Words That End With the Letter Q? Well Maybe Just a Few

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Words that end with the letter Q?
There are no words that end with the letter Q
You.. silly QUasimoto!
I need them for Scrapple as well
but alas
checking under every cover
every avenue to discovery
my dictionary
my google friend
no, no, no!
A Q cannot be the end.

Q is not a lonely letter
It loves to cuddle with a U
it finds one every chance it gets
no regrets
and wakes up in the morning
still cozy
next to its loyal lover.

So no lamenting for this letter Q
YOU.. silly QUasimoto.

And by the way
speaking of Q's
a cue to you
what is a QUasimoto
today on the scene?
Not a hunchback character
It's urban talk you see
an alter ego
of a high pitched rapper
spaced out
on stoned beats
singing in the streets.

Ahh me
it is all as silly as it can be
the Q in QUasimoto
lending me reason
if not a rhyme in time
selected from my imagination.
Sitting at my station
waiting for my Q to bring
not a single thing
but a U
'cause its a wonderful thing
to sing
of all the virtues U does bring
to a Q
in this dream.
I now seem to know it quite well
by my expression here
becoming QUite clear
in this QUriky poem
that sings alone for Q.

I have never met a U
that I did not find intriguing.
Yet I confess
I have often grown weary of them.
U, Ewe, You
must the subject always be so one sided?
I find myself saying
QUit it U
enough of YOU!
...and by the way
what ever happened to your oft seen companion
that dear sweet letter Q?

Yes, try to remember Q.
Humm U?
Does Q tire of your self absorbed conversations?
Never!
Sadly for Q it is true U
You do not need Q!
I see you
roaming about without Q
all the time!
But just remember U
you DO indeed need Q
to say,
"You silly QUasimoto."

So back to my travail
the Q that must always have a tail.
It alas is understood
Q never stands alone.
No matter how you've grown
you will always find a home
with other friends
that help you or ewe or U
to end this silly QUasimoto story.

You Q
will always finds a special glory
in a QUasimoto story
who will always see the value
in a U
a U that must be humbled
because it needs you, Q!

Words that end with the letter Q?
NO.. they simply don't exist!
Well...maybe just a few.

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Change How You Say It, Change Your Attractiveness

Language, whether its emerging from our mind, our heart, or our lips, says a lot about ourselves. It tells others what state we're in at the time, actually where we are in our life, as well as how we dress our self, our body and our soul. It also tells us what we will do now, what we did in the past, and what we will do in the future. Yet, we are so comfortable with our own voice and too busy to hear its voice that negative expressions escape constantly. Does what you say and how you say it count? U-betcha.

For those of you that are a student with the laws of attraction, also known as manifesting what you desire with the power of energy, this is another way you can use the law for your benefit. Let me expound on this in the simplest of ways.

What you say is how you are. There are usually many ways to say what you say. Many ways will not attract, others will. Lets journey together on this with an example. Lets use an expression we tend to use more mindfully and less expressively, "I could care less."

"I could care less," taken literally means "I care more than I might seem to." You are saying that you do care some and that isn't what you intended to mean which was not caring at all. The true way to state your feelings would be, "I couldn't care less." It may sound harsher yet its the truth. It is important to be true to your words.

Being true in your language is a vital step to being in a place of truth in yourself and in the world. As a I child, my Dad drummed the expression into me, and probably you as well, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." Practicing the laws isn't about sugar coating your feelings or your language. Its about expressing them from your own truth. But what the saying tells us that even though we can acknowledge this as our truth we don't have to express that truth verbally.

Because we are so comfortable with our language that we have stopped hearing what we are saying 90% of the time. The only way to catch your language is to use this exercise.

Here is a practice that will help you begin your journey in how to uncover the truth to your language. It will also change your hearing process anytime you speak. After listening consciously to your words, then and only then, can you begin a strong path to attractiveness. Also, hearing and acknowledging what you said takes courage. Is it easy to listen to yourself? Heck no. To me, my voice sounds like chalk squeaking on a blackboard. Focus on the outcome to move past the squeal. The shift in attractiveness is well worth the practice.

