In 4th grade (or thereabouts) we were taught to make candles by dipping our wicks (ok, there's a vulgar image for you) into a big vat of melted wax. We'd file into the school kitchen, dip, and go out, circling in and out of the kitchen as the wax hardened and our candles ...
“Black Boys Play the Classics”. As a senior, this is Graham's fourth andlast Poetry Out Loud. She received an honorable mention (荣誉奖), but was sad not to move to thenext round. “This competition is a huge part of my life,” Graham said, tearing up a little. “I've been ...
experience!) bathe scantily, but modestly clad in the garden in the summer sun. They certainly don’t wear socks on their head, spread snail slime on their bread or sunbathe in underpants in the snow. Absurdity is the number one choice of toddlers and nursery children for hoot-out-loud ...
Spit out Objectified Beaten the crap out Put down Who are we to judge? We were made in God's image We were made in man's image We were never made in our own image Lay down your sticks Open your thighs And scream at the injustice in the world ...
I woke with the whisper-image Of a mass of wind-swept golden curls, Awash in desert sand And boyish sweat, Dirt and motorcycle grease Then, there was ´The Grin´ Huge and dopey. Mouth corners would U ...More splishsplashbyjdw ...
For those familiar with Philip Larkin’s work, the title of this short essay will seem to offer a juxtaposition so improbable as to be laugh-out-loud funny-rather like that old joke staple, the tiny book titled German Humor, or the admittedly unlikely prospect of a panel at a New Formali...
BIG B SHARES NOSTALGIC IMAGE REMEMBERING FATHER HARIVANSH RAI BACHCHAN Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan was on a social media spree all of Monday. In different posts on Instagram , he introduced fans to his furry co-star in an upcoming project, shared a thought on the benefits of yoga, commem...
enhancing our image. We took the panes with us from cottage to cottage, moth-horn and glass, and wedged up the misfitted gaps with a poultice of gunny and wax. When woodsmoke darkened our bricks, we gave to the windowsills a lacquer of color—clear blue with a lattice of yellow: a ...
I have come to this Author lark pretty late in life, but they do say that everyone has a book in them waiting to get out. Well one of mine has got out! And I doubt it will be the last. I am Northern (England) guy in his 60s who has a love of poetry, especially the ones th...
Moore uses this image as a foil to the porcupine, her central subject, chosen for the rodent armed black-and-white quills. Dürer’s beast represents a rhinoceros said to have arrived in Portugal from India; it was covered in thick scales and could eviscerate an elephant using its single ho...