Charlotte Bronte (1816 -1855) Novelist and Poet.

Charlotte was the daughter of the Rev. Patrick Bronte,with her sisters Emily and Anne, Charlotte was brought up in a small parsonage in the Yorkshire village of Haworth. Whilst still in her childhood the Bronte sisters lost their mother and as the eldest Charlotte took up the a role of looking out for her sisters Emily and Anne. Charlotte was described as: “the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters,”

The sisters had an unusual upringing in that their house overlooked the village graveyard. To escape from these surroundings and the loss of their mother they would often spend time creating stories of fantasy lands. These fantasy stories were often based on the soldiers of their strict, religious aunt, Elisabeth Branwell. Later in a poem Charlotte wrote:

“We wove a web in childhood, / A web of sunny air.”

After various efforts as schoolmistresses and governesses, the sisters took to literature and published a volume of poems under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Unfortunately these early publications were a commercial failure. However this did not deter Charlotte and she continued with her novels such as “The Professor” and “Jane Eyre”. Jane Eyre proved to be tremendously popular with the public when it appeared in 1854. The novel has gained status as one of the classic’s of English literature for its originality and strength of writing.

Charlotte was married to her father’s curate, the Rev. A. Nicholls, but after a short though happy married life she died in childbirth in 1855.

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. “

Poem by Charlotte Bronte - LIFE

Life, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
O why lament its fall ?

Rapidly, merrily,
Life’s sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily,
Enjoy them as they fly !

What though Death at times steps in
And calls our Best away ?
What though sorrow seems to win,
O’er hope, a heavy sway ?
Yet hope again elastic springs,
Unconquered, though she fell;
Still buoyant are her golden wings,
Still strong to bear us well.
Manfully, fearlessly,
The day of trial bear,
For gloriously, victoriously,
Can courage quell despair !

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Black Blood, in Jeremiah’s Vines
[A Dream Poem]

And I heard the crackling of wood, and I noticed the Lord God had made men of wood, and fire came from his mouth.

Then the wind poured its grief upon usover our sins; and I heard the words for the seventh time, “Go to the mountains!”

Foolish people of this land pray and understandfor He cometh! Thereof, toss yourself to thy knees, for the roar of rebellious men will bleed: black blood, through the vines of Jeremiah.

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Writer Visited US
The Correo Newspaper
(Huancayo, Peru)
4-20-05 (page 9)

Dennis Siluk, renowned writer from the USA, was recently in the Mantaro Valley area and visited the Peruvian University “Los Andes” Language Center where there was pandemonium during his meeting with students and staff of the Language Center.

In a short dialog with the students he highlighted the ancient and beautiful Peruvian culture and congratulated the students for being involved in learning the English language; a language which predominates in the world and does not have frontiers, in communication.

He ended up his visit donating books to the Coordinator, Licensed Rigoberto Ricaldi Hurlado.

This is Mr. Siluk’s most recent article and poem [Poet/Author, Dennis Siluk: http://dennissiluk.trippod.com].He is a world traveler, and likes the mysteries of [in] life.He believes in the ghostly world, as well as the physical one;the Maya calender and its astronomy and mysteries, as well as loving the Inca legends, and the land of Peru. He also believes in the birth of a new world coming. Rosa Penaloza

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Mary Pat uses her gift of poetry in hopes to help others find their own special gifts. http://www.reflectingrace.com

You can impart shine and smoothness to your chocolates with the process of tempering because these are not chocolate’s natural qualities. When making chocolate candy, make sure the chocolate doesn’t crumble or bloom; to prevent this, tempering is the only solution.

Chocolate loses temper when it is heated, that’s why re-tempering is necessary. Cocoa butter, which is the basic ingredient of chocolate, has substantial quantities of solids and these, along with the butter’s crystals, get suspended during melting. The crystals that get separated from the solids rise to the top and appear as gray film.

The unique quality of cocoa butter is that it can crystallize into six different forms. These six types of crystals rapidly dominate at certain temperatures. To carefully counter this, you should closely monitor the temperatures. Type V of these six types of crystals is the one that facilitates the crispness and shine of the chocolates.

Tempering is aimed at produced large volumes of type V crystals. Both type IV and V crystals are created when the chocolate is melted by heating. Tempering eliminates type IV and retains type V crystals when done at the precise temperature that encourages type V crystals in forming. Thus, it is important to maintain accurate temperatures; for this, you can use a digital laser thermometer. Note that for each chocolate variety, you have specific heating and cooling temperatures.

The methods adopted for tempering are tabliering and seeding by hand and the microwave method. As a chocolate maker, it is essential that you learn tempering by hand.

Tabliering is the process in which a huge chunk of chocolate is cut into small strips and melted in a double boiler. Pour half of the melted chocolate on a marble counter and work on it with a rubber spatula to achieve shine and smoothness. The remaining half is also worked into the whole lot to ensure a uniform temperature on the whole mass. Once it is shiny and smooth, you can begin dipping and molding.