Audio record your telephone conversations. Just your side of the conversation. There isn't any country or state laws that affect you since they are one sided like there are in recording two-way conversations or in-person conversations. And you don't have to ask the other persons permission.

Extra tip: This is also a great way to improve your marketing and telephone skills as well.

Listen to the recording. Listen for the incomplete sentences, unfinished thoughts, and vocal expressiveness or flatness. Did you really say what you meant? What wasn't said that you thought you said? What wasn't finished and you thought it was? What words were slung together that attracted the opposite of what you wanted?

Extra tip: Tape record your conversations with your children. We become so comfortable with those that we love our language sabotages our relationships frequently. Especially with teenagers.

Awareness and acknowledgment are the first two steps to changing anything. We can't do either without hearing it first. And you can't change what you don't acknowledge. Attractive language allows you to walk a different path through life. Take the leap, find just enough courage to practice this exercise, it may be painful at times, but it will rewrite your life and all those that touch it.

(c) Copyright, Catherine Franz. All rights reserved.

Catherine Franz is a Life and Business Coach and Master Practitioner in the Laws of Attraction. Catherine guides others in finding the light of their own existence and walking an attractive truth in their own lives. http://www.abundancecenter.com blog: http://abundance.blogs.com

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Nelson Mandela
Home Improvement Guide and Information

What Did I Do? Will Someone Tell me?

There are many systems, psychology analyzes and personality typing in order to help people understand one another.

One of the areas that causes a lot of grief in business and especially in relationships, is that no matter what category you fall into you are either a:

Say
Show
Feel

Discovering what the other person is in this area, can take you a long way in building relations, credibility, confidence and the ability to make the other person happy.

Why so much in one area. Based on the persons type,(and most dont even realize which they are) on a subconscious level they expect the other person to treat them the same way.

Here is an example of how this works:

At home:
A husband come home with flowers and says here, the wife says thats nice but doesnt seem overly thrilled.

He gets annoyed and says whats wrong. She says why can you say be that you love me?

He now upset says, I just did, I brought you flowers didnt I? She gets up set and leaves the room. He throws up his arms and says, I just cant win.

At work:
The manager notices that his crew did a great job on the last project. He thinks, I should do something for them. He goes out and gets something. It could be anything from donuts to a bonus on their next check. Yet, 2/3rds of them seem upset. He thinks great! There is just no pleasing some people, why do I even try?

So, what is happening with these two scenarios?

People accept and desire appreciation shown in different manners.

For the at home example:
The man is a show type of personality. He understands and shows his love or appreciation by things. Where as his wife understands it by words. For another person, they would understand it only by being embraced, hugged or kissed. Yet, most of the time we dont even know for ourselves what we are and expect the other person to know.

For the at work example:
Some of the people just wanted to hear the boss say, Hey, you did a great job. They would then try harder in the future to continue their work effort.

Others would prefer to have the boss come up, shake their hand, and feel the interaction show a more valid display of appreciation.

In each scenario, there will be people, who to show love or appreciation need:

Things
Words
Contact

By listen to how they answer your questions, it can be fairly easy to understand what they are. This can be very helpful when you have had a lot of conflict in a business or personal partnership:

Notice if they say:
I see, (Things oriented, also visual)
I hear what you are saying. (Appreciate words)
Or, I feel upset or happy. (Desire interaction)

No matter what type the person is, it is important to notice what language they are using. It is also important to remember that there are no hard and fast rules. Many people are a combination of two or all three. The important thing is to try out different ways and notice how they react to each.

This can go along way and bridging the gap in many communication barriers.

All the Best!
Maria Boomhower
The Master Communicator
http://www.falconfreedom.com
http://www.mariaboomhower.blogspot.com

P.S. If you like what you're reading in this ezine, you'll love the book, "Overcoming Barriers to Communication." It's a manual that helps you overcome the challengers that start with Intrapersonal to Interpersonal and on to Mass Communication. Overcoming Barriers to Communication

