temple

December 14th, 2011 | 127 Entries

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127 Entries for “temple”

  1. It was a gift from the cliffs. It hit me square in the temple and I trembled and scanned the beach for a soul to evenge. There was not one to be counted. Not a scurrying or bellowing sound betrayed. My forehead was flushed, my biceps were contracted. Then as I looked out across the recurrent foam-lipped ocean waves, the calm plane of thought that I had been enjoying previous, returned to me. I knelt down and examined the projectile that had halted me. It was a shimmering gold coin from ancient civilisation. I was a keen economist in those days, I could discern its worth. I skimmed it across the water. Goodbye folly.

    Dave
  2. a praise of worship for God. A holy place. A part of the body. The body itself is a temple. A place of worship to God.

    Nathan
  3. The school I can’t wait to finally get accepted to.
    I can’t wait till next semester. I can’t wait for Spring semester 2012.
    I think I did my time at community college and my amounts of fuck ups.
    I am focused.
    I am ready.
    I am ready for my career.
    i’m ready to be a temple university graduate.

    Natalie
  4. temple, that’s all

    Gagah
  5. I already did this word. It’s kind of annoying because i was so excited to get a new word and try this again. It’s been kind of helping me straighten out my thoughts. My journal will start to miss me.

  6. She was tired of all of this, she thought, while rubbing the temple of her head. Why can’t Tiffany understand this situation? With all the mess in her house, how could she visits Tiffany regularly?

    ~
  7. I didn’t even realize that I had let him in. It was just so sudden that I did not have the chance to fight it. Once he was there, it was not what I had expected. Yet isn’t it funny how you miss it more when it’s gone? After a while I felt it was too much…..so I fought it. Hard. Once I began to fight, there was no stopping me. My heart of steel could not be defeated. Now he is gone and the tears have found my cheek again. My long lost friends. Perhaps, I just miss the company. I have no one. I guess once you push love out of your heart, it is not just a lover you push out, but you push everyone out. So, what is left for me now? A heart of steel, an empty house and a wet pillow…….I have cleared my own path, now I must walk it.

  8. he stood at the foot of the massive and breath taking elaborate doors of the temple wondering if he had the courage to continue on. he knew what lay ahead and what he would face if he decide to take even one more step.

  9. pain. death. one blow. but wait, here’s another thought. worship. unfamiliarity. discomfort. oh and we can’t forget. the history. all the ancient ruins they call temples. they must be kinda important too. but which matters most?

    abby vincent
  10. How a place can be
    Open to the public
    Living, and livening
    Your sacred life.

  11. She stood looking at the temple, but it wasn’t an ordinary temple, at least not the temple that first comes to mind. While all temples are technically man-made, this was man-made for the glory of man. They were worshiping idols. Society had create a new temple that ruled everybody’s lives, but when would they realize that it wouldn’t bring happiness? Couldn’t they see that they were unhappy?

  12. She rubbed her temple, but the throbbing wouldn’t subside. Anxiously, she refreshed the page again. And again. And again. And again.

    “It’s not coming today,” Carmen insisted, but still Lydia pressed on.

    Suddenly, a small “bing” indicated that the fateful message had arrived. Lydia felt her breath screech to a halt, her pulse erratic and loud behind her eardrums. With a shaky hand, she moved her mouse towards the unopened email, eyes almost unable to focus. She felt lightheaded, and was unaware of the intensity of Carmen’s gaze upon herself.

    “Well, come on,” said Carmen in a hushed voice.

    And with a single motion and a soft “click”, Lydia opened the email.

  13. As our eyes set,
    high on your temples
    my fingers prayed
    in circles,
    making wishes
    before those
    shooting tears
    that fell
    across the horizons
    or your face.

  14. As our eyes set,
    high on your temples
    my fingers prayed
    in circles,
    making wishes
    before those
    shooting tears
    that fell across the horizons of your face.

  15. the temple-a sacred, holy place. a place where fear resonates within you, but the peace it brings silences the fear. overwhelmed. awed. its clean, pure and true. im safe here. or am i? am i just waiting for more? more of Your presence, or am i just waiting for my self-righteousness to eat me up inside. yet i continue to sit. to wait. feeling secure and safe. in Your temple, I am made whole.

  16. high on your temples
    my fingers prayed
    in circles,
    making wishes
    before those
    shooting tears
    that fell across horizons
    of your cheeks.

  17. my body is his temple it has me in place i cant move i want to scream i cant its too hard im tired of dealing with him its all too much to handle i cant stand myself his body is anothers temple everyone elses and mine its not enough to share i want his for my own its just not enough

    Greta
  18. Spiriling up to the sky spearing clouds in its reach to the hand of god. Worship. My body.

  19. a god or a powerful person/people lives/live here. sometimes when abandoned, it has stories on it. it is gigantic.

    asd
  20. We worshipped the sun
    And rejoiced to the moon
    Our tears were wiped from our faces
    As we walked along
    Together in June

  21. Temple.

    It’s special, sacred and special.

