POEMS I WROTE SOMETIME AFTER 1995

I have been asked recently if I have ever written any Poetry . I had said No at first. Then I remembered that some time back after 1995 after a break up with a Girl that I had lived with for a while. (Probably the only real relationship of my life, So Far) I wrote what I would call “two poems”!

The first I wrote right after the break up. I guess I was at the point I was just trying show I was a hardcore man and the break up did not effect me. So I was trying to be funny about the whole thing.

The second I wrote years later after my Dog “Mutely Junior” was killed. Juniors Mother had been the Girl I had lived withs Dog named “Riff Raff”, and his Father was named “Mutely” He had been my Fathers dog . When me and the girl broke up, Junior was still only a puppy about six months old and he was by my side the whole time. He was like my Son. The girl I had dated had kids that I helped take care of while I lived there and I do not think it could have been much harder leaving the kids had they been my own flesh and blood.

I do not fall in love easy and my life has always been about being a Biker and I have often said the last thing I want to do is anything like getting married and having kids. I have always said I want something more from life. So I found it very odd and disconcerting that I found myself so happy living with this Girl playing the roll of Father to her kids ! I guess what we tell ourselves we want and what you really want can be two totally different things! I was young then and as I look back now I can remember I did not keep it much of a secret that I wanted more from life and I can only assume that was a big part of why we broke up.

After the Break up I lived in a Cabin in the woods in upstate NY in a small town for about 4 years. Junior was almost always by my side and he and I enjoyed many adventures during that time. As much as I loved my life in the Cabin. I once again found myself wanting more from life. So I moved to Long Island NY. I was getting myself set up in yet another new life. During this time while I got my new life in order, I had left Junior with my Father to be take care of . One night my Father let him out and Junior ran off . A few days later Junior was found by the Train tracks. He had been hit by a Train and was dead. It was no ones fault. Junior had always loved fast to run threw the woods. It was part of who he was. When I heard about Juniors death I wrote the Second poem. Junior was the last part of what I often think of as a different life I once lived. With Junior gone it was at that point that I truly felt the break up.

These Poems are not of me now but of a Me I once was or maybe a Me I could have been. I believe I have now found my place in the world and I am almost positive I am happy. So I will post these poems for you all to read! Some may say these poems will make me look weak. To them I say always remember looks can be deceiving !!!

I hope you enjoy the poems. LJ James

Love?

I told you Id walk a Million Miles for you. You said Please do.

I told you I would clime the highest Mountain for you. You said I hope you fall off.

I told you I would swim the oceans for your Love . You said I hope you Drown.

I told you my heart was yours You said let me see it.

I told you I would die for you. You said prove it!!!

Sweet Heart I’m starting to get the feeling you don’t Love Me !!!! By L.J. James

———————————————————– Home or Lost

I stand here alone thinking of a place gone Past. Never thinking that I have been away so long.

Its a strange feeling to know your home is no longer yours but now some others.

I can’t go back, but I still wonder if I would.

I was always cold on that hill but my heart was warm.

My Dog was born there but now he too is gone Killed in the Night by a train going some where I have never been.

My heart got broke but I did not cry.

I though I was happy before I really was. Now I wonder can I be again.

My heart calls out for me to follow the sun. But I don’t remember where it is that I was going before I stopped here

Am I happy here, I think so but I’ve been wrong before! By L.J. James AmericanBikerX.com

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You can’t have the best curls possible without some kind of product. Everyone has different kinds of curls, so not all products are universally great. One might work for you but not another person.

Everyone’s curls are different. You could have big curls or tiny spirals. Some curly hair is drier than others. You have to experiment if you want to find the best product for your hair. If one product doesn’t work, find another one.

You need to start with a good shampoo. Shampoo can really dry out your hair because it can strip your hair of it’s natural moisture. Make sure you get one made especially for dry or curly hair. Also, don’t shampoo too often. Once to three times a week is plenty to shampoo. Otherwise, just rinse and scrub your scalp.

