Category: articles
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McDonald’s v. Wendy’s
The ginger-topped, possessive mascots battled for my diabetes today. In one corner you have a clown that scares me half to death and in the other is Ronald McDonald. Wendy’s skill set begins and ends with bringing the 1-2 punches to Twitter like a girl who wears pigtails to spite pigs and I don’t even…
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The Invaluable Nature of an Arts Education
As children, we draw pictures to tell stories. The scribbles, lines, and outside-the-line coloring seem merely arbitrary; a dog next to a house with a tree, a stick figure creation, or the classic unproportional family portrait. We come home from school covered in marker ink and with heads full of stories. We sing songs to…
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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.