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Success

The Art of Performance Poetry

Think "performance poetry" and what comes to mind? Avant garde smoky cafes late at night with beret wearing, goateed youths with black turtlenecks spouting random inchoate messages while throwing about seemingly unrelated objects? Or perhaps you imagine the "slam," a group of fast talking, finger popping, coffee guzzling competitions where the contestants throw words at each other in a series of poorly written one-upmanship rhymes? Or maybe you imagine an insecure whispering geek who is unable to do more than stare at his feet while he mumbles his way through work that would be a lot more powerful if you could concentrate on anything other than his bad skin and shy execution? Well think again. Although the term may conjure up images which are relatively modern, the performance of poetry is about as old as language itself. Think Euripides, Aeschylus and Homer, with its strophe and antistrophe, its grand characters like Medea, Odysseus, Oedipus and Elektra. Poetry, with its emphasis on the perfectly chosen word; the instant hit of meaning, works well in the grand performance theatre. A well spoken poet can set the pace, the emphasis, and often can bring to life poetry in a way which will reach audiences with the shortest attention spans.

There are many definitions of performance poetry, and there are those who didactically argue that there is a serious difference between "performance poetry" and the performance of poetry. It really doesn't matter. If it is performed, virtually or live, it is performance poetry - whether props or visuals are involved or not. There are poems which work best on the page and poems which only come to life when read out loud. There are poets who can take a seemingly simple and perhaps trite poem and turn it into something extraordinary in their readings, and others who can take a wonderful moving poem and turn it into something utterly mundane by throwing in too many gimmicks or reading it in monotone, without effective emphasis. Mixing live readings with imagery and even music can change a poem, reach new audiences, intensify and heighten the power of a poem. When done properly it is a piece of art in itself which removes the borders between the arts, especially in collaborative efforts with a range of very talented artists. When done poorly, as it often is (relying on a variety of talents not often found in a single person), it can render all the arts involved trivial, as the poet attempts to work in a visual or rhetorical medium to which he or she is unaccustomed to.

I have to admit that much of what I've heard out loud has been poorly done and even silly, lacking the power for me that a good poem has on the page. On the other hand, I have heard a few poets reading their work in a way that turns the poem into something sublime - a heady and moving experience which combines the best of theatre with the most extraordinary verbal expression. Above all, performance poetry is a theatrical event, and the poet must also be an actor. It isn't enough to play with props or rely on the natural rhythm and poetic text. Nor is it enough to be a good actor. Without the intensity of a powerful poem, the work has nothing to develop.

There is nothing new in the performance of poetry, but there are many new technologies that have changed the way in which it can be displayed to an audience. The poet may not even have to be present. With a PC, and products like CoolEdit2000 (a cheap virtual recording studio), a good microphone, decent Flash skills and artistic ability can take a poem and turn it into a video clip, a film or even something which defies description. These types of works may or may not be superior to a standalone poem (and purists would probably say that the 'gimmicky' nature of such work would diminish the effectiveness of the original poem, which should stand alone), but the potential is extraordinary, and the audience involved may well change depending on the nature of the piece. In some ways, it could be said that performance poetry has a strong element of egalitarianism. Take the poetry to the people, remove the "university" taint, and provide it in a quickly accessible form which has even young hip hopsters queuing at the door. The key is of course, talent, and authenticity. Add a few snakes to your hair and your Medusa piece won't be any more powerful, but open your eyes wide, and read your work in the character of Medusa - feeling the pain and the pleasure of your calling in ways that make the audience shiver, and you will be joining the greatest of actors, forcing an audience to feel your work in exactly the way you intended.

Personally, I find that there is nothing quite as wonderful as coming across a perfectly written poem, which speaks to me intimately, in that quiet space where reader is transported and reaches a sympatico which goes well beyond death. On the other hand, the excitement of a live reading, or a multimedia performance of a work offers the kind of tension and faster pace theatrics which are no longer a quiet, personal experience, but rather a rush of adrenalin - something different altogether. As long as there is talent involved, there is indeed room for both in our world where ecstatic pulsations of any kind are rare and valuable.

Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader http://www.compulsivereader.com/html Her stories, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in many printed anthologies and journals, and have won several awards. She is the author of The Art of Assessment, and Quark Soup. Her debut novel Sleep Before Evening ( http://tinyurl.com/3crnk5 ) was published by BeWrite Books in July 2007.

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