In a poem I just published here on Vocal I thought tin cans would make great planters for seedlings of some kind or another. One old idea one could always decorate them somehow for a pencil holder or some sort of holder for some various small objects. If anyone else has any other ideas, please share and if no ideas come to mind one can also take them to a recycling center to be smashed and sent somewhere to be turned into something else perhaps a part of a bike or even a part of a car or turned into a wagon of some sort the kids pull around. There are many options.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Blizzard
Blizzard wind coming in all directions Lot of snow.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Poets
Why?
Why? Does anyone out there remember when I shared a story or it could have been in the comments about myself saying that people, for example, some family members that seem to pass right on by me without really acknowledging me. For some reason, I think, they may say stuff like you're lazy and then when confronted say they never said such a thing could have been who they were married too, but really not sure. One called me lazy the other just seemed to ignore me, and what hurt there I really got no help really when my grandnieces and one nephew always gave me a hard time when I watched them, I would discipline them the way I was disciplined by my parents, but that didn't work. I even got treats, baked cakes and snacks that they liked and nothing worked. When I got up the nerve to address this, they either just looked at me like I was crazy, or they ran to their mama like a five-year-old instead of the thirtysomething person she happened to be. What gets me the mother (my sister) only sees that person's side. You would think she would try to be impartial for you would think being a brother she could see my side too, but she doesn't.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Confessions
