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One of the best-known and most widely read texts of the classical Hindu canon, the Bhagavad Gita tells the story of a young hero prince named […]
The limerick is a relatively simple form of poetry. It has five lines in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme together; and the third […]
Literary scholars generally agree that Dostoyevsky was one of the greatest novelists who ever lived. High school students may be skeptical of that assessment. But professors […]
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There’s something deceptively simple about the limerick: strictly structured yet casually whimsical. For me, it's the perfect intersection between the cosmic and the mundane. So I unveil my greatest hopes, my darkest fears and my deepest questions, then roll them up, one-by-one, into these bouncy little epigrams.
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"Self Reference"
Every so often I utter some platitude
Preaching on patience, acceptance and gratitude
I might miss the mark
As I aim in the dark
But nobody’s perfect so lend me some latitude
If you want to examine the religious foundations of the Western world, you’d probably begin with the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, […]
To be a serious poetry enthusiast, or not to be a serious poetry enthusiast. That is the question. Rocking in iambic pentameter, or galloping in the […]
A total of 27 books make up the official canon of the New Testament Bible. That’s easy to remember, because three is the number of the […]
Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, the life of a poet is not all glamour and glory. And for one who specializes […]
For some of us, it’s no problem at all. But for others, the mind and the body are irreconcilably and forever at odds. I, for one, […]
Hindsight is 2020, so they say. So now seems like a perfect time to revisit these forlorn verses from the pandemic’s darkest hour (originally published in […]