Category: Image
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Haiku and Haibun Poetry
Haiku Winter pecans fall On the porch steps at night time Sounds like someone’s there Haibun We stroll down to boardwalk in winter. No one’s around. The beach stares back in a vacant way. The chilly waters of the Atlantic—glassy. Step into the warmth of the hotdog shop.…
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Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”
Notes in the way of Allen Ginsberg’s poetic genius… In 1990, I turned 16 and fell in love with Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” after a librarian at the county library suggested it as a research topic for my American English class. I asked her to direct me to a book on an American author for my…
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Originally posted on 100 days to the doctorate & beyond: Doctoral misery and deadline pressure love company. So I have to say I was somewhat relieved to hear from a fellow traveller on this journey that she too was having completion issues. To put this in perspective, I am not talking about some mythical PhD…
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Originally posted on Pucker Up Buttercup: I was sitting in a local coffee dispensary, writing the first draft of a blog post in my Moleskine notebook and enjoying a latte (full caffeine, whole milk, five packets of raw sugar … I’m hardcore like that, it’s just the way I roll). This particular establishment had once…
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Originally posted on Meyer Lane's Short Attention Span Press: Stephen King “Kill your darlings, Kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” ~ Stephen King
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Shallow Grave
Freedom worked in the kitchen at the Grande Ocean Marquis on South Ocean Boulevard full-time in the seasonal congestion of tourists between Memorial Day weekend and Labour Day weekend. For the rest of the year he collected unemployment insurance and worked odd jobs that paid in cash. He worked his way up at the hotel…
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It is what it is.
Freedom wakes to a crunching sound outside his window. Pulling his blankets over his head Freedom groans to himself, “…not another person looking for her…please, go away…I don’t know where she is…” Freedom’s ex-roommate left town a week ago not telling anyone and ever since there had been a succession of her friends at his…