While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words:-- `I speak severely to my boy, I beat him when he sneezes; For he can thoroughly enjoy The pepper ...
June 26, 2023:Cardi B responds to Offset’s allegations that she cheated in a Twitter Space, perPeople. The rapper sings a verse from the Keyshia Cole song “I Should Have Cheated” before directly addressing the charges he first raises in a deleted Instagram story that day. “That mother...
In service to all of you Givers-of-The-Look, who never get to see it from our end, let me describe it for you: It’s kind of like how your facial features would involuntarily contort themselves if you purchased a Powerball ticket and you were matching the numbers on your ticket to th...
Maybe even write a poem for each verse I’m inspired to write about. But for now, here is the poem about the woman who touched The Master’s Hem. The Master’s Hem Oh Lord why don’t I know your words? Why haven’t I taken the time? Oh Lord why do I not know you now?
Holo-alphabetic sentences can be addicting. Unpraised holo-alphabaddicts have spent a good deal of time determining that Ezra 7:21 is the only Biblical verse containing all the letters, although it takes 170 letters to do it and excludes j, which wasn’t around for the translation. But cre...
Apparently, change is continuous, if not progressive, rendering Neo-movements (such as poetry’s various and recurring stabs at producing classical verse, or Neo-formalism as it is sometimes called) flat and boring unless they incorporate intentional humor or self-conscious reference to the original...
Born August 23, 1869—Edgar Lee Masters. Author of theSpoon River Anthologywhich, since each poem is by someone who’s dead, should count as genre, shouldn’t it? (Died 1950.) Born August 23, 1927—Peter Wyngarde. Not a lead actor in any genre series but interesting none-the-less. ...
development. Several blogposts have already been lined up for this blog andmy two other blogs,but they continue to remain in the back burner because of the above-mentioned reasons (excuses?). I could no longer remember the last time I wrote poetry. No rhyme. No verse. Not even the ...
Ambiverse October 20, 2023 Posted in An Ongoing Journal...4 Comments Yesterday, my 88-year-old mother and a friend drove north into the Adirondacks. Essentially, it was a leaf-peeping trip, but along the way they visited the lakeside house where my father’s family had summered from ...
Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (As Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist). London: Tru¨bner & Co. Swami Atulananda. 1970. "Swami Vivekananda's Mission in the West." Prabuddha Bharata 77, 7: 257– 64. Bartholomew, Michael. 1988. "The...