Even After Hyacinths
By Linda Fay Word Count: 281 Rating: G Summary: A poem about the permanence of things Is this then the end of Muscari armeniacum? It is coming time To close your eyes on hyacinths. But…
Month: May 2019
Dragon in the North Part Two: Trust
Thick snow crunched under Arya’s boots as she strode out of the courtyard and across the grounds. She needed open space to train with her new dragonglass-tipped spear fresh out of the foundry. Arya was…
Memories of Sarajevo: The Healing Power of Art and Music
As we reflect on the tragedy of the Bosnian War, two horrific events are likely to stand out in the minds of many people. Firstly, the massacre in July 1995 of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims,…
Lost Time: Chapter 9
By Jocelyne Ross Word Count: 1380 Rating: G Summary: While Joyce lies comatose, she relives her life with her husband and family, as they try to wake her up. The fragrance of roses, jasmine, gardenia…
The Schoolboy
By Jonathan Francesco Word Count: 182 Rating: G Summary: The hope in a schoolboy's eyes fade as the years roll by. Eyes of blue and curly hair of brown So free and happy as…
The Psychology of Creativity
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo The creativity of man has been a monumental force through the…
For Wrath, For Ruin: Aragorn Reflects on Helm’s Deep
This must be the end of all things for me, this height, this depth, this place. It presses down on me, shrinks me, and stifles me. I am used to roaming wide plains…
Capax Infiniti
Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. ~Cesare Pavese This lonely windblown instant on the gravelly edge of a muddy middle-of-nowhere parking lot right before the storm.…
J. R. R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings: “The Prayers at the Foot of the Altar” and The Dark Night of the Soul
The landscape and illumination of J.R.R. Tolkien's mind exposes far more than a vast and expansive fantasy world, but also a glimpse into a Catholic mind which understood implicitly that 'The Conqueror’s Weapon is the…
Entangled Thoughts
By Joseph R. Ravitts Word Count: 145 Rating: PG for the cause of the poem Summary: A poem of hope I wrote the following poem years ago, to a girl experiencing the self-injury urge. ("Mister Monk"…