condom machines
in my humble opinion, it's pretty foolish to spend months arguing for condom machines on campus when a pharmacy's just around the corner.especially when there are people dyingand vocal chords can be...
View ArticleDa Vinci's Wings
a Shakespearean sonnet inspired by a telepathic conversation I've had with dearest Leonardo. We're on intimate terms, you know. We even share our names!I'm proud of this one. Or at least, I'm proud of...
View ArticleOm mani padme hum
a reflection on the role of meditation and mantras in Oriental belief systems.
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To Blodeuwedd
my collaboration with - my poem, his visual artThank you very much Brendan for this collab! It has been a great pleasure!Please make sure to give due credit (favs/comments) for his splendid artwork on:...
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All Alone in the Alley
I wrote this poem on New Year's Day. Its lines trace the state of my life in the past weeks. As with much of my poetry, it is about Poetry itself, and the mixed relationships between the poet, the...
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Away, away, oh wayward wind
I had a minor quarrel with the wind.It's about a girl.This poem started off as an attempt to prove to myself that I can write light-hearted poetry too, not just good old angst. At face value, it would...
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haiti terremot
In Maltese, this time I tried to write a loose translation in English, but the result was so awful that I had to stop halfway through. The poem is about the earthquake in Haiti. In Maltese, the word...
View ArticlePsyche et Tristesse
I'm not sure about the title - I will probably change it in the future.Is it not ironic that I'm criticising what I hope to be my future profession?('take to task' -> berate, admonish craniotomy...
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Robin and the Rowan tree
more semi-lighthearted gibberish in iambic tetrameter. It's about optimism. The poet's position is open to interpretation image taken from: [link]
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Songs from Soviet Snows
In response to a very helpful suggestion by the wonderful: devAlecBell:, I have decided to convert what was initially an isolated song into a series of three poems:- Sad Song of Arrival- Song of Stark...
View ArticleThe Ghost of your Perfume
full title: Composed Upon the Ghost of your Perfumededicated to Beauty, Poetry, and a beautiful, nameless girl whose perfume made my hours at the library unexpectedly pleasant.
View ArticleOf Caravels and Carousels
crazy, I know, but I like it.charpentier - carpenter (old French)caravel - 16th century trade/exploration ship
View ArticleA Farewell
I wrote this some months ago, back when life was black. It's a sonnet with a deliberately aberrant rhyming scheme, in order to give it a more stream-of-consciousness feel. It's about an old man...
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Lament for the Death of Dream
I put a lot of effort into this one - I wanted it to be one of my finest. I'm not sure as to to what extent I've succeeded. Feedback is most welcome (first & last stanza are based on the...
View ArticleCervical Universality
(some knowledge of anatomy and mythology is required for this one, sorry)last line - reference to Yeats''The Second Coming':Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the...
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The Confluence of Sinuses
This article was written back in February to be published in a local medical magazine Murmur. It is intended for doctors and medical students (hence the medical terms) but may nonetheless be enjoyed by...
View ArticleTenebrism
this poem is supposed to mark a new beginning. I felt a dire need to change style; modernize myself. This is my first attempt at that.
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No Longer Coy
just a light-hearted haiku that crossed my mind while hurrying to catch the bus
View ArticleCachexia
first draftcachexia: loss of weight, muscle atrophy, fatigue and weakness in cancer patientstitle is meant to contrast with Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
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Vintage
My first haibun - a prose poem, followed by a haiku. I think that it adheres quite closely to the traditional elements of the haibun form - present tense, a vignette-like quality. But I'm no expert -...
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To My Unborn Lover
I allowed myself to turn back to fixed-form in this one.I'd like the last lines of this poem to be my epitaph, some day
View ArticleRemembrance
more love poetry. Have I bored you yet? Pardon me - I'm just nineteen, after all, and more romantic than most.Ending contrasts with/ is inspired by the ending lines of Christina Rossetti's When I am...
View ArticleArs Gothika
I love the ideas but I'm not sure about the poem.Inspired by =dreamsinstatic's prompt: Like a Concave Scream and by contemplating the sojourn of the Shelleys at Villa Diodati - where the novels...
View ArticleHyacinth
More of the same - love, regret, melancholy. Those are the things in the poetic part of my mind, I suppose.I hope you like it. May be a bit oversentimental at times, but I quite like it.
View ArticleA la recherche du temps perdu
À la recherche du temps perdu - In Search of Lost Time (the title of Proust's masterpiece). Inspired by my need to bear (and get past) all the hours I've wasted writing/playing FreeCell when I...
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Alexandrite Night
an experiment in semi-conversational poetry.(Apologies for my absence - I'll be back full-time towards the end of June)
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Beachcombing
Finally, a poem! Following months of frustration and discontent, I've finally written a decent one.It's different from the others. I hope you like it
View ArticleA Venetian Redhead
inspired by some stuff I've been thinking about and Yeats' poem 'Adam's Curse' -[link]I'd like any critique to focus on this question, please: to what extent does the rhyming-couplet scheme suck, if at...
View ArticleA Sexual Seascape
work in progressthis poem is an extended sexual metaphor - a figurative mating between land and sea. I associate the sea with a dark sexuality, and interpret its blue hues as a metaphor for postcoital...
View ArticleThe Prayers of the Faithless
A poem written after the Victorians - Arnold and the Rossettis, among others. I wanted this poem to reflect the epoch's uncertainty about God and faith. I tried to explore the holy whore motif in the...
View ArticleHow to bury an artist
this poem's (questionable) worth is within the idea, like in many modern poems.
View ArticleThe Night, Transfused
something I scribbled yesterday on the bus, on my way home. work in progress.
View ArticleShed your Tatters by the River
this is about being strong. It's dedicated to Stephany, *IrrevocableFate .
View ArticleChecking Out Early
first draft -- it's conceptually interesting, but poetically unrefined. Help me refine it pleaseeee.it's about suicide -- the gravity of the theme lightened (perhaps?) through the use of euphemism and...
View ArticleLa Pioggia d'Oggi: A Sonnet
The title is Italian for: Today's Rain is Tomorrow's Snow. It sounds better in Italian. Much more musical.a sonnet in iambic tetrameter, with an aberrant rhyming scheme, of course! I hadn't written one...
View ArticleA Poet's Visit to the Brothel
this is an outgrowth of the "brothel" theme, which had already emerged in [link] . Once again, I've tried to mimic that elusive Victorian quality which fascinates me so much. I might turn this theme...
View ArticleA Pound of Flesh
third draft, more revisions yet to be done. help me hone it, please.Is the poem's theme clear? Can you make out what the poem is about? How effective are the metaphors I chose?
View ArticleTo the Tarnished Muse
another sonnet with disordered rhyming/pararhyming throughout. It's about and dedicated to my favourite theme: the strong, tarnished female. Bears resemblance to "Shed your Tatters by the River"[link]
View Articlewho said 'Valletta's Dead'
first draft of a poem I'd started many months ago. It's about (and dedicated to) Malta's capital city, Valletta. Going to Prague gave me the right degree of detachment to finish off the first draft.
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