The process of seeding involves the use of the already-tempered chocolate as the “seed” for “inoculating” the melted material so that type V crystals dominate the crystallization process. In seeding also, accuracy in temperatures is of primary importance because any lapse will result in repeat tempering.

Monitoring accurate temperatures and avoidance of over-mixing or under-mixing are the factors that contribute to the difficulty of tempering. Even experienced chocolate makers find humid weather conditions tricky. Owing to its marketing merits, however, the process of tabliering is still preferred by artisan chocolatiers.

If you choose to do microwave tempering, you should adhere to fixed parameters in such variables as oven wattage, the amount of cocoa butter in the raw chocolate, and the quantity of chocolate added to the bowl for melting purposes.

Tempering is a difficult and challenging task but you will forget all your difficulties when you see the glee on the faces of the recipients of your smooth and crisp chocolates.

My name is Jeffrey Michael Miller and I’m a Publishamerica poet with a new book out entitled ” From The Inside Out “.
This article deals with a most important subject in my view and that subject is how to be true to your art whatever that art may be. My art is poetry so I’m going to use this as my example but feel free to apply this article to any art you have a true passion for because I feel it’s universal.

I see so many people who enjoy writing being what I call crossover artists who write in many genres but have no real specialty. I see romance authors or science fiction authors also putting out poetry books claiming to be authors/poets and this to me is troubling.

I am a poet who loves poetry and concentrates only on poetry so this kind of thing when it comes to crossing over I personally find insulting. The people who do this crossing over from genre to genre in my opinion are just trying to get their names seen in as many places as possible in the hope that in one it will stick and someone will see it.

I feel they care little for whatever genre they are writing under and they only care for the press that comes from it. In the music industry you don’t see rappers/country artists so why in the literary world do we see romance/science fiction/poets?

In my opinion the crossovers have no real passion or belief in any one genre so they write in them all and to me it’s disturbing. In my belief they also lessen and take away from the accomplishments of true artists solely dedicated to one genre and one genre alone.

You never see a proctologist/brain surgeon and so you shouldn’t have the fake author/poets of the world that lessen what poets do in the art.

I study karate and I took the time to find a real street effective self defense system of genuine value that is not used for sport or pretty acrobatic shows. I have a passion for the art and I’m true to it not wanting to mix it up with other things like a bad salad. It’s already perfect in every way to me without myself or someone else mixing things in and changing it’s real and effective and valuable origin.

I guess my message to crossovers would be to stop diluting the art we care for by just dabbling in it and then calling yourself a poet because you disgrace real poets by doing that. Take a look at what happened to M.C. Hammer when he went and crossed over from dancing to thug and you’ll understand the phoney light real poets see you in.

Think about having passion and originality for once and be true to your art with emphasis on the part that says your art. Leave ours alone and stop diluting it with your novice work and overblown ego. Be true to your art people.

Once you cross and change an art it ceases to be what it was and it begins to change because of dabblers and crossovers looking for another place to post their names and it sickens me.

If you know your true and real interest is not poetry then leave it to the people who have it as a real and true interest and stick to writing romance or whatever you do because you’re not and never will be a poet.

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The public has had a love/hate relationship with graffiti. On the plus side, gifted graffiti artists such as Banksy have made walls a place to put a political point across, employing stencils to create difficult graphics with a nuanced political point. This type of graffiti was likely to grow popular with both the public and the likes of The Guardian pressroom : visually pleasing and intellectually satisfying. This type of graffiti is now even acquired as graffiti prints, and hung on the walls of middle class homes and office reception areas.

Nonetheless, when it comes to your down and dirty graffiti - the tagger, the gangbanger variety - this kind of graffiti is often seen as vandalism, an offence committed by the untalented. But is graffiti simply an artform? To many people, it’s not only an artform, but a way to put your stamp on a district, or even a two finger salute : anti-art, anti-social, anti-establishment.

Graffiti has invariably been a secret pursuit, even though the effects are very much public facing. The targeted audience is often unknown. Is it for a rival gang? A communication to an individual? To the public? Perhaps it’s just gratuitous and out of nothing to do.

Whatever the causes, there appears to be some kind of ceaseless demand to spray graffiti on walls. Some towns have conceded that graffiti isn’t a short-term craze, so they’ve designated zones where graffiti is permitted - usually derelict areas, but occasionally more civic areas like temporary boarding that surrounds inner city buildings under construction.

IF, An Online Internet Marketing Poem

If before you have turned on the coffee, or got your kids fed, If you are the last one dressed and ready to leave the house, While others in the family get ready, your still moving a mouse.

If you have more friends online, than you do in real life, And hubby refers to you as his cyber wife.