Now you need to condition your hair once it is clean. Stay away from thin cheap conditioners like Vo5 or Suave. They are very thin and won’t do much for you hair. Use a conditioner that is thick and let it sit on your hair for a least a minute before you rinse it out.

Condition every time you wash your hair. This is important to keep your hair as moisturized as possible. Apply more conditioner on the ends and less on the scalp. The ends are older and usually drier which is why they need more moisture.

Conditioning is the most important step towards beautiful curly hair. Don’t skip it! If your hair still feels dry, add a deep treatment into the mix. Use a deep conditioner at least once a month but as often as once a week for extra conditioning and moisturizing needs.

Once you are clean and conditioned, you will be styling. Styling products are important to get the right curls. If you skip the styling products, your hair may frizz up and just get unruly. There are several different types of styling products you can use. Whichever you choose I recommend always starting with a leave-in conditioner first. This ensures that you won’t lose moisture throughout the day.

Finally, use a styling product that will cut back on the frizz and hold the curls in place. You should use either a gel or a mousse, and you can add a serum if you want for extra frizz control.

Love is nothing if it is not based on the true feelings. These feelings of truth in love are all about passion and unconditional feelings with no strings attached.

The challenge lies not only with you as you need to be unconditional in the love but also you will need to very much amenable to other persons desires, likes and dislikes.

Let us define true love in today’s world. True love means that you care about the person and other person also loves you in the same vein. There are no conditions and strings attached to your love. True love is all about caring and compassion you have for the other person.

To be blind in love is actually good hypothetically but in the real world everything has to be evaluated with care. There are people who can take advantage of other peoples feelings as well as they can be very much non committal. If you think that your relationship is not going anywhere then you should make sure that you get out that relationship immediately.

The importance and the individuality of each person in the team should be intact. That can be achieved in love by having a compassionate and a balanced approach for each others feelings. The feelings should be of mutual admiration and respect. The other person should not feel that the feelings are getting trampled under the burden of expectations.

Equality in true love is important. That in turn means that you need to have a partner who respects you the way you are. If that is not happening and you are losing your individuality in a relation ship then it is better to get out rather than keep on trying the love in a wrong relationship.

You can’t make homemade maple syrup unless you have maple trees and the right equipment. Even then you would need a lot of trees and a lot of time. Even if you had 20 trees, you wouldn’t end up with much. Fortunately, you can make your own delicious syrup for pancakes, waffles, or french toast from scratch.

You get the great sweet taste of syrup when you make it yourself without all the preservatives. This is also great for when you are in the mood for pancakes or waffles and just so happen to run out of syrup. It is made of basic ingredients that you probably have at home.

First you will need a saucepan and wooden spoons as well as the following ingredients and amounts: one cup of granulated sugar, one cup of brown sugar, one cup of water, 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract and 1/4 teaspoon of maple extract. If you dont have any brown sugar, you can use all granulated or white sugar, but it wont be as dark and rich. You could even experiment with dark brown sugar if you would like.

Next, mix the water and both the sugars in the saucepan. Place it on the stove on medium high and bring it to a boil. Let it simmer for about 10 to 15 minutes or until it is thick enough for your liking.

I prefer it to be nice and thick so that it doesnt soak into my pancakes or French toast so easily and make it soggy. Thinner syrup will resemble more the consistency of real maple syrup. Test it out for the best way that you like.

You can add more sugar or use less water if you want to make it thicker. This recipe can be easily doubled or tripled for large batches. Use it right away or store it in the refrigerator. Use an old syrup bottle or another jar to store it.

This syrup with keep in the fridge for weeks. The next time you go to use it, it might be hard. Just stick it in the microwave to soften it. Warm syrup tastes great and is perfect for warm pancakes or on an ice cream sundae. Add a couple tablespoons of butter to the syrup if you like a buttery flavor.

What’s so great about making your own homemade syrup? Probably just about anything you make homemade is better. It tastes better and is cheaper. It’s not as high of quality as real maple syrup, but a lot of people don’t even like the taste of real maple syrup.

