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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Over the next five posts, I will be looking at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a wonderful story about the dramatic process to effect one man’s complete change of heart. Dickens arranged the novella into five chapters or staves, as he labeled them. “Stave” has its roots in the word “staff,” as in a musical…
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Psychogeography #2
I left to rot for sixty years The 16A goes to KeresleyBut there is some kerfuffleBy the jewellers with a skateboard and a passerby’s headAnd once more there is blood on the BurgesAnd you would need all the pure waterIn the river SherbourneRunning under Kong and the dented cans of alcoholTo clean up after the…
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American Laureate
I want to be the poet-in-residence at Mall of America oh yeswhere I’d ululate, scream, chest-thump and rant and chantand assemble everyone into drumming circles where we shriekabout our angry vaginas hanging by a thread and The Patriarchywielding an equally angry sword of Damocles over our headsand rhyme and order are prosecuted as political crimes.…
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Hume: Liberation and Sympathy
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher in the 18th Century and was well known for his empiricist views on human nature. His most famous text was A Treatise of Human Nature, later rewritten as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, a work that grapples with ideas of perception, action, reason, and freedom. In his writing, Hume…
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Love Like a Field Guide
If you Recognize Love out In the wild,If you findLove in Its naked state,Pick it upCarefullyAs if it were A robin’s egg& listen For the Gold inside.Set it down& come Back oftenBecause oneOf these Days you Will return To find The shellCracked& love Flown away Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help…
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PCH
In the courtyard, I see newFaces. My summer friends leftMe or my good health leftThem, there’s no way to know.I wonder, what will fillThe vacuum our dispersedLove creates as holesOpen in the universeWe had in common?I still can’t let Susie go,My “practice girlfriend.”Did we really ply light-Sabers at the Bowl& swear loyalty that nightHanging our…
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Evening; Red Tree
Bask within the sol of lifeTree within earth’s gardenLit aflame, yet ever standingFlares of spirit empowerA maroon body of natureAs the sun sets, I await a new sunrise Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.
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Noon; Orange Tree
Hearts of the earth, bloomed anewEndure the iron fist of the meridianYet you, burnt orange mapleRemain positionSentinel with a thousand armsOverseeing creation, benevolent shade Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.
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Morning; Yellow Tree
From death, from darknessA new life emergesSparks and flares teeming with energyReside upon the amber obeliskTemporal guardian of the landscapeArise as do the sun Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like this, CLICK HERE.
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Visions of Working Life
The job I’d had in mind paid silly cashTo take extended boozy business lunches,Let me expense a client’s birthday bash,Rewarded risks and frequent reckless hunches. And every day my desk would be the same.I’d put my briefcase on the varnished oakThat bore a golden plate that bore my nameThat bore significance for chartered folk. I’d…
