Tag: #philosophy
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Waiting- the antonym for ‘living’
Have you ever given it a thought- Why it takes so long for rice to cook, or for milk to boil when you’re waiting? Why does rice get overcooked and milk boil over when you’ve turned away for what seems like no more than a moment? Why does a journey sometime feel like forever And…
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NaPoWriMo Day 27 – Adapting
“Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a “duplex.” A “duplex” is a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown. Here’s one of his first “Duplex” poems, and here is a duplex written by the poet I.S. Jones. Like a typical sonnet, a duplex has fourteen lines. It’s organized into seven, two-line…
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PUBLISHED : When we can do nothing else, we wait
My poem, ‘When there’s nothing you can do, you wait,’ is published by the Rebelle Society. This poem is for all those who have waited at some point in life. You know what you went through as you waited for the minutes and hours to pass. And though you told yourself that you had no…
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From the Window seat
I see- Grey sea Grey sky Kites fly Wings spread like an uchiwa*, soaring high- Above the twenty-second storey circling the minarets of Haji Ali* And I see down below A green halo Forms a seam in the city of dream of shanties and glass towers and streets with toy buses and cars I see-…