Cooking pancakes is fun, but sometimes it’s hard to get the right golden brown. Hamburgers are delicious, too, but how do you get it cooked perfectly while still keeping it juicy and delicious? What makes it so difficult to get food cooked perfectly.

If you want to make a golden brown pancake or a juicy burger, you have to take several things in account. One of the best ways to get it done perfectly is to use a good griddle. If you are cooking burgers, chicken, or some other type of meat, it’s best to use an outdoor grill. Sometimes you can’t get out there and of course you can’t cook pancakes on an outdoor grill. When you are inside, you should use a griddle.

What are you looking for in a griddle? Whether you want high quality and top performance or just the best price possible, I can help you get the best griddle for your needs. You don’t need to be a kitchen tool expert or the greatest deal shopper to get what you want.

If you are a penny pincher, you will look for the cheapest you can find. If you are both an penny pincher and a cooking fanatic, you are stuck somewhere between the best of the best and ending up with a piece of junk. Its hard to find that middle ground.

First choose a griddle type. You can go with either an electric griddle or a griddle that you use on your stove. You can use a griddle on your stove that is round which is great for those who have limited space and only cook for a few people at a time. They are also smaller and easier to clean.

Do you cook for a lot of people such as a big family? If so, you might want to go for a long griddle. You can get a long griddle for the stove that takes up less space and just uses two burners, or you can use an electric griddle if you have enough counter space, but not enough cooking space.

If you cook several things at once and are using your stovetop, an electric griddle is best. You can place it on a counter so that you have more room to cook plus you can fit a lot on it at once.

Get the griddle that will fit your needs. Don’t get a large electric griddle if you area only cooking for yourself. Think about it and get what makes the most sense.

A better appearance of your house interior can be obtained with small adjustments and renovations. For instance, changing your doors and windows will result in making your place look more elegant.

You may want to find the methods of this home improvement. We can tell you a few tips to avoid expensive errors. This may require several improvements, but at least shades and shutters require to be modern and often refreshed. Nobody likes to see filthy surfaces and items all over the place.

There are people who have discovered a detailed process for renovation and they had to make it real. Indeed, if you have several magnificent ideas of how to make your interiors look better, you’ll strive to bring your ideas to life in your very home.

The majority of the population will opt for this one based on their personal ideas and dreams. Interior design is ignoring so many times the use of carpets in our homes. There is no one who doesn’t love window blinds, but carpets got out of the decorators’ interest since these laminated floors were invented by specific designers.

This nowadays situation comprises maybe the most gracious feature of modern home improvement. By all means, eagles don’t catch flies, so many persons who gave up carpets, bought some a few months later. They simply couldn’t accommodate to such huge uncovered surfaces all over the rooms and hallways.

You can find testimonials for home decor inexpensive ideas on so many designer websites on internet. But let’s imagine about how much to budget for interior design. If you have money, renovation can get lots of money out of your pockets. Still, if you are very tight on the expenses you can make, try the simple twists which bring great effects. Being noticeable matters most.

The main elements of home decor are just simple ones. All window blinds, curtains and carpets should match with each other. Colors have to be pleasant to be watched, in fade tones, following a few design lines which can be read in all specialty magazines.

Choosing a length for your hair can be found troublesome. It isn’t always easy getting it just right. It varies from person to person. One length that is great on one person might be horrible on another. No matter who you are, you want to have the best length that looks great on you.

Keeping curly hair short can be difficult yet easy. With short hair, no more than 5 inches long, can be easy to take care of for several reasons. First of all, because it’s so short, it’s always the healthiest hair possible. With less than 5 inches you are constantly getting new growth. This helps your hair to behave better.

Also, short hair tends to curl better. There is less hair there to weight it down. This can be a problem to get it just right though because you don’t want it to end up looking like an afro.

If you are considering cutting your hair really short, talk with your hairdresser about exactly what you want. Make sure it’s something that you can easily maintain and that will look right. Be careful cutting it too short make sure you want to because even though you can grow it again, there will be that awkward in between stage.

