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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Ode to the Working Man/Woman
An ode to the working man and women. We all work in some ways, whether it be someone like the image working in a workshop with wood to someone working in computer or medical lab, or a teacher, nurse, writer or homemaker. We all work using all our specific and special talents. Whether working with wood, codes, medications/specimens, children, patients or pen and paper and a little of everything above we are all workers.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Writing Teacher Two
First, I do not think this will be a top story. It is just something that I want to share that kind of goes along with the previous essay. The many writing teachers that I have had throughout my education from elementary to middle school and high school clear through college and graduate school seemed always to remind us that good writing starts off with the perfect sentence then moving on to the perfect paragraph to the perfect first paper.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Winnie
tiddle, diddle um a song he sings many times just for fun too. (Winnie the Pooh is one of favorite characters ever since early elementary school. Pooh makes you think about things in a different way. Line one is a little song he sings while he 'exercises' or just 'sitting and thinking' or as Line three reads just for fun. Learning and helping is the thing to do is what I got and get every time I read 'Winnie the Pooh', 'The House at Pooh Corner' and the poetry books 'When We Were Young' and 'Now We Are Six'.)
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Green Door
The girl has found a green door in a wall covered in ivy. She thought it was a way to enter a secret garden, but she was surprised when she found the key and entered a room. She cautiously entered the room and slowly looked around. She wondered who could have lived here, and as she continued to look around, but not being noisy the girl saw that it did have a few dust-covered pieces of furniture and a few cobwebs hanging around nut it was kind of taken care of by someone.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
Doors
doors side by side which one open or close In or out please. (Not sure on this one. I saw this picture of two doors side by side and wondered which side do people enter or leave or going in and out. What happens when a child goes out one side and the other side and forgets to close the door but sees that the one side is closed and thinks they shut it when they didn't. Two doors side by side could be confusing at times. Maybe that is why I am not too sure of this one.) Please comment.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Lawn Mower
The long and short of cutting grass whether gas or electric. (Anyone who has mowed lawns as a living or as a summer job will understand this little haiku. Line one being the grass of many lengths. Line two meaning the grass in itself and Line three if one had a gas or electric powered mower. I was a person who had seven customers pretty much over many years of this having this profession unofficially for a called myself a groundskeeper.)
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
A Small Kindness
He did it again always taking up our trash Why does he do it? (Just like the little essay I wrote I think this haiku fits in with the newest contest. Line one my nephew noticing the garbage taken up and the act of and he wonders why in line three.)
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
A Dog's Bark
Woof, growl, woof, woof Will it be food, water or bite the stranger. (Just a fun little haiku that I thought of when the dogs starting barking when the school bus came down the road. Line one the sounds of a dog, line two the possible reasons for a dog's bark and line three just a little humor for I am a dog person from way back.)
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Social media
From all levels to people all over the world social media counts. (I just thought of this a few minutes ago. Line one is everyone that uses social media one way or a another. Line two is the people and cultures who use it and Line three is the results that we seem to 'like' when we are on our various media. Social media has its good and bad aspects, but this is not a short essay on the rights or wrongs that occur on these various sites such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or any of the other well-known sites. It is just a quick thought of social media in general.)
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
What does this really mean?
What do you think of when you hear some one tell you or anyone "Do good?" Could it be do good on a test that you have studied for a long time or is it just in hopes that you will have a good day doing whatever that you may have planned one way or another. Doing good and showing kindness one way or another is a way of also having faith in just being who you are.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Writing Teacher. Top Story - August 2024.
Who was your writing teacher in school? Writing is a skill that starts with learning how to hold a pencil or writing instrument. The teacher would go around the room making sure everyone was holding the pencil in the right way whether right-handed or left-handed. We would move on to 'writing' lines (vertical and horizontal, smiles or we called them rockers). After a few weeks of these forms, we moved into learning letters then numbers to cursive writing. The end of the basics and just learning how to combine cursive letters joined together into words and sentences like the old adage 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.' to writing our own stories and thanks to my second-grade teacher and the English teachers since then I thank them to showing me the gift of the written word and the skill of handwriting.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
A World Globe
Around and around Many countries and cultures Not flat never was. (Who remembers their social studies lessons from elementary school? I thought of this little haiku late a (9:20 PM Central time US). Line one- describes shape. Line two- what composes the globe the what and the who. Line three- a long time ago those who thought the earth was flat. Please share your comments.)
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
