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Lost in the Fire

5 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Disturbing.  Like looking through an old photo album that was lost in the fire, or opening a time capsule on an eternity in hell.  I remember everything, recognize nothing.  But a harrowing, exquisite nightmare it apparently has been.  Thank God, you...

The sky is talking. Are you listening── .✦

13 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam

Click to animate The desert did not sleep. It listened,its billion grains of silica a vast and patient ear.Above, the great celestial nerve — the spine of night —hissed with the static of forgotten stars.The stones, old theologians of entropy,had c...

EURIPIDES, 480 - 406 BC: The Most Tragic Poet

18 Jun 2025 29 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

He was the creator of that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare’s Othello, Racine’s Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg, in which imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their lives and hates. - B.M. Knox   Among the great t...

In The Madhouse Of The Inhumans

12 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Be assured, my gentle girls, my ardentAnd lovely sisters, hell is where we’re bound."Marina Tsvetaeva   The basement in my head isflooded— TV rooms arefloating Through my subconsciouscrawlspace; I have purified the rats— Can't you see I'mhealing?  ...

Van Life on Dagobah

1 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The purpose of our Christian training is to get us into the right relationship to the 'needs' of God and His will.  Once God's 'needs' in us have been met, He will open the way for usto accomplish His will, meeting His 'needs' elsewhere."Oswald Cha...

If these define human

31 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Lochard

Bunch of absolute scum,abuse power, abuse surveillance. Organise daily harassment,feel powerful, faint ignorant;Cause damages that are permanent,enjoy impunity, suffer no consequence;put on f faces,accuse the victims. Seniors to adolescents,unknown p...

Black Knight (Original Poetry)

22 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

A mighty ship orbiting the skiesManmade? Sending signals light-years awayto another constellation across the stars.A nanotech masterpiece that can shapeshiftand follow astronauts to the Moon or Marsusing quantum entanglement to transmit dataabout hum...

The Wolf Who Wept Eternity

12 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I turned the pages of the streetfrom 99 & Broadwayto the narrow path downtown I walked the length of the entirebookin an hour and ahalf I scrubbed the blood off the doorpostswith a dishrag soaked inwine I drove a symbol through an open field I did...

The Cautionary Fairytale

9 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I can't remember the wordsto my ownstory The unauthorized autobiography The cautionary fairytale The boots that never fit The mansion in the driveway If you think you're not a writer you arewrite or maybewriting,maybe Wrong Not to say that you are...

Rupture (Original Poetry)

27 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

Pain torments my kneesas I look up to squeeze the fatigueaccumulated over the centurieswhile going through cyclesengulfed in ancient dreams. Why is the veil so thin? Multiple lives unfolding on a screenI remind myself of the present momentwhen I hear...