One Hell of an Apprenticeship
Bad Soil Mycelium growth On playground floor Reflects the blossoming Of maturity on those still too young The fungal stink Forces itself onto clothes And souls of children Leaving husks of adults Poem for the Masses Anything was possible then, Before teenage pregnancies Before heartbreaks at dusk When the caressing breeze Could remind you "This… Continue reading Bad Soil, Poem for the Masses, Haiku #1, Rethinking Humanity, and Morning & Evening
If the last book I reviewed, “How to Read a Book”, and Barbara Baig’s 2010 work “How to Be a Writer” are reflections of my personality, then it is clear that I liked to be told how to do things that I already do habitually. Although I seem to repeat variations of this same idea,… Continue reading How to Be a Writer
Foremost, I'd like to thank E. Darby Harrington at Orienting Details for inspiring this idea. I ran into her 15th iteration of the challenge and it inspired me to make this post. Please check out her site and show her content some love. The point of a one sentence challenge is write the most perfectly written… Continue reading One Sentence Challenge #1: A Decrepit Playground
Metamorphosis Blaring aural projections Render the ripple-less sea Into a marionette Its form twists and turns At the noise's transient demands Making it look as one of God's reject creations That can never re-learn stillness Another Wanderer Through the Oasis of Ra With redwood palms With crystalline water Another Wanderer Trudges He begged for the… Continue reading Metamorphosis, Another Wanderer, The Implications of Tragedy, and The Return of Light
In 1940 an American Philosopher Mortimer Adler Wrote the first version of a book that will later be called “the classic guide to intelligent reading”. Thirty-two years later Adler heavily edited the work alongside an American academic and TV show host turned game show scandal subject Charles Van Doren. This version of the book “How… Continue reading How To Read A Book
