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POEM: A Sprout’s Life [PoMo Day 18 – Imagist]
From dirt, the newly sprouted plant is but two tender leaves, drooping. Its silken shaft in subtle slant, in shadow of gardener, stooping. ... Becomes the tree... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Escaping Isolation [PoMo Day 17 – Ottava Rima]
In isolation, I took to story, and traipsed through worlds impossible yet true, living life from infantile thru hoary, under skies: gunmetal to deepest... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: The River Running Through This City
I roam the old city, gazing at Gothic gargoyles and touching stonework made by men long since dead, wondering how I ended up in this chunk of time, rather... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: Children’s Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Kimberley...
Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Kimberley Reynolds My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page To make an ineloquent (and possibly disturbing)... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: The Burning Mask
We like to think we see the soul, but what we see is a flaming hole: a burning mask of time on task all coffee cup, no hidden flask the smile that lies -- no... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Seashore Mind [PoMo Day 15 – Villanelle]
The waves are churned to foam. The sight mesmerizes. My mind is miles from home. My seated self does roam -- chaos that surprises, like waves are churned to... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: A Rainy Day in the Dry Season
Rain sidles up in a commanding cloud -- early -- And so it waits in its cloud, like the awkward party guest who sits in his car, waiting to be fashionably... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Snowy Street [PoMo Day 14 – Prose Poem]
I walked a snowy street, quietly as the falling snow, a snow that melted under foot, not one that crunched - compacting. Everything was deadened by that... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: A Round Poem
I walked beside the river, the river that rolled through town, a town I thought had been a dream, a dream replayed night after night, nights that flowed like... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Moonlight Mystery [PoMo Day 13 – Ghazal]
I saw a silhouette in the moonlight, a man who plodded snow that glowed moonlight. I was mesmerized by the vagabond -- a night-owl nomad moving by... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Lincoln Park Zoo
This entry was posted in Blogs and tagged America, Belden-Stratford Building, Chicago, Conservancy Building, flowers, Giraffe, Illinois, Lincoln Park, Lincoln... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Cyborg Days
I feel it coming, cyborg days -- locked into the machine. My program playing out the code of some new subroutine. To know it can all be dialed in, with such... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Kim Yo-Jong [PoMo Day 11 – Clerihew]
Dear Sister, Kim Yo-Jong, won't have to wait long. She'll take power easy as you please, if her brother keeps eating wheels of cheese. Read more
Posted on 11 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: The Hands Have It [PoMo Day 10 – Free Verse]
They say hands are the hardest human part to artistically render -- to draw or sculpt or paint, causing artists to hide hands, or at least to not replace them... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Amazon.in Page Written in a confessional style, Nabokov's masterwork tells the story of a middle-aged intellectual, Humbert Humbert, and his hebephiliac... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Down the Valley [PoMo Day 9 – Haibun]
The air was dry and the valley was dry. Tufts of yellow grass clung to the hillside and to the edges of the valley floor -- where they joined with the barren,... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: Good Writing is Like Good Sex by C. S. Johnson
Good Writing is Like Good Sex: Sort of Sexy Thoughts on Writing by C.S. Johnson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page Sex sells. This book attempts to... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: The Art of X-Ray Reading by Roy Peter Clark
The Art of X-Ray Reading by Roy Peter Clark My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page If one asks a group of people whether a story worked or not, one is likely... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Sleep [PoMo Day 8 – Rondeau Tercet]
In haunted hours, I wilt to sleep, and know that I'll be cursed in dreams. I'll drift upon Stygian streams at speeds between trickle and creep, listening for... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: Trafik by Rikki Ducornet
Amazon.in Page Out: April 13, 2021 A robot (Mic) and a cyborg (Quiver) live and work together in close quarters, doing blue-collar work until the going gets... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL