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Premium Member Paraphrasing John Nash
The following is me paraphrasing,
John Nash, 
one of the most brilliant, amazing, 
Nobel Prize winning mathematicians;
"My whole life has been numbers of varied equations, 
searching...

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Categories: paraphrasing, math, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Paraphrasing Teresa Veliz
"I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place.
Everywhere there were going off explosions
as if someone was sitting at a control panel...

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Categories: paraphrasing, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ekphrasis Wols
The 
secret
of seeing-
knowing how to
see

A lanterne epigram paraphrasing Alfred Wols words on art

Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007...

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Categories: paraphrasing, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Einstein and the Rule of 72
Paraphrasing old Albert Einstein,
"Compound interest's man's greatest invention".
But you'll be financially in trouble,
Expecting your buying power to double,
Because he never factored in for inflation....

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Categories: paraphrasing, business, money, time,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Quotes By George Washington
I found some pithy quotes attributed to the Father of our Nation,
And thought I'd share some with you to further your education.
I've read his "Farewell...

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Categories: paraphrasing, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Deep Learning
Health issues and ecopolitical promise speak in dialectal fractals:
1. Notice hope
2. Understand positive faith
3. Believe with diastatic love regeneration
4. Polypath creolic integration is also notnot...

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Categories: paraphrasing, culture, deep, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Eternity's Viral Hourglass
That which is neutral,
no big deal,
normal,
not noticed,
enjoys an intimate mirror effect,
behaves and misbehaves
with the logic of eternity.

Time steers virally clockwise,
eastern dawn toward west's setting sun,
birth...

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Categories: paraphrasing, culture, destiny, environment, math,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Purposes Incomprehensible and Wonderful As These Purposes
Imperfect world, purposeless person.
I retired to pursue perfection
learn jazz tunes, woody and herbaceous plants,
read every inch of English literature,

Scientific American and Foreign Affairs,
have an affair...

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Categories: paraphrasing, bird, blue, day, death,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Benighted Enlightenment
Potawatomi language,
says Robin Wall Kimmerer,
does not verbally divide us into masculine and feminine.
However, unlike most English verbs,
Potawatomi verbs distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.

For example,
we...

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Categories: paraphrasing, anger, culture, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Audacity
I want to write a poem about one person
- human being
Who?
I don't know
But it is someone I strive to be
Perfection- maybe
Am I going to ever...

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Categories: paraphrasing, faith,
Form: Free verse
Lines, Words-And the Flow.
Where we are?

State undefined, engulfed in nebulous forms.

Clear Chaos veiling vision – the urge to see beyond.  

Amidst life – unheard, unheralded, unadapted.

 

What...

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Categories: paraphrasing, brother, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Shooting Skills
"He would spin one pistol in one hand in one direction,
while spining the other pistol in his other hand in the opposite direction.
He'd have two...

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Categories: paraphrasing, history,
Form: Rhyme
Presumably
Presumably possibly permitting pairs of problems pertinently pertaining to
paraphrasing pitifully passes out postulates.

Good heavens. Did I actually write that and is it really an alliteration?
I...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paraphrasing, conflict, confusion,
Form: Alliteration
Jazz
I have a strong need to elucidate my unfathomable love for
You,
named JAZZ

The improvisational sound of ragtime and jive.
Bop to the bebop of your rhythmic stride.

O...

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Categories: paraphrasing, love, music, parody, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
The Ghost of Chanukah Past - a Brief Digression
Russian melodies are 
haunting 
       The USSR has 
faded into dust
       The menorah...

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Categories: paraphrasing, fantasy
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs