David Foster Wallace said he spends about an hour a day writing and eight hours a day worrying about not writing. I'd say that's quite true for me, for what it's worth. It's as good a reason to write...
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David Foster Wallace said he spends about an hour a day writing and eight hours a day worrying about not writing. I'd say that's quite true for me, for what it's worth. It's as good a reason to write...
A great short novel it is too. And I like this poem. Understated as AuntShecky said, but also very significant, encompassing so much of a disappointed humanity.
I took the reference to the Thames as referring to Conrad's Heart of Darkness, where at the beginning the Thames is compared to the Congo snaking into the heart of darkest Africa.
Bury yourself in books! It's the best way to die
Delillo has an attractive style. Very smart prose. Expresses small things in a way that makes you wish that your own writing could accomplish such ease and elegance.
Beckett is the king, in my...
like smoke
throwing itself from a ledge
in unobtainable suicide.
breath like smoke
throwing itself from a ledge.
vivid plume of breath
like smoke.
an ever rising
vivid plume of breath.
In my...
ray bradbury wrote in an article on writing that what he does is, upon waking up in the morning, write down any words or phrases that seemed to come to his mind. These could become story titles, or...
hush?
a secret is something
to be told
and shared, to be
kept alive
among the living.
a secret should not die.
Yes, that's right, it's that time of the month again! I'm about to judge the winner so here it goes.....
YesNo - I thought that was a good, strong couplet.
Cacian - You're style of old English...
I don't know where to start.
If I start at the beginning
I'll have nothing to tell for a while
but then it'll end with a bang. But
if I start at the end the story will
slowly fizzle out like...
You have a week and a day. More entries please. I'm loving them so far
dysfunctional-h - I'm a big fan of Beckett, and have recently been reading and studying him a lot. You might like Beckett's other plays, such as 'Endgame'. And if you want to move into the novels, I...
Faulkner
Thanks guys. I really liked all the other poems so it was stiff competition as always! Thanks YesNo for appreciating mine enough to select it.
The topic for the next one will be IDENTITY.
I'm...
Yes, I think it is improved. The second stanza flows better this way. However I like the line 'we are present together' rather than 'I am present' because to me it seems a warmer and more comforting...
I think it is the fact that the old virtues such as honor, chivalry, love etc. all seem to have left our generation to some extent, people being more interested in money and materials. The sadness...
I brink
sit here falling
tense
perching
finding purchase
like a pier
sit there patiently falling
toes in the void
samuel beckett
Percy Shelley is another romantic poet
Jassy - The foul language was in the reading. It's not the same as just swearing at a teacher.
Happy Birthday Prince. You're an asset to the forum. I hope you have a good birthday
Yes I can see it getting a little tedious after a while. I've not been using it very much since I got it though. I read proper books and then occasionally read one on the Kindle, so I still love the...
the breathsteam
looked like smoke, and
the harbor like a yawning
God.
Eye see your
I's, your terrible
formation of
lies.
I'm shortly going to read Hamlet shortly. It's one of those essential pieces of literature that I've always neglected for some reason or other.