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The World According To ‘Superheroes – Past, Present, and Future’
Why our modern day superheroes may not be so different from those of the medieval past What first comes to mind when someone says the word ‘superhero’? Between 2016-2026, superhero movies generated an estimated $30 billion in box office revenue alone. We credit Marvel and DC comics with the innovation behind the characters we love,…
Poetry: Learned Behaviour
“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea…and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26-27 Sand lies still.Untouched, a patent beauty.Wave thunders, pressing himself across the ocean, always seeking, expecting.He crashes over her, smothering her, wetting her. Fulfilling…
Poetry: Ode to Gerard Manley Hopkins
I sent nightshade to poison duskwith the embers of a candlestick.And wounded in the darken’d musk,A Nightingale sparked a fragile wick. It rattles eastward through furrowed browsAnd rests in the cracks of gossamer sails.On German soil a mourner’s wailsAre heard amongst the brindled cows. Where time falls blank between the stars,God cracks dusk’s shells with…
Poetry: The Dragonfly
The Dragonfly The dragonfly, the sky’s morning grace Hovers blue, aflame over the lake. Where faery queenes with crowns of laurel cradle infants teething broken coral. While the little girl, whose name was Sin Wears coloured ribbons in her hair. She nestles in his deep despair And paints ‘Death’ on the mantelpiece. The coal that…
The World According To: Life in Quarantine Post 2 ‘Poetry and Writing’
Poetry and Writing – two of my absolute favourite things. I am going to share some of my favourite poems and try and talk about how writing can be both creative and cathartic. Starting off with poetry: If a heaven for poetry ever existed, it is this website. Imagine every poem ever written in one…
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