sound and fury
Dec 08If you have ever doubted the measured madness of a true artist, alluding hits and masterpieces to some stroke of luck, then you haven’t truly listened to an Eminem song. Listen ear-to-speaker close and witness Eminem rock all your established notions of the rules of language and music. Eminem is a lyrical sniper armed with a semi-automatic. He shells us with poetry and expresses in a few...
on drifter’s wings
Aug 26with pinions prone to the sky… remember the seagull and how apart it stood from the flock. a solitary flight into the yonder of sightless horizons. to fly without losing height… stalls and stalls. stalling over again. yet in secret aspirations, has claimed the...
paper cut
Jul 02Writing has always been a dreaded pursuit. It is in my case, and i dare say, for most of us. Most of that dread stems from the fear that what we scribe on that page can never fully capture the depth of our thoughts and emotions. The words that stare back are not quite what we wanted to say; worse, not quite reflect the person we thought we were. We measure ourselves through ink and letters and...
homoestasis
Nov 07this is me, silent.listen… this is me, centeredin my gravity. for nothingprofound:...
fin de siècle
Oct 14i know this place. i have been here many times before. this is my second, alright, nth attempt at a personal blog. if you can see my panel, you would be nauseated at all the blogs i have in comatose, recumbent and handicapped of substance. i truly admire writers and bloggers with focus. they know their craft and they hone it with surgical precision. mine is just all over the place and...
cherry blossom season
Oct 04i had planned to launch an entirely new blog dedicated to japanese poetry. however, given my inclination to lose momentum to laziness, err, inertia, it may be a better idea to just introduce a new segment here in blowholes. for many months now i have been carrying with me a book on haikus, rengas, haibuns, and other types of japanese poetry. i held on to this slim volume like a respirator. i...
stars stray this way
Jun 27inside my blog are more drafts than there are posts.much of my stories have remained intentions; unpublished but kept.but you will not be among them. *** you were the only one who survived from a litter of five. your mother, a cat we have never seen, could not have chosen a more dangerous place to give birth. we had a beloved and aging dog who was terribly suspicious of strangers, more so of...
horizontal climb
Mar 29i am a sucker for second chancers.(which explains why i was so rooting for mickey rourke at the oscars. well that, and his love for animals draws me to him.) there is something about the comeback kid defying the odds and the naysayers that is triumphant all in itself. there is something about shattering expectations that is always hopeful and exhilirating. something about defiance defies...
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