Before going out today I sat down and read the section "Wine" from Les Fleurs Du Mal by Charles Baudelaire. Interesting section to say the least and short. I particularly liked this part at the beginning of "The Soul Of The Wine", sang by night in its bottles: 'Dear mankind -- dear and disinherited! Break … Continue reading Strange coincidences
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What got me started on this path
A long time ago I used to be pretty physically destructive. The only thing that mattered was anger and hatred and how I expressed it to everybody around me. Most of the surviving works (how few they are) appear in the beginning of my first book POEMS: AN EXPLORATION OF LIFE. To be honest I … Continue reading What got me started on this path
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
I have always enjoyed this poem since the first time I read it so many years ago. I love the imagery and how he philosophizes about life and death. In the first stanza he gets right to it and shows how he is different than the average person one who is wont to wander in … Continue reading Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray