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The Waiting Room

17 Jun 2024 1 minute read 1 comment NeverEnds

Time expands and contracts without altering our perception of it. Far from any near horizon, what can you dream of? People get annoyed and end up losing face. The black gaze that announces the rainy season, the flameless heart lit by the light of a...

TipNano Chat Rules: A Poem by SatoshiFailed (Moderator Thereof)

21 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Here's a quick one to see us through to the end of the weekend: I turned part of one of SF's monologue rants into a poem (with some improvisation), for your enjoyment ... Once again,I find myself thinkingAbout such and such,But ultimately thinkingTha...

Burning out in this lovely pink sunset

5 Apr 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78

      I have been there,I know what you mean,is hard to wake up,day after day,endless copy/paste with nothing to changeThe Groundhog Curse.My purse was empty at that time of my life,no wife, no strife,just me and my cat,a little one, not so fa...

As Long As You Keep Moving...

26 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments TAS BROWN

Though your pace may be slowas long as you keep movingyou'll conquer the road... About This Poem: This poem is a Tercet, which is defined as "A poetic unit of three lines, rhymed or unrhymed." The division into 3 lines suggests a deliberate atte...

Living The Life.

16 Apr 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Olawalium

Let the rain come down and let it wash away your tearsEveryone in life try to get through life even amidst their fearsCourage isn't the absence of fear but the presence of it, so everyone bearsLife can be tricky, sometimes others pick your silent s...

Nigeria in Hysteria.

18 Apr 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Olawalium

Tell me, how do you believe when the odds are stacked against you as a person?It's even more annoying that the only reality you see around as a daughter or sonIs growing up to see a failing country with no regard for the rule of law or livesPlease...

Trapped

20 Nov 2023 1 minute read 15 comments Rachabel

  My phone becomes my close comrade From application to another I threadTechnology transforms my life's modeWe are all running after each trendDrowning completely in the virtual worldWatching reels and live vidLetting down reality out of our command...

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...

Genocide

6 Nov 2023 1 minute read 13 comments Rachabel

  Tears flowing from my eyes smoothly While watching children's corpses scattered savagely  What happened to humanity keeping silenceWitnessing such cruelty with indifferencePoliticians preaching peace in conferencesWhile behind the scene weaving di...

ARISTOPHANES, 446 - 386 BC: The Father of Comedy

23 Oct 2023 22 minute read 8 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Early ancient Greek literature follows a somewhat linear pattern through its earlier years; the earliest period comes from oral traditions of the Mycenaean and Dark Age Greek world thanks to men like Homer and Hesiod, then the poets of the early Arch...