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by drweight on November 19, 2008, 01:40:52 AMWeight loss, in the context of medicine or health or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body weight, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective tissue. 97 Views | 34 Replies
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by Rafal on September 28, 2007, 02:11:54 AM"Out, Out–"
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five mountain ranges one behind the... 1871 Views | 2 Replies
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by Rafal on August 04, 2007, 02:03:31 AMTHE GRAVE AND THE ROSE
The Grave said to the Rose,
'What of the dews of dawn,
Love's flower, what end is theirs?'
'And what of spirits flown,
The souls whereon doth close
The tomb's mouth unawares?'
The Rose said to the... 2362 Views | 2 Replies
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by Rafal on August 04, 2007, 01:50:32 AMA High-Toned Old Christian Woman
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
We agree in... 2801 Views | 7 Replies
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by Rafal on August 04, 2007, 01:46:50 AMGreater Love
Red lips are not so red
As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
Kindness of wooed and wooer
Seems shame to their love pure.
O Love, your eyes lose lure
When I behold eyes blinded in my stead!
Your slender... 4212 Views | 21 Replies
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by Rafal on August 04, 2007, 01:37:18 AMTragic Fragment
All devil as I am-a damned wretch,
A hardened, stubborn, unrepenting villain,
Still my heart melts at human wretchedness;
And with sincere but unavailing sighs
I view the helpless children of distress:
With tears indignant I behold the... 5702 Views | 44 Replies
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