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Masks upon enticing masks, Identities fade away, Hungry for vivid dreams, Wishes fade away, Light felt too dark, The dark felt too light! Goodbyes sneak in, The hellos fade away. The post Facades | JayM appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online

“Où allons-nous? #15”, 80x280cm. Gérald Foltête. India ink, acrylic, oil and collage on canvas. Photo © Gérald Foltête “The important thing is to move.” – Resident of Kiev explaining why he took his girls skating despite ongoing missile strikes, National Public Radio (USA), 1 January 2024 I saw The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes…

Today I want to comment on the ingenuity of just one poem in Joseph Harrison’s crown of sonnets, “As If.”  This one is the third in a series of… twenty-two sonnets!  All of them speak of an unrealized love affair. from “As If” (#3) Look in my heart, what’s left of it, and write The…

Dedicated to my nice Romanian friend Vasile You are my inspiration, every day. You are the smile on my face. You are sparkle in my eyes. You are the only song I want to sing. You are my light in the darkness, My strength when I’m too weak, My voice when I speak. My smile,…

“Corps social Corps dansant”, Pauline Tremblay. Photo © Mireille Huguet Introduction Some years ago, I was in the habit of going to weekly public presentations on psychoanalysis. I would lose myself an hour or two in the rococo webs of a presenter’s case study, which they would lard with literary logics backed by vocal dramatics….

Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets! Blue-chip companies take their name from the color of the highest-valued chips at poker tables on October 28, 1929. (we’re reliable, all-American, safe) Then comes October 29, 1929: the day the stock markets crash. Then comes October 30, 2009: me, new to a minimum-wage custodial crew, learning that the…