Medium or shoulder length hair is great for curls. It almost always works. It’s long enough to keep from getting an afro, as long as it’s not too curly, but short enough it won’t pull out the curls or get in the way. Experiment with different layers and lengths to get the look you want.

Long curly hair can be very beautiful, but it is also much harder to get where you want it and maintain it. As your hair gets longer, the ends get older and older. You should stay away from heat and dye as much as possible and get a balance between growing it out and trimming off the dead ends.

Make sure you give your curls as much moisture as possible, especially if you are trying to grow it long. Keeping it moisturized will keep it healthy and looking its best. Trim off the split ends and the dead ends to keep it looking beautiful.

Long hair poses some other problems as well. If your hair isn’t really curly, long hair can end up pulling the curls straight because if the weight. If it’s really frizzy, you could end up with a giant poof. You can grow it long, just be prepared to have extra products to keep it under control.

Silk wedding flowers are second to none when it comes to the beauty of them during the decorations being done on the wedding day.

The popularity of the silk wedding flowers has increased because of the fact that these can be preserved as keepsakes as opposed to the fresh ones which you will need to dry them off before you will be able to preserve them.

There are other reasons why it is popular. The main being that if you are a do it yourself aficionado and want to do all the decorations yourself then silk wedding flowers will not actually get crumpled and you can do the initial practice on these flowers and then use them for the actual decorations.

The storage and preserving the freshness of fresh flowers is always an issue which is not the case with silk wedding flowers and hence they are the best thing that can happen to you in a wedding.

Even in terms of saving the cost you can try to find these silk flowers in a local crafts store and that way you can make sure that these flowers are not as expensive as the other wedding flowers which are the fresh ones. Every penny counts in a wedding.

Silk wedding flowers also can be used in any sort of wedding decorations and these include the wedding bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages as well as for the centerpieces and table decorations.

That said it can be used in style of bouquet like the arm held or the hand held. These can also be used as other styles like the pageant style bouquets or the cascade ones.

The main drawback with these flowers is that these are not fresh and hence when you feel it or smell it may not be the same experience as the fresh ones.

There are lots of manufacturers as well as retailers now selling silk wedding flowers online as well as offline.

Before you begin styling your curly hair, you need to start with a good base. Curly hair is naturally dry and needs to be well moisturized. Try not to shampoo more than 3 times a week or every other day at most because shampoo can be very drying. Always use a thick, moisturizing conditioner during every wash, and try to use a deep conditioner every couple of weeks for extra moisture.

After you’ve finished conditioning and are done showering, do one final rinse of your hair with the coldest water possible. Stand out of the way or use a pitcher of cold water so that you don’t get wet because the cold water can be shocking. It’s only necessary for your hair.

When you use cold water, the cuticles of your hair will be sealed keeping the moisture in. Also, keep your shower from getting too hot and steamy because steam can open up the cuticle. At least get out of the bathroom ASAP of you must have steam.

Now you are going to use your products. Don’t squeeze out the water from your hair just yet. You want it to stay sopping wet. This will help the products to get evenly distributed without breaking up your curls.

It doesn’t matter what products you use, but I suggest starting with a leave-in conditioner. You can use your regular conditioner or a leave-in conditioner. Each usually work about the same. Use about a nickel sized amount for shoulder length hair and more for longer hair.

Put the conditioner in your hands, coat your hands, and comb your fingers through your hair evenly distributing it throughout your hair. Try to concentrate it more on the ends because the ends are always the driest. Next, you can add in your other products. I suggest using a light curling gel for hold but without crunch.

You could also use a mousse instead and you could add in a serum to help de-frizz. I like to use a spray gel so that I can just spray it on and then scrunch it. That is the next step, scrunching. Instead of squeezing along the length of your hair, scrunch it up towards your head to help with the curls.

The final step is to continue crunching with a towel to get any excess water out. Let it air dry, but if you must get it dryer faster, use a diffuser on a cool setting for a few minutes. Don’t brush or comb your hair. Let it dry and then add any accessories you want.