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Searchers for lice

2 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

This is the title of a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, some twenty lines long, about two of his aunts, seated in chairs beside him, picking lice out of his seventeen year old, bushy hair as he is on a visit to them, half-way to Paris, to another poet, Paul...

Dream of a Ridiculous Man

30 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is an animated short film by Aleksandr Petrov.  It is based on a short story by Dostoevsky, and tells the tale of a suicidal nihilist who has a near death experience.  Whether he survives his own suicide attempt, or is m...

C S Lewis

28 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Crypto-Knight

C. S. Lewis was a British author that most people remember for writing the book "Chronicles of Narnia" and for his other books Christianity including the classic "Mere Christianity". He is often praised for his literally skills and his profound insig...

What is the role of repetition in Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade'?

26 Jan 2024 2 minute read 1 comment VVoytila

Arguably Tennyson's most popular poem, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' had become so widely known and celebrated not only owing to the shocking subject matter of the poem, namely a breakdown in communications within the British Army's chain of comm...

Eatonton, Georgia: What Alice Walker, Br'er Rabbit, and a Poet You've Never Heard Of Have In Common

19 Dec 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Allen Taylor

When Theresa and I stumbled upon Eatonton, Georgia, we weren't looking for it. We had just navigated our way around Atlanta, Georgia and found Social Circle, another small town we loved. When we left Social Circle, we decided to explore some other pl...

This is mad honey

11 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Ticktalker

From some flowers, bees carry poisonous substance to make honey which many mix to make portions and food for livelihood. So I ask you, what you are eating killing you, making you strong? Are you consuming poison or a portion ?    Could it be a necta...

One Whole

29 Sep 2023 30 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

The illusory hope of spiritual death, the real possibility of becoming one with... In my head, like a distant but intrusive background, the same line is repeated: “...now it takes him all just to get an...”...To hell. Full version ONE WHOLE https://d...

Melodies of despair and hopelessness

28 Sep 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

9 poems in the form of a gallery, which are an integral part of the story ONE WHOLE - one author, one atmosphere.(poetry, gothic, psychology, philosophy, self-knowledge) © Ship Shard Full version - story and poems ONE WHOLE - https://dzen.ru/media/sh...

The verse "To You"

20 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Poem 2021 Isabella Togramajian   For putting love in my heart chassis Thank you for everything: for what is not and is, for what was not, for what will certainly be. For all the ways, spiritual attempts, obstacles, prohibitions, quiet steps, for the...

"Sweet" by V.V.Bibikhin

19 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Individual notes and excerpts from diaries. Reader: Isabella Togramajian Sweet. The persistent wind of whimsy, which always fills our sails with even force: only sweet, bitter is not necessary. On the smooth surface of the water, he imperceptibly dri...