    It comes down to something untouchable. I know it’s precious. I know I must be careful of it. For it. With it.

    But then what am I left with?

    I don’t know what to make of it and somehow I feel as if I must have all the answers, even as the jumble of chaos begins to scream and cry in my head, I find that the gate is left open and there is no end in sight.

    The path runs on and the future hints that there is something more. Something more than this temple of dreams that I cannot quite grasp with these ancient hands…

  22. My temple
    My forehead
    Gold
    Silver
    Etched in lines in portraits
    Taken by strangers I will never meet
    Palacial
    Glacial
    Shirley Temple what I drink with a straw
    Poison of choice
    I don’t drink alcohol
    This is my temple speaking.

    ellie griffith
  23. I live near this temple called “The Budhist Temple”. I usually have to pass it everyday when I’m going somewhere because I live so close to it. It’s wierd because i’ve passed it so many times and never really got the chance to see what was inside. One day I shall explore inside it. One day. :)))

  24. his soft velvet lips brush slowly across my temple sending chills down my back he kisses me softly on my lips and all i can think about is his lips next to mine and his heart beating in a chorus with mine.

  25. A nickel buys a candle that gleams a sharp ember, shedding chalky ash onto the marble table.
    It flickers choking on the thick air musty with incense and dust. The white plaster angels hunch festooned under their heavy, crippling wings tipped with gold but their eyes are lidded and melancholy gaping white and lost.

  26. My sister got accepted into Temple University
    It’s weird watching the world change around you not realizing you’re changing along with it
    Who’s going to drive me places now?
    Good Luck, sis.

  27. A sense of overwhelming peace and safety; I realized that God was real when it dawned on me that He is the only one that has ever made my anxiety go away entirely – He is the only one that has ever given me true, unbreakable peace.

  28. the temple is the place where i go to study my god, my center, i collect my thoughts all in one place, the temple is for positive thoughts the good not the bad the temple is for everyone not just muslim’s or jew’s its for everyone the temple is where i truly belong

    jada
  29. The white columns gleamed with purity beneath the Grecian sun. The philosophers in their sandals padded about, their heads lost in their thoughts, their arms lugging scrolls.

  30. it was a place where she could clear her head. every time she went there she felt closer to the spirit and back to her childhood of going to temple all the time. she felt safe again. something she had not been able to feel since the day it all went to hell

    Kim
  31. It was a beautiful temple, completely covered in sparkling gold. There was a reason it was so breathtaking, with beauty unimaginable by most people. It was the Lord’s temple.

  32. She pressed herd finger tips to her temples. “is it always going to be like this?”
    he looked at her sideways “well, it depends. are you going to accept change?”

  33. Amid the incense smoke, Jeffrey lovingly sawed off Marcie’s leg and placed it upright into the concrete housing in the ground. Her other leg he placed across from it, exactly 24 feet away. He placed her left arm across the two and the archway over the door was complete.

    “Ahem,” Marcie said, “I kind of wanted those limbs attached to my body. I was still using them.”

    “But Marcie, haven’t you read? Your body is a temple!” Jeffrey replied, “Now hold still while I fashion a yin/yang out of your stomach and liver.”

  34. I made my way to the temple, unsure about what he was going to say when I walked in. He was unaware that I was going to be there today. As I pushed myself through those doors, he looked at me dead in the face, smiled his bright smile, and dropped everything just to kiss me.

    Alyx
  35. I could not think,
    Not here,
    Not anywhere,
    Trying to find a sanctuary,
    And I did,
    To the building so calm and so quiet,
    I could be free of mind,
    Reach a sort of enlightenment,
    As I settle in with ease,
    Taking a new journey,
    Carving a new path,
    I only wish you would have joined me.

  36. The sultan sat. The bells rang. And all the stage was blazing with the monks’ bodies. Across the globe, a rabbi taught the story of Moses to a group of college students. They all wore greens and blues. One wore purple because another young gay boy had thrown himself off a bridge. And in every corner of the world, it rained a little puddle and the oceans grew a little saltier.

    Belinda Roddie
  37. I want to go to the temple to drop off food for family table. It’s hard to believe that in our community, in our country, there are hungry people but there really are and it is our mission to rectify that, not just at the holidays but all year round.

    Robin
  38. what is a temple, really? a place of worship? a house of god? a spot on your brain that when pressed hard enough can kill you? this word has so many meanings. a temple can be a place where one goes to meditate or realx

  39. It was on the horizon. She had seen what she had been walking so long for. Freedom. Pride. Everything her whole family ever wanted. That temple. That place. It’s the best choice for her and her family.

    Shmozow
  40. She enters the temple with a determination she had never before felt. The runes that laced her arms flared to life upon her stepping upon the stone, sparkling and throbbing along her skin. Temples had that effect on her.