If you cook dinner between web pages and downloads, And your brain is dreaming about java script codes.

If your daughter tells her teacher moms a computeraholic, And you always push, “view source” to see how web pages tic,

If you are still sitting with blood shot eyes in that chair, While the rest of the family is off having fun somewhere,

If the dishes are piled high on the counter and sink, You know you should be doing them, you just got to hit one more link.

If all of the above in life seem too true, Maybe you should rule your computer, instead of letting it rule you!

By Laurie Meade Copyright 2002-2005 All Rights Reserved.

Dedicated to my 4 children, who I learned are growing to quickly for me to allow the computer to rule me.

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My name is Jeffrey Michael Miller and my book entitled ” From The Inside Out ” is my first collection of poetry that’s been published through Publishamerica. The book is doing well and even though this is my first book I’ve been writing poetry for quite some time. I care about the art and how the art effects people.

I want to talk some about how poetry is seen in my opinion and how narrow the view of some can be when it comes to poetry and the worth and value it holds in society. I’ve heard many times by reviewers and critics and even booksellers that poetry books are hard to sell and that little interest is taken in the art of poetry by the general public but I beg to differ on these views held by so many in the literary world.

I feel poetry is such a unique and expressive art that has stood the test of time and as we look back on poets like Wordsworth and Dickinson and all the wonderful poets of a time gone by we can all agree that nobody can discount or dismiss the contributions these people have made to the literary world.

The Wordsworth’s and Lord Byron’s are still out there today working hard to bring back into the mainstream the powerful emotions and feelings that once struck a chord so long ago. These people are putting their heart and soul into their words and putting forth messages that they want to share with readers from all origins and backgrounds.

We should not put limitations on them by telling them their art is dead or that their art is not much of a selling point in society because it is and if it wasn’t we would not have so many poetry forums and websites accross the infinite space of the internet from nation to nation. One website I visited has over five million poets in their database alone so obviously their is an interest in poetry and it’s growing bigger with every passing day. Multitudes of people from accross the globe enjoy this art we call poetry and this is a fact that should not be ignored.

There is also a problem in my view with some people who take the role of critic and these people judge the work of others and seek to influence how an individual chooses to express themselves through poetry. I feel that each person and expression is unique and I have never been much of a fan of the critic as Teddy Roosevelt reminded us in ” The Battle of Life ” it’s not the critic that counts and I agree.

Individualism and uniqueness spawns genius in my opinion in every facet of life or work and it’s also certainly true when it comes to poetry. I want to read new and freshly presented material from someone original. I don’t want to see someone trying to copy another artist or his or her ways. I want to see someone expressing their own ways that I will not judge because I feel I have no rightful place in doing so.

We must remember that it’s not my opinion or the opinion of a critic that counts when it comes to you and your work and the feelings you wish to present. These things are yours and yours alone that nobody should touch or try to fine tune in any fashion. If Shakespeare had allowed his work to be sorted out and played with by the masses then he would not have been the Shakespeare we know today and your work will not be yours if you allow it to be changed to fit the views of others.

Let your vision and your work live and die on it’s own and let it live independantly and develop into what you wish it to be not what someone else wants it to be so it never ceases to be your very own.

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Mother’s Day Poetry,

I’m Sorry Mom!

I’m sorry for the troubles

And the worries I brought you.

I’m sorry for my mistakes,

I didn’t mean to make you blue.

When I was young and growing up,

Living in your home for so long,

I made many people sad,

I did many things wrong.

So I thought that I could show you now,

By moving away and being on my own,

That I was finally straightened out,

I wanted to prove to you I am finally maturely grown.

But I haven’t done to well at that,

I guess it goes to show,

You never really solved it all,

You never really know.

I’d like to show you now,

I need to take the time to say,

Thanks for accepting both the good and bad,

I hope you have a Wonderful Mother’s Day!

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Crocheting is not only a craft but an art. Once you master the basic stitches you will be well on your way to creating masterpieces you will be pride to share with your family and friends. Anyone can learn to crochet as long as they put their mind to it.

Before you run out and buy your crocheting supplies decide what you want to crochet first. According to the item you choose, you will need different size needles and yarn weight. All this information is with the patterns and you will see just how easy it is to achieve your goal of crocheting your first work of art.

You will be crocheting from toys to sweaters in no time. There are so many different items you can crochet. There are snowflakes for the Christmas tree, sweaters for your best friend, and house slippers for every member of your family. You can even learn to crochet baby bibs, blankets, and outfits.

No matter what you choose to crochet you will find everything you need on the Internet! No need to leave the house. Some websites provides you all the supplies for crocheting and knitting with just a click of your mouse. You will need crochet hooks, yarn, and sometimes needles. The crochet hooks come in several different sizes. The yarn is in different weights and you can find them all right by shopping online.

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