Fair Peacock | Joseph C. Ogbonna

                                _______________________________________________________ Too Late to Stop Now   This week I dragged the Xmas tree out like a corpse I was homesick for mutual assured destruction and 1985 Love was a meeting of solitudes, the thin tissue around ornaments, Anne…

  When your whole life was going down And you had no money in the bank ‘Twas duct tape turned your life around! ‘Twas duct tape that was always there, Duct tape to which you owe your thanks, Duct tape, in an unfair world, was fair! You’re old, but not bent out of shape When…

from The American Scholar /  January 22, 2022 When The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon, was released in 1962, Pauline Kael called it “the most sophisticated political satire ever to come out of Hollywood.” Six decades on, the judgment holds, and I’ll go further. With its mind-bending plot, its celebrated brainwashing sequence,…

Some say “familiarity breeds contempt.” But it can also feed forbearance And a certain kind of kindness. What was epiphany becomes assurance, And even a blessed bond of blindness. The sharp edges blur as the days all rush, Run and whir into weeks and months and years. Where did they all go? We wonder, Living…

Act of putting together tantrums, haywire thoughts throw back of poetry written in spiral bound books. Tattered pages bleed the word lives silently sleeps silently dies silently. The post Silently | Ananya S. Guha appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online

                      ________________________________________________________________________ One El Paso, Two El Paso   Awake in the desert to the sound of calling. Must be the mountain, I thought.   The violent border, I assumed, though the boundary line between the living and the dead was erased years ago.  …